WHAT ALL HAPPENED JULY TO DECEMBER 1937
Find out what all happened July to December 1937

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

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

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

Toyota Motors becomes an independent company. (28. August 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 Italo–Ethiopian War: Italy leaves the League of Nations. (11. December 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)

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)

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

In the Spanish Civil War, Sovereign Council of Asturias and León is proclaimed in Gijón. (24. August 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)

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)

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

Balinese Tiger declared extinct. (27. September 1937)

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

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

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

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