The radio broadcast of the September 8, 1937 Hollywood Bowl George Gershwin Memorial Concert, in which An American in Paris, also conducted by Shilkret, was second on the program, was recorded and was released in 1998 in a two-CD set.

* George Steele ( born 1937 ), professional wrestler nicknamed " The Animal "

* 1937 – George " The Animal " Steele, American wrestler

The northern triangle of Times Square is technically Duffy Square, dedicated in 1937 to Chaplain Francis P. Duffy of New York City's " Fighting 69th " Infantry Regiment ; a memorial to Duffy is located there, along with a statue of George M. Cohan.

: The first, Doctor Syn ( 1937 ), featured noted actor George Arliss in the title role and was its star's last film.

In the experimental post 1960s eras, which saw the development of free jazz and jazz-rock fusion, some of the influential bassists included Charles Mingus ( 1922 – 1979 ), who was also a composer and bandleader whose music fused hard bop with black gospel music, free jazz and classical music ; free jazz and post-bop bassist Charlie Haden ( born 1937 ) is best known for his long association with saxophonist Ornette Coleman and for his role in the 1970s-era Liberation Music Orchestra, an experimental group ; Eddie Gomez and George Mraz, who played with Bill Evans and Oscar Peterson, respectively, and are both acknowledged to have furthered expectations of pizzicato fluency and melodic phrasing, fusion virtuoso Stanley Clarke ( born 1951 ) is notable for his dexterity on both the upright bass and the electric bass, and Terry Plumeri, noted for his horn-like arco fluency and vocal tone.

Mountbatten was appointed a Personal Naval Aide-de-Camp to King George VI on 23 June 1936, and, having joined the Naval Air Division of the Admiralty in July 1936, he attended the coronation of King George VI in May 1937.

* George Bernard Shaw 1937 color portrait by Madame Yevonde

George Stibitz completed a relay-based computer he dubbed the " Model K " at Bell Labs in November 1937.

In March 1937, Alexander was appointed as one of the aides-de-camp to the recently acceded King George VI and in May returned to the United Kingdom to take part in this capacity in the state procession through London during the King's coronation.

* 1937 – George Hamilton IV, American singer and guitarist

In February 1937, Ribbentrop committed a notable social gaffe by unexpectedly greeting King George VI with a stiff-armed Nazi salute: the gesture nearly knocked over the King, who was walking forward to shake Ribbentrop's hand.

* 1937 – George VI and Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

* 1937 – George Carlin, American comedian, actor, and author ( d. 2008 )

* 1858 – George Albert Boulenger, Belgian naturalist ( d. 1937 )

During the period of 1937 to 1949 it was unclear whether the Irish head of state was actually the President of Ireland or George VI, the King of Ireland.

* 1937, he was awarded the King George VI Coronation Medal

He studied under German artist George Grosz at the Art Students League in 1936 and 1937.

Thomas R. Bruce ( postmaster 1898 – 1928 ) was the first islander to design a postage stamp, the 1922 – 1937 George V ship-design — this significantly contributed to island revenues for several years.

* 1937 – George Chuvalo, Canadian boxer

It was made into a film, Topper, for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer by Hal Roach in 1937 starring Roland Young and Billie Burke ; the cast included Cary Grant as George Kerby and Constance Bennett as Marion Kerby.

In June 1937, during an Imperial Conference of all the Dominion Prime Ministers in London convened during the coronation of King George VI, King informed British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain that Canada would only go to war if Britain were directly attacked, and that if Britain were to become involved in a continental war then Chamberlain was not to expect Canadian support.

* September 26 – George Gershwin, American composer ( d. 1937 )

* October 19 – George Albert Boulenger, Belgian naturalist ( d. 1937 )

In letters patent dated 28 May 1937, King George VI specifically denied the style HRH to the wife of HRH The Duke of Windsor, the former King Edward VIII.

George VI and Elizabeth were crowned King and Queen of Great Britain, Ireland and the British Dominions, and Emperor and Empress of India on 12 May 1937, the date already nominated for the coronation of Edward VIII.

He was created Duke of Windsor on 8 March 1937 by his brother, the new George VI.

George VI | King George VI, king of Canada ( left ), and William Lyon Mackenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada ( right ), share a moment of levity, 11 May 1937

In 1937, he designed the background of the first George VI definitive stamp series for the Post Office, and in 1938 produced The Creation of Adam, three bas-reliefs in stone for the Palace of Nations, the League of Nations building in Geneva, Switzerland.

The royal tour had been conceived by Buchan before the coronation in 1937 ; according to the official event historian, Gustave Lanctot, the idea " probably grew out of the knowledge that as his coming Coronation, George VI was to assume the additional title of King of Canada ," and Buchan desired to demonstrate with living example through Canadians seeing " their King performing royal functions, supported by his Canadian ministers " the fact of Canada's status as an independent kingdom.

