A NOTABLE YEAR HAPPENINGS OF 1937
1. —War between China and Japan commenced about July 28; Shanghai bombed. 2. Viscount Snowden died, May 16. 3. —Miss Jean Batten broke AustraliaEngland solo air record, October 24. 4. Lord Rutherford of Nelson died, October 19. 5. —Australian Fleet arrived on visit, April 3. 6. —Mrs. Amelia Earhart Putnam lost on Pacific flight about July 2. 7. —Marchese Marconi died, July 20. 8. —Civil war in Spain continued throughout the year. 9. —King Farouk *»♦ £gypt enthroned, July 29. 10. —Captain G. E. f. Eyston broke land speed record, November 19. 11. —Wellington's new railway station opened, June 19. 12. Rt. Hon. Ramsay MacDonald died. November 10. 13. —German airship Hindenburg destroyed by fire, 35 dead, May 6. 14. —United States won Davis Cup from England, July 27. 15. —New Zealand cricket team tour* • England, and were received by King. 16. —Princess Juliana of Holland married to Prince Bernhard, January 7. 17. —Coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, May 12. 18. —lmperial Conference opened in London, May 14. 19. —Mr. J. D. Rockefeller died, May 23. 20. —Sir James Barrie died, June 20. 21. —Duke of Windsor and Mrs. Wallis Warfield married, June 3. 22. —Dr. T. G. Masaryk died, September 14. 23. —lmperial Airways flying-boat Centaurus visited Wellington, December 31. 24. —Sir Austen Chamberlain died, f l6. 25. Sir Malcolm Campbell broke water speed record, September 7. 26. —Pan-American flying-boat Samoan Clipper arrived to inaugurate Pacific air mail, December 26. 27. —Rt. Rev. Herbert William Williams, Bishop of Waiapu, died December 6. 28. —New Post Office opened at Dunedin, April 14. 29. —South African Rugby footballers toured New Zealand, arrived July 21 and departed October 1. 30. —Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin resigned office of Prime Minister and raised to an Earldom, May 28. 31. —Flying-Officer A. E. Clouston established London-to-Cape-and-back record, November 20. 32. —Mr. Justice Page died, August 31. 33. —English cricketers toured Australia, the home side winning “The Ashes."
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20929, 7 January 1938, Page 8
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330A NOTABLE YEAR HAPPENINGS OF 1937 Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20929, 7 January 1938, Page 8
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