Fleischer Studios

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1. 1937Fleischer Studios
2. 1999Guinea-Bissau
3. 1999Kosovo War
4. 2000Vladimir Putin
5. 2002China Northern Airlines Flight 6136
6. 2002EgyptAir Flight 843
7. 2004Killing of Nick Berg
8. 2009Napier, New Zealand
9. 2010Neanderthal
10. 20232023 Tanur boat disaster
11. 2025Indian Army

Also in 1937

• September 13Chicago Public SchoolsChicago Public Schools began delivering lessons via radio amid to a polio outbreak, marking the first large-scale use of radio broadcasts…
• July 5Hormel FoodsThe Hormel Foods Corporation introduced Spam, the canned precooked meat product that would eventually enter into pop culture, folklore, a…
• July 9NitrocelluloseNitrate film being stored in a 20th Century Fox facility spontaneously combusted, destroying more than 40,000 reels of negatives and film…
• December 22Lincoln TunnelThe Lincoln Tunnel, connecting New York City to Weehawken, New Jersey, opened.
• October 5The Queen's College, OxfordSix days after retiring from the Queen's College, Oxford, Robert Howard Hodgkin was elected its provost due to the sudden death of B. H.…
• November 10Getúlio VargasBrazilian president Getúlio Vargas led a coup against his own constitutional government, establishing the dictatorial Estado Novo regime.
• December 3Rupert Bruce-MitfordRupert Bruce-Mitford, the spiritus rector of research on the Sutton Hoo ship burial, joined the British Museum.
• August 2Marihuana Tax Act of 1937The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 is passed in America, the effect of which is to render marijuana and all its by-products illegal.

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