World Events
World Statistics
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Japan invades China, conquers most of coastal area.
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Britain begins 999 emergency telephone number. The United States starts 911 service in New York in 1968.
U.S. Events
U.S. Statistics
Economics
Federal spending: $7.58 billion
Consumer Price Index: 14.4
Unemployment: 14.3%
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.03
Sports
Sports Links
World Series
NY Yankees d. NY Giants (4-1)
Stanley Cup
Detroit d. NY Rangers (3-2)
Wimbledon
Women: Dorothy Round d. J. Jedrzejowska (6-2 2-6 7-5)
Men: Don Budge d. G. von Cramm (6-3 6-4 6-2)
Kentucky Derby Champion
War Admiral
NCAA Football Champions
Pittsburgh (9-0-1)
Entertainment
Entertainment Awards
Pulitzer Prizes
Fiction: Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
Drama: You Can't Take It With You, Moss Hart and George S.
Oscars awarded in 1937
Academy Award, Best Picture: The Great Ziegfeld (MGM)
Nobel Prize for Literature: Roger Martin du Gard (France)
Miss America: Bette Cooper (NJ)
Events
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Edgar Bergen and his puppet Charlie McCarthy make their radio debut on NBC.
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Walt Disney's first full-length animated feature,
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, hits theaters and becomes an instant classic.
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Science
Nobel Prizes in Science
Chemistry: Walter N. Haworth (UK), for research on carbohydrates and vitamin C; and Paul Karrer (Switzerland), for work on carotenoids, flavins, and vitamins A and B
Physics: Clinton J. Davisson (US) and George P. Thomson (UK), for discovery of diffraction of electrons by crystals
Physiology or Medicine: Albert Szent-Györgyi von Nagyrapolt (Hungary), for discoveries on biological combustion
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Hans Krebs postulates his
"cycle" of oxidative phoshorylation, the basic process of cellular metabolism.