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

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

* 1937 – David Anderson, Canadian politician

* 1937 – Ronald Hamowy, Canadian historian ( d. 2012 )

** Royal Canadian Mounted Police — accorded the status of a regiment of Dragoons in 1921 and remained so until 1937.

* 2006 – Bruce Trigger, Canadian archaeologist ( b. 1937 )

* 1937 – Ron Taylor, Canadian baseball player

* 1937 – Larry Hillman, Canadian ice hockey player

* 1937 – Hagood Hardy, Canadian musician and composer ( d. 1997 )

* 1937 – Eddie Shack, Canadian ice hockey player

* 1854 – Robert Laird Borden, Canadian politician ( d. 1937 )

* 1937 – Michel Louvain, Canadian singer

* 1937 – Bernard Cleary, Canadian politician

* 1937 – Claude Raymond, Canadian baseball player

* 1937 – Roch Carrier, Canadian novelist

* 1937 – Clyde Wells, Canadian politician

* 1898 – Marie Prevost, Canadian actress ( d. 1937 )

* 1937 – Michael Wilson, Canadian politician

* 1937 – Marilyn Bell, Canadian swimmer

* 1937 – Len Carlson, Canadian voice actor ( d. 2006 )

* 1902 – Howie Morenz, Canadian ice hockey player ( d. 1937 )

* 1937 – John D ' Amico, Canadian ice hockey referee ( d. 2005 )

* 1937 – Jacques Poulin, Canadian novelist

* 2012 – Henry Champ, Canadian journalist ( b. 1937 )

* 1937 – George Chuvalo, Canadian boxer

On the 20th of June, 1937, the aviators landed their ANT-25 plane in Vancouver, Oregon.

Under orders from the Kuomintang government of Chiang Kaishek, the Hui General Ma Bufang, Governor of Qinghai ( 1937 – 1949 ), repaired Yushu airport to prevent Tibetan separatists from seeking independence.

In the 20th century many Jews arrived in Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Harbin during those cities ' periods of economic expansion in the first decades of the century, as well as for the purpose of seeking refuge from anti-Semitic pogroms in Russian Empire ( the early 1900s ), the communist revolution and civic war in Russia ( 1917 – 1918 ), and anti-Semitic Nazi policy in Central Europe, chiefly in Germany and Austria ( 1937 – 1940 ), and the last wave from Poland and other Eastern European countries ( the early 1940s ).

Welles, Houseman, and Blitzstein, seeking a way to privately produce the show, rented the much larger Venice Theatre and a piano just in time for the scheduled preview on June 16, 1937.

In 1937, seeking a Christmas show, they were persuaded to present an evening of music hall entertainment recreating as far as possible a night at ' Evans's '.

On 13 January 1937, he was initiated into the order and eventually, received his ' diksha ' but his Guru refused to permit him to become a Sanyasi and directed him to serve the society instead of seeking personal salvation.

" 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.

* 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.

In November 1937 Hitler had indicated that most of the armament projects would be completed by 1943 – 45.

Technetium was the first purportedly non-naturally occurring element to be synthesized, in 1937, although trace amounts of technetium have since been found in nature ( and also the element may have been discovered naturally in 1925 ).

The problem of planning production is the knowledge problem explained by Hayek ( 1937, 1945 ) The planning could either be done in a decentralised fashion, requiring some mechanism to make the individual plans coherent, or centrally, requiring a lot of information.

The threshold concept was discussed by Murray G. Crosby ( inventor of Crosby system for FM Stereo ) who pointed out that for wide band FM to provide better signal to noise ratio, the signal should be above a certain threshold, according to his paper published in Proceedings of the IRE in 1937.

A Hitler decree issued in December 1937 allowed for the incarceration of anyone deemed by the regime to be an undesirable member of society.

The 1937 treaty recognized the Iran-Iraq border to be along the low-water mark on the eastern side of the Shatt, except at Abadan and Khorramshahr, where the frontier ran along the the deep water line ( thalweg ), giving Iraq control of most of waterway.

In September 1937, the British Consul in Munich, writing about the group Ribbentrop had brought to the Nuremberg Party Rally, reported that there were some " serious persons of standing among them " and that an equal number of Ribbentrop's British contingent were " eccentrics and few, if any, could be called representatives of serious English thought, either political or social, while they most certainly lacked any political or social influence in England ".

In March 1937, Ribbentrop attracted much adverse comment in the British press when he gave a speech at the Leipzig Trade Fair in Leipzig, where he declared that German economic prosperity would be satisfied either " through the restoration of the former German colonial possessions, or by means of the German people's own strength ".

Believing himself to be in a state of disgrace with Hitler over his failure to achieve the British alliance, Ribbentrop spent December 1937 in a state of depression, and together with his wife, wrote two lengthy documents for Hitler denouncing Britain.

The largest failure for the Kampfgeschwader, however, was saddling them with an aircraft meant to be as big and as apparently capable as any Allied four-engined " heavy bomber " – the perpetually-troubled Heinkel He 177 – which had been condemned to being designed to carry out moderate angle dive bombing missions from the day that the RLM accepted it for production in November 1937, making it overweight from the start, and mandating design features that led its " welded-together engines ", a pair of cumbersome Daimler-Benz DB 606 " power systems ", to perpetually catching fire in flight during operational missons over both the Eastern Front and the United Kingdom.

This holiday was proposed in 1973 to be commemorated on the anniversary of the 1937 Butler labour riots.

In June 1937, he said in a speech, " Let our enemies know that anyone who attempts to raise a hand against the will of our people, against the will of the party of Lenin and Stalin, will be mercilessly crushed and destroyed.

The last lock to be completed was Lock 15, in 1937.

In 1937, John Zachary Young suggested that the squid giant axon could be used to study neuronal electrical properties.

In 1935 the Nazi government had passed a decree that required all inventions of possible military significance to be reported to the Ministry of War, so in May 1937 Schrader sent a sample of tabun to the chemical warfare ( CW ) section of the Army Weapons Office in Berlin-Spandau.

" He had earlier written to Stalin in 1937, " For the sake of Gorky I am asking you for mercy, even if he may be guilty of something ," to which Stalin noted: " We must not respond.

* Sir Nicholas Shackleton ( 1937 – 2006 ), who demonstrated that oscillations in climate over the past few million years could be correlated with variations in the orbital and positional relationship between the Earth and the Sun.

In the 1930s, anti-drug propaganda was exampled in such films as Reefer Madness ( 1936 ), originally financed by a church group under the title Tell Your Children, was intended to be shown to parents as a morality tale attempting to teach them about the dangers of cannabis use, and Assassin of Youth ( 1937 ) about the supposed ill-effects of cannabis.

After the Liberal Party was defeated in 1936 elections, an assembly was held in Naranjales on May 31, 1937, in which Luis Muñoz Marín presented his ideas as to how the party should be run, however the majority of the party members objected and blamed him for their defeat.

" On 15 December 1937, during his last consistory, Pius XI strongly hinted to the cardinals that he expected Pacelli to be his successor, saying " He is in your midst.

* Germany's eastern border was to be shifted westwards to the Oder-Neisse line, effectively reducing Germany in size by approximately 25 % compared to its 1937 borders.

The Court's business continued to be small in 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, and 1939, although 1937 was marked by Monaco's acceptance of the Court protocol.

But the reputation he had during his lifetime belies this idea: his academic peers at Yale University considered the " amateur " Whorf to be the best man available to take over Sapir's graduate seminar in Native American linguistics while Sapir was on sabbatical in 1937 – 38.