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1937 - January.
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 Sovie ...
See also:1937, 1937 - Events, 1937 - January, 1937 - February, 1937 - March, 1937 - April, 1937 - May, 1937 - June, 1937 - July, 1937 - August, 1937 - September, 1937 - October, 1937 - November, 1937 - December, 1937 - Unknown dates, 1937 - Ongoing events, 1937 - Births, 1937 - January, 1937 - February, 1937 - March, 1937 - April, 1937 - May, 1937 - June, 1937 - July, 1937 - August, 1937 - September, 1937 - October, 1937 - November, 1937 - December, 1937 - Deaths, 1937 - January-March, 1937 - April-August, 1937 - September-December, 1937 - Nobel Prizes Read more here: » 1937: Encyclopedia II - 1937 - Events |
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| | | | 1937 - Events: Encyclopedia II - Sam Snead - Career In 1937, his first year on the Tour, he won five events, including the Oakland Open in California.
In 1938, he first won the Greater Greensboro Open, which he won eight times, the Tour record for victories at an event, concluding in 1965 at the age of 52, making him the oldest player to win a PGA Tour event.
1939 was the first of several times he failed at crucial moments of the U.S. Open, the only major event he never won.
He won 11 events in 1950. No one has since won more.
In 1974, at age 62, he shot a one-under-par 279 to come in third (three strokes behind winner Lee Trevino) at the PGA Championship at Tan ...
See also:Sam Snead, Sam Snead - Career, Sam Snead - Records, Sam Snead - Trivia Read more here: » Sam Snead: Encyclopedia II - Sam Snead - Career |
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| | | | 1937 - Events: Encyclopedia II - 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 into four occupation zones
January 10 - First meeting of the United Nations
January 10 - Project Diana bounces Radar wa ...
See also:1946, 1946 - Events, 1946 - January, 1946 - February, 1946 - March, 1946 - April, 1946 - May, 1946 - June-July, 1946 - August-November, 1946 - December, 1946 - Unknown dates, 1946 - Births, 1946 - January, 1946 - February, 1946 - March, 1946 - April, 1946 - May, 1946 - June, 1946 - July, 1946 - August, 1946 - September, 1946 - October, 1946 - November, 1946 - December, 1946 - Unknown date, 1946 - Fictional, 1946 - Deaths, 1946 - Nobel Prizes Read more here: » 1946: Encyclopedia II - 1946 - Events |
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| | | | 1937 - Events: Encyclopedia II - 1875 - Events
1875 - January - April.
January 12 - Kwang-su becomes emperor of China.
February 27 - Newton Booth, 11th Governor of California resigns, having been elected Senator. Lieutenant Governor of California Romualdo Pacheco becomes acting Governor. He is later replaced by elected governor William Irwin.
March 3 - The first performance of Bizet’s Carmen at the Opéra Comique, Paris
March 3 - The first organized indoor game of ice hockey was played between two pick-up teams at the Victoria S ...
See also:1875, 1875 - Events, 1875 - January - April, 1875 - May - August, 1875 - September - December, 1875 - Unknown date, 1875 - Births, 1875 - January, 1875 - February, 1875 - March, 1875 - April, 1875 - May, 1875 - June, 1875 - July, 1875 - August, 1875 - September, 1875 - October, 1875 - December, 1875 - Deaths Read more here: » 1875: Encyclopedia II - 1875 - Events |
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| | | | 1937 - Events: Encyclopedia II - Great Purge - The Moscow Trials Main article: Moscow Trials.
Between 1936 and 1938 three Moscow Trials of former senior Communist Party leaders were held. The defendants were accused of conspiring with the western powers to assassinate Stalin and other Soviet leaders, dismember the Soviet Union and restore capitalism.
The first trial was of 16 members of the so-called "Trotskyite-Zinovievite Terrorist Centre," held in August 1936, at which the chief defendants were Grigory Zinoviev and Lev Kamenev, two of the most prominent former party leaders. ...
See also:Great Purge, Great Purge - The Moscow Trials, Great Purge - Purge of the army, Great Purge - The wider purge, Great Purge - Ex-kulaks, Great Purge - National operations of NKVD, Great Purge - End of Yezhovshchina, Great Purge - Western reactions, Great Purge - Rehabilitation, Great Purge - Victim toll, Great Purge - Soviet investigation commissions, Great Purge - Skepticism and denial, Great Purge - Notes, Great Purge - Further reading and references Read more here: » Great Purge: Encyclopedia II - Great Purge - The Moscow Trials |
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| | | | 1937 - Events: Encyclopedia II - May 18 - Births
May 18 - 1048 to 1899.
