January 30 » The first Anglo-Japanese Alliance is signed in London.
March 6 » Real Madrid CF is founded.
April 20 » Pierre and Marie Curie refine radium chloride.
May 17 » Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer.
November 21 » The Philadelphia Football Athletics defeated the Kanaweola Athletic Club of Elmira, New York, 39–0, in the first ever professional American football night game.
November 29 » The Pittsburgh Stars defeated the Philadelphia Athletics, 11–0 to win the first championship associated with an American national professional football league.
Day of death September 28, 1937
The temperature on September 28, 1937 was between 9.5 °C and 18.4 °C and averaged 14.4 °C. There was 4.6 mm of rain during 1.6 hours. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (4%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
January 20 » Franklin D. Roosevelt and John Nance Garner are sworn in for their second terms as U.S. President and U.S. Vice President; it is the first time a Presidential Inauguration takes place on January 20 since the 20th Amendment changed the dates of presidential terms.
February 21 » The League of Nations bans foreign national "volunteers" in the Spanish Civil War.
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 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.
October 2 » Rafael Trujillo orders the execution of Haitians living in the northwestern region of the Dominican Republic.
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