* 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.

He has two brothers, Barry Voight ( born 1937 ), a former volcanologist at Pennsylvania State University, and Wesley Voight ( born 1940 ), known as Chip Taylor, a singer-songwriter who penned " Wild Thing " and " Angel of the Morning ".

* Equestrian statue by John Gregory, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1937

On March 16, 1937 a fire destroyed the Bradford factory and the company relocated to an abandoned silk mill in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania.

William T. Piper, Sr., built the Piper Aircraft Corporation factory in Lock Haven in 1937 after the company's Taylor Aircraft manufacturing plant in Bradford, Pennsylvania, was destroyed by fire.

Pennsylvania's state legislature authorized the acquisition of abandoned and clear-cut land for Pennsylvania State Game Lands in 1919, and the Pennsylvania Game Commission ( PGC ) acquired property along Plunketts Creek for State Game Lands Number 134 between 1937 and 1945.

Between 1937 and 1943, the AFSC built the Penn-Craft community for unemployed coal miners in Fayette County, Pennsylvania.

On July 27, 1937 an unknown animal " with red eyes " seen by residents of Downingtown, Pennsylvania was compared to the Jersey Devil by a reporter for the Pennsylvania Bulletin.

Operation of the complete subway to the planned terminal at Penn Station was delayed until the new Pennsylvania Railroad station above was completed in 1937.

Flag Day is not an official federal holiday, though on June 14, 1937, Pennsylvania became the first ( and only ) U. S. state to celebrate Flag Day as a state holiday, beginning in the town of Rennerdale.

In 1937, Pennsylvania became the first state to make Flag Day a legal holiday.

In 1934 the PRR received a $ 77 million loan from the New Deal's Public Works Administration To complete the electrification project initiated in 1928, work was started January 27, 1937, on the main line from Paoli to Harrisburg ; the low-grade freight line from Morrisville through Columbia to Enola Yard in Pennsylvania ; the Port Road Branch from Perryville, Maryland to Columbia ; the Jamesburg Branch and Amboy Secondary freight line from Monmouth Junction to South Amboy ; and the Landover-South End freight line from Landover, Maryland through Washington to Potomac Yard in Alexandria, Virginia ( now called the Landover Subdivision and RF & P Subdivision of CSX ).

He graduated from the Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas in 1935 and from the Army War College at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania in 1937.

In the ensuing five seasons, Massillon lost only one game, a 7 – 0 defeat at New Castle, Pennsylvania in 1937 after several players came down with the flu.

In 1937, Nelson was hired as the head professional at the Reading Country Club in Reading, Pennsylvania, and worked there until 1940, when he took a new job as head pro at the Inverness Club in Toledo, Ohio.

* 1937 Central Pennsylvania Open

* Robert J. Thompson ( 1937 – 2006 ), Pennsylvania State Senator

* William H. Wilson ( 1877 – 1937 ), U. S. Representative from Pennsylvania, 1935 – 1937

* 1937 – Wright completes his house Fallingwater, at Bear Run, Pennsylvania.

Spread out over four cities in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, Carrier consolidated and moved his company to Syracuse, New York, in 1937, and the company became one of the largest employers in central New York.

File: Black Moshannon State Park Cabin 4-edit1. jpg | A log cabin built by the CCC between 1933 and 1937 in Black Moshannon State Park, Pennsylvania

Strank attended the schools of Franklin Borough, Pennsylvania and graduated from high school in 1937.