* 1937 – Merle Haggard, American singer-songwriter and musician

* 1937 – Peter Maivia, Samoan wrestler ( d. 1982 )

* 1937 – Billy Dee Williams, American actor

* 1937 – Sir Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft, at Rugby, England.

* 1856 – William Martin Conway, English art critic and mountaineer ( d. 1937 )

* 1937 – Igor Volk, Soviet astronaut

* 1937 – The Philippines holds a plebiscite for Filipino women on whether they should be extended the right to suffrage ; over 90 % would vote in the affirmative.

* 1876 – Orso Mario Corbino, Italian physicist ( d. 1937 )

* 1937 – Alice Coltrane, American pianist and composer ( d. 2007 )

* 1937 – Tommy Sands, American actor and singer

* 1937 – Baden Powell de Aquino, Brazilian guitarist ( d. 2000 )

* 1937 – Barbara Windsor, English actress

* 1845 – André Bessette, Canadian pastor and saint ( d. 1937 )

* 1937 – The Battle of Shanghai begins.

* 1937 – The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 is passed in America, the effect of which is to render marijuana and all its by-products illegal.

* 1937 – Billy Cannon, American football player

* 1937 – Garth Hudson, Canadian musician, composer, and producer ( The Band )

* 1937 – Josip Broz Tito reads the resolution " Manifesto of constitutional congress of KPH " to the constitutive congress of KPH ( Croatian Communist Party ) in woods near Samobor.

* 1858 – Gaston Doumergue, French politician ( d. 1937 )

* 1937 – Al D ' Amato, American politician

* 1937 – Steven Berkoff, English actor

* 1937 – Roland Burris, American politician

* 1937 – Duncan Sharpe, Pakistani cricketer

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

Arne Tiselius developed the first sophisticated electrophoretic apparatus in 1937 and some years later he was awarded the 1948 Nobel Prize for his work in protein electrophoresis.

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 ).

* McKenney Trophy 1937, 1943, 1945, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951

* Children ( 8 ): Gwendolyn Gail ( 1935 – 1976 ), Sue ( 1937 – 1978 ), Bill ( 1939 – 1962 ), Cathy Ann ( 1943 – 1947 ), Arlo Davy ( 1947 –), Joady Ben ( 1948 –), Nora ( 1950 –), Lorinna Lynn ( 1954 – 1973 )

* She has been portrayed by Carmen D ' Antonio in Golden Girl ( 1951 ), Sheila Darcy in Wells Fargo ( 1937 ), Yvonne De Carlo in Black Bart ( 1948 ), and Rita Moreno in an episode of the 1950s TV show Tales of Wells Fargo.

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* Most opponents ' fumbles recovered for touchdowns, season: 4 ; Detroit Lions, 1937 ; Chicago Bears, 1942 ; Boston ( AAFC ), 1948 ; Los Angeles Rams, 1952 ; San Francisco 49ers, 1965 ; Denver Broncos, 1984 ; St. Louis Cardinals, 1987 ; Minnesota Vikings, 1989 ; Atlanta Falcons, 1991 and 1998 ; Philadelphia Eagles, 1995 ; New Orleans Saints, 1998 ; Kansas City Chiefs, 1999.

He began visiting Roxbury in 1937 and he and his wife Anne moved to a home on Main Street in 1948, where he lived until his death in 1958.

The property was purchased in 1937 by The American Rolling Mill Company which changed its name to ARMCO in 1948.

* 1937 – 1948 3½ Litre saloon

In all, Louis made 25 defenses of his Heavyweight title from 1937 to 1948, and was a world champion for 11 years and 10 months.

* Madeleine Albright with Bill Woodward, Prague Winter: A personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937 – 1948, Harper, 2012

Louis Dapples was CEO till 1937, when succeeded by Édouard Muller till his death in 1948.

The group notion started in 1976, when the four brothers of the Neville family, Art ( born 1937 ), Charles ( b. 1938 ), Aaron ( b. 1941 ), and Cyril ( b. 1948 ) got together to take part in the recording session of The Wild Tchoupitoulas, a Mardi Gras Indian group led by their uncle Big Chief Jolly.

Hardwicke played in such film classics as Les Misérables ( 1935 ), King Solomon's Mines ( 1937 ), The Keys of the Kingdom ( 1944 ), The Winslow Boy ( 1948 ) and Olivier's Richard III ( 1955 ).

Dunne was nominated five times for the Academy Award for Best Actress, for her performances in Cimarron ( 1931 ), Theodora Goes Wild ( 1936 ), The Awful Truth ( 1937 ), Love Affair ( 1939 ) and I Remember Mama ( 1948 ).

She received five Best Actress nominations during her career: for Cimarron ( 1931 ), Theodora Goes Wild ( 1936 ), The Awful Truth ( 1937 ), Love Affair ( 1939 ) and I Remember Mama ( 1948 ).

With storylines of action, high adventure and foreign intrigue, the popular radio series entralled listeners from 1937 through 1948.

The strip was reprinted in a long-running series of Cupples & Leon books ( 1927 – 1937 ), Big Little Books and comic books for Dell Comics ( starting in 1936 ) and later, the American Comics Group ( 1947 – 1948 ).

That year, he was appointed to revise and enlarge Bartlett's Familiar Quotations ( 11th edition in 1937 and 12th edition in 1948 ).

* Morley edited two editions of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations: 1937 ( 11th ) and 1948 ( 12th.

King George VI's pennies ( 1937 – 1952 ) also have a left-facing bust of the king, with the inscription ( to 1948 ), and ( from 1949 ).

It was administered as a province of India until 1937, when it became a separate, self-governing colony, attaining its independence on January 4, 1948.

At the 1932 general election he moved to the constituency of Longford – Westmeath and served the Longford area as TD in either Longford – Westmeath ( 1932 – 37, 1948 – 65 ) or Athlone – Longford ( 1937 – 48 ) until he was defeated at the 1965 general election.