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December 22, 1937
On December 22, 1937, the Lincoln Tunnel opens to traffic in New York City. Antonio Carluccio, Joseph Estrada, Yoshiro Mori would arrive in the same year.
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Featured · December 22, 1937
The Lincoln Tunnel opens to traffic in New York City.
4 km) tunnel under the Hudson River, connecting Weehawken, New Jersey, to the west with Midtown Manhattan in New York City to the east. It carries New Jersey Route 495 on the New Jersey side and the unsigned New York State Route 495 on the New York side. It was designed by Ole Singstad and named after Abraham Lincoln.
Around 1937
The year in brief
1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1937th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 937th year of the 2nd millennium, the 37th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1930s decade.
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On December 22, 1937
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1937 The Lincoln Tunnel opens to traffic in New York City. Tunnel between New Jersey and New York
4 km) tunnel under the Hudson River, connecting Weehawken, New Jersey, to the west with Midtown Manhattan in New York City to the east. It carries New Jersey Route 495 on the New Jersey side and the unsigned New York State Route 495 on the New York side. It was designed by Ole Singstad and named after Abraham Lincoln.
Elsewhere that year
Other moments from 1937
- April 1 Aden becomes a British crown colony.
- April 1 The Royal New Zealand Air Force is formed as an independent service.
- April 12 Sir Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft, at Rugby, England.
- April 26 Spanish Civil War: Guernica, Spain, is bombed by the German Condor Legion and the Italian Aviazione Legionaria.
- April 28 South African medical researcher Max Theiler develops the yellow fever vaccine at the Rockefeller Foundation in New York City.
- April 30 The Commonwealth of the Philippines holds a plebiscite for Filipino women on whether they should be extended the right to suffrage; over 90% would vote in the affirmative.
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