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News and Events of 1937

Year by Year: 1900-2012 View a 1937 calendar

World Events

World Statistics

population by decade

Nobel Peace Prize:
Lord Cecil of Chelwood (UK)

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Italy withdraws from League of Nations.
U.S. gunboat Panay sunk by Japanese in Yangtze River.
Japan invades China, conquers most of coastal area.
Britain begins 999 emergency telephone number. The United States starts 911 service in New York in 1968.

U.S. Events

U.S. Statistics

President: Franklin D Roosevelt
Vice President: John N. Garner
Population: 128,824,829

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The dirigible "Hindenburg" explodes at Lakehurst, N.J., killing 36 (May 6). Background: The Hindenburg Tragedy
Amelia Earhart and co-pilot Fred Noonan vanish over the Pacific Ocean on their Round-the-World Flight. Background: Amelia Earhart's Legacy Remembered.

Economics

Federal spending:   $7.58 billion
Consumer Price Index:   14.4
Unemployment:   14.3%
Cost of a first-class stamp:   $0.03

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Sports

Sports Links

Pro Football Summary

Pro Basketball Summary

Pro Baseball Summary

World Series

NY Yankees d. NY Giants (4-1)

Stanley Cup

Detroit d. NY Rangers (3-2)

Wimbledon

Women: Dorothy Round d. J. Jedrzejowska (6-2 2-6 7-5)
Men: Don Budge d. G. von Cramm (6-3 6-4 6-2)

Kentucky Derby Champion

War Admiral

NCAA Football Champions

Pittsburgh (9-0-1)

Entertainment

Entertainment Awards

Pulitzer Prizes
Fiction: Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
Drama: You Can't Take It With You, Moss Hart and George S.

Oscars awarded in 1937
Academy Award, Best Picture: The Great Ziegfeld (MGM)

Nobel Prize for Literature: Roger Martin du Gard (France)

Miss America: Bette Cooper (NJ)

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Events

Edgar Bergen and his puppet Charlie McCarthy make their radio debut on NBC.
The Glenn Miller Band debuts in New York.
Walt Disney's first full-length animated feature, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, hits theaters and becomes an instant classic.
The Golden Gate Bridge is completed.
Frank Lloyd Wright builds "Fallingwater."

Science

Nobel Prizes in Science

Chemistry: Walter N. Haworth (UK), for research on carbohydrates and vitamin C; and Paul Karrer (Switzerland), for work on carotenoids, flavins, and vitamins A and B

Physics: Clinton J. Davisson (US) and George P. Thomson (UK), for discovery of diffraction of electrons by crystals

Physiology or Medicine: Albert Szent-Györgyi von Nagyrapolt (Hungary), for discoveries on biological combustion

A prototype "antihistamine" is produced to treat allergies.
Hans Krebs postulates his "cycle" of oxidative phoshorylation, the basic process of cellular metabolism.