Date in year · 1937 · The 1930s
June 3, 1937
On June 3, 1937, the Duke of Windsor marries Wallis Simpson. Antonio Carluccio, Joseph Estrada, Yoshiro Mori would arrive in the same year.
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Featured · June 3, 1937
The Duke of Windsor marries Wallis Simpson.
Edward VIII, later known as the Duke of Windsor, was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 20 January 1936 until his abdication in December of the same year.
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 June 3, 1937
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1937 The Duke of Windsor marries Wallis Simpson. King of the United Kingdom in 1936
Edward VIII, later known as the Duke of Windsor, was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 20 January 1936 until his abdication in December of the same year.
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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