Timeline October 1937

Events in October 1937 8

• 1937 Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937) Died 19 October 1937, aged 66 New Zealand-born physicist who discovered the atomic nucleus and first split the atom. He won the 1908 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and led the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge.
• 1937 Jean de Brunhoff (1899-1937) Died 16 October 1937, aged 37 French author and illustrator who created Babar the Elephant. He died of tuberculosis.
• 1937 Parsley Massacre Dominican troops kill Haitians along the border On the orders of dictator Rafael Trujillo, Dominican soldiers killed thousands of Haitians and Dominicans of Haitian descent in the border regions. Estimates of the dead range from several thousand to about twenty thousand.
• 1937 – 2015 Jackie Collins (1937-2015) Died 19 September 2015, aged 77 Jackie Collins was an English novelist whose glamorous, bestselling novels about Hollywood sold more than 500 million copies worldwide. She published 32 books over her career, many becoming international bestsellers. Collins was the younger sister of actress Joan Collins.
• 1937 Roosevelt's Quarantine Speech FDR calls for isolating aggressor nations In a speech in Chicago, President Roosevelt called for an international quarantine of aggressor nations, without naming Japan, Italy or Germany. The speech was a departure from American isolationism but was followed by little concrete action.
• 1937 – 2023 Bobby Charlton English Footballer English footballer widely regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of the game. A survivor of the 1958 Munich air disaster, he spent his entire club career at Manchester United, scoring 249 goals in 758 appearances. He won the Ballon d'Or in 1966, the same year he helped England win the World Cup. He was knighted in 1994 and became a director of Manchester United.
• 1937 Bobby Charlton born in Ashington Born in Ashington, Northumberland, into a football family. His mother Cissie was from the Milburn football dynasty and his brother Jack also played for England.
• 1937 – 2026 Peter Max Pop artist, 1937-2026 - the look of the psychedelic sixties German-American artist whose saturated colours and star fields became the visual shorthand for the 1960s counterculture.