* In the centre of the village is a freestanding clock tower erected to commemorate the coronation of George VI in 1937.

This became a source of dispute in independent Ireland from December 1936 to the declaration of the Republic of Ireland in 1949, when from 1937 to 1949 Ireland had both a President of Ireland and King George VI, who had been proclaimed King of Ireland.

When first shown in 1937, it was the second ever live outside event to be broadcast, the first being the Coronation procession of George VI earlier that year.

W. W. "' The Bad Quartos ' of 2 and 3 Henry VI ", Review of English Studies, 13 ( 1937 ), 64 – 72

W. W. "' The Bad Quartos ' of 2 and 3 Henry VI ", Review of English Studies, 13 ( 1937 ), 64 – 72

* Royal Family Order of King George VI, 1937

A 1937 George VI penny.

The Chapel was dedicated by King George VI on 2 May 1937, after architect Captain Arthur C. Martin enlarged the building in a Byzantine style.

The dated die concept was used in 1937 as well, in the stamps issued for newly-crowned King George VI.

During the reign of king George VI, circulation silver threepences were produced only in 1937 – 1945 ( and almost all the 1945 examples were subsequently melted down ).

A number of people became involved in the preparation but work was slow until 1937.

On completion of his tour of duty in India, Montgomery returned to Britain in June 1937 where he became commanding officer of the 9th Infantry Brigade with the temporary rank of brigadier, but that year saw great tragedy when his wife was bitten by an insect while on holiday in Burnham-on-Sea.

Chalmers was run as a private institution until 1937, when the institute became a state-owned university.

The two Chinese parties nominally formed a united front to oppose the Japanese in 1937, during the Sino-Japanese War ( 1937-1945 ), which became a part of World War II.

In 1937 when Donald Duck became the star of his own series of cartoons instead of co-starring with Mickey Mouse and Goofy as previously, a new unit of storymen and animators was created devoted solely to this series.

He started in movies in 1937 and became one of Hollywood's highest paid writers at about $ 4000 per week while on assignment, as much as $ 80, 000 in one year.

After suffering a fall the autumn of 1937, the philosopher became ill with pleurisy.

In 1937 Yale University became the home for a sizable collection of Abbey's works, the result of a bequest from Abbey's widow.

Ball and Arden became acquainted when they co-starred together in the film Stage Door in 1937.

Towards the end of the 1940s, the Rank Organisation, founded in 1937 by J. Arthur Rank, became the dominant force behind British film-making.

In keeping with its intended aviation role, Howland Island became a scheduled refueling stop for American pilot Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan on their round-the-world flight in 1937.

In 1937 Cotten became an inaugural member of Welles's Mercury Theatre company, starring in Broadway productions of Julius Caesar, The Shoemaker's Holiday and Danton's Death, and in radio dramas presented on The Mercury Theatre on the Air and The Campbell Playhouse.

In June 1937, Prince Fumimaro Konoe became Prime Minister of Japan.

Göring had played a leading role in the build up of the Luftwaffe in 1933 – 1936, but played little further part in the development of the Luftwaffe until 1936, and Milch became the de facto minister until 1937.

However Wever's vision of a " Ural " bomber was never realised, and his emphasis on strategic aerial operations was lost, with the only design submittal for Wever's ' Bomber A ' that would reach production being Heinkel's Projekt 1041, which became officially known on November 5, 1937 as the Heinkel He 177.

It was formed in 1937, and later became part of the United Nations as the Commission on the Status of Women.

On 26 May 1937, Egypt became the last state to join the League.

Foot became a journalist, working briefly on the New Statesman, before joining the left-wing weekly Tribune when it was set up in early 1937 to support the Unity Campaign, an attempt to secure an anti-fascist United Front between Labour and the parties to its left.

In 1937, he was appointed chief executive of what later became the University of Nice.

The office was established by the Constitution of Ireland in 1937, and became internationally recognised as head of state in 1949 following the coming into force of the Republic of Ireland Act.

For a while, the title civilingenjör was equal to " KTH graduate " but in 1937, Chalmers in Gothenburg became the second Swedish engineering college which were allowed to confirm these titles.

The fate of the children of fallen soldiers became a much more important issue in China after the beginning of the war with Japan in 1937.

In 1937, technetium ( specifically the technetium-97 isotope ) became the first predominantly artificial element to be produced, hence its name ( from the Greek, meaning " artificial ").

Kekkonen successfully stood for parliament a second time in 1936 whereupon he became Justice Minister, serving from 1936 to 1937.

Pluto and Donald became standalone cartoons in 1937, with Goofy following in 1939.