The temperature on June 20, 1937 was between 8.5 °C and 18.0 °C and averaged 12.5 °C. There was 11.0 mm of rain during 4.3 hours. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (32%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
February 16 » Wallace H. Carothers receives a United States patent for nylon.
February 21 » The League of Nations bans foreign national "volunteers" in the Spanish Civil War.
June 11 » Great Purge: The Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin executes eight army leaders.
July 9 » The silent film archives of Fox Film Corporation are destroyed by the 1937 Fox vault fire.
November 1 » Stalinists execute Pastor Paul Hamberg and seven members of Azerbaijan's Lutheran community.
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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