* George Steele ( born 1937 ), professional wrestler nicknamed " The Animal "

" Aside from Roger Ackroyd, the most critically acclaimed Poirot novels appeared from 1932 to 1942, including such acknowledged classics as Murder on the Orient Express, The ABC Murders ( 1935 ), Cards on the Table ( 1936 ), and Death on the Nile ( 1937 ).

* 1937 – Spanish Civil War: Guernica ( or Gernika in Basque ), Spain is bombed by German Luftwaffe.

* Adrian Darby ( born 1937 ), British conservationist and academic

In 1934, he was made a member of the Privy Council and served as a member of the League of Nations ( 1934 – 37 ), becoming the President of the League of Nations in 1937.

During his 72 years of Imamat ( 1885 – 1957 ), the community celebrated his Golden ( 1937 ), Diamond ( 1946 ) and Platinum ( 1954 ) Jubilees.

By French aristocrat Mélanie de Gaufridy de Dortan ( 1876 – 1937 ), he had Roger Marie Vincent Philippe Lévêque de Vilmorin ( 12 September 1905 – 20 July 1980 )

With five national championships ( 1931, 1932, 1934, 1937, 1939 ), Ajax was the most successful Dutch team of the nineteen thirties.

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In addition to creating Li ' l Abner, Capp also co-created two other newspaper strips: Abbie an ' Slats with magazine illustrator Raeburn van Buren in 1937, and Long Sam with cartoonist Bob Lubbers in 1954, as well as the Sunday " topper " strips Washable Jones, Small Fry ( aka Small Change ), and Advice fo ' Chillun.

During the Sino-Japanese War ( 1937 – 1945 ) and World War II ( 1939 – 1945 ), the Special Research Units of the Imperial Japanese Army, such as Unit 731, conducted human experimentation on thousands of Chinese, among others.

Morggeustrom ( 1933 – 1937 ), resident

* Rupiah Banda ( born 1937 ), President of Zambia

" Foresight: its Logical Laws, Its Subjective Sources ," ( translation of the 1937 article in French ) in H. E. Kyburg and H. E. Smokler ( eds ), Studies in Subjective Probability, New York: Wiley, 1964.

Gene Ahern's The Squirrel Cage ( January 3, 1937 ), an example of a topper ( comic strip ) | topper strip which is better remembered than the strip it accompanied, Ahern's Room and Board ( comic strip ) | Room and Board.

The two Chinese parties nominally formed a united front to oppose the Japanese in 1937, during the Sino-Japanese War ( 1937-1945 ), which became a part of World War II.

He had been severely affected by several tragedies occurring in a short period of time: Robert E. Howard's death by suicide ( 1936 ), Lovecraft's death from cancer ( 1937 ) and the deaths of his parents, which left him exhausted.

All-Union Population Censuses were carried out in the USSR ( which included RSFSR and the other republics ) in 1920 ( urban only ), 1926, 1937, 1939, 1959, 1970, 1979, and 1989.

During the period the Board existed, Brooklyn College ( 1930 ), Queens College ( 1937 ) and a number of other four-year colleges and two-year community colleges were created.

Christie's novels include, Murder on the Orient Express ( 1934 ), Death on the Nile ( 1937 ), and And Then There Were None ( 1939 ).

: The first, Doctor Syn ( 1937 ), featured noted actor George Arliss in the title role and was its star's last film.

Notable jazz bassists from the 1940s to the 1950s included bassist Jimmy Blanton ( 1918 – 1942 ) whose short tenure in the Duke Ellington Swing band ( cut short by his death from tuberculosis ) introduced new melodic and harmonic solo ideas for the instrument ; bassist Ray Brown ( 1926 – 2002 ), known for backing Beboppers Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker, and forming the Modern Jazz Quartet ; hard bop bassist Ron Carter ( born 1937 ), who has appeared on 3, 500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, including LPs by Thelonious Monk and Wes Montgomery and many Blue Note Records artists ; and Paul Chambers ( 1935 – 1969 ), a member of the Miles Davis Quintet ( including the landmark modal jazz recording Kind of Blue ) and many other 1950s and 1960s rhythm sections, was known for his virtuosic improvisations.

Other leading films included Mr. Deeds Goes to Town ( 1936 ), Lost Horizon ( 1937 ), You Can't Take It With You ( 1938 ), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ( 1939 ), Meet John Doe ( 1941 ), Arsenic and Old Lace ( 1944 ), It's a Wonderful Life ( 1946 ) and State of the Union ( 1948 ).

In 1937, Tyrone Guthrie directed Laurence Olivier in a Jones-inspired Hamlet at the Old Vic.

Olivier's 1937 performance at the Old Vic Theatre was popular with audiences but not with critics, with James Agate writing in a famous review in The Sunday Times, " Mr. Olivier does not speak poetry badly.

Laurence Olivier played Malcolm in the 1929 production and Macbeth in 1937 at the Old Vic Theatre in a production that saw the Vic's artistic director Lilian Baylis pass away the night before it opened.