1048 - Omar Khayyám, Persian poet (d. 1123)
1186 - Konstantin of Rostov, Prince of Novgorod (d. 1218)
1474 - Isabella d'Este, Marquise of Mantua (d. 1539)
1610 - Stefano della Bella, Italian printmaker (d. 1664)
1616 - Johann Jakob Froberger, German composer (d. 1667)
1662 O.S. - George Smalridge, English Bishop of Bristol (d. 1719)
1692 O.S. - Joseph Butler, English bishop and philosopher (d. 1752)
1711 - Ruđer Josip Bo ...
See also:May 18, May 18 - Events, May 18 - Births, May 18 - 1048 to 1899, May 18 - 1900 to 1999, May 18 - Deaths, May 18 - 1450 to 1899, May 18 - 1900 to 1999, May 18 - 2000 onwards, May 18 - Holidays and Observances Read more here: » May 18: Encyclopedia II - May 18 - Births |
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| | | | 1937 - Events: Encyclopedia II - World War II - Resistance Main article: Resistance during World War II
Resistance during World War II occurred in every occupied country by a variety of means, ranging from non-cooperation, disinformation and propaganda to hiding crashed pilots and even to outright warfare and the recapturing of towns. Resistance movements are sometimes also referred to as "the underground".
Among the most notable resistance movements were the French Maquis, the Polish Home Army, and the Yugoslav Partisans. The Communist resistance was among the fiercest since they were already organised and militant even before the war and their ideology was in many respe ...
See also:World War II, World War II - Causes, World War II - Participants, World War II - Chronology, World War II - A debated starting date, World War II - 1937: Second Sino-Japanese War, World War II - 1939: War breaks out in Europe, World War II - 1940: The war spreads, World War II - 1941: The war becomes global, World War II - 1942: Deadlock, World War II - 1943: The war turns, World War II - 1944: The beginning of the end, World War II - 1945: The end of the war, World War II - Resistance, World War II - The Home fronts, World War II - Technologies, World War II - Civilian impact & atrocities, World War II - Genocide, World War II - Concentration camps labour camps and internment, World War II - War crimes and attacks on civilians, World War II - Aftermath, World War II - Casualties, World War II - A world in ruins, World War II - United Nations, World War II - The Cold War begins, World War II - Main articles, World War II - Media Read more here: » World War II: Encyclopedia II - World War II - Resistance |
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| | | | 1937 - Events: Encyclopedia II - 1991 - Deaths
1991 - January-February.
January 5 - Vasko Popa, Yugoslavian poet (b. 1922)
January 8 - Steve Clark, English guitarist (Def Leppard) (b.1960)
January 11 - Carl David Anderson, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
January 17 - King Olav V of Norway (b. 1903)
January 29 - Yasushi Inoue, Japanese historian (b. 1907)
January 30 - John Bardeen, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908
January 30 - John McIntire, American actor (b. 1907) ...
See also:1991, 1991 - Events, 1991 - January, 1991 - February, 1991 - March, 1991 - April, 1991 - May, 1991 - June, 1991 - July, 1991 - August, 1991 - September, 1991 - October, 1991 - November, 1991 - December, 1991 - Undated events, 1991 - Births, 1991 - Deaths, 1991 - January-February, 1991 - March-May, 1991 - June-December, 1991 - Nobel Prizes, 1991 - Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel Read more here: » 1991: Encyclopedia II - 1991 - Deaths |
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| | | | 1937 - Events: Encyclopedia II - World War II - Participants The belligerents of the Second World War are usually considered to belong to either of the two blocs: the Axis and the Allies. A number of smaller countries participated in the war, some of them under occupation or as proxies of one of the large powers. Some nations participated on different sides at different times.
The Axis Powers consisted primarily of Germany, Italy, and Japan, which split the Earth into three spheres of influence under the Tripartite Pact of 1940, and vowed to defend one another against aggression. Smaller countr ...
