What Happened In August 1937 In History

Historical Events for August, 1937

• 1st » Josip Broz Tito reads the resolution "Manifesto of constitutional congress of KPH" to the constitutive congress of KPH (League of Communists of Croatia named Croatian Communist Party) in woods near Samobor.
• 2nd » The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 is passed in America, the effect of which is to render cannabis (drug) or marijuana and all its by-products illegal.
• 13th » The Battle of Shanghai begins.
• 14th » Chinese Air Force Day: The beginning of Air combat manoeuvring called air-to-air combat of the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II in general, when six Imperial Japanese Mitsubishi G3M bombers are shot down by the Republic of China Air Force or Nati
• 24th » Spanish Civil War: the Basque Army surrenders to the Italian Corpo Truppe Volontarie following the Santoña Agreement.
• 24th » Spanish Civil War: Sovereign Council of Asturias and León is proclaimed in Gijón.
• 28th » Toyota Motors becomes an independent company.

Famous Birthdays on August in 1937

• 2nd » Ron Brierley, New Zealand businessman
• 2nd » Billy Cannon, American football player
• 2nd » Garth Hudson, Canadian keyboard player, songwriter, and producer (The Band and The Call (band) or The Call)
• 2nd » Gundula Janowitz, Austrian soprano and actress
• 2nd » John Salt, English painter
• 3rd » Steven Berkoff, English actor, director, and playwright
• 3rd » Roland Burris, American lawyer and politician, 39th Illinois Attorney General
• 3rd » Tom Georgeson, English actor
• 3rd » Duncan Sharpe, Pakistani-Australian cricketer
• 4th » David Bedford, English keyboard player, composer, and conductor (d. 2011)
• 5th » Herb Brooks, American ice hockey player and coach (d. 2003)
• 5th » Carla Lane, English screenwriter and producer
• 5th » Brian G. Marsden, English-American astronomer and academic (d. 2010)
• 6th » Baden Powell de Aquino, Brazilian guitarist and composer (d. 2000)
• 6th » Charlie Haden, American bassist and composer (Old and New Dreams) (d. 2014)
• 6th » Barbara Windsor, English actress and singer
• 7th » Zoltán Berczik, Hungarian table tennis player (d. 2011)
• 7th » Don Wilson (cricketer) named Don Wilson, English cricketer and coach (d. 2012)
• 8th » Dustin Hoffman, American actor, singer, and producer
• 8th » Cornelis Vreeswijk, Dutch-Swedish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (d. 1987)
• 10th » Anatoly Sobchak, Russian scholar and politician, Mayor of Saint Petersburg (d. 2000)
• 11th » Anna Massey, English actress (d. 2011)
• 11th » Patrick Joseph McGovern, American businessman, founded IDG (d. 2014)
• 12th » Walter Dean Myers, American author and poet (d. 2014)
• 16th » David Anderson (British Columbia politician) known as David Anderson, Canadian journalist, lawyer, and politician
• 16th » David Behrman, American composer and producer
• 16th » Lorraine Gary, American actress
• 16th » Boris Rõtov, Estonian chess player (d. 1987)
• 17th » Ronnie Butler, Bahamian singer
• 17th » Spiros Focás, Greek actor
• 18th » Sheila Cassidy, English physician and author
• 19th » Richard Ingrams, English journalist, founded 'The Oldie'
• 19th » William Motzing, American composer and conductor (d. 2014)
• 20th » Jim Bowen, English television host
• 20th » Stelvio Cipriani, Italian composer
• 20th » El Fary, Spanish singer and actor (d. 2007)
• 20th » Andrei Konchalovsky, Russian director, producer, and screenwriter
• 20th » Sky Saxon, American singer, songwriter and bassist (The Seeds) (d. 2009)
• 21st » Donald Dewar, Scottish politician, 1st First Minister of Scotland (d. 2000)
• 21st » Gustavo Noboa, Ecuadorian politician, 51st List of heads of state of Ecuador known as President of Ecuador
• 21st » Robert Stone (novelist) known as Robert Stone, American author
• 22nd » Margaret Prosser, Baroness Prosser, English politician
• 24th » Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola, Nigerian businessman and politician (d. 1998)
• 24th » Susan Sheehan, Austrian-American author
• 25th » Virginia Euwer Wolff, American author
• 26th » Don Bowman (singer) named Don Bowman, American singer-songwriter and actor (d. 2013)
• 26th » Kenji Utsumi, Japanese voice actor (d. 2013)
• 27th » Alice Coltrane, American pianist and composer (d. 2007)
• 27th » Tommy Sands (American singer) named Tommy Sands, American actor and singer
• 29th » James Florio, American politician, 49th Governor of New Jersey
• 31st » Warren Berlinger, American actor
• 31st » Bobby Parker (guitarist) named Bobby Parker, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2013)

Famous Deaths for August 1937

• 2nd » Artur Sirk, Estonian soldier, lawyer, and politician (b. 1900)
• 11th » Edith Wharton, American author (b. 1862)
• 19th » Joe Lydon (boxer) named Joe Lydon, American boxer (b. 1878)
• 23rd » Albert Roussel, French composer (b. 1869)

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