1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). 1937 - Events. 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 participatin ...

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1937 - January. January 1 - Anne Aubrey, British actor January 4 - Dyan Cannon, Ameircan actress January 6 - Underwood Dudley, American mathematician January 8 - Shirley Bassey, Welsh singer January 14 - Ken Higgs, English cricketer January 15 - Margaret O'Brien, American actress January 18 - John Hume, Irish politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize January 27 - John Ogdon, English pianist (d. 1989) January 30 - Vanessa Redgrave, ...

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Dr. Wallace Hume Carothers (April 27, 1896 - April 29, 1937) was the leader of organic chemistry at DuPont. He was born in Burlington, Iowa. Dr. Carothers began his academic career as a faculty member of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1924 where he came to know Roger Adams who was a colleague of E.K. Bolton at DuPont. Carothers became head of the chemistry department at Tarkio College in Missouri, a position that he took on while he was still a student. In addition, he served for one year as chemistry instuct ...

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1937 in rail transport - January events. January - General Motors Electro-Motive Division introduces the EMD E2. 1937 in rail transport - March events. March 9 - In a joint announcement, Pullman and the New York Central announce the order of new streamlined equipment to be NYC’s “Great Steel Fleet”. At the same time Pullman and the Pennsylvania Railroad announce new streamline cars to be PRR’s “Fleet of Modernism”. March 21 - Southern Pacific’s “Daylight Limited” debuts the new red ...

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Changes 23 December 1946 - Augustin Laurent succeeds Moutet as Minister of Overseas France. ...

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March March 5 - Imperial Airways opens a new flying boat base at Hythe, Hampshire. April April 12 - Sir Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft at the British Thomson-Houston factory in Rugby, England. April 26 - Luftwaffe bombers of Legion Condor attack Guernica April 30 - Nationalist Spanish battleship España sunk ...

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William Henry Dinneen, alternately spelled Dineen (April 5, 1876 - January 13, 1955), was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who followed his 12-year career from 1898 to 1909 with a highly regarded tenure as an American League umpire from 1909 to 1937. Born in Syracuse, New York, he played for the Washington Senators and Boston Braves (both of the National League), and the Boston Red Sox and St. L ...

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Swami Vijnanananda (28 October 1868 – 25 April 1938) was born in Belgharia, Kolkota, India as Hariprasanna Chattopadhyaya. He was a direct disciple of Shri Ramakrishna. He was an engineer and worked as the District Engineer in the erstwhile State of United Provinces, India. He was a great scholar of Sanskrit with expertise in religo-philosophical works, astronomy, civil engineering etc. He spent considerable time in Allahabad (Prayag) centre of Ramakrishna Math. He became the President of Ramakrishna Mission in 1937. It was under his presidentship, that the t ...

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Cardinal Adam Kozłowiecki, S.J., (April 1, 1911 in Huta Komorowska, Poland) is Archbishop of Lusaka (Zambia) and Cardinal. He was ordained for the Jesuits on 24 June 1937. In 1939 he and 24 confrères were arrested by the Gestapo in Kraków and then sent to Auschwitz. Six months later he was transferred to Dachau, where he remained until the end of the war. After his release the Vicar General proposed that he go to then-Northern Rhodesia, where the Polish Jesuits had a mission. He taught there for several years until be ...

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Albert Roussel was a French composer. He was born in Tourcoing, France on April 5, 1869 and died in Royan, August 23, 1937. His interest in music was secondary to his interest in mathematics, early in life, and in addition he prepared for a career in the navy; in 1889 and 1890 he served on the crew of the frigate Iphigénie in the waters around Indochina. Apparently it was this voyage which was most significant in his development as a composer, since for the remainder of his life he attempted to capture some of the character of ...

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The bombing of Guernica was an aerial attack on April 26, 1937, during the Spanish Civil War by the German Luftwaffe squadron known as the Condor Legion against the Basque city of Guernica. It was the first aerial bombardment in history in which a civilian population was attacked with the apparent intent of producing total destruction. Bombing of Guernica - Guernica. Even before the bombardment, Guernica was a place of great significance to the Basque people. The Biscayne assembly traditionally met there un ...

