WHAT ALL HAPPENED JUNE TO DECEMBER 1937
Find out what all happened June to December 1937

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Duke of Windsor marries Wallis Simpson. (3. June 1937)

Tōngzhōu Incident: in Tōngzhōu, China, the East Hopei Army attacks Japanese troops and civilians. (29. July 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 Japanese city Handa is founded in Aichi Prefecture. (1. October 1937)

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

Balinese Tiger declared extinct. (27. September 1937)