* 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.

* 1937 – Chuck Jackson, American singer-songwriter ( The Del-Vikings )

Novelist Robert Stone, who met the bus on its arrival in New York, has written that those accompanying Kesey on the trip were Neal Cassady ( described by Stone as " the world's greatest driver, who could roll a joint while backing a 1937 Packard onto the lip of the Grand Canyon "), Ken Babbs (" fresh from the Nam, full of radio nomenclature, and with a command voice that put cops to flight "), Jane Burton (" a pregnant young philosophy professor who declined no challenges "), Page Browning (" a Hell's Angel candidate "), George Walker, Sandy Lehmann-Haupt (" dis-MOUNT "), Mike Hagen (" Mal Function "), Ron Bevirt (" Hassler "), Chuck Kesey, Dale Kesey, John Babbs, Steve Lambrecht and Paula Sundstren (" aka Gretchin Fetchin, Slime Queen ").

Kelly served as a coach for the Cincinnati Reds, managed by former teammate Chuck Dressen, from 1935 to 1937.

* Chuck Jackson ( R & B singer ) ( born 1937 ), R & B singer who made numerous hits, including " Any Day Now "

* Several pre-1950 talkies were sold to other studios for remakes, among them Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ( 1931 ) and Make Me a Star ( 1932 ) to MGM ; The Letter ( 1929 ), A Farewell to Arms ( 1932 ) and One Sunday Afternoon ( 1933 ) to Warner Brothers ; and " The Dance of Life ( 1929 ), The Story of Temple Drake ( 1933 ) and " Swing High, Swing Low ( 1937 ) to 20th Century Fox.

* Swing High, Swing Low ( 1937 )

He co-starred with Katharine Hepburn in Alice Adams ( 1935 ), with Joan Crawford in Above Suspicion ( 1943 ), and with Carole Lombard in four films, Hands Across the Table ( 1935 ), The Princess Comes Across ( 1936 ), Swing High, Swing Low ( 1937 ), and True Confession ( 1937 ).

* Swing High, Swing Low ( 1937 )

In 1937 Low had produced an occasional strip about " Hit and Muss " ( Hitler and Mussolini ), but after Germany made official complaints he substituted a composite dictator, " Muzzler ".

* Swing High, Swing Low ( 1937 )

This was followed by the Housing Act of 1937, which created the U. S. Housing Agency and the nation's first public housing program — the Low Rent Public Housing Program.

After her death in 1934 Addison married secondly Dorothy, daughter of Frederick Percy Low, in 1937.

Low became provincial treasurer under Premier William Aberhart in 1937.

Highway 24 was designated in 1932 in conjunction with the ongoing construction of the Broadway Low Level Tunnel ( subsequently renamed the Caldecott Tunnel ) which opened in 1937, connecting with the new Eastshore Highway and the approaches to the new Bay Bridge by way of Ashby Avenue through Berkeley west of the Berkeley Hills, and routed along Mount Diablo Boulevard through Contra Costa County east of the hills.

This part of Route 11 was not assigned a sign route number in 1934, but, by 1937, when the new Broadway Low Level Tunnel opened, it was part of Sign Route 24.

They were completed in 1937, and were originally known as the Broadway Low Level Tunnel as the approach was from the top of Broadway in Oakland, and was below the portal of the old tunnel.

Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Bowman graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in 1936 and began his film career playing a bit part in Swing High, Swing Low ( 1937 ).

Recovery International ( formerly Recovery, Inc., often referred to simply as Recovery ) is a mental health self-help organization founded in 1937 by neuropsychiatrist Abraham Low in Chicago, Illinois.

Previous Recovery Logo In 1937 Abraham Low was on the faculty at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and participants in Recovery were limited to those who had been hospitalized in the Psychiatric Institute at the University.

He wrote three early novels, published by the Vanguard Press — Summer in Williamsburg ( 1934 ), Homage to Blenholt ( 1936 ), and Low Company ( 1937 ).