Events Date 1937 P 2 | History by KabAstro

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Lazzeri Released

Oct 15 Rather than accept any trade offers, the Yanks release Tony Lazzeri

Asturias Offensive

Oct 21 Francisco Franco's nationalist troops occupy Gijón, ending the occupation of Asturias

Spanish Dictator and General Francisco Franco

Oct 25 Belgian government of Zealand falls due to black money

Bees Sign Stengel

Oct 25 Casey Stengel signs to manage Boston Bees

Baseball Hall of Fame Manager Casey Stengel

Oct 31 Spanish government moves from Valencia to Barcelona

Lutherans Executed

Nov 1 Stalinists execute by shooting Pastor Paul Hamberg and seven members of Azerbaijan's Lutheran community (including three women).

Nov 3 Frenchman Maurice Archambaud cycles world record for distance in one hour, 45.796 km in Vigorelli, Milan, Italy

Hitler Plans for War

Nov 5 Adolf Hitler informs his military leaders in a secret meeting of his intentions of going to war

Nov 8 The Nazi exhibition Der ewige Jude ("The Eternal Jew") opens in Munich.
Nov 9 Japanese army conquers Shanghai
Nov 9 St Louis Cards Triple Crown winner Joe Medwick is named NL MVP

Estado Novo

Nov 10 Brazilian President Getulio Vargas proclaims "Estado Novo" dictatorship in a radio address to the nation

President and Dictator of Brazil Getulio Vargas

Nov 11 German aircraft Messerschmidt ME-109V13 flies a new world air speed record for landplanes with piston engines of 610.95 km/h (379.62 mph)
Nov 11 Nobel prize for physics awarded to American Clinton Joseph Davisson and Briton George Paget Thomson "for their experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals"
Nov 13 NBC forms first full-sized symphony orchestra exclusively for radio
Nov 15 First US congressional session in air-conditioned chambers
Nov 16 Several members of the Hesse-Darmstadt royal family die in a plane crash in Belgium while enroute to a family wedding in England; mother and brother of the groom among the dead as aircraft clipped a tall factory chimney
Nov 17 Britain's Lord Halifax visits Germany, beginning of appeasement

Shostakovich's 5th Symphony

Nov 21 Dmitri Shostakovich's 5th Symphony premieres in Lenningrad, with the ovation lasting over an hour

Nov 23 Clifford Odets' play "Golden Boy" premieres on Broadway in NYC
Nov 23 Emile Janson becomes Belgian premier

Of Mice & Men

Nov 23 John Steinbeck's play "Of Mice & Men" premieres in NYC

Nov 25 World's Fair of Paris closes (31.2 million visitors)
Nov 27 Pro-labor musical revue "Pins & Needles" opens, produced by ILGWU
Nov 29 Dutch Prince Bernhard injured in auto accident in Netherlands
Nov 30 3rd Heisman Trophy Award: Clint Frank, Yale (HB)
Dec 1 Japan recognizes Spain's Franco government
Dec 7 Dutch Minister Romme proclaims married women are forbidden to work

Williams to the Red Sox

Dec 7 Red Sox acquire the contract of 19-year-old Ted Williams

Dec 7 Russian chess player Alexander Alekhine recaptures his final world title from Dutch grand master Max Euwe by a large margin (+10−4=11)
Dec 10 William Grant Still's Symphony No. 2 ("Song of a New Race") premieres at the Academy of Music by the Philadelphia Orchestra led by conductor Leopold Stokowski
Dec 11 Italy withdraws from League of Nations
Dec 12 1938 NFL Draft: Corbett Davis from University of Indiana first pick by Cleveland Rams
Dec 12 Japanese aircraft shell & sink US gunboat Panay on Yangtze River in China. (Japan apologized & eventually paid US $2.2M in reparations)
Dec 12 NBC & RCA sends 1st mobile-TV vans onto the streets of NY
Dec 13 Japanese troops conquer and plunder Nanjing (Nanjing Massacre)
Dec 16 Theodore Cole and Ralph Roe attempt to escape from American federal prison Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay; neither is ever seen again.

"Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"

Dec 21 "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", the first full-length animated feature film and the earliest in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, premieres at the Carthay Circle Theatre, Los Angeles

Dec 21 Chicago Black Hawks left wing Paul Thompson becomes first player in NHL history to score against his brother, Boston Bruins goaltender Cecil Thompson; scores with just 9 seconds left in regulation as Bruins win 2-1
Dec 22 Lincoln Tunnel, under the Hudson River, opens to traffic, connecting Weehawken, New Jersey to Midtown Manhattan, New York City
Dec 23 First flight of the Vickers Wellington bomber
Dec 24 Dutch government recognizes Italian king Emanuel III as emperor of Abyssinia

First "Symphony of the Air"

Dec 25 Arturo Toscanini conducts 1st "Symphony of the Air" concert over NBC Radio

Dec 25 Queensland all out for 93 v SA in front of 10,436
Dec 27 German immigration officials with no explanation bar Juan Carlos Zabala (Arg), 1932 Olympic marathon champion, from entering Germany

Mae West Banned

Dec 27 Mae West performs Adam & Eve skit that gets her banned from NBC radio

Dec 28 Fascist Octavian Goga becomes Prime Minister of Romania
Dec 29 Constitution of Ireland (Irish: Bunreacht na hÉireann) is enacted and Irish free state is named Eire