August 28 » Silliman University is founded in the Philippines. It is the first American private school in the country.
September 17 » Second Boer War: Boers capture a squadron of the 17th Lancers at the Battle of Elands River.
October 24 » Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
November 18 » Britain and the United States sign the Hay–Pauncefote Treaty, which nullifies the Clayton–Bulwer Treaty and withdraws British objections to an American-controlled canal in Panama.
December 3 » In a State of the Union message, U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt delivers a 20,000-word speech to the House of Representatives asking Congress to curb the power of trusts "within reasonable limits".
December 10 » The first Nobel Prize ceremony is held in Stockholm on the fifth anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death.
Day of death November 2, 1937
The temperature on November 2, 1937 was between 8.2 °C and 12.0 °C and averaged 9.9 °C. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
March 18 » The New London School explosion in New London, Texas, kills 300 people, mostly children.
May 7 » Spanish Civil War: The German Condor Legion, equipped with Heinkel He 51 biplanes, arrives in Spain to assist Francisco Franco's forces.
July 8 » Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan sign the Treaty of Saadabad.
September 21 » J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is published.
December 9 » Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanking: Japanese troops under the command of Lt. Gen. Asaka Yasuhiko launch an assault on the Chinese city of Nanjing (Nanking).
December 29 » The Irish Free State is replaced by a new state called Ireland with the adoption of a new constitution.
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