1937

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1937 Media

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  January 19: Howard Hughes sets record.

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  Обвиняемые Второго Московского процесса в ходе заседания суда (январь 1937)

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  May 6: The Hindenburg disaster occurs.

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  May 27: The Golden Gate Bridge opens.

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  July 2: Amelia Earhart disappears from New Guinea.

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  July 9: The silent film archives of Fox Film Corporation are destroyed by the 1937 Fox vault fire.

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  September 17: Lincoln's head is dedicated at Mount Rushmore.

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  TV-opnamen van Welsh zangeres Shirley Bassey

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  Nadia lotfy

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  John Hume at City Hotel Derry where he was a guest at the final dinner of a SIEF (Societé Internationale d´Ethnologie et de Folklore) conference.

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1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday in the Gregorian calendar.

Events

• American Ballet Theatre founded
• January 1 – Anastasio Somoza becomes President of Nicaragua
• January 11 – 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.
• January 31 – Ohio River floods
• January 31 – 31 people executed in the Soviet Union for "Trotskyism"
• March 18 – 300 students and teachers die after an exploson is a caused by a gas leak at the New London school in Texas.
• May 7 – the German zeppelin (airship) LZ 129 Hindenburg catches fire, while trying to land in New Jersey.
• October - Dominican Republic dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina orders the execution of the Haitian population living within its borderlands with Haiti, resulting in the Parsley Massacre.
• December 21 – Walt Disney's first full length feature film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, is premiered at Carthay Circle Theater.

Births

• January 8 - Shirley Bassey, Welsh singer
• January 30 - Vanessa Redgrave, English actress
• February 21 - King Harald V of Norway
• March 20 – Jerry Reed, American musician (d. 2008)
• April 6 – Billy Dee Williams, American actor
• April 28 - Saddam Hussein, Iraqi leader (d. 2006)
• May 14 - Ferd Hugas, Dutch actor and screenwriter (d. 2025)
• July 18 – Hunter S. Thompson, American writer and journalist (d. 2005)
• December 21 – Jane Fonda, American actress
• December 30 - Gordon Banks, English footballer
• December 31 - Anthony Hopkins, Welsh actor

Hit songs

• "Sweet Leilani" – by Harry Owens, from the movie Waikiki Wedding, won the Academy Award for the best song.