WHAT ALL HAPPENED AUGUST TO DECEMBER 1937
Find out what all happened August to December 1937

J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is published. (21. September 1937)

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

The Lincoln Tunnel opens to traffic in New York, New York. (22. December 1937)

Stalinists execute Pastor Paul Hamberg and seven members of Azerbaijan's Lutheran community. (1. November 1937)

Spanish Civil War: The start of the Battle of El Mazuco. (6. September 1937)

The Irish Free State is replaced by a new state called Ireland with the adoption of a new constitution. (29. December 1937)

Toyota Motors becomes an independent company. (28. August 1937)

Balinese Tiger declared extinct. (27. September 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)

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

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the world's first full-length animated feature, premieres at the Carthay Circle Theatre. (21. December 1937)

Second Sino-Japanese War: USS Panay incident – Japanese aircraft bomb and sink U.S. gunboat USS Panay on the Yangtze River in China. (12. December 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)

Dominican Republic strongman Rafael Trujillo orders the execution of the Haitian population living within the borderlands; approximately 20,000 are killed over the next five days. (2. October 1937)

Spanish Civil War: Peña Blanca is taken; the end of the Battle of El Mazuco. (22. September 1937)

Japanese troops take control of Shanghai, China. (9. November 1937)

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

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

The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 is passed in America, the effect of which is to render marijuana and all its by-products illegal. (2. August 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)