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  • Durham, North Carolina, U.S.
    Jun, 1937
    Richard Nixon

    Graduation From Duke University School of Law

    Durham, North Carolina, U.S.
    Jun, 1937

    The number of scholarships was greatly reduced for second- and third-year students, forcing recipients into intense competition. Nixon not only kept his scholarship but was elected president of the Duke Bar Association, inducted into the Order of the Coif, and graduated third in his class in June 1937.




  • Alcocero, Burgos, Spain
    Thursday Jun 3, 1937
    Spanish Civil War

    Mola was killed

    Alcocero, Burgos, Spain
    Thursday Jun 3, 1937

    Mola, Franco's second-in-command, was killed on 3 June, in an airplane accident.




  • Château de Candé, near Tours, France
    Thursday Jun 3, 1937
    Edward VIII

    Marriage

    Château de Candé, near Tours, France
    Thursday Jun 3, 1937

    The Duke married Simpson, who had changed her name by deed poll to Wallis Warfield, in a private ceremony on 3 June 1937, at Château de Candé, near Tours, France. When the Church of England refused to sanction the union, a County Durham clergyman, the Reverend Robert Anderson Jardine (Vicar of St Paul's, Darlington), offered to perform the ceremony, and the Duke accepted. George VI forbade members of the royal family to attend, to the lasting resentment of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Edward had particularly wanted his brothers the Dukes of Gloucester and Kent and his second cousin Lord Louis Mountbatten to attend the ceremony.




  • Kaifeng, Henan, China
    Sunday Jun 6, 1937
    Second Sino-Japanese War

    The Japanese captured Kaifeng

    Kaifeng, Henan, China
    Sunday Jun 6, 1937

    In 1937, the Japanese Imperial Army quickly marched into the heart of Chinese territory. On June 6, they captured Kaifeng, the capital of Henan, and threatened to take Zhengzhou, the junction of the Pinghan and Longhai railways.




  • England, United Kingdom
    Wednesday Jun 9, 1937
    Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon

    Brownie in the 1st Buckingham Palace Brownie Pack

    England, United Kingdom
    Wednesday Jun 9, 1937

    Margaret was a Brownie in the 1st Buckingham Palace Brownie Pack, formed in 1937. She was also a Girl Guide and later a Sea Ranger.




  • London, England, United Kingdom
    Jun, 1937
    Marcus Garvey

    Garvey's wife and children arrived in England

    London, England, United Kingdom
    Jun, 1937

    In June 1937, Garvey's wife and children arrived in England, where the latter were sent to a school in Kensington Gardens.




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