The temperature on June 1, 1937 was between 7.0 °C and 19.0 °C and averaged 13.2 °C. There was 10.4 hours of sunshine (63%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
February 16 » Wallace H. Carothers receives a United States patent for nylon.
July 2 » Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan are last heard from over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first equatorial round-the-world flight.
July 9 » The silent film archives of Fox Film Corporation are destroyed by the 1937 Fox vault fire.
August 28 » Toyota Motors becomes an independent company.
November 9 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Army withdraws from the Battle of Shanghai.
December 13 » 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.
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