Chronology of 1937 Compiled by E. W. Pickard
A compact record of U.S. national events from January to December 1937, listing political moves, policy proposals, court actions, strikes, and key appointments. Includes Roosevelt terms, New Deal programs, labor conflicts, legislative votes, and notable geopolitical notes.
Chronology of World War II Era Crises and Alliances
A compact timeline recounts 1936 to 1937 events including German and Italian actions in Spain and China, British French and U.S. responses, League of Nations moves, Japan's expansion, Mussolini and Hitler alignments, and Japan’s occupation of Shanghai and Nanking with subsequent international reactions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Britain
Italy
League of Nations
Soviet
Russia
Spain
Yugoslavia
Bulgaria
Hitler
Department of State of
United States
Germany
la Guardia
New York
Geneva
International Sea Patrol
Jugoslavia
Hans Dieckhoff
France
Belgium
Mussolini
Tanghu
China
Peiping
Japan
Shanghai
Nanking
Portugal
Czechoslovakia
United Ag
Hoover
Litte Entente
Mediterranean
England
Canton
World
Norman H. Davis
Regme
Far East
Brussels
Duke of Windsor
Poe
Abor
Viscount Cecil of Chelwood
Chohar
Suiyuan
Yanetse River
Roosevelt
World events raced through 1936 in a running timeline
The records chronicle a wide span of political upheavals and sports results from January to December. It lists executions, trials, cabinet changes, wars and treaties, plus major sports milestones including golf, tennis, boxing, and the 1936 World Series and Olympics era context.
Pro Tennis Debut Echoes Early 20th Century Careers
Summary of sports events through the year with champions in tennis boxing golf football and racing. Notable: Ellsworth Vines defeated in debut, Louis defeats Pastr, Schaefer wins billiards, Steete stops Risko, Masters winner Byron Nelson, War Admiral wins Derby, Louis regains boxing glory, Budge wins Wimbledon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred J. Ferry
Ellsworth Vines
Joe Louis
Bob Pastor
New York
Schaefer
Hoppe
Freddie Steete
Babe Risko
Illinois
Minesota
University of Michigan
Chicago Golden Glove
Oxford
Cambridge
Detroit Red Wings
Byron Nelson
Augusta
Max Baer
Tommy Farr
Ralph Greenleaf
Ambers
Canzoneri
War Admiral
Michigan
Chicago
Europe
Mae
Bob Sweeny
London- Sun
Shute
Wilbur Shaw
Indianapolis
Ralph Guldahl
Braddock
Une
John D. Budge
Disasters list of 1930s wrecks and deaths across the world
A chronology of catastrophic incidents by date from January to December, noting shipwrecks, ferry capsizes, floods, bus and air crashes, fires, avalanches, earthquakes, mining disasters, and other fatal events worldwide with hundreds of deaths reported in several cases. Highlights include the Hindenburg disaster at Lakehurst, a London Texas gas explosion, and multiple airline and train disasters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andrew W. Mellon
Sam Rayburn
Texas
Lee
Housepreme Cour
Supreme Court
Roosevelt
Congress
Spain
Glenn Frank
Anisheen
Wisconsin
Board of
Akioaie Etnatot
Flint
Mich
General Motors
Senate
KFC
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Sanford Bates
Federal Bureau of Prisons
House
RFC
Farley
Civil Service
Michigan National Guard
Charles Seymour
Yale
Paul V. McNutt
Indiana
Philippines
G. Wynant
Social Security Board
A. J. Altmeyer
M. W. Latimer
Roosevelt A
Eugene Vidal
Federal Air Commerce
Hures
C. S
Permanent Maritime Commission
J. P. Kennedy
Guffey
United Automobile Workers
Remington Rand
Labor Relations Board
Ooo Workers Co
A. Dykstra
Cincinnati
University of Wisconsin
Ponce
Puerto Rico
Kresge Foundation
Lowe
Florence Harriman
Norway
A. J. Rexel Biddle
Polan
Agriculture Department
New York
Mediation Board
Gulf of Mexico
Anthony J. Drexel Biddie, Jr
Philadelphia
Poland
Florence Jaffray Harriman
District of Columbia
Robert Granville Caldwell
Bolivia
War Department
Hollywood
San Francisco
George L. Berry
Tennessee
CCC
Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation
Willis van Devanter
Senate Judiciary Committee
Cccoe & Laugmin Steel Employees
Orkney Islands
Ohio Valley