See also:World War II, World War II - Causes, World War II - Participants, World War II - Chronology, World War II - A debated starting date, World War II - 1937: Second Sino-Japanese War, World War II - 1939: War breaks out in Europe, World War II - 1940: The war spreads, World War II - 1941: The war becomes global, World War II - 1942: Deadlock, World War II - 1943: The war turns, World War II - 1944: The beginning of the end, World War II - 1945: The end of the war, World War II - Resistance, World War II - The Home fronts, World War II - Technologies, World War II - Civilian impact & atrocities, World War II - Genocide, World War II - Concentration camps labour camps and internment, World War II - War crimes and attacks on civilians, World War II - Aftermath, World War II - Casualties, World War II - A world in ruins, World War II - United Nations, World War II - The Cold War begins, World War II - Main articles, World War II - Media Read more here: » World War II: Encyclopedia II - World War II - Participants |
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| | | | 1937 - Events: Encyclopedia II - 1939 - Deaths
1939 - January-March.
January 2 - Roman Dmowski, Polish politician (b. 1864)
January 23 - Matthias Sindelar, Austrian footballer (b. 1903)
January 24 - Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Swiss physician and nutritionist (b. 1867)
January 28 - William Butler Yeats, Irish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
February 10 - Pope Pius XI (b. 1857)
February 11 - Franz Schmidt, Austrian composer (b. 1874)
February 12 - S. P. L. Sørensen, Danish chemist (b. 1868)See also: 1939, 1939 - Events, 1939 - January, 1939 - February, 1939 - March, 1939 - April, 1939 - May, 1939 - June, 1939 - July, 1939 - August, 1939 - September, 1939 - October, 1939 - November, 1939 - December, 1939 - unknown dates, 1939 - Ongoing events, 1939 - Births, 1939 - January, 1939 - February, 1939 - March, 1939 - April, 1939 - May, 1939 - June, 1939 - July, 1939 - August, 1939 - September, 1939 - October, 1939 - November, 1939 - December, 1939 - Deaths, 1939 - January-March, 1939 - April-August, 1939 - October-September, 1939 - Nobel Prizes Read more here: » 1939: Encyclopedia II - 1939 - Deaths |
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| | | | 1937 - Events: Encyclopedia II - June 7 - Births
June 7 - 1529 to 1899.
1529 - Étienne Pasquier, French lawyer and man of letters (d. 1615)
1761 - John Rennie, Scottish engineer (d. 1821)
1778 - Beau Brummell, English fashion leader (d. 1840)
1811 - James Young Simpson, British obstetrician (d. 1870)
1831 - Amelia Edwards, English author and Egyptologist (d. 1892)
1845 - Leopold Auer, Hungarian violinist and composer (d. 1930)
1848 - Paul Gauguin, French painter (d. 1903)
1862 - Philipp Lenar ...
See also:June 7, June 7 - Events, June 7 - Births, June 7 - 1529 to 1899, June 7 - 1900 to 1999, June 7 - Deaths, June 7 - 1329 to 1899, June 7 - 1900 to 1999, June 7 - 2000 onwards, June 7 - Holidays and observances Read more here: » June 7: Encyclopedia II - June 7 - Births |
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| | | | 1937 - Events: Encyclopedia II - April 12 - Births
April 12 - 599 BC to 1899.
599 BC - Mahavira, Indian founder of Jainism (d. 527 BC)
812 - Muhammad at-Taqi, Arabian Shia Imam (d. 835)
1484 - Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Italian architect (d. 1546)
1500 - Joachim Camerarius, German classical scholar (d. 1574)
1526 - Muretus, French humanist (d. 1585)
1550 - Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, English politician (d. 1604)
1577 - King Christian IV of Denmark (d. 1648)
1713 - Guillaume Thomas ...
See also:April 12, April 12 - Events, April 12 - Births, April 12 - 599 BC to 1899, April 12 - 1900 to 1999, April 12 - Deaths, April 12 - 65 to 1899, April 12 - 1900 to 1999, April 12 - 2000 onwards, April 12 - Holidays and observances Read more here: » April 12: Encyclopedia II - April 12 - Births |
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| | | | 1937 - Events: Encyclopedia II - 1945 - Deaths
1945 - January.
January 3 - Edgar Cayce, American psychic (b. 1877)
January 22 - Else Lasker-Schuler, German poet (b. 1869)
January 31 - Eddie Slovik, American soldier (b. 1920)
1945 - February.
