Timeline July 1937

Events in July 1937 18

• 1874 – 1937 Guglielmo Marconi Inventor of Radio The physicist and inventor who sent the first transatlantic radio transmission.
• 1937 George Gershwin (1898-1937) Died 11 July 1937, aged 38 American composer of Rhapsody in Blue, An American in Paris and the opera Porgy and Bess, as well as many Broadway songs. He died in Los Angeles after surgery for a brain tumour.
• 1937 Roosevelt's court-packing plan FDR proposes enlarging the Supreme Court President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress for power to appoint an extra Supreme Court justice for each sitting justice over seventy. The plan met strong resistance and the Senate sent it back to committee on 22 July. The Court had already begun upholding New Deal laws.
• 1937 Das Schwarze Korps calls Heisenberg a White Jew The SS newspaper says he should be made to disappear The attack was meant seriously, and it cost him Sommerfeld's chair in Munich.
• 1937 Wimbledon 1937 Men: Don Budge · Women: Dorothy Round
• 1937 Woody Guthrie gets a radio show in Los Angeles KFVD Sings for the Okie migrants in California's camps.
• 1937 Disappearance of Amelia Earhart Earhart and Fred Noonan vanish over the Pacific Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan disappeared near Howland Island during an attempt to fly around the world. A large US Navy and Coast Guard search found no trace of them or their Lockheed Electra. Their fate is still one of aviation's best-known mysteries.
• 1937 – present Queen Sonja Commoner Queen The first commoner to marry a Norwegian heir, now a champion of Norwegian art.
• 1937 Hormel introduces Spam Canned pork product goes on sale Hormel Foods of Austin, Minnesota, introduced Spam, a canned cooked pork product. It became a staple of Allied military rations during the Second World War.
• 1937 Battle of Brunete Republican offensive west of Madrid The Republican army launched a major offensive near Brunete to relieve pressure on Madrid and the northern front. After early gains it was pushed back with heavy losses in the summer heat.
• 1937 – present David Hockney Contemporary · England David Hockney (born July 9, 1937) is a British Contemporary painter, draughtsman and photographer. His California swimming pool paintings and Yorkshire landscape series are among the most celebrated British artworks of the 20th and 21st centuries.
• 1937 – 2026 David Hockney Painter, photographer, printmaker David Hockney was an English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer and photographer, one of the most influential British artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. A leading figure in the 1960s pop art movement, he became famous for his sun-drenched depictions of Los Angeles swimming pools before returning to Yorkshire to paint the landscape of his youth, and later embraced digital tools including the iPad as a drawing medium.
• 1937 David Hockney born in Bradford 9 July 1937 David Hockney is born on 9 July 1937 in Bradford, Yorkshire, the fourth of five children of an accountant's clerk. He grows up in a working-class household that values art, music and pacifism.
• 1937 – 2026 Lionel Jospin (1937-2026) Died 22 March 2026, aged 88 French Socialist politician who served as prime minister from 1997 to 2002 in cohabitation with President Jacques Chirac.
• 1937 Buchenwald concentration camp opens SS opens a camp near Weimar The SS opened Buchenwald concentration camp on the Ettersberg near Weimar. It became one of the largest camps inside Germany. By 1945 tens of thousands of prisoners had died there.
• 1937 – 2005 Hunter S. Thompson (1937-2005) Died 20 February 2005, aged 67 Hunter S. Thompson, the writer who pioneered "gonzo journalism" with works including "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", died by suicide on 20 February 2005. His freewheeling, first-person style blended fact and fiction and influenced generations of journalists. Thompson had struggled publicly with declining health in his final years.
• 1937 Degenerate Art exhibition opens in Munich Nazi exhibition mocks modern art The Nazi regime opened the Entartete Kunst exhibition in Munich to ridicule modernist works seized from German museums. It showed works by Kirchner, Klee, Nolde, Chagall and others and drew more than two million visitors as it toured.
• 1937 NKVD Order No. 00447 Start of the mass operations of the Great Terror The NKVD issued Order No. 00447, setting regional quotas for the execution or imprisonment of so-called anti-Soviet elements. The mass operations it began led to hundreds of thousands of executions over the following sixteen months.