Olivier's co-star in his 1937 Old Vic Theatre production, Judith Anderson, had an equally triumphant association with the play.

Following the trial and execution of Zinoviev, Kamenev, and other leftist Old Bolsheviks in 1936, Bukharin and Rykov were arrested on 27 February 1937 following a plenum of the Central Committee and were charged with conspiring to overthrow the Soviet state.

* 1938: Best Short Subject, Cartoons: The Old Mill ( 1937 )

Later, other movie technologies were adapted for use in animation, such as multiplane cameras with The Old Mill ( 1937 ), stereophonic sound in Fantasia ( 1940 ), widescreen processes with Lady and the Tramp ( 1955 ), and even 3D.

* The 1937 film In Old Chicago, is centered on the fire, with a highly fictionalized portrayal of the O ' Leary family as the main characters.

* 1937 Old Vic Theatre, Laurence Olivier as Henry

* 1937 Robert Webb-In Old Chicago

His books of poetry include Poems 1913 and 1914 ( 1914 ); Poems Translated from the French ( 1914 ); Three Poems ( 1916 ); The Barn ( 1916 ); The Silver Bird of Herndyke Mill ; Stane Street ; The Gods of the World Beneath, ( 1916 ); The Harbingers ( 1916 ); Pastorals ( 1916 ); The Waggoner and Other Poems ( 1920 ); The Shepherd, and Other Poems of Peace and War ( 1922 ); Old Homes ( 1922 ); To Nature: New Poems ( 1923 ); Dead Letters ( 1923 ); Masks of Time: A New Collection of Poems Principally Meditative ( 1925 ); Japanese Garland ( 1928 ); Retreat ( 1928 ); Winter Nights: A Reminiscence ( 1928 ); Near and Far: New Poems ( 1929 ); A Summer's Fancy ( 1930 ); To Themis: Poems on Famous Trials ( 1931 ); Constantia and Francis: An Autumn Evening, ( 1931 ); Halfway House: A Miscellany of New Poems, ( 1932 ); Choice or Chance: New Poems ( 1934 ); Verses: To H. R. H. The Duke of Windsor, ( 1936 ); An Elegy and Other Poems ( 1937 ); On Several Occasions ( 1938 ); Poems, 1930-1940 ( 1940 ); Shells by a Stream ( 1944 ); After the Bombing, and Other Short Poems ( 1949 ); Eastward: A Selection of Verses Original and Translated ( 1950 ); Records of Friendship ( 1950 ); A Hong Kong House ( 1959 ); Poems on Japan ( 1967 ).

Tolkien came to regret his ad hoc use of Old Norse name, referring to a " rabble of eddaic-named dwarves, ... invented in an idle hour " in 1937.

In Old Chicago is a 1937 American drama film directed by Henry King.

* 1937 ( 10th ) The Old Mill-Walt Disney Productions, RKO Radio-Walt Disney

In 1937, Stalin again unleashed what Trotskyists say was a political terror against their Left Opposition and many of the remaining ' Old Bolsheviks ' ( those who had played key roles in the October Revolution in 1917 ), in the face of increased opposition, particularly in the army.

Back in 1937, with the inheritance following the death of his mother, Britten had bought The Old Mill in Snape, Suffolk, which became his Suffolk home, and this is where he spent much of his time in 1944 working on Peter Grimes.

* A Little Book of Rhymes New and Old ; Blackie, 1937

The play had limited popularity in the early twentieth century, but John Gielgud exploded onto the world's theatrical consciousness, through his performance as Richard at the Old Vic Theatre in 1929, returning to the character in 1937 and 1953 in what ultimately was considered as the definitive performance of the role.

Another legendary Richard was Maurice Evans, who first played the role at the Old Vic in 1934 and then created a sensation in his 1937 Broadway performance, revived it in New York in 1940 and then immortalised it on television for the Hallmark Hall of Fame in 1954.

A number of animated cartoons were produced, including the Bugs Bunny cartoon Southern Fried Rabbit ( 1953 ), in which Bugs disguises himself as Uncle Tom and sings My Old Kentucky Home in order to cross the Mason-Dixon line ; Uncle Tom's Bungalow ( 1937 ), a Warner Brothers cartoon supervised by Tex Avery ; Eliza on Ice ( 1944 ), one of the earliest Mighty Mouse cartoons produced by Paul Terry ; and Uncle Tom's Cabaña ( 1947 ), an eight-minute cartoon directed by Tex Avery.

The Old Martin County Courthouse, built in 1937

** Old Martin County Courthouse, 1937

* Pictographs of the Old Southwest ( 1937 )

Several Silly Symphonies entries, including Three Little Pigs ( 1933 ), The Grasshopper and the Ants ( 1934 ), The Tortoise and the Hare ( 1934 ), The Country Cousin ( 1936 ), The Old Mill ( 1937 ), Wynken, Blynken, and Nod ( 1938 ), and The Ugly Duckling ( 1939, with an earlier black-and-white version from 1931 ), are among the most notable films produced by Walt Disney.