February 5 - Denise Bloch, French World War II heroine (executed) (b. 1915)
February 5 - Lilian Rolfe, French World War II heroine (executed) (b. 1914)
February 5 - Violette Szabo, French World War II heroine (executed) (b. 1921)See also: 1945, 1945 - Events, 1945 - January, 1945 - February, 1945 - March, 1945 - April, 1945 - May, 1945 - June, 1945 - July, 1945 - August, 1945 - September, 1945 - October, 1945 - November, 1945 - December, 1945 - Unknown date, 1945 - Ongoing events, 1945 - Science and technology, 1945 - Births, 1945 - January, 1945 - February, 1945 - March, 1945 - April, 1945 - May, 1945 - June, 1945 - July, 1945 - August, 1945 - September-October, 1945 - November-December, 1945 - Unknown dates, 1945 - Deaths, 1945 - January, 1945 - February, 1945 - March, 1945 - April, 1945 - May, 1945 - June-August, 1945 - September, 1945 - October, 1945 - November, 1945 - December, 1945 - Nobel Prizes Read more here: » 1945: Encyclopedia II - 1945 - Deaths |
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| | | | 1937 - Events: Encyclopedia II - London Borough of Croydon - Croydon Council The council consists of 70 elected councillors across 24 wards. Since the 2002 local elections, the Labour Party has controlled the Council with 37 councillors. The Conservative Party has 31 seats and there are two Liberal Democrat councillors, one of whom was originally elected as a Conservative. The next elections are to be held in May 2006.
Since February 2005, the Leader of Croydon Council has been Labour Councillor Tony Newman, replacing Hugh Malyan. As a cabinet-style council, the Leader heads a ten person cabinet, responsible f ...
See also:London Borough of Croydon, London Borough of Croydon - Status, London Borough of Croydon - Croydon Council, London Borough of Croydon - History, London Borough of Croydon - Croydon Town Hall, London Borough of Croydon - Taberner House, London Borough of Croydon - Leading figures, London Borough of Croydon - Districts, London Borough of Croydon - Railway stations, London Borough of Croydon - Individuals associated with the Borough of Croydon Read more here: » London Borough of Croydon: Encyclopedia II - London Borough of Croydon - Croydon Council |
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| | | | 1937 - Events: Encyclopedia II - 1998 - Nobel Prizes
1998 - Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
Amartya Sen
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See also:1998, 1998 - Events, 1998 - January, 1998 - February, 1998 - March, 1998 - April, 1998 - May, 1998 - June, 1998 - July, 1998 - August, 1998 - September, 1998 - October, 1998 - November, 1998 - December, 1998 - Unknown Dates, 1998 - Births, 1998 - Deaths, 1998 - January-February, 1998 - March-July, 1998 - August-December, 1998 - Unknown date, 1998 - Nobel Prizes, 1998 - Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, 1998 - Fields Medalists, 1998 - Templeton Prize Read more here: » 1998: Encyclopedia II - 1998 - Nobel Prizes |
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| | | | 1937 - Events: Encyclopedia II - Middle-earth - Cosmology Main article: Ainulindalë
The supreme deity of Tolkien's universe is called Eru Ilúvatar. In the beginning, Ilúvatar created spirits named the Ainur and he taught them to make music. After the Ainur had become proficient in their skills, Ilúvatar commanded them to make a great music based on a theme of his own design. The most powerful Ainu, Melkor (later called Morgoth or "Dark Enemy" by the elves), Tolkien's equivalent of Satan, disrupted the theme, and in response Ilúvatar introduced new themes that enhanced the music b ...
See also:Middle-earth, Middle-earth - The name, Middle-earth - The world, Middle-earth - Cosmology, Middle-earth - Geography, Middle-earth - Peoples, Middle-earth - Languages, Middle-earth - History of Middle-earth, Middle-earth - Books, Middle-earth - Works by Tolkien, Middle-earth - Works by others, Middle-earth - Adaptations, Middle-earth - Films, Middle-earth - Games Read more here: » Middle-earth: Encyclopedia II - Middle-earth - Cosmology |
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| | | | 1937 - Events: Encyclopedia II - March 6 - Deaths
March 6 - 1252 to 1899.
1252 - Saint Rose of Viterbo, Italian saint (b. 1235)
1490 - Ivan the Young, Ruler of Tver (b. 1458)
1531 - Pedrarias Dávila, Spanish conquistador
1627 - Krzysztof Zbaraski, Polish statesman (b. 1580)
1754 - Henry Pelham, Prime Minister of Great Britain (b. 1694)
1758 - Henry Vane, 1st Earl of Darlington, English politician
1764 - Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1690)
1796 - Guillaume ...
See also:March 6, March 6 - Events, March 6 - Births, March 6 - Deaths, March 6 - 1252 to 1899, March 6 - 1900 to 1999, March 6 - 2000 onwards, March 6 - Holidays and observances Read more here: » March 6: Encyclopedia II - March 6 - Deaths |
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