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In February 1937, the South African Parliament formally gave its " assent " by passing the Abdication Act, which declared that Edward had abdicated on 10 December 1936 ; that he and his descendants, if any, would have no right of succession to the throne ; and that the Royal Marriages Act would not apply to him or his descendants, if any.
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Joanna Russ ( February 22, 1937 – April 29, 2011 ) was an American writer, academic and feminist.
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.
In February 1937, before a meeting with the Lord Privy Seal, Lord Halifax, Ribbentrop suggested to Hitler that Germany, Italy, and Japan begin a worldwide propaganda campaign with the aim of forcing Britain to return the former German colonies in Africa.
In February 1937, Philby travelled to Seville, Spain.
They had two children together, Lev Sedov ( 1906 – 16 February 1938 ) and Sergei Sedov ( 21 March 1908 – 29 October 1937 ), both of whom would predecease their parents.
In February 1937, the League did ban foreign volunteers, but this was in practice a symbolic move.
Following the trial and execution of Zinoviev, Kamenev, and other leftist Old Bolsheviks in 1936, Bukharin and Rykov were arrested on 27 February 1937 following a plenum of the Central Committee and were charged with conspiring to overthrow the Soviet state.
On 5 February 1937 Askin married Mollie Isabelle Underhill, a typist at the bank, at Gilbert Park Methodist Church, Manly.
* Nedirbay Aytakov ( 20 February 1925 – 21 July 1937 )
* Kaikhaziz Sardarovich Atabayev ( 20 February 1925 – 8 July 1937 )
Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin (; January 20 ( Julian ) / February 1 ( Gregorian ), 1884 – March 10, 1937 ) was a Russian author of science fiction and political satire.
* February 12 – Lou Andreas-Salome, Russian-born author ( d. 1937 )
* February 7 – Alfred Adler, Austrian psychologist ( d. 1937 )
* February 5 – Joe Morrison, University of South Carolina Head Football Coach ( b. 1937 )
* February 21 – Charles-Marie Widor, French organist and composer ( d. 1937 )
* February 15 – Elihu Root, American statesman and diplomat, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( d. 1937 )
* February 13 – Waylon Jennings, American country music singer ( b. 1937 )
The design of its successor had begun by February 1937.
Waylon Arnold Jennings ( pronounced ; June 15, 1937 – February 13, 2002 ) was an American country music singer, songwriter, and musician.
Alger, who flew the inaugural air mail flight from England to Australia for Imperial Airways ' Empires Air Routes, in February 1937.
The trial was due to last 6 months but the BBC were forced to cease broadcasts with the Baird system in February 1937, due to a disastrous fire in the Baird studio.
In February 1937, following an assassination attempt on Italian East Africa's Viceroy Rodolfo Graziani, Graziani ordered Italian soldiers to raid the famous Ethiopian monastery Debre Libanos, where the would-be assassins had briefly taken refuge and had the monks and nuns in the monastery executed.
It was formed from the Cavalry Brigade " Białystok ", which existed between February 1929, and March 30, 1937.
Nick LaRocca and the reunited Original Dixieland Jass Band performed " Tiger Rag " in The March of Time newsreel segment titled " Birth of Swing ," released to U. S. theaters February 19, 1937.
February and South
On December 20, 1860, South Carolina took the lead by adopting an ordinance of secession ; by February 1, 1861, Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas followed.
* Gott, Kendall D. Where the South Lost the War: An Analysis of the Fort Henry — Fort Donelson Campaign, February 1862.
During the night of February 10, 2010, the Sichem Osprey, a Maltese chemical tanker, ran aground on Clipperton Island on its way from the Panama Canal to South Korea.
Clement Martyn Doke ( 16 May 1893 in Bristol, United Kingdom – 24 February 1980 in East London, South Africa ) was a South African linguist working mainly on African languages.
In February 2004, Valderrama ended his 22-year career in a tribute match at the Metropolitan stadium of Barranquilla, with some of the most important football players of South America, such as Diego Maradona, Enzo Francescoli and José Luis Chilavert.
On 5 February 1869, George Goyder, the Surveyor-General of South Australia, established a small settlement of 135 people at Port Darwin.
After a failed attempt to bomb Canary Wharf, a large IRA bomb exploded at South Quay on 9 February 1996.
On February 11, 1789, Allen traveled to South Hero, Vermont with one of his workers to visit his cousin, Ebenezer Allen, and to collect a load of hay.
Frederik Willem de Klerk ( born 18 March 1936 ), often known as F. W. de Klerk, was the seventh and last State President of apartheid-era South Africa, serving from September 1989 to May 1994. de Klerk was also leader of the National Party ( which later became the New National Party ) from February 1989 to September 1997.
During World War II, a group of Japanese soldiers stationed on Lagos Island in South Pacific were unintentionally saved by Godzillasaurus, which attacked and killed a group of American soldiers who had landed on the island in February 1944 as part of the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign.
Captain Arthur Phillip assumed office as Governor of New South Wales on 7 February 1788, when the Colony of New South Wales, the first British settlement in Australia, was formally founded.
In February 1994, there was the return series as Australia toured South Africa.
Herman Charles Bosman ( 3 February 1905 – 14 October 1951 ) is widely regarded as South Africa's greatest short-story writer.
John van Melle ( 11 February 1887 – 8 November 1953 ) was the pen name of a Dutch-born South African author.
The National Stadium hosted two group matches ( Pakistan v. South Africa on 29 February and Pakistan v. England on 3 March ), and a quarter-final match ( South Africa v. West Indies on 11 March ) during the 1996 Cricket World Cup.
In February 1948 with Ruth Adams, Harry Ayres and Mick Sullivan, Hillary made the first ascent of the South Ridge to the Low Peak In order to celebrate the life of Hillary the South Ridge was renamed as Hillary Ridge in August 2011.
On February 13, 2007, North Korea signed an agreement with South Korea, the United States, Russia, China, and Japan, in which North Korea will shut down its Yongbyon nuclear reactor in exchange for economic and energy assistance.
Choosing what was possibly the continent's worst site for the first Spanish settlement in South America, in February 1536 Mendoza built a fort at a poor anchorage on the southern side of the Plata estuary on an inhospitable, windswept, dead-level plain where not a tree or shrub grew.
It rapidly spread west and hit North America in December 1889, South America in February – April 1890, India in February – March 1890, and Australia in March – April 1890.
The record-sized bull, shot in Possession Bay, South Georgia, on February 28, 1913, measured long and was estimated to weigh.
0.468 seconds.