February 28 » Queen Ranavalona III, the last monarch of Madagascar, is deposed by a French military force.
July 11 » Salomon August Andrée leaves Spitsbergen to attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon. He later crashes and dies.
August 2 » Anglo-Afghan War: The Siege of Malakand ends when a relief column is able to reach the British garrison in the Malakand states.
August 10 » German chemist Felix Hoffmann discovers an improved way of synthesizing acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin).
September 1 » The Tremont Street Subway in Boston opens, becoming the first underground rapid transit system in North America.
September 10 » Lattimer massacre: A sheriff's posse kills 19 unarmed striking immigrant miners in Lattimer, Pennsylvania, United States.
Day of death June 9, 1937
The temperature on June 9, 1937 was between 13.4 °C and 22.7 °C and averaged 17.6 °C. There was 12.4 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (13%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
February 19 » Yekatit 12: During a public ceremony at the Viceregal Palace (the former Imperial residence) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, two Ethiopian nationalists of Eritrean origin attempt to kill viceroy Rodolfo Graziani with a number of grenades.
March 8 » Spanish Civil War: The Battle of Guadalajara begins.
March 18 » The New London School explosion in New London, Texas, kills 300 people, mostly children.
April 1 » Spanish Civil War: Jaén, Spain is bombed by German fascist forces, supporting Francoist Nationalists.
June 14 » U.S. House of Representatives passes the Marihuana Tax Act.
July 9 » The silent film archives of Fox Film Corporation are destroyed by the 1937 Fox vault fire.
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