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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

• February 11, 1937 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Ox in Chinese astrology.
• March 18, 1937 – A human-powered aircraft, Pedaliante, flies 1 km outside Milan, Italy.
• April 1, 1937 – Spanish Civil War: Jaén, Spain is bombed by Nazi forces.
• May 3, 1937 – Gone with the Wind, a novel by Margaret Mitchell, wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
• June 3, 1937 – The Duke of Windsor marries Wallis Simpson.
• July 24, 1937 – Alabama drops rape charges against the so-called “Scottsboro Boys”.
• July 26, 1937 – End of the Battle of Brunete in the Spanish Civil War.
• August 1, 1937 – Josip Broz Tito reads the resolution “Manifesto of constitutional congress of KPH” to the constitutive congress of KPH (Croatian Communist Party) in woods near Samobor.
• November 1, 1937 – Stalinists execute Pastor Paul Hamberg and seven members of Azerbaijan’s Lutheran community.
• December 4, 1937 – The first issue of the children’s comic The Dandy is published.

Who Were Born On 1937?

• January 9, 1937 – Michael Nicholson, English journalist and author
• March 4, 1937 – William Deverell, Canadian lawyer, author, and activist
• April 26, 1937 – Jean-Pierre Beltoise, French race car driver and motorcycle racer (d. 2015)
• April 29, 1937 – Jill Paton Walsh, English author
• May 9, 1937 – Rafael Moneo, Spanish architect, designed the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels and Valladolid Science Museum
• June 4, 1937 – Mortimer Zuckerman, Canadian-American businessman, founded Boston Properties
• June 18, 1937 – Wray Carlton, American football player
• November 11, 1937 – Stephen Lewis, Canadian politician and diplomat, 14th Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations
• December 21, 1937 – Donald F. Munson, American politician
• December 25, 1937 – O'Kelly Isley, Jr., American singer-songwriter (The Isley Brothers) (d. 1986)