The French aircraft manufacturer
SNCASE (Société nationale des constructions aéronautiques du Sud-Est) was formed by the nationalization and merger of
Lioré et Olivier,
Potez,
CAMS,
Romano and
SPCA.[3]
Tony Marino, 26, American bantamweight boxer, died two days after being knocked out in hsi bout against Carlos "Indian" Quintana in Brooklyn.[6] Marino's death, which came after he had been knocked to the canvas five times, led the
New York State Athletic Commission's emergency meeting and the passage of the innovative "three knockdown" rule to stop a fight.[7]
Willie Gallacher, the lone
Communist Party of Great BritainM.P., caused an uproar in the House of Commons 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."[8][9]
German ambassador to Britain
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.[10][11]
The
Judicial Procedures Reform Bill was recommended by U.S. President
Franklin D. Roosevelt in a surprise message to Congress, recommending a drastic revision of the
Supreme Court. The plan would increase the number of judges from 9 to as many as 15, and provided that each time one of the justices reached the age of 70 and didn't retire, another seat would be added to the Court.[12] The idea failed and was derided as "court packing" and an attempt by President Roosevelt to gain more control over the Court with his own appointees.
Benito Mussolini's 20-year-old son
Vittorio married Orsola Buvoli in Rome. About 1,000 people stood in the rain outside the church to view the comings and goings.[13]
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.[16]
An issue of the British weekly news magazine Cavalcade was banned for running an article referring to rumors of the king having suffered an attack of
epilepsy.[19]
Aviator
Amelia Earhart announced she would attempt to circumnavigate the globe as close to the
equator as possible.[20]
Born:Magic Sam (stage name for Samuel G. Maghett), African-American blues musician; in
Grenada, Mississippi (d. 1969)
February 15, 1937 (Monday)
An underground explosion in a coal mine in
Wonthaggi, Australia killed 13 men.[29]
Flooding killed 11 people around southern Los Angeles.[30]
February 16, 1937 (Tuesday)
American chemist
Wallace Carothers of the DuPont company received U.S. patent No. 2,071,250 for "monocomponent artificial filaments or the like of synthetic polymers", marketed by DuPont as the first synthetic fabric,
nylon.[31][32]
Ten men working on construction of the
Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco fell to their deaths when a section of scaffolding collapsed. Only two workmen survived the fall.[34]
The massacre that would become known in Ethiopia as "
Yekatit 12" based on the date of February 19 on the Ethiopian calendar began when a group of nationalists wounded the Italian Viceroy,
Rodolfo Graziani, in an assassination attempt. The Italian colonial government murdered as many 30,000 Ethiopians in reprisal killings over the next three days, although a more detailed examination concluded that 19,200 people were killed.[38][39]
Italian Premier
Benito Mussolini decreed that any native chieftain or officer who opposed Italian colonial troops, even in territory as yet unoccupied, would be put to death.[44]
The first issue of Detective Comics, which would introduce
Batman the following year and would give
DC Comics its name, was published.
The British liner Llandovery Castle was sailing from
Gibraltar to
Marseilles carrying 100 passengers when it hit a
naval mine off
Cap de Creus. A large hole was torn in its hull but it managed to limp to
Port-Vendres.ref>"Floating Mine Tears Hole in British Ship; 300 Passengers Safe". Chicago Daily Tribune. February 26, 1937. p. 11.</ref>
The
John Steinbeck novella Of Mice and Men was released.[47] A review in the Chicago Daily Tribune said that the book was written "so simply, so movingly, so factually that only when its last page is finished does the reader realize what a remarkable feat John Steinbeck has performed."[48]
Died:Charles Donnelly, 22, Irish poet and activist, was killed in the Spanish Civil War.
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."[49]
^Hartmann, Gérard (2005-01-05),
Les réalisations de la SNCASE(PDF) (in French), retrieved 2009-07-15, Alors qu'on ne sait pas très clairement si les sociétés nationales sont des « usines de production de guerre » sans indépendance et sans bureau d'études, la SNCASE est officiellement formée le 1er février 1937.
^"Vote Cleveland Pro Football Franchise". Chicago Daily Tribune. February 13, 1937. p. 19.
^Nash, Jay Robert (1976). Darkest Hours. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 659.
ISBN978-1-59077-526-4.
