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November 9, 1937: Imperial Japanese Army captures Shanghai.

The following events occurred in November 1937:

November 1, 1937 (Monday)

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November 2, 1937 (Tuesday)

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George M. Cohan

November 3, 1937 (Wednesday)

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November 4, 1937 (Thursday)

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November 5, 1937 (Friday)

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  • At a secret meeting with his military advisors at the Chancellery in Berlin, German Chancellor Adolf Hitler disclosed his plan for the use of military force to annex the nations of Austria and Czechoslovakia to secure Lebensraum for Germany's people.[34] According to the minutes of the meeting written five days later by Colonel Friedrich Hossbach, Hitler noted that "The aim of German policy was to make secure and to preserve the Volksmasse" (the German racial community) and that since the pure German race of 85 million people living in "the narrow limits of habitable space in Europe" was more "tightly packed" than in any other country, the Germans had an "implied right to a greater living space". In addition, since there was a decline in Deutschtum (German pride) in Austria and Czechoslovakia since the dissolution of Austria-Hungary after World War One, the future of Germany was "wholly conditional upon the solving of the need for space" by annexing the two nations into Nazi Germany.[35]
  • The Japanese Army defeated the Chinese in the Battle of Xinkou after more than three weeks of fighting for access to the Niangzi Pass through the Taihang Mountains and clearing the way for the Japanese occupation into Northern China. In 25 days of fighting between October 11 and the date of the capture of Taiyuan in the Shaanxi province, the Chinese had more than 55,000 casualties and the Japanese between 6,200 and 21,000.[36][37]
  • At Hangzhou Bay in China, 30,000 Japanese troops landed virtually unopposed.[38]
  • Germany and Poland signed a joint declaration on minorities, guaranteeing proper reciprocal treatment and protection of the Polish minority in Germany and the German minority in Poland.[39]
  • Pierre Dupong became the new prime minister of Luxembourg when premier Joseph Bech and his government resigned following the failure of a referendum to approve the Maulkuerfgesetz that would have allowed Luxembourg's government to ban any political parties deemed a danger to the nation's constitution. Finance Minister Dupong formed a new coalition government, with Bech remaining as the Foreign Minister.[40]
  • The Duke of Windsor cancelled a visit to the United States the day before he was to set sail. A statement through the Anglo-American Press Association cited "grave misconceptions" about the purpose of the trip, which was due to take place with Charles Bedaux.[41]
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November 6, 1937 (Saturday)

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November 7, 1937 (Sunday)

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  • The first direct elections in the Kingdom of Siam were held, with men and women allowed to vote for 91 of the 182 seats of the national parliament, the People's Assembly) (Sapha Phuthaen Rastodon), with no political party affiliations and candidates in each electoral district running as independents. The other 91 seats were for people appointed by King Ananda Mahidol.[52]
  • The political divisions of the Kingdom of Iran were reorganized by the Majlis parliament, with the 27 existing administrative subdivisions consolidated into six provinces. The arrangement lasted only two months and on January 9, 1938, the Majlis changed the organization to 10 provinces.[53]
  • In the Soviet Union, on the 20th anniversary of the October Revolution, 1,500,000 military personnel and civilians paraded in Moscow.[54]
Secretary Ammosov's mug shot after his fatal faux pas.
  • At the 20th anniversary rally held at Frunze, Maxim Ammosov, the First Secretary of the Kirghiz Communist Party and de facto leader of the Soviet Union's Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic made a slip of the tongue that would cost him his career and his life. In his address to the crowd, also broadcast on the radio, Secretary Ammosov meant to say "Down with fascism! Long live communism!", but shouted "Long live the victory of fascism throughout the world!". He then tried to correct the blunder by shouting "Under the brilliant leadership of the great Stalin, forward to the victory of communism throughout the world!"[55] Ammosov was fired later in the day, then arrested on November 16. He would be executed on July 28, 1938.

November 8, 1937 (Monday)

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November 9, 1937 (Tuesday)

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November 10, 1937 (Wednesday)

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  • Captain Mikhail Matveyev, chief executioner of the Solovki prison camp, reported to the Soviet government that he had completed his task of executing almost all of the camp's prisoners over a 15-day period that had started on October 27. Matveyev documented that he had arranged for the shooting of 1,111 of the 1,116 inmates.[70]
Estado Novo propaganda poster showing the benevolent President Vargas

November 11, 1937 (Thursday)

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  • The British commissioner in Mandatory Palestine set up special military courts to try suspected terrorists. Anyone carrying unauthorized firearms, bombs or ammunition would be subject to the death penalty.[76]
Joseph Holland (right) as Caesar, approached by Orson Welles as Brutus in the Mercury Theatre production
  • The Mercury Theatre, operated by Orson Welles and John Houseman, made its debut with the play Caesar, adapted by Welles from William Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar, premiered on Broadway, with modern outfits for the players and a setting evocative of Fascist Italy.[77] The production would run for 157 performances at the Mercury and then at the National Theatre, closing on May 28, 1938.[78]
  • In the Battle of Shanghai, the remaining Chinese defenders against the Japanese invasion, the 3,000 remaining police and soldiers from the 55th Division of the Chinese Army retreated to safety at the grounds of the French Concession. The Imperial Japanese Army began its advance towards Nanjing, approaching the city from different directions, and most of the Chinese Army retreated westward to set up the final defense of Nanjing.[79]
  • During Remembrance Day ceremonies at the Whitehall Cenotaph, an ex-serviceman who had escaped from a mental asylum interrupted the two minutes of silence by screaming "All this hypocrisy!" and something that sounded like "Preparing for war!" The police chased him down and silenced him, but the incident opened a dialogue in the British press about whether the annual tradition of the silence should continue.[80]
  • Born: Stephen Lewis, Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations from 1984 to 1988; in Ottawa[81]
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November 12, 1937 (Friday)

