King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Crowned at Westminster Abbey, May 12, 1937

Aden becomes a British crown colony. Date: April 1, 1937 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 1 📅 Events on this day in 1937 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1937Golden Gate Bridge Opens to Pedestrian Traffic in California, May 27, 1937Aden Becomes British Crown Colony, April 1, 1937Nazi…

Spanish Civil War: The Largo Caballero government resigns in the wake of the Barcelona May Days, leading Juan Negrín to form a government, without the anarcho-syndicalist CNT, in its stead. Date: May 17, 1937 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 17 📅 Events on this day in 1937 📅 On This…

The Kamikaze arrives at Croydon Airport in London. It is the first Japanese-built aircraft to fly to Europe. Date: April 9, 1937 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 9 📅 Events on this day in 1937 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1937Wallace H. Carothers Receives Nylon Patent, February…

A Soviet station, North Pole-1, becomes the first scientific research settlement to operate on the drift ice of the Arctic Ocean. Date: May 21, 1937 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 21 📅 Events on this day in 1937 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1937Nyon Conference Tackles Mediterranean…

Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanking: The city of Nanjing, defended by the National Revolutionary Army under the command of General Tang Shengzhi, falls to the Japanese. This is followed by the Nanking Massacre, in which Japanese troops rape and slaughter hundreds of thousands of civilians. Date: December 13, 1937 Read more on Wikipedia →…