February 1937

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The following events occurred in February 1937:

February 1, 1937 (Monday)

February 2, 1937 (Tuesday)

February 3, 1937 (Wednesday)

February 4, 1937 (Thursday)

  • Willie Gallacher, the lone Communist Member of Parliament, caused an uproar in the House when he asserted that the Regency Bill under discussion was clearly "directed towards the occupant of the Throne at the present time" because he was "suspect." Conservative Member Earl Winterton jumped to his feet and declared that not even a Member "who represents so small an amount of opinion in the country" as Gallacher "should be permitted to get away with the monstrous assertion which he has just made", and said it "could only have come from someone who approaches the subject with a distorted brain."[2][3]
  • Joachim von Ribbentrop committed a social gaffe when he gave the Nazi salute to George VI, nearly knocking over the king who was stepping forward to shake Ribbentrop's hand.[4][5]
  • Born: Magnar Solberg, biathlete, in Soknedal, Norway

February 5, 1937 (Friday)

February 6, 1937 (Saturday)

February 7, 1937 (Sunday)

February 8, 1937 (Monday)

February 9, 1937 (Tuesday)

February 10, 1937 (Wednesday)

  • A German appeals court ruled that children who failed to live up to the mental and physical standards of Nazi education could be taken away from their families and placed in state-run homes.[10]
  • Born: Anne Anderson, reproductive physiologist, in Forres, Scotland (d. 1983), Roberta Flack, singer, in Black Mountain, North Carolina (some sources give birth date as 1939)

February 11, 1937 (Thursday)

February 12, 1937 (Friday)

February 13, 1937 (Saturday)

February 14, 1937 (Sunday)

February 15, 1937 (Monday)

  • An underground explosion in a coal mine in Wonthaggi, Australia killed thirteen men.[21]
  • 11 were reported dead in flooding around southern Los Angeles.[22]

February 16, 1937 (Tuesday)

February 17, 1937 (Wednesday)

February 18, 1937 (Thursday)

February 19, 1937 (Friday)

February 20, 1937 (Saturday)

February 21, 1937 (Sunday)

February 22, 1937 (Monday)

  • Mussolini decreed that any native chieftain or officer who opposed Italian colonial troops, even in territory as yet unoccupied, would be put to death.[32]
  • Died: James P. Buchanan, 69, American politician

February 23, 1937 (Tuesday)

February 24, 1937 (Wednesday)

February 25, 1937 (Thursday)

February 26, 1937 (Friday)

February 27, 1937 (Saturday)

February 28, 1937 (Sunday)

  • Spanish Foreign Minister Julio Álvarez del Vayo scolded the European democracies for "lamentable weakness... in the face of the tactics of Fascist nations to make themselves masters of the continent." Álvarez del Vayo declared that "the defense of Madrid is the defense of Paris and London tomorrow."[36]
  • Died: Harrington Mann, 72, Scottish painter

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  5. Bloch, Michael. Ribbentrop. New York: Crown Publishing, 1992. p, 125-127. ISBN 0-517-59310-6.
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