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Revision as of 15:03, 3 February 2003 by Sophea (talk | contribs) (Added Thomas Pynchon in 'Births'.)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century
Decades: 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s - 1930s - 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s
Years: 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 - 1937 - 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942
Events
- January 1 - Anastasio Somoza becomes President of Nicaragua
- January 9 - The first issue of Look magazine goes on sale in the United States.
- January 19 - Howard Hughes sets a new air record by flying from Los Angeles to New York City in 7 hours, 28 minutes and 25 seconds.
- January 23 - In Moscow, 17 leading Communists go on trial accused of participating in a plot led by Leon Trotsky to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime and assassinate its leaders.
- February 11 - A sit-down strike ends when General Motors recognises the United Automobile Workers Union
- World War II starts in Asia with invasions by Japan
- Koh-i-Noor diamond last known to be worn in public
- May 6 - In United States, the German airship Hindenburg bursts into flame when mooring to a mast in Lakehurst.
- May 12 - Coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth
- July 7 - Battle of Lugou Bridge officially marked large-scale Japanese invasion of China
- December 13 - Battle of Nanjing ended as the Japanese took the city and began 3 months of atrocities
- December 28 - The Irish Free State becomes the Republic of Ireland.
Art, Culture & Fashion
- 1937 in film
- The Life of Emile Zola
- A Star Is Born
- Snow White, first feature-length animated movie
- 1937 in literature
- Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
- Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer
- U.S.A. (trilogy) by John Dos Passos
- Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
- 1937 in music
- 1937 in sports
- January 1 - The first Cotton Bowl game is played in Dallas, Texas
- 1937 in television
- May - Gilbert Seldes becomes the first television critic, with his Atlantic Monthly article, the "Errors of Television".
- May 15 - RCA demonstrates projection television, with images enlarged to 8 by 10 feet, at the Institute of Radio Engineers convention.
- CBS announces their efforts to develope television broadcasts
Births
- January 4 - Dyan Cannon, actress
- January 8 - Shirley Bassey, singer
- January 8 - Bob Eubanks, game show host
- January 15 - Margaret O'Brien, actress
- January 17 - Troy Donahue, actor
- January 18 - John Hume, politician, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1998
- January 30 -
- Vanessa Redgrave, actress
- Boris Spassky, chess grand master
- January 31 -
- Suzanne Pleshette, actress
- Philip Glass, composer
- February 1 -
- Garrett Morris, comedian
- Don Everly, musician
- February 11 -
- Bill Lawry, Australian cricket player.
- Lodewijk Boer, Dutch violinist/playwright.
- Marilyn Butler, Rector of Exeter College, Oxford University.
- Peter Lashley, West Indies cricket player.
- February 21 - Harald V, King of Norway (1991 - )
- May 8 - Thomas Pynchon, novelist
- May 13 - Roch Carrier, Canadian author of fiction
- July 6 - Vladimir Ashkenazy, pianist
- August 4 - David Bedford, musician
- August 8 - Dustin Hoffman, American actor
- August 18 - Robert Redford, American actor
- October 10 - Bobby Charlton, English footballer
- November 17 - Peter Cook, comedian, satirist and writer
- J. M. Barrie, novelist and dramatist
Deaths
- February 11 - Walter Burley Griffin, architect and town planner
- March 12 - Charles-Marie Widor, organist and composer
- March 15 - H. P. Lovecraft, horror writer
- August 11 - Edith Wharton, writer
- September 26 - Bessie Smith, blues singer
- Guglielmo Marconi, italian inventor, "the father of radio"