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1937 unemployment continued to drop to 14.3% dropping some 6.7% from the previous year. And the Engineering feat of the Golden Gate bridge opening gave Americans great pride, and the Millionaire Inventor / Industrialist set a new air record by completing the flight from Los Angeles to New York in 7 hours 28 seconds. After a number of strikes in the Auto industry General Motors were forced to recognize the UAW United Auto Workers Union. A major flood along the Mississippi and Ohio rivers caused millions to lose their homes in Ohio , Kentucky and Illinois. The pride of Germany the flying ship Hindenburg exploded while attempting to hook itself to a mooring post and signaled the end of the flying ship in 1937 as a major form of transport, and the immortal words of reporter Herb Morrison who was filming the Hindenburg " Oh The Humanity! The Humanity " were shown and heard around the world. One of the unsolved mysteries of modern times the disappearance of Amelia Earhart also occurred in this year.

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How Much things cost in 1937
Average Cost of new house $4,100.00
Average wages per year $1,780.00
Cost of a gallon of Gas 10 cents
Average Cost for house rent $26.00 per month
A loaf of Bread 9 cents
A LB of Hamburger Meat 12 cents
Average Price for new car $760.00
Toothpaste 35 cents

Below are some Prices for UK guides in Pounds Stirling

Average House Price 540


What Events Happened in 1937

U.S.
  • Amelia Mary Earhart mysteriously disappeared over the Pacific Ocean during a circumnavigation flight
Space
  • First total solar eclipse to exceed 7 minutes of totality in over 800 years; visible in the Pacific and Peru
U.S.
  • The German airship Hindenberg bursts into flames while attempting to moor at Lakehurst, New Jersey.
  • Inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt's second term
UK
  • King George VI becomes the British Monarch when he is crowned on May 12th at Westminster Abbey.
UK
  • Former King OF England King Edward VIII marries Wallis Warfield Simpson
U.S.
  • Joe Louis nicknamed The Brown Bomber became World Heavyweight Champion and had 25 defenses from 1937 to 1949. He was a world champion for 11 years and 10 months
China
  • Japanese forces capture the city of Nanking in China and massacre of an estimated 200,000
Hong Kong
  • Typhoon strikes the Island of Hong Kong with devastating results
U.S.
  • Increases in the number of Infantile Paralysis cases ( Polio ) in Chicago causes cities schools to stay closed.
UK
  • The Emergency 999 Telephone service is started on June 30th in the UK
U.S.
  • The Memorial Day Massacre takes place when Ten union demonstrators are killed when police open fire on union protestors in Chicago
U.S.
  • One percent of wages Deductions from US employers and Employees to provide Old Age Insurance Benefits
Japan
  • Japan Invades China and seizes Peking, Tietsin, Nanjing, Shanghai and Hangchow
Japan
  • Kiichiro Toyoda founds the Toyota Motor Company in Japan
U.S.
  • A huge dust storm sweeps from Oklahoma westward
UK
  • Neville Chamberlain becomes the British prime minister


Popular Culture

  • The Dandy, the world's longest running comic, was first published

Popular Films

  • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs


  • Conquest

Books Published

  • Death on the Nile is published by Agatha Christie


  • The Hobbit is published by J. R. R. Tolkien


  • Of Mice and Men is published by John Steinbeck

Born This Year 1937

Jackie Collins News And Events From October 4th

Bobby Charlton This Day In History October 11th

Anthony Hopkins News And Events From December 31st

Shirley Bassey This Day In History January 8th

Loretta Swit This Day In History November 4th

Madeleine Albright May 15th -- Prague, Czechoslovakia

Warren Beatty March 30th -- Richmond, Virginia, U.S

Peter Cook November 19th -- Torquay, Devon, England

Bill Cosby July 12th -- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.

Jane Fonda December 21st -- New York City, New York, U.S.

Morgan Freeman June 1st -- Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.

Susan Hampshire May 12th -- London, England

Dustin Hoffman August 8th -- Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Jack Nicholson April 22nd -- New York City, New York, U.S.

Roger Penske February 20th -- Shaker Heights, Ohio, U.S.

Colin Powell April 5th -- Harlam, New York , U.S.

Vanessa Redgrave January 30th -- London, England

Tom Stoppard July 3rd -- Zlín, Czechoslovakia




Technology

  • The Hindenberg disaster in 1937 triggered the fall in the Use of Airships for commercial passenger travel,


  • The first flying car to actually fly was built by Waldo Waterman and flew in 1937


  • The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, is opened.


  • The Teasmade By Goblin is sold for the first time


  • The First Blood Bank Opens in Chicago


  • The BBC use their outside broadcast unit for the first time, to televise the coronation of King George VI.


  • Sir Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft in Rugby, England.



Major World Political Leaders 1937

Australia Prime Minister Joseph Lyons

Brazil President Getúlio Vargas

Canada Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King

Germany Chancellor Adolf Hitler

Italy Prime Minister Benito Mussolini

Japan Prime Minister Koki Hirota Till 2 February
Japan Prime Minister Senjuro Hayashi From 2 February
Japan Prime Minister Senjuro Hayashi Till 4 June
Japan Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe From 4 June

Mexico President Lázaro Cárdenas

Russia / Soviet Union
General Secretary of the Central Committee Joseph Stalin

South Africa Prime Minister James Barry Munnik Hertzog

United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt

United Kingdom Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin Till 28 May
United Kingdom Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain From 28 May


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