Today in History for April 1937

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 12 of 12

1st - Aden becomes British crown colony
4th - 4th Golf Masters Championship: Byron Nelson wins, shooting a 283
12th - Sir Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft at Rugby, England.
15th - Stanley Cup: Detroit Red Wings beat NY Rangers, 3 games to 2
17th - Cartoon characters Daffy Duck, Elmer J Fudd & Petunia Pig, debut
19th - 41st Boston Marathon won by Walter Young of Canada in 2:33:20
22nd - NYC college students stage 4th annual peace strike
26th - German Luftwaffe destroys Basque town of Guernica in Spain
27th - 1st US social security payment made
28th - 1st animated cartoon electric sign displayed (NYC)
28th - 1st commercial flight across Pacific, Pan Am
30th - The Philippines holds a plebiscite for Filipino women on whether they should be extended the right to suffrage; over 90% would vote in the affirmative.

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 55 of 55

2nd - Paul E Kanjorski, (Rep-D-PA, 1985- )
3rd - Sandra Spuzich, LPGA golfer
3rd - Simon Brown, British high court judge
3rd - William Gaunt, Leeds England, actor (Champions)
4th - Ian St James, novelist (Balfour Conspiracy, Vengeance, Money Stones)
4th - J Hans van den Doel, economist/Dutch MP (PvdA)
5th - Colin Powell, Bronx NY, general/asst to president (Nat Sec Affairs)
5th - Stuart May, senior partner (Theodore Goddard)
5th - Allan R. Thieme, American inventor
6th - Billy Dee Williams, Harlem NYC, actor (Chiefs, Empire Strikes Back)
6th - Merle Haggard, Bakersfield California, country singer (Death Valley Days)
6th - Tom Veivers, cricketer (Australian off-spinner in the 60's)
7th - Charley Thomas, rocker (Drifters)
8th - Ronald Anthony "Tony" Clegg, property trader
8th - Seymour Hersh, award winning investigative reporter (NY Times)
9th - Barrington J[ohn] Bayley, UK, sci-fi author (Collision Course)
9th - Valerie Singleton, British broadcaster
10th - Stan Mellor, British racehorse trainer/jockey
10th - Bella Akhmadulina, Russian poet
Actor Billy Dee Williams (6th) 12th - Igor Petrovich Volk, Russia, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-12)
12th - Raymond Ceulemans, Belgian world champ billiards player
13th - Edward Fox, London England, actor (M-Never Say Never Again)
13th - Lanford Wilson, US playwright (Hot L Baltimore)
13th - Peter M Harris, Official Solicitor (Supreme Court)
13th - Edward Fox, English actor
15th - Earl Russell, historian
17th - Brian Sedgemore, British MP
17th - Daffy Duck, animated character
17th - Eduard N Stepanov, Russian cosmonaut
17th - Galina Samsova, ballerina
17th - Terry Dicks, British MP
17th - Ferdinand Piëch, Austrian-German automotive engineer and executive
18th - Robert Hooks, Wash DC, actor (Fast Walking, Aaron Loves Angela)
18th - Tatyana Shchelkanova, USSR, long jumper (Olympic-bronze-1964)
18th - Jan Kaplický, British architect of Czech origin
19th - Elinor Donahue, Tacoma Wash, actress (Father Knows Best, Get a Life)
19th - Joseph Estrada, actor and 13th President of the Philippines
21st - Charles Lee Herron, Ky, FBI most wanted fugitive (Jan 1 1986)
22nd - Bobbi Fiedler, (Rep-R-CA, 1981- )
22nd - David Summerscale, head master (Westminster School England)
Actor Jack Nicholson (22nd) 22nd - Jack Nicholson, NJ, actor (One Flew Over Cuckoo's Nest, Shining)
22nd - Jack Nitzsche, composer/songwriter (An Officer & a Gentleman)
22nd - Ken Palmer, cricketer (1-190 in only Test for England, now Test ump)
22nd - Kenneth Palmer, cricket umpire
23rd - Barry Shepherd, cricketer (Australian lefty bat early 60's)
23rd - Don Massengale, Jackson TX, PGA golfer (1966 Bing Crosby Celebrity)
23rd - Victoria Glendinning, author (Edith Sitwell A Unicorn Among Lions)
24th - Joe Henderson, American jazz saxophonist (d. 2001)
25th - Bo Brundin, Stockholm Sweden, actress (Rhinemann Exchange)
25th - Thomas Faber, publisher
26th - Robert Boozer, Omaha Neb, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1960), (d. 2012)
27th - Phil Jones, newsman (CBS)
27th - Sandy Dennis, American actress (d. 1992)
28th - Saddam Hussein, [At-Takriti], Al-Awja, president of Iraq (1979-2003)
29th - Jill Paton Walsh, English writer

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 1 of 1

30th - General Douglas MacArthur marries Jean Faircloth

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 12 of 12

2nd - Nathan Birnbaum, Austria philosopher (Zionism), dies at about 72
4th - Frantisek X Salda, Czech writer/critic, dies at 69
8th - Arthur William Foote, US organist/composer, dies at 84
8th - William Henry Hadow, composer (Studies in Modern Music), dies at 77
10th - Algernon Ashton, composer, dies at 77
15th - Nikolai Artzibushev, composer, dies at 79
17th - Yi Sang, Korean Poet (b. 1910)
19th - William M Conway, English historian/explorer (Spitzbergen), dies at 81
25th - Clem Sohn, air show performer dies at 26 when his chute fails to open
25th - Michał Drzymała, Polish rebel (b. 1857)
27th - Antonio Gramsci, Italian philosopher/marxist theorist, dies at 46
29th - William Gillette, American actor (b. 1853)