* 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.

Clyde served as the seat to 1935 ; in 1937 Pembroke took on that role.

The Bryan County seat was voted to be moved from Clyde to Pembroke in 1935, with the first County Commissioners session in Pembroke taking place on February 15, 1937.

The Warr Acres housing addition and Warr Acres Second Addition was developed in 1937 by Clyde B. Warr.

Some of the people who have stayed at the Tarpon Inn include: President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who fished there in 1937 ; Duncan Hines, who spent his honeymoon there ; Hedy Lamarr ; Victor McLaglen ; Aimee Semple McPherson ; Clyde Beatty ; Bob Lilly ; and physicist Edward Teller.

When Clyde was elected to the U. S. House of Representatives from Maine's 2nd congressional district in 1937, Smith accompanied her husband to Washington, D. C. to serve as his secretary.

Among Man o ' War's other famous offspring were 1929 Kentucky Derby winner Clyde Van Dusen, Battleship ( who won the 1938 English Grand National steeplechase ), and War Admiral, the 1937 Triple Crown winner and the second official Horse of the Year.

In 1937, Chase began working at Columbia Pictures, where he spent the rest of his career starring in his own series of two-reel comedies, as well as producing and directing other Columbia comedies, including those of The Three Stooges and Andy Clyde.

Created in 1937 by Kirtley Mather, Edward A. Filene, and Clyde R. Miller, the IPA formed with the general concern that increased amounts of propaganda were decreasing the public ’ s ability to develop their own critical thoughts.

It was the end of the State Fair until, in 1937, a group of New Mexico businessmen led by Governor Clyde Tingley convinced President Franklin Roosevelt to grant Works Progress Administration ( WPA ) funds for construction of fairground buildings in the middle of Albuquerque, of which Tingley Coliseum would be the center.

Clyde L. Herring ( D ), from January 15, 1937

Other routes include the Stoney Indian Route, from Stoney Indian Pass to the south of the peak, first descended by noted Sierra mountaineer Norman Clyde and party in 1937 ; various routes on the Southeast Face ; and the more difficult North ( or Northwest ) Face, climbed partially in 1971 and completely in 1976.

H. G. Wells wrote enthusiastically about the musical, and Cohan's performance as Roosevelt, in an article " The Fall in America 1937 ", published in Collier's on 28 January 1938 and reprinted in his World Brain ( 1938 ).

One of the stated goals of this Congress, held in Paris, France in 1937, was to discuss ideas and methods for implementing Wells ' ideas of the World Brain.

* 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.

His personnel around 1937 included: Lester Young and Herschel Evans ( tenor sax ), Freddie Green ( guitar ), Jo Jones ( drums ), Walter Page ( bass ), Earle Warren ( alto sax ), Buck Clayton and Harry Edison ( trumpet ), Benny Morton and Dickie Wells ( trombone ).

* Wells Fargo, 1937

Wells Fargo 1937

Later in the decade, he was the first actor to play " Dr. Kildare ", in the film Internes Can't Take Money ( 1937 ), and he starred in two large-scale Westerns, Wells Fargo ( 1937 ) with his wife Frances Dee, and Cecil B. DeMille's Union Pacific ( 1939 ).

* Wells Fargo ( 1937 )

The Regal Cinema on Teme Street in Tenbury Wells opened in 1937.

In 1937, two years later, Wells was offered the position of acting president of the university after the retirement of William Lowe Bryan from the post.

In the twentieth century, Yearly Meetings started to be held outside of London, namely in Leeds in 1905 ; in Birmingham in 1908 ; in Manchester in 1912 ; in Llandrindrod Wells in 1924 ; in Scarborough in 1925 ; in Manchester in 1926 ; in Bristol in 1937 ; In York in 1941 and in 1942. in Edinburgh in 1948.

On 10 July 1937 he married Evelyn Esmé ( at Wells Cathedral ) who was the daughter of George Champeny Swayne, of Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset, solicitor in Glastonbury.

* Wells Fargo ( 1937 )

* Wells Fargo ( 1937 )

* Wells Fargo ( 1937 )

Wells married Johnnie Wright ( 1914 – 2011 ) in 1937.

She is said to have had seven husbands, including theatrical producer Maurice ( divorced ); Thomas Wells ( married October 1926-his death ); South American millionaire Jaime De Garson ( divorced 1931 ); boxer / actor Max Baer ( married July 8, 1931-divorced 1933 ); portrait painter Tino Costa ( married 1936-annulled 1937 ); and Russell Lawson.

" In December 1937, she sued family members of her former husband, Wells, seeking $ 270, 000 in trusts from his estate, because she said they had misrepresented certain papers they gave her to sign after his death.

He completed 1000 runs easily in both seasons and there were occasional innings of brilliance: at Wells in 1937, he made 141 in 150 minutes with nine sixes and 16 fours against Hampshire.

The UK premiere took place in London on 11 October 1933 at Sadler's Wells Theatre and the US premiere was presented on 27 December 1937 under the title of The Bumble-Bee Prince.

* Wells Fargo ( 1937 )

The nearby area acquired the name Kwinana Beach when the local postmistress, Clara Wells, immediately started labeling the mail sacks " Kwinana Wreck ", to distinguish the settlement there from Rockingham, to the south Kwinana Beach was officially adopted as a township in 1937.