1937

Centuries: Year in Review 20th Century (19th century - 20th century - 21st century)

Decades: 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s - 1930s - 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s

Years: 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 - 1937 - 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942

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Births

• February 11 - [Bill Lawry]?, Australian cricket player.
• February 11 - [Lodewijk Boer]?, Dutch violinist/playwright.
• February 11 - [Marilyn Butler]?, Rector of Exeter College, Oxford University.
• February 11 - [Peter Lashley]?, West Indies cricket player.

Deaths

• March 15 - H. P. Lovecraft, horror writer.

Events

• February 11 - A sit-down strike ends when General Motors recognises the [United Automobile Workers Union]?
• World War II starts in Asia with invasions by Japan
• Koh-i-Noor diamond last known to be worn in public
• May 6 - In United States, the German airship Hindenburg? bursts into flame when mooring to a mast in Lakehurst.

Nobel Prizes

• Physics - [Clinton Joseph Davisson]?, [George Paget Thomson]?
• Chemistry - [Walter Norman Haworth]?, [Paul Karrer]?
• Medicine - [[Albert von Szent-Györgyi Nagyrapolt]]
• Literature - [Roger Martin du Gard]?
• Peace - [Viscount Cecil of Chelwood (Lord Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne Cecil)]?