^"THEATRE FIRE". Sydney Morning Herald. 1937-02-15. Retrieved 2024-01-02.
^"THEATRE FIRE". Sydney Morning Herald. 1937-02-16. Retrieved 2024-01-02.
^Griffith, R. D. (2012). To the NFL: You Sure Started Somethin': A Historical Guide of All 32 NFL Teams and the Cities They've Played In. Dorrance Publishing. p. 226.
ISBN978-1-4349-1681-5.
^"Mary Astor of Films Marries Mexican Actor". Chicago Daily Tribune. February 19, 1937. p. 3.
^Campbell, Ian (20 July 2017).
"Italy and the Addis Ababa massacre". The Economist. Vol. 418, no. 9053. London, United Kingdom of Great Britain: The Economist Newspaper Limited (The Economist Group).
ISSN0013-0613. Archived from
the original on 1 August 2017. Retrieved 21 July 2017.
^Cortada, James W., ed. (1982). Historical Dictionary of the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. p. 506.
ISBN0-313-22054-9.
^Small, Alex (February 22, 1937). "Border Clamp on Spain Seen As Boon to Madrid". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 2.
^"Mussolini Decrees Death for Ethiopians Who Bombed Viceroy". Chicago Daily Tribune. February 23, 1937. p. 4.
^Maguire, Liam (2012). Next Goal Wins!: The Ultimate NHL Historian's One-of-a-kind Collection of Hockey Trivia. Random House Canada. p. 117.
ISBN978-0-307-36340-4.
^"Rebel Barrage Wilts Loyalist Charge Up Hill". Chicago Daily Tribune. February 25, 1937. p. 2.
^"Literary Notes", Philadelphia Inquirer, February 20, 1937, p.13 ("John Steinbeck's short novel 'Of Mice and Men,' is one of the March selections of the Book-of-the-Month Club. Covici-Fride will release the trade edition on February 26.")
^"Books", by Fanny Butcher, Chicago Daily Tribune, February 27, 1937, p.11, quoted in The Essential Criticism of John Steinbeck's of Mice and Men, by Michael J. Meyer (Scarecrow Press, 2009) p.6
The French aircraft manufacturer
SNCASE (Société nationale des constructions aéronautiques du Sud-Est) was formed by the nationalization and merger of
Lioré et Olivier,
Potez,
CAMS,
Romano and
SPCA.[3]
Tony Marino, 26, American bantamweight boxer, died two days after being knocked out in hsi bout against Carlos "Indian" Quintana in Brooklyn.[6] Marino's death, which came after he had been knocked to the canvas five times, led the
New York State Athletic Commission's emergency meeting and the passage of the innovative "three knockdown" rule to stop a fight.[7]
Willie Gallacher, the lone
Communist Party of Great BritainM.P., caused an uproar in the House of Commons 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."[8][9]
German ambassador to Britain
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.[10][11]
The
Judicial Procedures Reform Bill was recommended by U.S. President
Franklin D. Roosevelt in a surprise message to Congress, recommending a drastic revision of the
Supreme Court. The plan would increase the number of judges from 9 to as many as 15, and provided that each time one of the justices reached the age of 70 and didn't retire, another seat would be added to the Court.[12] The idea failed and was derided as "court packing" and an attempt by President Roosevelt to gain more control over the Court with his own appointees.
Benito Mussolini's 20-year-old son
Vittorio married Orsola Buvoli in Rome. About 1,000 people stood in the rain outside the church to view the comings and goings.[13]
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.[16]
An issue of the British weekly news magazine Cavalcade was banned for running an article referring to rumors of the king having suffered an attack of
epilepsy.[19]
Aviator
Amelia Earhart announced she would attempt to circumnavigate the globe as close to the
equator as possible.[20]
Born:Magic Sam (stage name for Samuel G. Maghett), African-American blues musician; in
Grenada, Mississippi (d. 1969)
February 15, 1937 (Monday)
An underground explosion in a coal mine in
Wonthaggi, Australia killed 13 men.[29]
Flooding killed 11 people around southern Los Angeles.[30]
February 16, 1937 (Tuesday)
American chemist
Wallace Carothers of the DuPont company received U.S. patent No. 2,071,250 for "monocomponent artificial filaments or the like of synthetic polymers", marketed by DuPont as the first synthetic fabric,
nylon.[31][32]
Ten men working on construction of the
Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco fell to their deaths when a section of scaffolding collapsed. Only two workmen survived the fall.[34]
The massacre that would become known in Ethiopia as "
Yekatit 12" based on the date of February 19 on the Ethiopian calendar began when a group of nationalists wounded the Italian Viceroy,
Rodolfo Graziani, in an assassination attempt. The Italian colonial government murdered as many 30,000 Ethiopians in reprisal killings over the next three days, although a more detailed examination concluded that 19,200 people were killed.[38][39]
Italian Premier
Benito Mussolini decreed that any native chieftain or officer who opposed Italian colonial troops, even in territory as yet unoccupied, would be put to death.[44]
The first issue of Detective Comics, which would introduce
Batman the following year and would give
DC Comics its name, was published.
