1937_in_the_united_kingdom

1937 in the United Kingdom:

Other years

1935 | 1936 | 1937 | 1938 | 1939

Sport

1937 English cricket season

Football England | Scotland

Events from the year 1937 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

• Monarch - George VI of the United Kingdom
• Prime Minister - Stanley Baldwin, national coalition (until 28 May), Neville Chamberlain, national coalition

Events

• 8 March - The Prince Edward, the abdicated King Edward VIII, is created Duke of Windsor
• 12 May - Coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth takes place at Westminster Abbey, London. The BBC makes its first outside broadcast covering the event. (2006) Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. ISBN 0-141-02715-0. 
• 27 May - King George VI passes letters patent denying the style of Royal Highness to the wife and descendants of the Duke of Windsor.
• 28 May - Neville Chamberlain becomes Prime Minister after Baldwin\'s retirement.Palmer, Alan & Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd, 382-383. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2. 
• 3 June - The Duke of Windsor marries Wallis Simpson in Paris.
• 1 July - The 999 emergency telephone number introduced.
• 23 July - Matrimonial Causes Act adds insanity and desertion to infidelity as legitimate grounds for divorce.
• 28 July - Assassination attempt on King George VI in Belfast by the IRA
• 3 December - The first issue of The Dandy is published.
• 10 December - Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood wins the Nobel Peace Prize.The Nobel Peace Prize 1937. Retrieved on 2007-11-25.
• 29 December - The Irish Free State severs its links with the British Crown, becoming the republic of Eire.

Undated

• George Paget Thomson wins the Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Clinton Davisson "for their experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals".The Nobel Prize in Physics 1937. Retrieved on 2007-11-25.
• Walter Haworth wins half of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his investigations on carbohydrates and vitamin C".The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1937. Retrieved on 2007-11-25.

Publications

• 21 September - J. R. R. Tolkien\'s novel The Hobbit.
• Agatha Christie\'s Hercule Poirot novels Dumb Witness and Death on the Nile.
• Graham Greene\'s novel The Road to Wigan Pier.

Births

• 1 January - Anne Aubrey, actor
• 8 January - Shirley Bassey, singer
• 27 January - John Ogdon, pianist (died 1989)
• 30 January - Vanessa Redgrave, actress
• 21 February - Jilly Cooper, author
• 25 February - Tom Courtenay, actor
• 12 May - Susan Hampshire, actress
• 13 May - Trevor Baylis, inventor of the wind-up radio
• 23 June - Sir Nicholas Shackleton, geologist (died 2006)
• 3 July - Tom Stoppard, playwright
• 6 August - Barbara Windsor, actress
• 18 August - Willie Rushton, comedian, actor and writer (died 1996)
• 21 August - Donald Dewar, First Minister of Scotland (died 2000)
• 10 October - Bobby Charlton, English footballer
• 17 November - Peter Cook, comedian and writer (died 1995)

Deaths

• 13 March - Elihu Thomson, engineer and inventor (born 1853)
• 17 March - Austen Chamberlain, English statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (born 1863)
• 19 April - Martin Conway, art critic, politician and mountaineer (born 1856)
• 19 June - J. M. Barrie, novelist and dramatist (born 1860)
• 22 August - Albert Goodman, politician (born 1880)
• 9 November - Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1866)

References

See also

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