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1937 Calendar Trivia
The next time you can reuse this calendar will be on year 2027. Both calendars will be exactly the same! This is assuming you are not interested in the dates for Easter and other irregular holidays that are based on a solar cycle.
April 4 (4/4), June 6 (6/6), August 8 (8/8), October 10 (10/10), December 12 (12/12), and the last day of February always fall on the same day of the week in any given year. This is called the ‘Doomsday rule’. Check these dates using the full 12-month calendar below to verify.
1937 Calendar
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Historical Events Of 1937
- January 19, 1937 – Howard Hughes sets a new air record by flying from Los Angeles to New York City in seven hours, 28 minutes, 25 seconds.
- February 5, 1937 – United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposes a plan to enlarge the Supreme Court of the United States.
- February 11, 1937 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Ox in Chinese astrology.
- February 16, 1937 – Wallace H. Carothers receives a United States patent for nylon.
- March 18, 1937 – The New London School explosion in New London, Texas, kills 300 people, mostly children.
- May 12, 1937 – The Duke and Duchess of York are crowned as King George VI and Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Westminster Abbey.
- June 11, 1937 – Great Purge: The Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin executes eight army leaders.
- July 7, 1937 – Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Lugou Bridge: Japanese forces invade Beijing, China.
- August 14, 1937 – Chinese Air Force Day: The beginning of air-to-air combat of the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II in general, when six Imperial Japanese Mitsubishi G3M bombers are shot down by the Nationalist Chinese Air Force while raiding Chinese air bases.
- September 22, 1937 – Spanish Civil War: Peña Blanca is taken; the end of the Battle of El Mazuco.
Who Were Born On 1937?
- January 6, 1937 – Doris Troy, American singer-songwriter (d. 2004)
- January 12, 1937 – Marie Dubois, French actress (d. 2014)
- January 16, 1937 – Luiz Bueno, Brazilian race car driver (d. 2011)
- April 12, 1937 – Igor Volk, Ukrainian-Russian colonel, pilot, and astronaut
- May 7, 1937 – Claude Raymond, Canadian baseball player and coach
- June 7, 1937 – Neeme Järvi, Estonian conductor and director
- August 16, 1937 – David Behrman, American composer and producer
- November 30, 1937 – Praveen Chaudhari, Physicist
- December 1, 1937 – Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga, Latvian psychologist and politician, 6th President of Latvia
- December 31, 1937 – Anthony Hopkins, Welsh-American actor, director, and composer