About the day » Friday September 24, 1937Calender converter

• Colin Bernard Charles Luxford, Sydney, Australia († 1972)
• (Stillborn) ABMA, Birdaard Friesland Netherlands († 1937)
• Frederikus Witting († 2007)
• Henricus Arnoldus Elisabeth Maria Mennen, Zesgehuchten, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 2016)
• Deloris L. (Codge) WHITE († 1996)
• Geertruida Alida Jacoba Tulen, Lisserbroek, Zuid Holland, Nederland († 2009)
• Colin Bernard Charles Luxford, Sydney, Australia († 1972)
• Hugo Maaren, Heerenveen († 2002)
• Edward Whitley, Morales, Jackson County, Texas, Verenigde Staten († 2015)
• Dorothy Ellen van Huis († 2012)

• Bernardus ter Groot (76), Langeveen
• Albertus Eelke Leijenaar (63), Velsen
• Amelia Emeline WALTER (83), Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten
• Eefje Louw (86), Den Haag
• Arij Smeekes (54), Rotterdam
• Abraham Isaac Houtzager (75), Zaamslag
• Albertus van Doorn (67), Utrecht
• Catharina Schepers (63), Geldrop
• Adrianus Johannes Verhoeven (75), nispen
• Bertha Abbink (62), Steenwijk

• 1934 » Bernard Nevill, English painter, designer, and academic
• 1934 » John Brunner, English-Scottish author and screenwriter († 1995)
• 1934 » John Kasmin, English art dealer
• 1934 » Tommy Anderson, Scottish footballer and manager
• 1936 » Jim Henson, American puppeteer, director, producer and screenwriter, created The Muppets († 1990)
• 1936 » Sivanthi Adithan, Indian businessman († 2013)
• 1938 » Steve Douglas, American saxophonist, flute player, and producer († 1993)
• 1939 » Jacques Vallée, French ufologist
• 1939 » Moti Kirschenbaum, Israeli journalist († 2015)
• 1939 » Wayne Henderson, American trombonist and producer († 2014)

• 1929 » Mahidol Adulyadej, Thai prince (b. 1892)
• 1930 » William A. MacCorkle, American lawyer and politician, 9th Governor of West Virginia (b. 1857)
• 1933 » Alice Muriel Williamson, English author (b. 1869)
• 1933 » Mike Donlin, American baseball player and actor (b. 1878)
• 1936 » József Klekl, Slovene priest and journalist (b. 1879)
• 1938 » Lev Schnirelmann, Belarusian-Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1900)
• 1939 » Carl Laemmle, German-American film producer, founded Universal Studios (b. 1867)
• 1939 » Charles Tatham, American fencer (b. 1854)
• 1945 » Hans Geiger, German physicist and academic, co-invented the Geiger counter (b. 1882)
• 1947 » Andrew C. McLaughlin, American historian and author (b. 1861)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Gerrit
7. Pieter
8. Petrus
9. Adrianus
10. Jacobus
11. Wilhelmus
12. Jacob
13. Gerardus
14. Hendrikus
15. Antonius
16. Franciscus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Elisabeth
6. Wilhelmina
7. Adriana
8. Petronella
9. Hendrika
10. Catharina
11. Jacoba
12. Aaltje
13. Geertruida
14. Margaretha
15. Alida
16. Helena

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 31, 1935 to June 24, 1937 the cabinet Colijn III, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 8.6 million citizens.
• April 12 » Sir Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft, at Rugby, England.
• April 26 » Spanish Civil War: Guernica, Spain, is bombed by German Luftwaffe.
• May 21 » A Soviet station, North Pole-1, becomes the first scientific research settlement to operate on the drift ice of the Arctic Ocean.
• 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.
• November 8 » The Nazi exhibition Der ewige Jude ("The Eternal Jew") opens in Munich.
• 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.

The temperature on September 24, 1937 was between 2.5 °C and 18.8 °C and averaged 10.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 9.0 hours of sunshine (74%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.