The British liner Llandovery Castle was sailing from
Gibraltar to
Marseilles carrying 100 passengers when it hit a
naval mine off
Cap de Creus. A large hole was torn in its hull but it managed to limp to
Port-Vendres.ref>"Floating Mine Tears Hole in British Ship; 300 Passengers Safe". Chicago Daily Tribune. February 26, 1937. p. 11.</ref>
The
John Steinbeck novella Of Mice and Men was released.[47] A review in the Chicago Daily Tribune said that the book was written "so simply, so movingly, so factually that only when its last page is finished does the reader realize what a remarkable feat John Steinbeck has performed."[48]
Died:Charles Donnelly, 22, Irish poet and activist, was killed in the Spanish Civil War.
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."[49]
^Hartmann, Gérard (2005-01-05),
Les réalisations de la SNCASE(PDF) (in French), retrieved 2009-07-15, Alors qu'on ne sait pas très clairement si les sociétés nationales sont des « usines de production de guerre » sans indépendance et sans bureau d'études, la SNCASE est officiellement formée le 1er février 1937.
^"Vote Cleveland Pro Football Franchise". Chicago Daily Tribune. February 13, 1937. p. 19.
^Nash, Jay Robert (1976). Darkest Hours. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 659.
ISBN978-1-59077-526-4.
^"THEATRE FIRE". Sydney Morning Herald. 1937-02-15. Retrieved 2024-01-02.
^"THEATRE FIRE". Sydney Morning Herald. 1937-02-16. Retrieved 2024-01-02.
^Griffith, R. D. (2012). To the NFL: You Sure Started Somethin': A Historical Guide of All 32 NFL Teams and the Cities They've Played In. Dorrance Publishing. p. 226.
ISBN978-1-4349-1681-5.
^"Mary Astor of Films Marries Mexican Actor". Chicago Daily Tribune. February 19, 1937. p. 3.
^Campbell, Ian (20 July 2017).
"Italy and the Addis Ababa massacre". The Economist. Vol. 418, no. 9053. London, United Kingdom of Great Britain: The Economist Newspaper Limited (The Economist Group).
ISSN0013-0613. Archived from
the original on 1 August 2017. Retrieved 21 July 2017.
^Cortada, James W., ed. (1982). Historical Dictionary of the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. p. 506.
ISBN0-313-22054-9.
^Small, Alex (February 22, 1937). "Border Clamp on Spain Seen As Boon to Madrid". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 2.
^"Mussolini Decrees Death for Ethiopians Who Bombed Viceroy". Chicago Daily Tribune. February 23, 1937. p. 4.
^Maguire, Liam (2012). Next Goal Wins!: The Ultimate NHL Historian's One-of-a-kind Collection of Hockey Trivia. Random House Canada. p. 117.
ISBN978-0-307-36340-4.
^"Rebel Barrage Wilts Loyalist Charge Up Hill". Chicago Daily Tribune. February 25, 1937. p. 2.
^"Literary Notes", Philadelphia Inquirer, February 20, 1937, p.13 ("John Steinbeck's short novel 'Of Mice and Men,' is one of the March selections of the Book-of-the-Month Club. Covici-Fride will release the trade edition on February 26.")
^"Books", by Fanny Butcher, Chicago Daily Tribune, February 27, 1937, p.11, quoted in The Essential Criticism of John Steinbeck's of Mice and Men, by Michael J. Meyer (Scarecrow Press, 2009) p.6