17 events found for 1937
Spanish Civil War: The Bombing of Guernica by the Condor Legion of the Luftwaffe resulted in a devastating firestorm tha
The German airship Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed during an attempt to dock at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in
Employees at Fleischer Studios in New York City went on strike in the animation industry's first major labor strike
The Golden Gate Bridge, at the time the world's longest suspension bridge by span, opened between San Francisco and Mari
The rise of Neville Chamberlain culminated with his accession as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, being summoned to
Half a year after abdicating the British throne, Edward, Duke of Windsor, married American socialite Wallis Simpson in a
The Hormel Foods Corporation introduced Spam, the canned precooked meat product that would eventually enter into pop…
The Peel Commission published a report stating that the League of Nations' Mandate for Palestine had become unworkable…
Nitrate film being stored in a 20th Century Fox facility spontaneously combusted, destroying more than 40,000 reels of…
A lightning strike started the Blackwater Fire (pictured) in Shoshone National Forest, Wyoming, consuming 1,700 acres…
The first group of around 172,000 Koreans were deported by Soviet authorities from the Russian Far East to the Kazakh…
Led by the United Kingdom and France, nine nations met at the Nyon Conference to address international piracy in the…
Chicago Public Schools began delivering lessons via radio amid to a polio outbreak, marking the first large-scale use…
J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy children's novel The Hobbit, which later served as a prelude to The Lord of the Rings, was…
Six days after retiring from the Queen's College, Oxford, Robert Howard Hodgkin was elected its provost due to the…
Former British king Edward and his wife arrived at Berlin Friedrichstraße station to begin a tour of Nazi Germany,…