American serial killer Anna Marie Hahn committed her fifth and final murder, after having poisoned five elderly men whom she had befriended and taken care of.[4] Following the death of retired cobbler Georg Obendoerfer, Hahn was arrested. She would be executed in the electric chair at the Ohio Penitentiary on December 7, 1938.
The Marihuana Tax Act was signed into law by U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt and took effect on October 1.[8] Though not specifically outlawing or permitting the cultivation or sale of marijuana, the federal law required any person who did so to register with the U.S. government prior to paying a tax, providing the basis for identification (to allow states to enforce their own laws) and federal prosecution by the U.S. government for previous failure to pay the tax. The law would be struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in the 1969 decision in Leary v. United States and replaced soon afterward in 1971 by the Controlled Substances Act.[8]
Generalissimo Francisco Franco informed Italy that he had intelligence that the Soviets were shipping arms to the Republic. Franco urged Italian action to stop the transports.[16]
Born:Steven Berkoff (stage name for Leslie Steven Berks), English stage and film actor known for his roles as a villain in Beverly Hills Cop, Octopussy, Rambo: First Blood Part II and War and Remembrance; in Stepney, London[17]
August 4, 1937 (Wednesday)
In British India, a team of climbers led by Frank Smythe became the first people to reach the top of the 22,490 feet (6,850m) high Himalayan mountain Deoban.[18]
In Little Rock, Arkansas, the newly formed Society for the Booing of Commercial Advertisements in Motion Picture Theatres made its debut, booing loudly when corporate advertising appeared on the movie screen. Similar "booing clubs" soon began springing up elsewhere. In the 1930s and '40s movie houses experimented with running ads for commercial products alongside movie trailers, but many theatregoers resented the practice because, unlike the radio where ads were recognized as necessary, movies were not free.[20]
Japanese Emperor Hirohito ratified a directive removing the constraints of international law on the treatment of Chinese prisoners of war,[25] a decision that would be followed by the execution or death by illness of all but 56 Chinese POWs taken during the war by Japan against China, as well as brutal treatment of Allied prisoners during World War II.
The Soviet Union's secret police, the NKVD, began carrying out the repression of Ingrian Finns and other speakers of the Finnish language within its borders as part of its campaign against ethnic Finnish residents.[26] During the first month of the operation ordered by NKVD Order No. 00447, 728 people were arrested, and in 1938, there would be 5,340 placed in prison. Before the NKVD operation was terminated on August 10, 1938,[26] at least 8,000 Finns, and perhaps as many as 25,000 would die or simply disappear.[27]
The first recorded smoking-related airline accident occurred when all six people aboard when an Aeroflot flight from Moscow to Prague crashed near Herina. The accident was traced to one of the three passengers lighting a cigarette in the toilet, igniting accumulated fumes from aviation fuel.[31]
The Soviet Union and the United States agreed to extend their trade pact for one additional year. The Soviets agreed to spend $40,000,000 in purchases from the U.S., which in turn continued its most favored nation status for the Soviet Union.[32][33]
The Japanese began to evacuate their concession at Hankou, citing "the steadily growing tension and a desire to prevent an incident likely to aggravate the general situation."[34]
World War I veteran Harold Wobber, 47, became the first person definitively known to have committed suicide by jumping from the Golden Gate Bridge.[35]
Marcian Germanovich, Soviet corps commander, was arrested two months after being dismissed from the Red Army, apparently because of his association with General Mikhail Tukhachevsky, who had been executed on June 12. Germanovich would be shot in prison on September 20[36]
Howard E. Dorsey, 33, American hydraulic engineer who had been sworn into office five weeks earlier, was killed when he lost control of his automobile and ran over a 1,600 feet (490m) cliff along with his passenger, secretary Marion Lonabaugh.[41]
A contingent of 3,000 Japanese soldiers conspicuously entered Beijing (at the time referred to in the Western press as "Peiping"), capital of the Republic of China without resistance. Japanese warplanes dropped propaganda leaflets on the populace proclaiming that the "Japanese army has driven out your wicked rulers and their wicked armies and will keep them out."[42]
The Butovo firing range began operations as an execution site for political prisoners who had been arrested by the NKVD, the Soviet secret police, as the first 91 prisoners were transported there from Moscow and shot.[43] According to records kept by the NKVD, there were 20,761 executions until the Butovo range closed on October 19, 1938.[44]
Jimmie Guthrie, 40, Scottish motorcycle racer, was killed competing in the German motorcycle Grand Prix.
Edmund Pearson, 57, author of "true crime" nonfiction books, died from bronchial pneumonia.
August 9, 1937 (Monday)
The government of Germany ordered a correspondent for The Times, Norman Ebbutt, to leave Germany. The move was made in retaliation for Britain expelling three German journalists on suspicion of espionage.[47]
Swiss-born American astronomer Fritz Zwicky became the first person on earth to observe a new supernova (SN 1937D) that had occurred in the galaxy designated NGC 1003 (visible within the western edge of the Perseus constellation) as much as 31 million years earlier[48][49]
Forouzan (stage name for Parvin Kheyrbakhsh), Iranian film actress who was a star from 1963 until being banned from acting during the 1979 Iranian Revolution; in Bandar-e Anzali (d.2016)
The Republican tanker Campeador was sunk off Tunis by Italian destroyers.[16] While 28 members of the crew were saved, 12 died.[57]
The Soviet secret police, the NKVD, arrested multiple people, identified as "counter-revolutionary" instigators, on the same day, including writer Aleksandr Voronsky, educator Boris Didkovsky and lawyer Evgen Gvaladze (all executed in 1937); Red Army corps commander Yepifan Kovtyukh (executed 1938); former NKVD official Boris Berman (shot 1939); and Mongolian folklorist Tsyben Zhamtsarano (who died in a labor camp, 1942).
On orders from Chiang Kai-shek, president of the Republic of China, several obsolete Chinese Navy ships were scuttled and allowed to sink in the Yangtze River to block Japanese ships from using the waterway. Among the former warships sunk were the cruisers Hai Yung, Hai Chi, Chao Ho, Hai Chen, Hai Chou, and Tung Chi; the gunboats Chu Chien, Ta Tung, and Tze Chiang; and the torpedo boats Chen Tse and Su Tse.[63][64]
Royal Iraqi Army General Bakr Sidqi, 47, who had ordered the Simele massacre of 3,000 Assyrian civilians and separatists, was assassinated.[71][72][73]
August 12, 1937 (Thursday)
U.S. Senator Hugo Black of Alabama was nominated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to fill the vacancy left by the retirement of Willis Van Devanter.. A series of investigative reports by Ray Sprigle of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, began on September 13, 1937, revealing that Black had been a long-time member of the white supremacist organization, the Ku Klux Klan, starting in 1923.[74]
The Spanish destroyer Churruca was torpedoed and damaged near Cartagena. The ship was able to limp into port but 3 crew were killed and 9 were injured.[57][75]
Mel Walker of the U.S. (high jumper) broke the record for the high jump during a meet in Sweden at Malmö. Miller cleared 2.09m (6ft 10+1⁄4in), besting the previous mark of 2.07m (6ft 9+1⁄4in) set in 1936 U.S. Olympic trials by Dave Albritton and Cornelius Johnson.[76]
The Battle of Shanghai began in China as a clash between Shanghai's Chinese Peace Preservation Corps and the Imperial Japanese Army in the Zhabei, Wusong, and Jiangwan districts of the city. Six hours later, at 3:00 in the afternoon, Japanese troops crossed the Bazi Bridge at Zhabei and the 88th Division of China's National Revolutionary Army retaliated with mortar attacks. An hour later, ships of Japan's Third Fleet, stationed in the Yangtze and Huangpu rivers began shelling Chinese positions.[80]
Paraguay's President Rafael Franco was overthrown by the army in a coup d'état after withdrawing troops from the Chaco region in the aftermath of the Chaco War. The coup leaders replaced Colonel Franco with former Vice President Félix Paiva.[81]
The Spanish Republican freighter Conde de Absolo was sunk off Pantelleria by the Italian Navy destroyer Ostro. The 23-member crew was rescued by the British steamer City of Wellington.[82]
Frank Aguilar, 34, convicted American axe murderer, was executed in the gas chamber of the Colorado State Penitentiary in Canon City at 8:10 in the evening. One of the witnesses, Ed Hamilton, 55, died of a heart attack while watching the execution.[83]
At the Battle of Jianqiao in China, Chinese pilots flying Model 68 Hawk III airplanes successfully defended Hangzhou from a Japanese attack, intercepting and shooting down four Japanese Mitsubishi G3M warplanes, without losing any of its own aircraft. August 14 would continue to be celebrated as Air Force Day in Taiwan more than 85 years later.[89]
The Battle of Santander began in Spain as Nationalist rebels, assisted by Italian and German officers, attacked the stronghold of the "Army of the North" of the Republic. The Santander fell after 12 days and after three weeks, the Republican forces of the 14th and 15th Army Corps lost 60,000 of their men.[90]
Karl Pauker, 44, Soviet NKVD officer and former chief of Joseph Stalin's bodyguard team, was executed without a trial as part of the Great Purge.[94]
Ivan Zaporozhets, 42, former Soviet NKVD officer accused of the assassination of Sergei Kirov, was executed after a confession under torture of having been part of a right-wing conspiracy against the government.[95]
Semyon Firin, 39, Soviet Gulag forced labor camp director at the Dmitrovsky Correctional Labor Camp (Dmitlag), was executed by shooting on charges of "participating in an Operational-Chekist coup to prepare a palace revolution".[96]
Leopold Averbakh, 34, Soviet literary critic, was executed along with Semyon Firin.[97]
The Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service launched its campaign of bombing Nanjing in China, attacking the Jurong Airbase with it fast moving G3M warplanes and blitz techniques developed by Giulio Douhet. The Japanese eventually lost 50% of its planes in fighting at Jurong with the unexpected response by the Chinese Air Force.[99][100]
AFRA. the American Federation of Radio Artists was founded as the broadcasting counterpart to the Screen Actors Guild (SAG).[101] Created by members of Radio Equity and the Radio Actors Guild, the new union was granted a charter by the Associated Actors and Artistes of America and elected Eddie Cantorj, star of The Chase and Sanborn Hour, as its first president. It would add television employees on September 17, 1952 by a merger with the Television Authority and change its name from AFRA to AFTRA. The organization would merge on March 30, 2012 with the Screen Actors Guild to become SAG-AFTRA.
In the Soviet Union, Vlas Chubar became the new People's Commissar for Finance to replace finance minister Hryhoriy Hrynko, who had been fired from the job on July 22.
A general mobilization of the military was ordered in Japan.[103]
The Japanese invasion of Shanghai became a takeover of the Chinese port, as the Japanese military commandeered the 19-story Broadway Mansions luxury apartments at 11:00 in the morning and ordered all non-Japanese residents to leave.[105] The British ships HMSFalmouth and Duncan evacuated over 2,000 British women and children from Shanghai to Wusong for transfer to Hong Kong.[106]
The U.S. Senate confirmed Hugo Black for the United States Supreme Court by a 63–16 vote despite his controversial past involvement with the Ku Klux Klan.[107] Black would serve on the Supreme Court until his retirement in 1971.
Matvei Berman, director of the gulag, the Soviet Union's network of forced labor prison camps since 1932, was removed from office and replaced by his deputy, Israel Pliner.[109] Berman was temporarily transferred to the job as People's Commissar of Posts and Telecommunications but would be arrested on December 23, 1938, sent to the Lubyanka prison and executed.
Red Army General Konstantin Rokossovsky was arrested and imprisoned on charges of espionage during the Great Purge of Soviet officials by Joseph Stalin.[110] Unlike many of the people arrested during the Great Purge, General Rokossovsky avoided execution and would be restored to his command in 1940, becoming a Marshal of the Soviet Union and later being Defense Minister of Poland and that nation's Deputy Prime Minister.
Former Soviet Finance Minister Hryhoriy Hrynko, who had been fired on July 22, was arrested and charged with being part of the "anti-Soviet right-wing Trotskyist bloc". After his deputy and successor, Vlas Chubar, reported that Hrynko's administration hadled to a collapse of state finances, Hrynko would be executed on March 15, 1938. Chubar himself was arrested four months later and would be executed on February 26, 1939.[111]
Died:Yen Hai-Wen, 21, of the Republic of China Air Force parachuted out of his fighter plane during a bombing mission against Japanese Command Headquarters at Shanghai, shot at several Japanese soldiers with his pistol to avoid capture, and then shouted "The Chinese Air Force never surrenders!" before using his last bullet to kill himself. The Japanese military was so impressed by his courage that, despite the fact that Yen was an enemy combatant, had him buried with full military honors and erected a monument to him.
August 18, 1937 (Wednesday)
The U.S. government ordered all 12,600 American citizens in China to evacuate.[116]
Nazi Germany restricted Jewish booksellers to only selling books by Jewish authors to Jewish customers.[121]
Portugal severed diplomatic relations with Czechoslovakia over a broken armaments contract. Czechoslovakia broke the contract because it suspected Portugal of funneling the arms to the Nationalists in Spain.[122]
Ikki Kita, 54, Japanese author and philosopher, was executed for his participation on February 26, 1936, in an attempted coup d'état.[125]
Ivan Kataev, 35, Soviet Russian novelist and journalist, was executed the same day after he was convicted on charges of participation in an anti-Soviet counter-revolutionary terrorist organization.[126]
In Shanghai, an anti-aircraft shell landed on the deck of the heavy cruiser USSAugusta and exploded, killing one American sailor and wounding 18.[128]
Dixie Bibb Graves, the wife of Alabama Governor Bibb Graves, was appointed by her husband as one of the state's U.S. senators, in order to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Hugo Black, who had been confirmed as a justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. While other women had been appointed as U.S. Senators to fill a vacancy caused by the death in office of a husband, Mrs. Graves was the fourth woman to serve as a United States Senator and the first appointee whose husband was still alive. She served the remainder of Black's term until a special election could be held on January 4.[129][130]
Vatslaw Lastowski, the former Prime Minister of the Belarusian Democratic Republic prior to its annexation into the USSR as the Byelorussian SSR was arrested on charges of being “an agent of the Polish intelligence service and participant of the national-fascist organisation”.[132] He would be executed on January 23, 1938.
Born:
Jim Bowen, English comedian and television personality known for hosting the ITV game show Bullseye; in Heswall (d. 2018)
Philippine President Manuel L. Quezon issued Proclamation No. 173, urging Filipinos to welcome Jewish refugees who had formerly lived in Shanghai in China, which had previously accepted German Jews who had been fleeing persecution.[136]
In the U.S., 15 firefighters in Wyoming were killed while fighting the Blackwater Fire in Shoshone National Forest. Nine died immediately and six others were fatally burned.[137]
The Spanish village of Villacarriedo fell to the Nationalists of Francisco Franco in advance of the Battle of Santander.[138]
Artur Artuzov, 46, Soviet spy and former director of counterintelligence at the NKVD, was executed three months after he had been arrested at work and accused of "participation in a counter-revolutionary conspiratorial organization within the NKVD".[139]
Voters in the nation of Liechtensteinchose overwhelmingly to ban department stores within their European principality's borders. The vote in the tiny nation was 1,294 in favor of the ban and 896 against.[141] The vote came after the Migros chain of stores had opened its first sales outlet in Vaduz in the spring, and the Liechtenstein government approved the referendum unanimously on June 24. The ban would remain in place for 32 years until the passage of the Trade Act on December 10, 1969.[142]
Raja, a 24-year-old Sri Lankan elephant who would be designated as a national treasure of Sri Lanka, was given to the Temple of the Tooth in the city of Kandy.[143] Raja, one of the most celebrated elephants in Asia during his lifetime, would participate in the annual Kandy Esala Perahera festival in Kandy for the next 50 years until his death in 1988 at the age of 75.
Pedro Durruti, 26, Spanish anarchist, was executed by a Falangist firing squad after being convicted of rebelling against the Francoist government. His death certificate stated that he died of "cardiac arrest".[147]
In one the few instances of a U.S. national monument being discontinued, the Lewis and Clark Caverns, given protective status by the federal government on May 11, 1908, was dropped from the National Park Service.[148] Ownership was transferred on April 22, 1938, to the state of Montana, which made the caverns Montana's first state park.
King Farouk of Egypt announced his engagement to a commoner, Safinaz Zulficar, who would take the name of Queen Farida upon their marriage on January 20, 1938.[149]
Fifteen days after his discovery of a different supernova, astronomer Fritz Zwicky became the first person on earth to observe the supernova (SN 1937C) in the Magellanic spiral galaxyIC 4182 (visible within the constellation Canes Venatici.[49] Based on the estimated idstance in light years, the event had happened at least 11 million years earlier.
The Santoña Agreement was signed at Guriezo between politicians of Spain's Basque Nationalist Party, who were fighting to defend the Republic in the Spanish Civil War, and Italy's Corpo Truppe Volontarie forces who were fighting for the Nationalists led by Francisco Franco. Under the agreement, the Basque units of the Spanish Republican Army (with more than 22,000 soldiers) surrendered to the Nationalists. Franco canceled the agreement the next day and ordered the soldiers held a prisoners of war at the El Dueso prison camp.[150]
The Spanish Republic launched the Zaragoza Offensive, starting with the two-week Battle of Belchite. While the Republic was successful at Belchite, the Zaragoza offensive would fail to stop the nationalist advance.
August 25, 1937 (Wednesday)
The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the largest labor union of black workers in North America, entered into a historic contract with the Pullman Company, raising the wages of porters and maids, setting limits on required labor to 240 hours per month, providing time-and-a-half hourly overtime pay once a worker had worked 260 hours in a calendar month, and paying for the costs of uniforms for all porters who had worked for at least 10 years.[151]
In Nazi Germany, the gauleiter and Oberpräsident of East Prussia, Erich Koch, began a campaign to rename more than 1,500 place names of non-German origin, ordering a commission within the Prussian Ministry of Science, Education and People's Education to prepare a list of locations and their recommendations for a German-sounding name. The changes were required to take place on July 16, 1938.[153] As examples, "Szitkehmen" became Judendorf ("Jewish village"), "Pablindszen" became Zollteich ("customs pond"), and "Gollubien" became Unterfelde ("underfields").[153]
August 26, 1937 (Thursday)
British ambassador to China Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen was wounded when a Japanese plane strafed and attacked his limousine.[100]
Turkey warned that any submarines that entered the Turkish Straits without identifying themselves would be attacked.[154]
Mysterious attacks began on neutral shipping bound for Republican ports.[155]
The Kwantung Army occupied Zhangjiakou, capital of China's Chahar Province. After Chahar became a Japanese-dominated "autonomous province" for the remainder of the war, Zhangjiakou would become part of the Heibei province.[156]
Two employees of the 20th Century Fox studios— prop man Philo Goodfriend and camera grip Harry Harsha— were killed, and two others injured when a 1,500 pounds (680kg) platform, used for filming "magic carpet" scenes in the comedy film Ali Baba Goes to Town, fell when one of the piano wires holding it up. Harsha and two other workmen, J. B. Bowman and Nick De Genner were on the platform, while Goodfriend was crushed on the studio floor. Harsha died the next day.[157]
"El Salón México", a symphony composed by Aaron Copland with four melodies drawn from Mexicanfolk music, was given its first performance as the Mexico Symphony Orchestra premiered the peace with Carlos Chávez as conductor.[158]
Vladimir Ionesyan, Soviet Armenian axe murderer who committed five random killings over a period of less than three weeks in 1964 and 1965; in Tbilsi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union (executed, 1964)[161]
August 28, 1937 (Saturday)
The baby receiving treatment after the Bloody Saturday photograph was taken
H. S. Wong (Wong Ha-sheng) took the famous Bloody Saturdaynewsreel and photograph, showing a baby crying in the bombed-out ruins of a Shanghai railway station after it was destroyed by Japanese bombers.[162] The photo was published and the newsreel shown in theaters worldwide, and stirred outrage against Japan.[163] Although Wong was subsequently accused of staging the photograph, other pictures taken by him showed the baby being treated by a boy scout at the scene. Wong never learned the name or gender of the baby, or whether the child had survived the injury.
Toyota Motor Corporation, the largest automobile manufacturer in the world, was incorporated by Kiichiro Toyoda in Japan. Automobile manufacturing had started in 1933 by the Toyoda Automatic Loom Works, Ltd., which had been created by Kiichiro's father, Sakichi Toyoda, for the production of his invention, an automatic loom for the purpose of weaving cloth, and the first Toyota vehicle, the Toyota G1 truck, had been introduced on November 21, 1935.[164][165]
The Royal Italian Navy submarine Iride, on a mission to attack Spanish Nationalist ships during the Spanish Civil War, fired a torpedo at the British Royal Navy destroyer HMSHavock. The British ship avoided the torpedo with a sharp turn to starboard and for the next nine hours, Havock was joined by the destroyers HMSActive, HMSHyperion and HMSHotspur, and the cruiser HMSGalatea in dropping depth charges. Though all ships escaped the battle unscathed, Iride surfaced long enough to be identified, leading to the Nyon Conference the following month.[173]
The Russian freighter Timiryazev was torpedoed and sunk near Dellys by two Royal Italian Navy destroyers, Turbine and Ostro. All 30 crew were rescued by a fishing boat.[175]
The Brazilian company Ultragaz, the South American nation's largest distributor of liquefied petroleum gas, was founded by Austrian-born Brazilian businessman, as Empresa Brasileira de Gáz a Domicílio.[176]
Eberhard von Stohrer was appointed the new German ambassador to the Spanish Nationalist government.[177]
The Société nationale des chemins de fer français (SNCF), which operates France's railway system, was created by an agreement between the French government and most of the private railway companies in France, including Nord, PLM, PO,Midi, and Est, aw well as the Grande Ceinture and Petite Ceinture railway unions, and the national administrations of the Alsace and Lorraine railways and the state railways.[182]
The first patent for a process for creating biodiesel fuel was granted to Belgian chemist Georges Chavanne of the University of Brussels, who received Belgian patent No. 422,877 for a "Procedure for the transformation of vegetable oils for their uses as fuels".[183]
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