Stage Door
Release year: 1937
Directed by: Gregory La Cava
Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou, Gail Patrick
Country: United States of America
September 1937 calendar
Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened in September 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 September 1937: find out below
Historical Events
Which were the important events of September 1937?
Events
- 01 Sep 1937 4th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 6, Green Bay 0
- 02 Sep 1937 US Housing Authority created by National Housing Act
- 04 Sep 1937 Doris Kopsky becomes first NABA woman cycling champion (4:22.4).
- 06 Sep 1937 Spanish Civil War: The start of the Battle of El Mazuco.
- 07 Sep 1937 CBS broadcasts a two-and-a-half hour memorial concert nationwide on radio in memory of George Gershwin, live from the Hollywood Bowl. Many celebrities appear, including Oscar Levant, Fred Astaire, Otto Klemperer, Lily Pons, and members of the original cast of ''Porgy and Bess''. The concert is recorded and released complete years later in what is excellent sound for its time, on CD. The Los Angeles Philharmonic is the featured orchestra.
- 08 Sep 1937 Pan Arab conference about Palestine opens
- 10 Sep 1937 2nd American Football League plays 1st game
- 11 Sep 1937 51st US Womens Tennis: Anita Lizana beats Jadwiga Jedrzejowska
- 15 Sep 1937 WPA extends L-Taraval streetcar to SF Zoo
- 17 Sep 1937 The head of Abraham Lincoln on Mount Rushmore is dedicated in Black Hills, South Dakota.
- 19 Sep 1937 Swiss professional ice hockey club HC Ambrì-Piotta founded.
- 21 Sep 1937 J R R Tolkien, publishes Hobbit
- 22 Sep 1937 Forest fire kills 14 and injures 50 in Cody Wyoming.
- 23 Sep 1937 Yankees lose 9-5 but clinch pennant when Red Sox beat Detroit
- 25 Sep 1937 Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Pingxingguan: The Communist Chinese National Revolutionary Army defeats the Japanese.
- 26 Sep 1937 Street and Smith Publications launches a half-hour radio program, ''The Shadow'', with Orson Welles in the title role.
- 27 Sep 1937 1st Santa Claus Training School opens
- 28 Sep 1937 FDR dedicates Bonneville Dam on Columbia River (Oregon)
- 29 Sep 1937 Frans Slaats bicycles world record time
- 30 Sep 1937 6th Ryder Cup: US, 8-4 at Southport and Ainsdale, England
Famous Birthday
American entrepreneur and multimillionaire who, in 1963, opened First Travel Corporation with one employee and $5000.
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Famous Deaths
Singer, dies of injuries sustained in car crash at 43.
Composer, dies at 29.
Composer, dies at 65.
French lawyer, dies at 72.
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Movies
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Nation Aflame
Release year: 1937
Directed by: Victor Halperin
Starring: Noel Madison, Norma Trelvar, Lila Lee, Douglas Walton
One Hundred Men and a Girl
Release year: 1937
Directed by: Henry Koster
Starring: Deanna Durbin, Adolphe Menjou, Alice Brady, Leopold Stokowski
Non-Stop New York
Release year: 1937
Directed by: Robert Stevenson
Starring: John Loder, Anna Lee, Francis L. Sullivan, Frank Cellier
The Dybbuk
Release year: 1937
Directed by: Michal Waszynski
Starring: Avrom Morewski, Ajzyk Samberg, Mojzesz Lipman, Lili Liliana
Country: United States of America