* 1937 – Chinese Air Force Day: The beginning of air-to-air combat of the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II in general, when 6 Imperial Japanese Mitsubishi G3M bombers are shot down by the Nationalist Chinese Air Force while raiding Chinese air bases.

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.

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.

* John F. Kennedy bought a dachshund puppy while touring Europe in 1937 for his then girlfriend Olivia.

The only substantial leading role he got during this period was in Dead End ( 1937 ), while loaned to Samuel Goldwyn, where he portrayed a gangster modeled after Baby Face Nelson.

There was some respite during 1936, while Berlin hosted the Olympic Games, but from 1937 the intensity of his anti-Semitic words and actions began to increase again.

* 1937 – Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan are last heard from over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first equatorial round-the-world flight.

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 ".

Schwitters started a second Merzbau while in exile in Lysaker nearby Oslo, Norway in 1937 but abandoned it in 1940 when the Nazis invaded ; this Merzbau was subsequently destroyed in a fire in 1951.

He earned his Ph. D. in Physics from the University of Bristol in 1937, studying under Nevill Mott, and took a DSc at the University of Edinburgh while studying under Max Born.

In 1937, a prominent Estonian political leader Artur Sirk, while a fugitive in Luxembourg was found dead, having apparently committed suicide by jumping out a second-story window.

* 1937 – Hindenburg disaster: The German zeppelin Hindenburg catches fire and is destroyed within a minute while attempting to dock at Lakehurst, New Jersey.

In 1937, Somoza assumed the presidency, while still in control of the National Guard, and established a dictatorship that his family controlled until 1979.

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.

Bennett served as the Rector of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario from 1935 – 1937, even while he was still prime minister.

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.

In 1937, while researching folklore in Haiti, Zora Neale Hurston encountered the case of a woman who appeared in a village, and a family claimed she was Felicia Felix-Mentor, a relative who had died and been buried in 1907 at the age of 29.

Vanessa and Clive ’ s eldest son, Julian Bell, was killed in 1937 while driving an ambulance in the Spanish Civil War.

His most successful forgery was Supper at Emmaus, created in 1937 while living in the south of France.

In 1937, while in the process of opening a second store in Mason City, Iowa it was learned that another company had already registered the name “ Payless ” in the state.

The celesta is used in many 20th century opera scores, including Puccini's Tosca ( 1900 ), Ravel's L ' heure espagnole ( 1911 ), Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos ( 1912 ), and Die Frau ohne Schatten ( 1918 ), while " an excellent example of its beauty when well employed ", is the Silver Rose scene in his Der Rosenkavalier ( 1911 ), Busoni's Arlecchino ( 1917 ) and Doktor Faust ( 1925 ), Orff's Der Mond ( 1939 ), Menotti's Amelia Goes to the Ball ( 1937 ), Britten's The Turn of the Screw ( 1954 ) and A Midsummer Night's Dream ( 1960 ), Susa's Transformations ( 1973 ), and Philip Glass ' Akhnaten ( 1984 ).

From 1937 to 1945, 126, 750 Taiwanese joined and served in the military of the Japanese Empire, while a further 80, 433 were conscripted between 1942 to 1945.

Hostilities ceased while the Nationalists and Chinese Communists formed a nominal alliance during the Second Sino-Japanese War from 1937 until 1945.

The love affair with Dietrich began in September 1937 when they met on the Lido while in Venice for the Film Festival and continued through at least 1940, maintained mostly by way of letters, cables, and telephone calls.

In 1937, she met conductor Leopold Stokowski, with whom she had a highly publicized friendship or romance while travelling throughout Europe in 1938.

In 1937, a comprehensive and light-hearted account of Cambridge night climbing ( undergraduate buildering ) appeared in popular print, written by Noël Howard Symington, under the pseudonym " Whipplesnaith ".

In the following years, a professional training program in Speech Pathology ( 1935 ) and the first undergraduate program in broadcasting and broadcast journalism ( 1937 ) were offered for the first time in the United States.

In 1937 the islands were acquired by Nigel Nicolson, then an undergraduate at Oxford, who like MacKenzie was later a writer, publisher and politician.

Having completed her undergraduate work at the University of Chicago and having made the decision to pursue a career as a dancer and choreographer rather than as an academic, Dunham revived her dance ensemble and in 1937 journeyed with them to New York to take part in " A Negro Dance Evening " organized by Edna Guy at the 92nd Street YMHA.

He graduated from his undergraduate degree in 1933, receiving his doctorate three years later, and was appointed assistant professor of metallurgy in 1937.

