Timeline February 1937

Events in February 1937 7

• 1937 Horacio Quiroga (1878-1937) Died 19 February 1937, aged 58 Uruguayan short-story writer known for tales of the jungle of Misiones, including Cuentos de la selva. He took his own life in Buenos Aires.
• 1937 Roosevelt's court-packing plan FDR proposes enlarging the Supreme Court President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress for power to appoint an extra Supreme Court justice for each sitting justice over seventy. The plan met strong resistance and the Senate sent it back to committee on 22 July. The Court had already begun upholding New Deal laws.
• 1937 Battle of Jarama Nationalists try to cut the Madrid–Valencia road Nationalist forces attacked across the Jarama river to cut Madrid off from the Republican government in Valencia. The International Brigades took heavy losses, and the front settled into stalemate with Madrid still supplied.
• 1937 General Motors recognises the UAW Flint sit-down strike ends General Motors agreed to recognise the United Auto Workers, ending the sit-down strike at its Flint, Michigan plants that had begun at the end of 1936. The victory set off rapid growth of industrial unions in the United States.
• 1937 – 2026 Harald V of Norway King of Norway (1991-2026) King of Norway for 35 years, an Olympic yachtsman and the last European monarch born before World War II. Born at a time when no prince had been born in Norway for 567 years, he fled to the United States as a child during the Nazi occupation and returned to a country that would become one of the world's wealthiest. He defied convention by insisting on marrying a commoner, Sonja Haraldsen, after a nine-year courtship his father initially opposed. He modernised the Norwegian monarchy and was beloved for his warmth, humour and a landmark 2016 speech celebrating diversity that went viral worldwide.
• 1937 Harald V of Norway born at Skaugum Born at the Skaugum estate in Asker, Norway, the son of Crown Prince Olav and Crown Princess Märtha of Sweden. He was the first prince born in Norway in 567 years, and church bells rang across the country to celebrate.
• 1937 – present King Harald V Current Monarch Ascended the throne in 1991; known for his modern, unifying speeches and Olympic sailing.