* 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.

Béla Bartók's Violin Concerto No. 2, BB 117 ( written 1937 – 38 ) was dedicated to the Hungarian violin virtuoso, Zoltán Székely, who requested the composition in 1936 ,< ref name =" supraphon. cz "> Sleeve note of the Supraphon CD ( SU 3682-2011 )

* 1857 – Miklós Kovács Hungarian Slovene writer ( d. 1937 )

* 1858 – Jenő Hubay, Hungarian violinist ( d. 1937 )

* November 24 – Miklós Kovács Hungarian Slovene writer ( d. 1937 )

* Hungarian poet Miklós Radnóti also wrote a poem about García Lorca in 1937 entitled Federico García Lorca.

By 1937 60 % of noble land was expropriated with remaining land mainly in unarable arias or German and Hungarian lands.

He composed An Optical Poem ( 1937 ) to Franz Liszt's Second Hungarian Rhapsody for MGM, but received no profits due to studio bookkeeping systems.

Philip Alexius de László, MVO ( born 30 April 1869, Budapest – died 22 November 1937, London ) was a Hungarian painter known particularly for his portraits of royal and aristocratic personages.

Attila József ( pronounced, 11 April 1905 – 3 December 1937 ) was one of the most important and well-known Hungarian poets of the 20th century.

Unperturbed, Szálasi established the Hungarian National Socialist Party in 1937, which was also banned.

Lajos Portisch ( born 4 April 1937 in Zalaegerszeg, Hungary ) is a Hungarian chess Grandmaster, whose positional style earned him the nickname, the " Hungarian Botvinnik ".

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On April 1937 he banned the Party of National Will, which was the predecessor of the Hungarian National Socialist Party and the Arrow Cross Party.

Lajos Csordák or Ľudovít Čordák ( February 2, 1864-June 28, 1937, both in Košice ) was a Hungarian and Slovak painter.

In 1937, he became a correspondent member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and in 1945, an ordinary member.

His father arranged for him to play for fellow Pole Bronisław Huberman ( 1882-1947 ), who was much impressed and he arranged for Hassid to study under the Hungarian virtuoso Carl Flesch ( 1873-1944 ) at his summer course in 1937 at Spa, Belgium, where fellow students included Ivry Gitlis ( b. 1922 ) and Ginette Neveu ( 1919-1949 ).

1850 in New York City ) invented the vacuum hot table for relining paintings in 1920 ’ s, he filed a patent for the table in 1937.

While working at Bell Labs in November 1937, Stibitz invented and built a relay-based calculator that he dubbed the " Model K " ( for " kitchen table ", on which he had assembled it ), which was the first to calculate using binary form.

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In November 1937, George Stibitz, then working at Bell Labs, completed a relay-based calculator he dubbed the " Model K " ( for " kitchen table ", on which he had assembled it ), which calculated using binary addition.

The following table shows the number of passenger journeys for each of the six years of war, when a total of nearly 45 million passengers were carried, with those for 1937 included for comparison.

The club continued to enjoy success within their division, regularly finishing in the upper half of the table and capturing the divisional title in 1935, 1937, and 1944.

Argentinos was allowed to keep its place in the Primera, but succumbed to relegation in 1937 after finishing second from bottom of the table.

This table shows the apparent distance between the two stars and their relative position angle: first three columns show data predicted from an orbit calculated in 1937, the next two columns show in 2006, the next three columns show observations reported by the Hanwell Community Observatory.

< table border =" 1 ">< tr >< td > Year </ td >< td > Comp </ td >< td > Att </ td >< td > Comp %</ td >< td > Passing </ td >< td > TD </ td ></ tr >< tr >< td > 1937 </ td >< td > 96 </ td >< td > 237 </ td >< td > 40. 5 </ td >< td > 947 </ td >< td > 5 </ td ></ tr >< tr >< td > 1938 </ td >< td > 93 </ td >< td > 166 </ td >< td > 56. 0 </ td >< td > 1457 </ td >< td > 19 </ td ></ tr ></ table >

Only Widnes in 1937 had accomplished the feat from a lower position in the league table.