What Happened in July 1937

Historical Events

Event of Interest

Jul 1 Spanish bishops support Franco & fascists

Spanish Dictator and General Francisco Franco — Spanish Dictator and General
Francisco Franco

Jul 2 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Don Budge beats Germany's Gottfried von Cramm 6-3, 6-4, 6-2 for first of back-to-back titles

Event of Interest

Jul 2 Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan disappear flying over the Pacific Ocean en route to Howland Island. Noonan is declared dead the following year, and Earhart is declared the year after (1939)

Aviator Amelia Earhart — Aviator
Amelia Earhart

Jul 2 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Dorothy Round of England beats Poland's Jadwiga Jędrzejowska 6-2, 2-6, 7-5 for her second Wimbledon title

Event of Interest

Jul 3 Del Mar Turf Club, with crooner Bing Crosby as president and actor Pat O'Brien as a club officer, opens for racing

Singer and Actor Bing Crosby — Singer and Actor
Bing Crosby

Jul 5 117°F (47°C), Medicine Lake, Montana (state record)

Baseball Record

Jul 5 NY Yankees outfielder Joe DiMaggio hits 20th HR of the season but 1st career grand slam in 8-4 win vs Boston Red Sox

Baseball Player Joe DiMaggio — Baseball Player
Joe DiMaggio

Jul 5 Republican offensive by Brunete in Spain
Jul 5 Spam, the luncheon meat is first introduced into the market by the Hormel Foods Corporation

Event of Interest

Jul 7 5th MLB All Star Game, Griffin Stadium, Washington: AL wins 8-3, Lou Gehrig drives in 4 runs with HR & double

Baseball Player Lou Gehrig — Baseball Player
Lou Gehrig

Jul 7 Japanese and Chinese troops clash at the Marco Polo Bridge, beginning of Second Sino-Japanese War
Jul 9 72nd British Golf Open: Henry Cotton shoots a 290 at Carnoustie Golf Links

Event of Interest

Jul 10 Dutch Django Reinhardt's "Quintette, premieres in du Hot Club"

Jazz Guitarist Django Reinhardt — Jazz Guitarist
Django Reinhardt

Jul 12 -13) Tupolev ANT-25 non-stop flight Moscow to San Jacinto, California
Jul 15 Buchenwald Concentration Camp opens
Jul 15 Japanese attack Marco Polo Bridge, invade China
Jul 19 Entartete Art Fair opens in Munich
Jul 19 Joris Ivens' "Spanish Earth" premieres in Hollywood
Jul 22 Irish premier Eamon de Valera wins elections

Event of Interest

Jul 22 US Senate rejects FDR's proposal to enlarge Supreme Court

32nd US President Franklin D. Roosevelt — 32nd US President
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Jul 23 Isolation of pituitary hormone announced (Yale University)
Jul 24 Alabama drops charges against 5 blacks accused of rape in Scottsboro
Jul 25 31st Tour de France won by Roger Lapebie of France
Jul 26 End of the Battle of Brunete in the Spanish Civil War.
Jul 27 32nd Davis Cup: USA beats Great Britain in Wimbledon (4-1)
Jul 28 Eddie Paynter scores 322 for Lancashire against Sussex
Jul 28 Richard Moore scores 316 for Hampshire against Warwickshire
Jul 29 Japanese troops occupies Peking and Tientsin
Jul 29 Tongzhou Incident: East Hopei Army mutinies against Japanese troops and civilians
Jul 30 Phillies Dolph Camilli, plays 1st base and registers no put outs
Jul 30 Russian Politburo issues NKVD Order no. 00447, to repress former kulak and anti-soviets, 269,100 to be arrested, 76,000 to be shot. Part of the Great Purge.

Famous Birthdays

Jul 1 Ebrahim I Ebrahim, South African ANCer/Umkhonto we Sizwe-leader
Jul 2 Dick Berardino, baseball player
Jul 2 Polly Holliday, Jasper Ala, actress (Flo-Alice, Flo-Flo)
Jul 2 Richard Petty "The King", American NASCAR Driver (7x NASCAR Championship, 7x Daytona 500), born in Level Cross, North Carolina

Tom Stoppard

Jul 3 Tom Stoppard, Czech playwright (Rosencrantz & Guildenstern-1968 Tony), born in Zlín, Czechoslovakia

Jul 4 Thomas Nagel, American philosopher and University Professor of Philosophy and Law Emeritus at New York University, born in Belgrade, Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Jul 5 Brooke Hayward, author (Haywire), born in Los Angeles, California
Jul 5 Frouwke J. Laning-Boersema, Dutch politician (CDA) 2nd Chamber
Jul 5 Nita M Lowey, (Rep-D-New York)
Jul 6 Gene Chandler, [Eugene Dixon], rocker (Duke of Earl), born in Chicago, Illinois
Jul 6 Ned Beatty, actor (Deliverance, Repossed, Network), born in Lexington, Kentucky
Jul 6 Tony Lewis, cricketer (England batsman, captain 1972-73)
Jul 6 Vladimir Ashkenazy, Russian pianist and conductor (Tchaikovsky-1962), born in Gorky, Russia
Jul 6 Bessie Head, Botswana writer (When Rain Clouds Gather, Maru, A Question of Power), born in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa (d. 1986)
Jul 7 Carroll Hubbard Jr, American politician (Rep-D-KY, 1975-93), born in Murray, Kentuckey
Jul 8 Barbara Ann Loden, actress (Ernie Kovac's Show)
Jul 9 Clemon Daniels, American football halfback and AFL player of year 1963 (Oak, Dallas, San Francisco), born in McKinney, Texas
Jul 9 David Hockney, English artist (Pop Art), born in Bradford, England
Jul 9 Marty Springstead, American Major League baseball umpire and umpire supervisor, born in Nyack, New York
Jul 10 Sandy Stewart, American singer (Sing Along With Mitch, Mr President), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Jul 11 Pai Hsien-yung, Taiwanese writer

