July 1937 in History

Events in History

Jul 1 Rev Martin Niemöller arrested in Nazi Germany for activities against the State

Event of Interest

Jul 1 Spanish bishops support Francisco Franco and his fascist movement

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)

Jul 5 117°F (47°C), Medicine Lake, Montana (state record)
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
Jul 7 Japanese and Chinese troops clash at the Marco Polo Bridge, beginning the Second Sino-Japanese War
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

Election of Interest

Jul 22 Irish premier Eamon de Valera wins elections

Revolutionary and President of Ireland Éamon de Valera

Event of Interest

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

Jul 23 Isolation of pituitary hormone announced (Yale University)
Jul 24 Alabama drops charges against 5 blacks accused of rape in Scottsboro
Jul 26 End of the Battle of Brunete in the Spanish Civil War.
Jul 27 International Lawn Tennis Challenge, Wimbledon: GB 4 title streak ends as American Frank Parker beats Charles Hare 6-2, 6-4, 6-2 for an unbeatable 3-1 lead; ends 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 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.

Birthdays in History

Jul 1 Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim, South African ANCer and Umkhonto we Sizwe-leader, born in Durban, South Africa
Jul 4 Sonja [Haraldsen], Queen consort of Norway (since 1991), born in Oslo, Norway
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, American author (Haywire), born in Los Angeles, California
Jul 5 Frouwke J. Laning-Boersema, Dutch politician (CDA) 2nd Chamber
Jul 5 Nita Lowey, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York), born in NYC, New York
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, Kentucky

David Hockney (85 years old)

Jul 9 English artist (Pop Art), born in Bradford, England

Jul 11 Pai Hsien-yung, Taiwanese writer (Taipei People), born in Guilin, China
Jul 12 Lionel Jospin, Prime Minister of France (1997-2002), born in Meudon, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Jul 12 Mickey Edwards, American Republican congressman (Chairman of the House Republican Policy Committee), born in Cleveland, Ohio
Jul 12 Robert McFarlane, American Marine Corps veteran and civil servant (National Security Adviser, 1983-85), involved in the Space Defense Initiative, and Iran-Contra Affair, born in Washington, D.C. (d. 2022)
Jul 14 Yoshirō Mori, Japanese politician, Prime Minister of Japan (2000-01), born in Nomi, Japan
Jul 16 Richard Bryan, American attorney and politician (25th Governor of Nevada), born in Washington, D.C.
Jul 17 Jose Ignacio Cabrujas, writer

Hunter S. Thompson (1937-2005)

Jul 18 American journalist and author (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas), born in Louisville, Kentucky

Jul 18 Roald Hoffmann, Polish-American chemist (Nobel 1981), born in Złoczów, Poland
Jul 19 Larry Boxx, founder (Land B Computer Serv)
Jul 24 Baroness Blatch, British minister of state for Education
Jul 24 Quinlan Terry, architect
Jul 25 Colin Renfrew, English archeologist (Anatolian hypothesis), born in Stockton-on-Tees, England
Jul 26 Boris Cyrulnik, French doctor, born in Bordeaux, France
Jul 27 Anna Dawson, British comedienne (Violet-Keeping Up Appearances), born in Bolton, Lancashire
Jul 27 Robert Gibb, British zoo and theme park creator (Flamingo Land; Pleasure Island), born in England

Charles Schwab (85 years old)

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

Jul 29 Daniel McFadden, American economist and Nobel Prize Laureate who developed theory and methods for analyzing discrete choice, born in Raleigh, North Carolina
Jul 29 Ryutaro Hashimoto, Japanese politician (Prime Minister of Japan 1996-98), born in Sōja, Japan (d. 2006)

Deaths in History

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

Chester Greenwood (1858-1937)

Jul 5 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 Johan Bernard Schepers, Frisian writer (Braga), dies at 71
Jul 13 Emmett Dalton, American outlaw of the Old West (The Dalton Gang in the American Old West, dies at 66
Jul 15 Walter Gay, artist, dies
Jul 18 Julian Bell, British poet (b. 1908)

Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937)

Jul 20 Italian inventor and electrical engineer who pioneered work on long distance radio transmission (Nobel 1909), dies of a heart attack at 63

Jul 26 Gerda Taro (Gerta Pohorylle), German-born war photojournalist, dies covering Spanish Civil War aged 26
Jul 28 Joseph Lee, American Father of Playgrounds movement, dies at 88