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Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened in July 1937.
The US president was Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democrat), the UK Prime Minister was Neville Chamberlain (Conservative), Pope Pius XI was leading the Catholic Church.

But much more happened on July 1937: find out below

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Historical Events

Which were the important events of July 1937?


Events

  • 01 Jul 1937 Britian begins using an emergency phone number (999)
  • 02 Jul 1937 57th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Don Budge beats G von Cramm (63 64 62)
  • 05 Jul 1937 Chicago Cub Frank Demaree gets 6 hits in 1st game and 2 in 2nd game
  • 07 Jul 1937 5th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 8-3 at Griffith Stadium, Washington
  • 10 Jul 1937 Dutch Django Reinhardts Quintette, premieres in du Hot Club
  • 15 Jul 1937 Buchenwald Concentration Camp opens
  • 19 Jul 1937 Entartete Art Fair opens in Munich
  • 20 Jul 1937 The Geibeltbad Pirna is opened in Dresden, Germany.
  • 21 Jul 1937 Éamon de Valera is elected President of the Executive Council (prime minister) of the Irish Free State by the Dáil (parliament).
  • 22 Jul 1937 Irish Premier Eamon de Valera wins elections
  • 23 Jul 1937 Isolation of pituitary hormone announced (Yale University).
  • 24 Jul 1937 Alabama drops rape charges against the so-called ''Scottsboro Boys''.
  • 25 Jul 1937 July 31 ampndash Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Beiping-Tianjin, a series of actions fought around Beiping and Tianjin, resulting in Japanese victory.
  • 26 Jul 1937 End of the Battle of Brunete in the Spanish Civil War.
  • 27 Jul 1937 32nd Davis Cup: USA beats Great Britain in Wimbledon
  • 28 Jul 1937 Eddie Paynter scores 322 for Lancashire against Sussex
  • 29 Jul 1937 Japanese troops occupies Peking and Tientsin
  • 31 Jul 1937 Politburo enables Operative Order 00447: execute 193,000 Russians

Famous Birthday

  • Bill Cosby

    American actor and comedian, the nation's top TV and live performance humorist for his familiarity and likeability.

  • American journalist and author (Born 1937).

  • English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer and photographer.

  • French politician, a former Secretary of Economics at IUT, Paris-Sceax 1970-81.

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Famous Deaths

Movies

Which were the most popular Movies released in that month?
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Stella Dallas

Stella Dallas

Release year: 1937

Directed by: King Vidor

Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, John Boles, Anne Shirley, Barbara O'Neil

Country: United States of America

They Won't Forget

They Won't Forget

Release year: 1937

Directed by: Mervyn LeRoy

Starring: Claude Rains, Gloria Dickson, Edward Norris, Otto Kruger

Country: United States of America

Wild West Days

Wild West Days

Release year: 1937

Directed by: Ford Beebe, Clifford Smith

Starring: Johnny Mack Brown, George Shelley, Lynn Gilbert, Frank Yaconelli

High, Wide and Handsome

High, Wide and Handsome

Release year: 1937

Directed by: Rouben Mamoulian

Starring: Irene Dunne, Randolph Scott, Dorothy Lamour, Elizabeth Patterson

You Can't Have Everything

You Can't Have Everything

Release year: 1937

Directed by: Norman Taurog

Starring: Alice Faye, The Ritz Brothers, Don Ameche, Charles Winninger