Bill Cosby

Jul 12 Bill Cosby, American actor and comedian (Cosby Show, I Spy, Leonard Part 6), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Jul 12 Mickey Edwards, American Republican congressman (Chairman of the House Republican Policy Committee), born in Cleveland, Ohio
Jul 12 Lionel Jospin, Prime Minister of France (1997-2002), born in Meudon, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Jul 12 Michel Louvain, French Canadian singer (Buenas Noches Mi Amor), born in Quebec, Canada
Jul 13 Charles Coody, Stamford TX, PGA golfer (1971 Masters)
Jul 14 Khalid Hassan, Pak cricket leg-spinner (took 2-116 at 16 in only Test)
Jul 14 Yoshiro Mori, Japanese politician
Jul 16 Richard Bryan, American attorney and politician (25th Governor of Nevada), born in Washington, D.C.
Jul 17 Jose Ignacio Cabrujas, writer
Jul 17 Elmer Fudd [originally Egghead], Warner Bros. cartoon character created by Tex Avery and Chuck Jones (Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series), first debut as Egghead in "Egghead Rides Again"
Jul 18 Roald Hoffmann, Polish-American chemist (Nobel 1981), born in Złoczów, Poland
Jul 18 Hunter S. Thompson, American journalist and author (Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas), born in Louisville, Kentucky (d. 2005)
Jul 19 George Hamilton IV, American country musician, born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina (d. 2014)
Jul 19 Larry Boxx, founder (Land B Computer Serv)
Jul 19 Richard Jordan [Robert Anson Jordan Jr.], American actor (Dune, Gettysburg), born in NYC, New York
Jul 20 Ken Ogata, Japanese actor
Jul 22 John Price, England cricket fast-medium bowler (1964-72)
Jul 22 V B Ranjane, Indian cricket fast bowler (early 1960's)
Jul 22 Yasuhiro Kojima, Japanese professional wrestler (d. 1999)
Jul 23 Dave Webster, American football player (led his football team to a National Championship in 1958), born in Atlanta, Texas (d. 2006)
Jul 23 Bruce Surtees, American cinematographer (Dirty Harry, Lenny), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2012)
Jul 24 Baroness Blatch, British minister of state for Education
Jul 24 Barry Lloyd Vercoe, New Zealand composer and computer scientist (MIT Media Lab), born in Wellington, New Zealand
Jul 24 Quinlan Terry, architect
Jul 25 Colin Renfrew, English archeologist (Anatolian hypothesis), born in Stockton-on-Tees, England
Jul 27 Anna Dawson, British comedienne (Violet-Keeping Up Appearances), born in Bolton, Lancashire
Jul 27 Chuck Jackson, American singer (Any Day Now, I Don't Want to Cry), born in Latta, South Carolina
Jul 27 Don Galloway, American actor (Arrest & Trial, Ironside), born in Augusta, Kentucky (d. 2009)
Jul 27 Robert Gibb, zoo/theme park creator
Jul 28 Peter Duchin, American pianist and bandleader (Peter Duchin Orchestra), born in NYC, New York
Jul 28 Francis Veber, French film director and screenwriter, born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
Jul 29 Daniel McFadden, American economist, Nobel Prize Laureate

Charles Schwab

Jul 29 Charles Schwab, American investor and entrepreneur (Charles Schwab Corporation), born in Sacramento, California

Jul 31 Isabelle F Daniels, Jakin Georgia, 4X100m relayer (Olympic bronze 56)

Famous Weddings

Wedding of Interest

Jul 10 Actress Ingrid Bergman (21) weds dentist Petter Aron Lindström

Jul 11 Welsh poet and writer Dylan Thomas (22) marries dancer Caitlin McNamara (22) in Penzance, Cornwall

Wedding of Interest

Jul 12 Explorer Jacques Cousteau (27) weds scuba diver Simone Melchior (18) at Saint-Louis-des-Invalides in Paris

Oceanographer, Explorer and Scientist Jacques Cousteau — Oceanographer, Explorer and Scientist
Jacques Cousteau

Famous Deaths

Jul 2 Fred L Noonan, US navigator, disappeared over Pacific Ocean

Chester Greenwood

Jul 5 Chester Greenwood, American inventor (invented earmuffs at 15), dies at 78

Jul 9 Oliver Law, first African-American commander of U.S. troops (b. 1899)
Jul 10 Attilio Brugnoli, Italian pianist and composer, dies at 56
Jul 10 Johan[nes] B Schepers, Fries writer (Braga), dies at 71
Jul 11 George Gershwin, American composer (An American in Paris), dies at 38
Jul 13 Emmett Dalton, American outlaw, member of the Dalton Gang in the American Old West, dies at 66
Jul 15 Walter Gay, artist, dies
Jul 17 Henri-Constant-Gabriel Pierne, composer, dies at 73
Jul 18 Julian Bell, British poet (b. 1908)

Guglielmo Marconi

Jul 20 Guglielmo Marconi, Italian engineer/marquis (radio, Nobel 1909), dies of a heart attack at 63

Jul 22 Ted McDonald, cricketer (43 wickets for Australia), dies in car crash
Jul 26 Gerda Taro (Gerta Pohorylle), German-born war photojournalist, dies covering Spanish Civil War aged 26
Jul 28 Muslim Magomayev, Azerbaijani-Soviet composer, dies at 51
Jul 28 Joseph Lee, Father of Playgrounds movement, dies at 88

Charles E. Hires

Jul 31 Charles E. Hires, American pharmacist, inventor and manufacturer of the Hires Root Beer beverage, dies at 85

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