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Atami (熱海市; -shi) is a city located in Shizuoka, Japan. The name literally means "hot ocean", a reference to the town's famous onsen hot springs. Atami has been a resort since the 8th century, and is now part of Hakone-Izu National Park. Much of the extensive art collection of eccentric multimillionaire and religious leader Mokichi Okada is now housed in the MOA Museum of Art in Atami. As of 2003, the city has an estimated population of 42,057 and the density of 683.30 persons per km². The total area is 61.55 km². The city was founded on April 10, 1937. The Tokaido Shinkansen stops in Atami ...

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Antonio Gramsci (January 22, 1891 – April 27, 1937) was an Italian writer, politician, leader and theorist of Socialism, Communism and Anti-Fascism. Antonio Gramsci - Life. Gramsci was born in Ales, Italy, on the island of Sardinia, a relatively remote region of Italy that was mostly ignored by the Italian government in favor of the industrialized North. He was the fourth of seven sons of Francesco Gramsci. His father's family was Arbëreshë and probably the family name was related to Gramsh, an Albanian ...

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1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. (see link for calendar) 1946 - Events. 1946 - January. January 2 - Unable to resume his rule over Albania after World War II, King Zog abdicated but retained his claim to the throne. January 4 - Theodore Schurch becomes the last person to be executed for offences committed under the Treachery Act of 1940 January 7 - Allied recognize Austrian republic with 1937 borders - the country is divided in ...

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Colin Luther Powell, (born April 5, 1937) was the 65th United States Secretary of State, serving from January 20, 2001 to January 23, 2005 under President George W. Bush. Nominated by Bush on December 16, 2000 and unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate, Powell became the highest ranking African American government official in the history of the United States (now having been tied by his successor, Condoleezza Rice). As a general in the United States Army, Powell also served as National Security Advisor (1987–1989) and Cha ...

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The show opened at the Shubert Theatre on April 14, 1937 and ran for 289 performances. Cast: Billie Smith played by Mitzi Green Val Lamar played by Ray Heatherton Peter played by Duke McHale Baby Rose played by Wynn Murray Ivor DeQuincy played by Harold Nicholas Irving DeQuincy played by Fayard Nicholas Marshall ...

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Babes in Arms, Babes in Arms - The songs, Babes in Arms - 1937 Broadway production, Babes in Arms - 1939 MGM Musical film

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Chairmen of the National Government (國民政府主席): Wang Ching-wei (July 1, 1925 - April 15, 1926) Wang Ching-wei was forced out of office over the attempted kidnapping of Chiang Kai-shek in the Zhongshan Gunboat Incident. Tan Yankai (April 16, 1926 - March 29, 1927) In 1927, the Kuomintang embared on the Northern Expedition and left its base in Guangzhou for Wuhan, Nanjing, and Shanghai in three separate divisions. ...

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Between 1922 and 1937, the 26 county Irish state was technically a British dominion known as the Irish Free State. In 1937, a new constitution was introduced which renamed the twenty-six county state ' Éire, or in the English language, Ireland '. (Article 4 of the constitution, Bunreacht na hÉireann.) The official description of the state is Republic of Ireland, according to The Republic of Ireland Act, 1948, which came into effect on Easter Monday, April 18, 1949. A change of name would have necessitated a cons ...

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Republic of Ireland Act, Republic of Ireland Act - The Act, Republic of Ireland Act - External Relations Act 1936, Republic of Ireland Act - The Republic

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Main article: Culture of Ethiopia In April 2005, the Axum obelisk, one of Ethiopia's religious and historical treasures, was returned to Ethiopia by Italy [4]. Italian troops seized the obelisk in 1937 and took it to Rome. Italy agreed to return the obelisk in 1947 in a UN agreement. Ethiopia is the spiritual homeland of the Rastafari movement, whose adherents believe Ethiopia is Zion. Rastafari view Emperor Haile Selassie I as Jesus, the human incarnation of God. Cuisine of Ethiopia Music of Ethiopia Islam in Ethiopia Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo ChurchSee also:

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