October 1937 calendar

Events

• 01 Oct 1937 Pullman Company formally recognizes Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.
• 02 Oct 1937 FDR visits Grand Coulee Dam construction site in Washington State
• 03 Oct 1937 Sino-Japanese War: Japanese troops advance toward Nanking.
• 04 Oct 1937 Rabotnicki Skopje is established as a football club .
• 05 Oct 1937 Minister Romme says unemployment is 25% quarter of Romme
• 10 Oct 1937 New York Yankees beat New York Giants four games to one in 34th World Series.
• 13 Oct 1937 A recorded trace of snow in Central Park, New York City
• 15 Oct 1937 Ernest Hemingway novel To Have & Have Not published
• 18 Oct 1937 October 21 ampndash Spanish Civil War: The whole Spanish northern seaboard falls into the Falangists' hands Republican forces in Gijon, Spain, set fire to petrol reserves prior to retreating before the advancing Falangists.
• 21 Oct 1937 Franco-troops occupies Gijon
• 25 Oct 1937 Belgian government of Zealand falls due to black money
• 31 Oct 1937 Spanish government moves from Valencia to Barcelona

Famous Birthday

• Samy Frey
• Claude Lelouch

  French noted film director, producer, screenwriter who came into fame at a youngful 13, producing a short, "Le Mal du Siecle," that won a...

• Jean-Louis Servan-Schreiber

  Boulogne-Billt Journalist.

• Marilyn Bell

  Canadian swimmer who swam the English Channel in 14 hours and 36 minutes in 1955 when she was 17, 5'2" and 119 pounds.

• Pierre Vassiliu

  France Actor.

• Édouard-Jean Empain
• Tom Paxton

  American folksinger, composer, guitarist and poet.

• André Kaspi
• Bobby Charlton

  English former professional footballer.

• Peter Max

  German-American artist, a pop culture hero with his highly-personalized, exuberant and psychedelic style.

• Biff Rose

  American pianist, singer and songwriter who has a tough time fitting into a category.

• Edith Scob
• Gérard Delfau
• Enzo Cerusico

  Italian actor, movies and TV, also worked in U.S.

• Feliciano Omiles

  Filipino healer who was born into a family of healers as both parents and grandparents had the gift.

• Claire Gallois
• Lara Parker

  American actress and author.

• Sonny Osborne

  American musician, a bluegrass singer and banjo player.

• Vincenza Tomaselli

  Italian political aide, the personal secretary of Bettino Craxi and his right arm.

• Joanna Davis
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Famous Deaths

• August de Boeck

  Composer, dies at 72.

• George AA Alting van Geusau

  Dutch Minister of War (1918-20), dies at 73.

• Joseph Bruce Ismay

  Titanic survivor and managing director of the White Star Line (Born 1862).

• Jozef Dowbor-Musnicki

  Polish general (Born 1867).

• Ernest Rutherford

  New Zealand-born physicist and chemist who became known as the father of nuclear physics.

• Jean de Brunhoff

  French author and illustrator (d. 1937).

• James Marcus

  Actor (Clockwork Orange), dies at 60.

• Ernst Ludwig

  Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine (Born 1868).

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Top #1 songs in the USA

1. Sammy Kaye & His Orchestra - Rosalie