WHAT ALL HAPPENED JUNE TO NOVEMBER 1937
Find out what all happened June to November 1937

The world's first emergency telephone number, 999, is introduced in London (30. June 1937)

Adolf Hitler holds a secret meeting and states his plans for acquiring "living space" for the German people. (5. November 1937)

Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan are last heard from over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first equatorial round-the-world flight. (2. July 1937)

Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Eighth Route Army gains a minor, but morale-boosting victory in the Battle of Pingxingguan. (25. September 1937)

Balinese Tiger declared extinct. (27. September 1937)

The Battle of Shanghai begins. (13. August 1937)

Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan sign the Treaty of Saadabad. (8. July 1937)

New Deal: the United States Senate votes down President Franklin D. Roosevelt's proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court of the United States. (22. July 1937)

Spanish Civil War: Llanes falls to the Nationalists following a one-day siege. (5. September 1937)

Tōngzhōu Incident: in Tōngzhōu, China, the East Hopei Army attacks Japanese troops and civilians. (29. July 1937)

Great Purge: The Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin executes eight army leaders. (11. June 1937)

Nine nations attend the Nyon Conference to address international piracy in the Mediterranean Sea. (10. September 1937)

A German expedition led by Karl Wien loses sixteen members in an avalanche on Nanga Parbat. It is the worst single disaster to occur on an 8000m peak. (15. June 1937)

Spam, the luncheon meat, is introduced into the market by the Hormel Foods Corporation. (5. July 1937)

The Japanese city Handa is founded in Aichi Prefecture. (1. October 1937)

In the Spanish Civil War, the Basque Army surrenders to the Italian Corpo Truppe Volontarie following the Santoña Agreement. (24. August 1937)

Josip Broz Tito reads the resolution "Manifesto of constitutional congress of KPH" to the constitutive congress of KPH (Croatian Communist Party) in woods near Samobor. (1. August 1937)

Alabama drops rape charges against the so-called "Scottsboro Boys". (24. July 1937)

The Nazi exhibition Der ewige Jude ("The Eternal Jew") opens in Munich. (8. November 1937)

Chinese Air Force Day: The beginning of air-to-air combat of the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II in general, when 6 Imperial Japanese Mitsubishi G3M bombers are shot down by the Nationalist Chinese Air Force while raiding Chinese air bases. (14. August 1937)