* 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.

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.

Hayek ( 1937 ) defined an efficient planning process as one where all decision makers form plans that contain relevant data from the plans from others.

These had followed closely on from Wings of the Morning ( 1937 ), the UK's first colour feature film in the new three colour process ( previous colour features had used a two colour process ).

The architect also died in the middle of the process, which led to that a compromise could be reached as late as in 1937.

In March 1937, Associate Justice Owen Roberts, who had previously sided with the court's four conservative justices, shocked the American public by siding with Hughes and the court's three liberal justices in striking down the court's previous decision in the 1923 case Adkins v. Children's Hospital, which held that minimum wage laws where a violation of the Fifth Amendment's due process clause and were thus unconstitutional, and upheld the constitutionality of Washington state's minimum wage law in West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish.

Other experiments that he undertook had a clearer purpose, for instance in 1937 he performed experiments to understand the vitrification process that had occurred at several Iron Age forts in northern Britain.

His entire catalog of commercial recordings was issued by RCA Victor, save for two single-sided recordings for Brunswick in 1926 ( his first by the electrical process ) with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and a series of excellent recordings with the BBC Symphony Orchestra from 1937 to 1939 for EMI's HMV label ( which was RCA Victor's European affiliate ).

His selection in 1937 marked the beginning of an official process to name the mascot annually.

In 1936 he went to Hollywood to reshoot dialogue for the multinational The Soldier and the Lady ( 1937 ) and in the process changed his name from Adolf to Anton.

The American steamship Lansing, as well as the steam-schooner California, both anchored in Pyramid Cove, on the south side of San Clemente Island, to process blue, fin and humpback whales caught by their " killer boats " ( steam-driven whale catchers )— the former between 1926 and 1930, and the latter between 1933 and 1937.

In 1937, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, with the aid of the Civilian Conservation Corps, began the process of creating a refuge within dry, alkaline lands between the towns of Willows and Maxwell.

A related technique called Rebirthing Breathwork was developed by Leonard Orr ( born 1937 ); and Core process psychotherapy trainees relive presumed birth trauma as part of their training.

The case of Goerdeler has been used by the historian Hans Mommsen to support his view of " resistance as a process ", with Goerdeler going from an ally of the regime to increasing disillusionment by Nazi economic policies in the mid-1930s, and finally becoming committed to the regime's overthrow by 1937.

* Palko v. Connecticut, 302 U. S. 319 ( 1937 ) the due process clause incorporated those rights which were " implicit in the concept of ordered liberty.

In modern times, Gulick and Urwick ( 1937 ) were the first to introduce a theory of different departmentalization strategies, which were referred to as departmentalization by purpose and departmentalization by process.

Cradle Will Rock is a 1999 drama film which chronicles the process and events that surrounded the production of the original 1937 musical The Cradle Will Rock by Marc Blitzstein.

The 1937 process of selecting inductees to the Baseball Hall of Fame was markedly different from the initial elections the previous year.

George Gershwin was in the process of writing a piece of music dedicated to her when he died in 1937.

While McKenna was generally quite favorable to federal power, he joined the Court's substantive due process jurisprudence and voted with the majority in 1905's Lochner v. New York, which struck down a state maximum-hours law for bakery workers, This decision carried broader implications for the scope of federal power, at least until the New Deal and the 1937 switch-in-time-that-saved-nine.

Similarly, Justice Cardozo stated in Palko v. Connecticut ( 1937 ) that the right against double jeopardy was not inherent to due process and so does not apply to the states, but that was overruled in Benton v. Maryland ( 1969 ).

Between 1899 and 1937, the Supreme Court held 159 statutes unconstitutional under the due process and equal protection clauses ( excluding civil rights cases ), and another 25 were struck down in reference to the due process clause coupled with some other provision.

As part of the new business plan, Shōwa Steel licensed the Krupp-Renn process from German steel makers, and sent people to Germany for training from September 1937.

Soviet cinema played an important part in cultivating the leader's cult of personality: from 1937 and onward, in a gradual process, Stalin's reign was legitimized by depicting him as Vladimir Lenin's most devout follower and by positively presenting historical autocrats-like in Sergei Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible.