Historical Events in 1937
62 curated events dated to this year, and 146 musicalized poets on V2Melody were alive then.
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1937
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Bombing of Guernica
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Frost's Third Pulitzer Prize
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Irish Constitution of 1937 Declares Full Sovereignty
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Publication of Miguel Hernández's 'Viento del pueblo'
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Valéry becomes Professor of Poetics at the Collège de France
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Amelia Earhart disappears over the Pacific
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Anna Akhmatova Writes 'Requiem' During Stalin Purges
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Battle of Bilbao and Fall of the Biscay Capital
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Battle of Brunete
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Battle of Guadalajara
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Battle of Jarama
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Battle of Teruel
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Death of His Wife, Mary
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Elixir Sulfanilamide Disaster Exposes Drug Safety Failures
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Hindenburg Disaster
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Hughes's Involvement in the Spanish Civil War
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Increasing Morphine Dependency and Health Declines at Steepletop (1937–1950)
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Invention of the Jet Engine
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Marihuana Tax Act of 1937
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Publication of 'The Maine Poems'
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Publication of 'The Way of the Heart'
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Publication of Pablo Neruda's 'España en el corazón'
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Publication of W.H. Auden's 'Spain'
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Publishes memoir 'Time of Our Lives: The Story of My Father and Myself'
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Ray-Ban Aviator Sunglasses Developed
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Reber Builds First Radio Telescope
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The Agonizing Defense of Sihang Warehouse
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The Agonizing Solitary Incarceration of Evgenia Ginzburg
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The Global Rise of the SPAM Culinary Phenomenon
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The May Days of Barcelona
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Battle of Belchite
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Battle of Málaga
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Battle of Santander
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César Vallejo's Poetry of the Spanish War
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Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5
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First African American to win the Pulitzer Prize
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Illness and Final Works
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Jones's poetry is anthologised by the WPA
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Langston Hughes's Reporting from Spain
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Marriage to Caitlin Macnamara
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Mass-Observation begins Worktown pub research
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Premiere of the Oratorio 'The Ordering of Moses'
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Publication of 'Their Eyes Were Watching God'
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Resigns as director of the Federal Writers' Project in New York City
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SPAM canned meat invented by Hormel Foods in Austin
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Stephen Spender's Visit to Spain
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Suppression of the POUM
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Teaching at Vanderbilt University
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Battle of El Mazuco
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Charles Donnelly's Death in Spain
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Concha Méndez's Poetry of the War
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Dett Becomes Director of Music at Bennett College
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Edna St. Vincent Millay's Poetry on Spain
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Execution of Esteban Urkiaga (Lauaxeta)
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Final Years and Illness
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First BBC radio broadcast
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First Flight of the Grumman F4F Wildcat
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Invention of the Shopping Cart by Sylvan Goldman
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Marries Doria Berton in New York City
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Publication of 'The Spanish Earth' Film with Poetry Narration
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Waring Blender Commercial Success
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First Fully Air-Conditioned Ship: Koan Maru
Poets alive in 1937
146 poets
Poets in 1937
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