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May 12, 1937: The coronation of George VI and Elizabeth as King and Queen consort of the British Empire is held at Westminster Abbey in London.
May 6, 1937: Explosion of the German dirigible Hindenburg kills 36 people

The following events occurred in May 1937:

May 1, 1937 (Saturday)

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May 2, 1937 (Sunday)

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  • Austrian police raided the headquarters of the Nazi Party in Vienna, finding evidence of collaboration between German and Austrian Nazis, as well as propaganda hostile to the Austrian government.[18]
  • In Moscow, an estimated 50,000 people attended the remaining churches in the city for services on the Russian Easter, despite the largest anti-religious drive since 1930.[19]
  • In Cuba, former President Mario García Menocal, who served from 1913 to 1921, announced that he was creating a new political party to oppose military interference in civil affairs, in a move seen as a threat to the military-supported regime of President Federico Laredo Brú and its control of the Cuban Congress.[20]
  • Eleven of the crew of the freighter Alecto were drowned after the ship collided with the freighter Plavnik and sank in the North Sea while both saidled in a fog.during a fog.[21]
  • Born:

May 3, 1937 (Monday)

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  • The divorce of Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson from her husband, shipbroker Ernest Simpson, became final,[24] clearing the way for her to marry the Duke of Windsor, who had been King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions. The marriage took place one month later in France on June 3.
  • Lev Karakhan, the Soviet Union's Ambassador to Turkey since 1934, was arrested on orders of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin to return to Moscow.[25] Stalin had ordered the recall of Karakhan on April 26.[26] Karakhan was arrested and charged with participation in a "pro-fascist conspiracy" to overthrow the Soviet Government. He would be executed on September 20 after being tried before the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union.[27]
  • German opera composer and conductor Manfred Gurlitt, a member of Germany's Nazi Party since 1933, was expelled from the Nazis by court order after failing to reveal that he had a Jewish ancestor. The court declared that Gurlitt was a "Jew of Mixed Race of the 2nd Order" and removed him from his employment.[28]
  • In Spain, six days of civil violence known as the May Days began in Catalonia.
  • Born: Hans Cieslarczyk, German footballer; in Herne (d. 2020)[29]
  • Died:
    • Cosimo Rennella, Ecuadorian-born Italian flying ace during World War One with seven victories and later a member of the Air Force of Ecuador, died of pneumonia after returning from the United States, where head attended a convention of fellow World War I aces in Dayton, Ohio[30]
    • P. W. Pilcher, 70, British photographer who perfected high-speed photography to capture photos of moving objects, including trains[31]

May 4, 1937 (Tuesday)

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May 5, 1937 (Wednesday)

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May 6, 1937 (Thursday)

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newsreel report of the disaster

May 7, 1937 (Friday)

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May 8, 1937 (Saturday)

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May 9, 1937 (Sunday)

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  • The fifth last launch of a high altitude ARS rocket by the American Interplanetary Society was carried out from Old Ferris Point in the U.S. state of New York. The Society had launched rockets on multiple occasions since May 14, 1933. The rocket, propelled by a mixture of liquid oxygen and gasoline, reached an altitude of 80 metres (260 ft).[66]
  • At least 5,000 women and children began to evacuate Bilbao in Spain.[67][68]
  • More than 50 people were injured in Toulouse when a riot broke out between political factions. The rioting began when rightists paraded to an equestrian statue of Joan of Arc shouting "France for the French", referring to the allegation that the Popular Front government of Prime Minister Léon Blum took orders from Moscow.[69]
  • FC Sochaux-Montbéliard defeated RC Strasbourg, 2 to 1, to win the Coupe de France soccer football tournament, played near Paris at the Olympic Stadium in Colombes in front of 39,538 spectators.

May 10, 1937 (Monday)

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May 11, 1937 (Tuesday)

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The shrine to Meher Ali Shah

May 12, 1937 (Wednesday)

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Artist's impression by Henry Charles Brewer of the coronation at Westminster Abbey in London )

May 13, 1937 (Thursday)

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May 14, 1937 (Friday)

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May 15, 1937 (Saturday)

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May 16, 1937 (Sunday)

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May 17, 1937 (Monday)

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  • Juan Negrín became Prime Minister of Spain after being appointed by President Manuel Azaña.Graham, Helen (1988). "The Spanish Socialist Party in Power and the Government of Juan Negrín, 1937–9". European History Quarterly. 18 (2): 175–206. doi:10.1177/026569148801800203. S2CID 145387965.
  • Råsunda Stadium was formally inaugurated in Stockholm. England defeated Sweden in a friendly match, 4-0.[104]
  • Born: Hazel R. O'Leary, United States Secretary of Energy from 1993 to 1997; in Newport News, Virginia[105]

May 18, 1937 (Tuesday)

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The 25-cent note

May 19, 1937 (Wednesday)

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May 20, 1937 (Thursday)

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USS New York (BB-34) taking part in the Grand Fleet Review

May 21, 1937 (Friday)

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Roscoe Jackson prepares to be hanged.
    • Roscoe Jackson, 36, convicted murderer became the last person in the U.S. to be publicly executed. A gallows was built in Galena, Missouri at the Stone County Courthouse and a crowd of 400 people watched his hanging. Jackson spoke to the crowd and reportedly said, "To ask anyone to forgive me is too much," and closed by saying "If you feel I am paying my debt like a man, I am glad."[129]

May 22, 1937 (Saturday)

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  • Saeed bin Maktoum bin Hasher Al Maktoum, Emir of Dubai (now part of the United Arab Emirates, signed a major agreement with the British oil company Petroleum Concessions Ltd (PCL) providing exploration and development rights to Dubai's oil fields in a lease that included a requirement that the company would have to provide jobs to Dubai's citizens.[130]
  • The New York Times reported, erroneously, that "The Soviet Union claimed the North Pole as its own today to hold forever on the grounds that it was the first to establish a permanent settlement in the vicinity,"[131] although the Associated Press noted only that "Eleven Soviet pioneers of the Arctic air routes" had claimed an ice floe 13 miles (21 km) from the Pole "as a preliminary to the proposed Moscow—San Francisco air line over the roof of the world.".[132] The Times reported the next day the claim was limited to an area "for a inter-continental flight.[133]
  • Soviet General Mikhail Tukhachevsky was arrested and charged with conspiring against the government and spying for Nazi Germany.[134]

May 23, 1937 (Sunday)

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May 24, 1937 (Monday)

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May 25, 1937 (Tuesday)

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Cochrane

May 26, 1937 (Wednesday)

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May 27, 1937 (Thursday)

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  • The Golden Gate Bridge opened in San Francisco.
  • The Gestapo ordered 200 German Catholic newspapers to shut down for publishing articles critical of Nazi institutions.[152]
  • The Minseito and Seiyukai parties jointly demanded the Japanese cabinet's resignation.[153]

May 28, 1937 (Friday)

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May 29, 1937 (Saturday)

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  • Deutschland incident: Republican planes bombed the German cruiser Deutschland.[70]
  • Several Hong Kong Chinese newspapers published an identical leading article, appealing to Britain not to enter into negotiations with Japan. The article stated that China would maintain her sovereignty at all costs.[155][156]

May 30, 1937 (Sunday)

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May 31, 1937 (Monday)

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