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1937Aug, 5

Brian G. Marsden

Brian G. Marsden, English-American astronomer and academic (d. 2010)
Brian Geoffrey Marsden (5 August 1937 – 18 November 2010) was a British astronomer and the longtime director of the Minor Planet Center (MPC) at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (director emeritus from 2006 to 2010).

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Events on 1937

  • 23Jan

    Leon Trotsky

    The trial of the anti-Soviet Trotskyist center sees seventeen mid-level Communists accused of sympathizing with Leon Trotsky and plotting to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime.
  • 21Feb

    Spanish Civil War

    The League of Nations bans foreign national "volunteers" in the Spanish Civil War.
  • 12May

    United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

    The Duke and Duchess of York are crowned as King George VI and Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Westminster Abbey.
  • 22Jul

    Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937

    New Deal: The United States Senate votes down President Franklin D. Roosevelt's proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court of the United States.
  • 13Dec

    Battle of Nanking

    Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanking: The city of Nanjing, defended by the National Revolutionary Army under the command of General Tang Shengzhi, falls to the Japanese. This is followed by the Nanking Massacre, in which Japanese troops rape and slaughter hundreds of thousands of civilians.