Everglades Canal
Miami
Fla
Antung
Manchekuo
Wyoming
London Consolidated School
East Texas
Pittsburgh
Lakehurst
Himalayas
Sullivan
Ind
Atlantic City
Brussels
Paris
Baltimore
Chesapeake Bay
Pan American Grace
Panaia
Staten Island
N. Y
Manila
Hongkong
Japan
Mulga
Ala
Uinta Mountains
Utah
Mason City
Scotland
Hoover Wanda
Formosa
Historic aviation milestones and disasters of 1930s era
A timeline from January to December recounts crashes in Burbank and San Francisco, transoceanic flights by Merrill Lambie Earhart and others, pole and polar aviation feats, tests like blind landing beams, and honors such as the Bendix and Thompson trophy wins. It notes the Hindenburg disaster and Earhart’s elusive round-the-world effort. Western Newspaper Union.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Court
Congress
House
Senate
Chicago
Roosevelt
John D. Rockefeller
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
Cambria
Lewis
Pennsylvania
Johnstown
Ellis Parker, Sr
Newark
N. J
Come Ag
Ifty
New York
J. Butler Wright
Cuba
National Labor Relations Board
Ford
Buenos Aires
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr
Ethel du Pont
Ohio Grand Jury
Ford Company
Dave H. Morris
Belgium
Hugh Gibson
Brazil
Harry Parker
Ways and Means
C. I O
United States
Ohio
Ohio Basin
Senator Barkley
Kentucky
J. L. Houghtering
White House
San Francisco
George A. Gordon
Netherlands
Leo J. Keena
Michigan
Honduras
Franklin Mott Gunther Oflorida
Romania
F. P. Corrigan
Panama
Robert Frazer
San Salvador
Will Rogers Memorial
Hugo L. Black
Alabama
Pibb Graves
Vinnie Bibb Graves
Col
H. BR. Heckett
P W
Andrew Merlon
A. F. of
L. Council
World Labor Federation
Labor
Edward McGrady
Secretary of Labor
O. H. Mennet
Los Angeles
G A. R
Hugo J. Black
Ku Klux Klan
John Roosevelt
Anne Clark
Boston
James E. Landis
Securities and Exchange Commission
la Guardia
J.T. Mahoney
John T. Biesers
Toledo
American Legion Convention
O. Douglas
SEC
Seattle
Daniel Doherty
American Legion
American Bar Association
Railway Brotherhoods
American Federation of Labor
Denver
America
Justice Black
G-men
Bangor
Norman H. Davis
Brussels
John E. Miller
Arkansas
Joseph T. Robinson
Nathan Straus
Interstate Commerce Commission
E. R. Stettinius, Jr
M.C. Taylor
United States Steel
Federal Reserve Board
New Ft
New England
J. H. Rand, Jr
Pp. L. Berghoff
Western Air Express
Burbank
Calif
United States Army
San Jego
Hawaii
United Air Lines
San Francisco Bay
Pittsburgh
Auckland
New Zealand
Tokyo
London
Sal
Lakehurst
Dick Merrill
J. S. Lamee
Lewort
Merrill
Lambie
Croydon
North Pole
Ice Floe
Amelia Earhart
Miami
Karachi
India
Moscow
Oakland
Howland Island
New Guinea
Uly
Arelia Earhart
Cleveland
Rudy Kling
Jean Batten
Australia
England
Frank Hayes
Wright Brothers
Western Newspaper Union
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War Woodring
Florida
Lindbergh
Leviathan
Federal Board of Tax Appeals
Andrew Mellon
J. W. Hanes
Jerome Frank
Marshal Chang
Chiang Kai-shek An
Juliana
Bernhard Zun Biesterfeld
George Bonnet
Guelph
Ontario
Hirota
Karl Ra
Stalin
Hamburg
Luebeck
Karl Radek
Senjuro Hayashi
Hayashi
Alaga
Mexico
Schuschnigg
Austria
Hapsburg Dynasty
Valencia
House of Commons
Mar Contrabrico
Mangokuo
Burma
Aden
Francisco Franco
de Valera
Irish Free State
Walls Warfield
George VI
Queen Elizabeth of
Caballero
Juan Negrin
Blum
Soviet Far East
Syria
Santander
Paraguay
Hjalmar Schacht
Covadonga
Paez
Ecuador
Alberto Enriquez
van Zeeland
Barcelona
Vargas
Grand Duke
George of Hesse
Duc de Guise
Pope Pius
American League All-Stars
Nationals
Henry Cotton
Americah
Ranger
Endeavor IT
Johnny Goodman
von Cramm
Henkel
Ehrie
Don Budge
Harry Cooper
Westbury
Greentree
Ross
Jeffra
New York Yankees
New York Giants
Estelle Page
Giants
Harvard
Minnesota
Samuel FE. Hoyt
George Eyston
Bonneville Salt Flats
National Baseball League
Washington Redskins
Home Office
Gillespie
Lawrence Knopp
Ralph Gold
Fredericksburg
The
Great American Life Insurance Co
CHAS
BE. Becker
Pres
Tex
AERO
Emil Petsch
Luouckenbach, Texas
Marxey
Lochte Storage & Commission Co
the Comfort Hatchery
Rathskeller
Comfort, Texas
Chevrolet
Chevrolet ‘Tudor