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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

Historical Events Of 1937

• January 15, 1937 – Spanish Civil War: Nationalists and Republican both withdraw after suffering heavy losses, ending the Second Battle of the Corunna Road.
• February 11, 1937 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Ox in Chinese astrology.
• February 21, 1937 – The League of Nations bans foreign national “volunteers” in the Spanish Civil War.
• March 18, 1937 – The New London School explosion in New London, Texas, kills 300 people, mostly children.
• April 1, 1937 – Spanish Civil War: Jaén, Spain is bombed by Nazi forces.
• April 9, 1937 – The Kamikaze arrives at Croydon Airport in London. It is the first Japanese-built aircraft to fly to Europe.
• 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.
• May 21, 1937 – A Soviet station, North Pole-1, becomes the first scientific research settlement to operate on the drift ice of the Arctic Ocean.
• December 13, 1937 – Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanking – The city of Nanjing, defended by the National Revolutionary Army under the command of General Tang Shengzhi, falls to the Japanese. This is followed by the Nanking Massacre, in which Japanese troops rape and murder hundreds of thousands of civilians.
• December 29, 1937 – The Irish Free State is replaced by a new state called Ireland with the adoption of a new constitution.

Who Were Born On 1937?

• February 2, 1937 – Eric Arturo Delvalle, Panamanian lawyer and politician, President of Panama (d. 2015)
• April 28, 1937 – Saddam Hussein, Iraqi general and politician, 5th President of Iraq (d. 2006)
• June 10, 1937 – Luciana Paluzzi, Italian actress
• June 15, 1937 – Waylon Jennings, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Highwaymen) (d. 2002)
• June 24, 1937 – Anita Desai, Indian-American author and academic
• August 20, 1937 – Sky Saxon, American singer-songwriter and bassist (The Seeds) (d. 2009)
• October 19, 1937 – Peter Max, German-American illustrator
• November 17, 1937 – Peter Cook, English comedian, actor, and screenwriter (d. 1995)
• November 20, 1937 – Viktoriya Tokareva, Russian author and screenwriter
• December 29, 1937 – Wayne Huizenga, American businessman, founded AutoNation