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November 13, 1937 (Saturday)

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November 14, 1937 (Sunday)

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November 15, 1937 (Monday)

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November 16, 1937 (Tuesday)

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November 17, 1937 (Wednesday)

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The Spirit of Progress

November 18, 1937 (Thursday)

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November 19, 1937 (Friday)

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November 20, 1937 (Saturday)

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November 21, 1937 (Sunday)

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November 22, 1937 (Monday)

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  • A group of foreign nationals in China organized the Nanking Safety Zone, a demilitarized zone in the areas of the embassies, consulates and legations in the Chinese city of Nanjing, in order to protect refugees from the impending Japanese invasion. The Safety Zone was only partially successful, and its safety was disregarded by the Japanese invaders on December 14, 1937.[162]
  • The Muslim Society of Great Britain held its first public meeting to protest the Peel Commission's recommendation to partition Palestine. Sir Ernest Nathaniel Bennett chaired the meeting.[163]
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    • Nobuyuki Idei, Japanese business executive who served at various times as company president, CEO and chairman of the board and CEO of Sony Corporation from to 1998 to 2005 (d.2022)[164]
    • James Leprino, American businessman and billionaire dubbed "the Willie Wonka of Cheese" by The New York Times who founded Leprino Foods, the world's largest manufacturer of mozzarella cheese; in Denver, Colorado (d.2025)[165]
    • Pierre Léna, French astrophysicist known for chartering, in 1973, a Concorde flight to make the longest observation of a total solar eclipse; in Paris[166]
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November 23, 1937 (Tuesday)

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Scientists G. A. Boulenger and J. C. Bose

November 24, 1937 (Wednesday)

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November 25, 1937 (Thursday)

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November 26, 1937 (Friday)

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November 27, 1937 (Saturday)

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November 28, 1937 (Sunday)

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November 29, 1937 (Monday)

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  • Following the lobbying of Indian independence advocate H. K. Konar and a 36-day hunger strike of incarcerated political prisoners, the government of British India began the repatriation of 385 inmates who had been held at the Cellular Jail at Port Blair on the South Andaman Island, hundreds of miles from the Indian mainland.[239]
  • The unbeaten University of Pittsburgh Panthers won the 1937 college football season championship, determined at the time by the results of an Associated Press poll of 33 sportswriters. Pitt, which had finished the season at 9-0-1, received 327 points out of a possible 330 under the weighted scoring system, while the 9-0-1 California Golden Bears had 277, the 9-0-1 Fordham Rams (who had tied Pitt 0 to 0 on October 16) 253 and the 9-0-0 |Alabama Crimson Tide 246.[240]
  • The possibility of a football game, between the #1 and #2 teams in the U.S., ended on the same day when the 31 University of Pittsburgh players voted to decline a bid to play in the 1938 Rose Bowl, where their opponent would have been the second-ranked University of California. Player demands included cash for each player to use during the trip to California, leaving no player behind, and a two-week vacation. One report noted that the vote was 16 against the trip and 15 in favor.[241]
  • Italy formally recognized Manchukuo, the Japanese puppet state created in Manchuria in China.[242]
  • Born: Marco Zappia, Emmy-award winning American television editor; in Los Angeles (d.2013)[243]

November 30, 1937 (Tuesday)

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  • The Soviet Union's security police, the NKVD began the "Latvian Operation" (Latyshskaya operatsiya), its latest ethnic cleansing of a minority group within Soviet borders. NKVD Director Nikolai Yezhov had signed Order No. 49990 ("On carrying out an operation of repressing Latvians" on November 23.[244] According to NKVD reports, out of an estimated 150,000 ethnic Latvians[245] remaining in the USSR after the departure of most to an independent Republic of Latvia, 22,369 were arrested during the 12 months of the Latvian Operation, which ended on November 26, 1938, and 16,573 of those arrested were executed.[245]
  • At the age of 81, Russian Orthodox Bishop Seraphim Chichagov was arrested by Soviet authorities on charges of "spreading monarchist propaganda." He was executed 11 days later, on December 11, 1937.[246]
  • Clint Frank of Yale University was awarded college football's Heisman Trophy.[247]
  • The Soda Springs Geyser, a tourist attraction at the city of Soda Springs in the U.S. state of Idaho, was created accidentally during a well-drilling operation that tapped an underground hot spring and released a geyser 100 feet (30 m) high.[248] The attraction was capped and is released by a timer once per hour.
  • American film actors Jackie Coogan and Betty Grable were united in marriage, the first for each, in a ceremony at St. Brendan's Catholic Church in Los Angeles[249]. Although they would appear together in one film (College Swing in 1938), the two divorced after less than two years.[250]
  • Born:
    • Ridley Scott, English film director and producer known for Alien (1979), Blade Runner (1982), Thelma & Louise (1991), Gladiator (2000) and other popular films; in South Shields, County Durham[251]
    • Luther Ingram, American R&B and soul singer known for "(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right"; in Jackson, Tennessee (d.2007)[252]
    • Frank Ifield, British-born Australian country music singer and yodeler, known for "I Remember You"; in Coundon, Coventry, Warwickshire (d.2024)[253]
    • Tom Simpson, English professional cyclist known for collapsing and dying from heart failure while competing in the 1967 Tour de France; in Haswell, County Durham (d.1967)[254]
    • Burton Tansky, American department store executive who served as president and CEO of The Neiman Marcus Group from 2001 to 2010; in Pittsburgh(d.2025)<re>Moin, David (March 16, 2025). "Burt Tansky, Giant in Luxury Retail, Dies at 87". Women's Wear Daily.</ref>
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