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| | | The Japanese use an incident at the Marco Polo Bridge, near Beijing, as the pretext for an attack on China | |
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| 1937 |
| | | At the same time as the Moscow show trials, millions are purged from the Russian Communist party nation-wide | |
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| 1937 |
| | | A Nazi exhibition of 'degenerate art' opens in Munich, and visitors are invited to mock the avant-garde works on show | |
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| 1937 |
| | | Japanese troops occupy Beijing – at the start of eight years of continuous war between China and Japan | |
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| 1937 |
| | | Buchenwald, near Weimar, is set up as a concentration camp providing forced labour for local arms manufacturers | |
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| 1937 |
| | | C.S. Forester's central character, Horatio Hornblower, features for the first time – in The Happy Return | |
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| 1937 |
| | | Alan Turing describes the properties of a logically possible computer that becomes known as the Turing Machine | |
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| 1937 |
| | | Rocket engineer Wernher von Braun is appointed director of Germany's weapon research centre at Peenemünde | |
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| 1937 |
| | | Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is the first animated feature film | |
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| 1937 |
| | | Pablo Picasso's massive painting Guernica is exhibited in the Spanish pavilion at the World Fair in Paris | |
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