Timeline March 1937

Events in March 1937 7

• 1937 H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) Died 15 March 1937, aged 46 American writer of weird and horror fiction, creator of the Cthulhu Mythos. Little known in his lifetime, he became one of the most influential horror writers of the twentieth century.
• 1937 Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937) Died 29 March 1937, aged 54 Polish composer and pianist, the leading Polish composer of the early twentieth century. His works include the opera King Roger and the Stabat Mater.
• 1937 Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884-1937) Died 10 March 1937, aged 53 Russian writer whose dystopian novel We influenced Huxley's Brave New World and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. He died in exile in Paris.
• 1937 1937 World Snooker Championship Joe Davis Title 11 Winner: Joe Davis; Runner-up: Horace Lindrum. Score: 32–29.
• 1937 Battle of Guadalajara Republicans rout Italian troops north-east of Madrid Spanish Republican forces, including the International Brigades, defeated an offensive by Italian Corpo Truppe Volontarie troops aimed at encircling Madrid. It was the Republic's most celebrated victory of the war.
• 1937 New London School explosion Gas explosion destroys a Texas school A natural gas leak caused an explosion that destroyed the London School in New London, Texas, killing about 295 students and teachers. The disaster led Texas to require that a strong-smelling odorant be added to natural gas.
• 1937 Mit brennender Sorge read in German churches Pope Pius XI condemns Nazi policies Pope Pius XI's encyclical Mit brennender Sorge, written in German, was smuggled into Germany and read from Catholic pulpits on Palm Sunday. It condemned breaches of the Reichskonkordat and attacked the racial and religious ideas of the Nazi regime.