November 1937 calendar

Events

• 01 Nov 1937 Stalinists execute Pastor Paul Hamberg and seven members of Azerbaijan's Lutheran community.
• 02 Nov 1937 AL batting champ Charlie Gehringer wins MVP
• 03 Nov 1937 Archambaud bicycles world record time (45,796 km)
• 05 Nov 1937 Hitler informs his military leader of his intentions of going to war
• 08 Nov 1937 The Nazi exhibition Der ewige Jude (''The Eternal Jew'') opens in Munich.
• 09 Nov 1937 Japans army conquers Shanghai
• 10 Nov 1937 Brazilian president Getúlio Vargas announces the Estado Novo (quotNew Statequot), thence becoming dictator of Brazil until 1945.
• 11 Nov 1937 Messerschmidt ME-109V13 flies world record 610.4 km/h
• 13 Nov 1937 NBC forms first full-sized symphony orchestra exclusively for radio.
• 15 Nov 1937 First congressional session in air-conditioned chambers.
• 23 Nov 1937 Emile Janson becomes Belgian Premier
• 27 Nov 1937 Pro-labor musical revue Pins & Needles opens, produced by ILGWU
• 29 Nov 1937 Prince Bernhard injured in auto accident in the Netherlands
• 30 Nov 1937 3rd Heisman Trophy Award: Clint Frank, Yale (HB)

Famous Birthday

• Ridley Scott

  English film director and producer.

• Peter Cook

  British comedian and satirist, called the funniest man in the history of comedy.

• Loretta Swit

  American actress, a star on the TV series "M*A*S*H*.

• Marlo Thomas

  Stage Actress.

• Ugo Gussalli Beretta

  Italian industrialist and arms manufacturer.

• Ingrid Pitt

  Polish-born British actress (Born 1937).

• John Gage

  American musical director of the Florentine Opera in Milwaukee and other opera companies including the Dallas Opera.

• Yaphet Kotto

  American actor and screenwriter.

• Serge Tchuruk

  French businessman of Armenian descent.

• Harris Yulin

  American actor and leading man in the ’70s, with noted films including his debut performance, "End of the Road," 1970, "Doc," 1971, and...

• Luigi Calabresi

  Italian commissioner of police, attached to the political office of police HQ of Milan.

• Marco Vassi

  American writer and revolutionary sex explorer of the 1960s to ‘80s, famed for his high-quality pornographic novels.

• Dusty Bunker

  American astrologer, numerologist and author of several books on numerology, astrology, dream cycles and a series of mystery novels.

• Brian Edwards

  Irish-New Zealand political commentator, TV host and professional speaker based in Auckland.

• Lionel Stoleru

  Nantes Politician.

• Albert Hall

  American actor.

• Tom Simpson

  British cyclist (d. 1967).

• Jeannot Szwarc

  French-American film director.

• Vittorio Adorni
• Otto Pfister
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Famous Deaths

• Maude Valerie White

  Composer, dies at 82.

• James Ramsay MacDonald

  British Prime Minister (Lab, 1924, 29-35), dies at 71.

• Rogelio del Villar

  Composer, dies at 61.

• Louis Victor Saar

  Composer, dies at 68.

• Nikolai Batalov

  Actor (Mother), dies at 37.

• Jagdish Chandra Bose

  Indian physicist (Born 1858).

• George Albert Boulenger

  Belgian naturalist (Born 1858).

• Colin Campbell Cooper

  American painter (Born 1856).

• Ramsay MacDonald

  Scottish leader of the Labour Party who also was the Opposition in the House of Commons.

• Jack O'Connor

  American baseball player and manager (d. 1937).

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