Founded by the Felician Sisters in 1937 as Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary college, the university offers more than 100 undergraduate majors toward associate and bachelor's degrees as well as 35 master's programs in clinical psychology, business, criminal justice, education, history and health professions.

Christine Sadler received her undergraduate degree from Peabody College ( now an affiliate of Vanderbilt University ) and her master's degree in journalism from Columbia University in 1937.

From 1937 to 1940 Iwasawa studied as an undergraduate at Tokyo University, after which he entered graduate school at Tokyo University and became an assistant in the Department of Mathematics.

Ferrer began acting in summer stock as a teenager and in 1937 won the Theatre Intime award for best new play by a Princeton undergraduate ; the play was called Awhile to Work and co-starred another college student, Frances Pilchard, who would become Ferrer's first wife that same year.

Lucy ’ s memoir of her childhood and youth, Perverse and Foolish, published in 1979, ends with her return to England in 1937, when she took rooms in Cambridge where her son, Peter Boston, born in 1918 and now aged nineteen, was an undergraduate at the University.

* Dr. Paul J. Christiansen-Paul J. conducted The Concordia Choir from 1937 – 1986, developing the choir into what is now one of the worlds finest and most accomplished undergraduate a cappella choirs.

He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, completed his undergraduate studies in just three years time, graduated with highest honors with a Bachelors in 1937, and was awarded the George B. Covington Prize in Mathematics.

By 1937 he had clarified his intentions to serve his people: `` I have striven for clarity and melodious idiom, but at the same time I have by no means attempted to restrict myself to the accepted methods of harmony and melody.

The first singers who have had international success are Aissa Jermouni ( he sung at the Olympia in 1937 ) 307 and Ali Khencheli.

* 1937 – Sir Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft, at Rugby, England.

* 1937 – The Kamikaze arrives at Croydon Airport in London – it is the first Japanese-built aircraft to fly to Europe.

During the summers of 1936 and 1937, Lerner studied at Juilliard.

Born in Jerusalem in 1937 to secular parents, Steinsaltz studied mathematics, physics, and chemistry at the Hebrew University, in addition to rabbinical studies.

His 153 not out in Bridgetown, Barbados, during West Indies ' 2 – 2 home series draw against Australia in * 1998 – 1999 was deemed the second greatest Test innings ever played, behind Bradman's 270 against England in the Third Test of the 1936 – 1937 series at Melbourne.

* Hsi-sheng, Ch ' i. Nationalist China at War: Military Defeats and Political Collapse, 1937 – 1945 ( 1982 )

The study was completed in 1936 and the ban lifted, at which point large-scale releases were undertaken ; by March, 1937, 62, 000 toadlets had been released into the wild.

From 1937 to 1946, Linebarger held a faculty appointment at Duke University, where he began producing highly regarded works on Far Eastern affairs.

They married at the register office in Penzance, Cornwall on 11 July 1937.

Born at 194 Renfrew Street, Glasgow on 21 August 1937 to mature parents, Dewar was an only child.

* 1937 – Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the world's first full-length animated feature, premieres at the Carthay Circle Theater.

He was still working in the Catskills at times in 1937, using the name Danny Kolbin.

This earlier collection — which includes the famous Jelly Roll Morton, Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly, and Muddy Waters sessions, as well as Lomax ’ s prodigious collections made in Haiti and Eastern Kentucky ( 1937 ) — is the provenance of the American Folklife Center " at the library of Congress

* 1937 – Yekatit 12: During a public ceremony at the Viceregal Palace ( the former Imperial residence ) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, two Ethiopian nationalists of Eritrean origin attempt to kill viceroy Rodolfo Graziani with a number of grenades.

" In 1937, speaking before the Women's Division of the American Jewish Congress, LaGuardia called for the creation of a special pavilion at the upcoming New York World's Fair, " a chamber of horrors " for " that brown-shirted fanatic ".

By January 1937 he was at Alcubierre above sea level, in the depth of winter.

In the first week of July 1937 Orwell arrived back at Wallington ; on 13 July 1937 a deposition was presented to the Tribunal for Espionage & High Treason, Valencia, charging the Orwells with ' rabid Trotskyism ', and being agents of the POUM.

Orwell returned to England in June 1937, and stayed at the O ' Shaughnessy home at Greenwich.

He wrote to Cyril Connolly from Barcelona on 8 June 1937: " I have seen wonderful things and at last really believe in Socialism, which I never did before.

The Republicans managed to hold out in Madrid, despite a Nationalist assault in November 1936, and frustrated subsequent offensives against the capital at Jarama and Guadalajara in 1937.