What Happened In April 1937 In History

Historical Events for April, 1937

• 1st » Aden becomes a United Kingdom named British crown colony.
• 1st » Spanish Civil War: Jaén, Spain is Bombing of Jaén known as bombed by Nazi forces.
• 9th » The 'Kamikaze (1937 aircraft) named Kamikaze' arrives at Croydon Airport in London it is the first Japanese-built aircraft to fly to Europe.
• 12th » Sir Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft, at Rugby, Warwickshire e.g Rugby, England.
• 26th » Spanish Civil War: Bombing of Guernica Guernica (or Gernika in Basque Country (autonomous community) Basque), Spain is Bombing of Guernica bombed by Germany German Luftwaffe.

Famous Birthdays on April in 1937

• 1st » Jordan Charney, American actor
• 1st » Yılmaz Güney, Turkish actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1984)
• 2nd » Dick Radatz, American baseball player (d. 2005)
• 2nd » Denis Tuohy, Irish journalist and actor
• 5th » Joseph Lelyveld, American journalist and author
• 5th » Colin Powell, American general and politician, 65th United States Secretary of State
• 6th » Merle Haggard, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Strangers (American band) called The Strangers and The Buckaroos)
• 6th » Terrence Hardiman, English actor
• 6th » Peter Maivia, Samoan-American wrestler (d. 1982)
• 6th » Billy Dee Williams, American actor and singer
• 7th » Cynthia Lynn, Latvian-American actress (d. 2014)
• 8th » Seymour Hersh, American journalist and author
• 9th » Simon Brown, Baron Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood, English lieutenant, lawyer, and judge
• 9th » Sid and Marty Krofft known as Marty Krofft, Canadian screenwriter and producer
• 9th » Valerie Singleton, English television and radio host
• 10th » Bella Akhmadulina, Russian poet and author (d. 2010)
• 11th » Jill Gascoine, English actress and author
• 12th » Dennis Banks, American author and activist
• 12th » Igor Volk, Ukrainian-Russian colonel, pilot, and astronaut
• 13th » Edward Fox (actor) called Edward Fox, English actor
• 13th » Lanford Wilson, American playwright (d. 2011)
• 14th » Efi Arazi, Israeli businessman, founded the Scailex Corporation (d. 2013)
• 14th » Sepp Mayerl, Austrian mountaineer (d. 2012)
• 15th » Bob Luman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1978)
• 15th » Uldis Pūcītis, Latvian actor and film director (d. 2000)
• 16th » Vince Hill, English singer-songwriter, producer, and playwright
• 16th » George Steele, American wrestler and actor
• 17th » Ronald Hamowy, Canadian historian and academic (d. 2012)
• 17th » Ferdinand Piëch, Austrian-German engineer and businessman
• 18th » Jan Kaplický, Czech architect, designed the Selfridges Building, Birmingham called Selfridges Building (d. 2009)
• 18th » Teddy Taylor, Scottish politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland
• 19th » Antonio Carluccio, Italian-English chef and author
• 19th » Elinor Donahue, American actress
• 19th » Joseph Estrada, Filipino actor, producer, and politician, 13th President of the Philippines
• 20th » George Takei, American actor
• 20th » Antonios Kounadis, Greek discus thrower
• 20th » Jiří Dienstbier, Czech journalist and politician (d. 2011)
• 22nd » Jack Nicholson, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 22nd » Jack Nitzsche, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and conductor (Crazy Horse (band) called Crazy Horse) (d. 2000)
• 23rd » Victoria Glendinning, English author and critic
• 23rd » David Mills (cricketer, born 1937) e.g David Mills, English cricketer (d. 2013)
• 24th » Joe Henderson, American saxophonist (d. 2001)
• 26th » Jean-Pierre Beltoise, French motorcycle racer and race car driver
• 27th » Sandy Dennis, American actress (d. 1992)
• 27th » Robin Eames, Irish archbishop
• 27th » Richard Perham, English biologist and academic
• 28th » Saddam Hussein, Iraqi politician, 5th President of Iraq (d. 2006)
• 28th » Jean Redpath, Scottish-American singer-songwriter (d. 2014)
• 28th » John White (footballer born 1937) or John White, Scottish footballer (d. 1964)
• 29th » Hasil Adkins, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2005)
• 29th » Arvo Mets, Estonian-Russian poet (d. 1997)
• 29th » Jill Paton Walsh, English author
• 30th » Tony Harrison, English poet and playwright

Famous Deaths for April 1937

• 17th » Yi Sang, South Korean poet (b. 1910)
• 19th » Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington, English cartographer and politician (b. 1856)
• 19th » William Morton Wheeler, American entomologist (b. 1865)
• 25th » Michał Drzymała, Polish rebel (b. 1857)
• 27th » Antonio Gramsci, Italian sociologist, linguist, and politician (b. 1891)
• 29th » William Gillette, American actor and playwright (b. 1853)

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