WHAT HAPPENED IN 1937.
Look what happened the 1937.

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

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

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

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

The first issue of the children's comic, The Dandy, is published. (4. December 1937)

Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanking – Japanese troops under the command of Lt. Gen. Asaka Yasuhiko launch an assault on the Chinese city of Nanjing (Nanking). (9. December 1937)

Second Italo–Ethiopian War: Italy leaves the League of Nations. (11. 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: Battle of Nanking – Nanjing, defended by the National Revolutionary Army under the command of General Tang Shengzhi, falls to the Japanese. This is followed by the Nanking Massacre, in which Japanese troops rape and murder hundreds of thousands of civilians. (13. December 1937)

Theodore Cole and Ralph Roe attempt to escape from the American federal prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay; neither is ever seen again. (16. December 1937)

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

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

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