1937 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1937 in the United Kingdom.
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[edit] Events
- March 8- The Prince Edward, the abdicated King Edward VIII, is created Duke of Windsor
- May 12 - Coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth takes place at Westminster Abbey, London.
- May 27- King George VI passes letters patent denying the style of Royal Highness to the wife and descendants of the Duke of Windsor.
- May 28 - Neville Chamberlain becomes Prime Minister.
- June 3- The Duke of Windsor marries Wallis Simpson in Paris.
- July 28- Assassination attempt on King George VI in Belfast by the IRA
- December 3- The first issue of The Dandy is published.
[edit] Unknown dates
- George Paget Thomson wins the Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Clinton Davisson "for their experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals". [1]
- Walter Haworth wins half of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his investigations on carbohydrates and vitamin C". [2]
- Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood wins the Nobel Peace Prize. [3]
[edit] Births
- January 1 - Anne Aubrey, actor
- 8 January - Shirley Bassey, singer
- January 27 - John Ogdon, pianist (d. 1989)
- January 30 - Vanessa Redgrave, actress
- 21 February - Jilly Cooper, author
- February 25 - Tom Courtenay, actor
- May 13 - Trevor Baylis, inventor of the wind-up radio
- June 23 - Sir Nicholas Shackleton, geologist (d. 2006)
- August 6 - Barbara Windsor, actress
- August 21 - Donald Dewar, First Minister of Scotland (d. 2000)
- October 10 - Bobby Charlton, English footballer
- November 17 - Peter Cook, comedian and writer
[edit] Deaths
- 17 March - Austen Chamberlain, English statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1863)
- 19 April - Martin Conway, art critic, politician and mountaineer (b. 1856)
- 19 June - J. M. Barrie, novelist and dramatist (b. 1860)
- 22 August - Albert Goodman, politician (b. 1880)
- 9 November - Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1866)
