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defendants plea guilty to all counts; 5 Boroughs Truckmen' Assn and Garment Center Truckowners Assn involved
Replies to USSR comments on Brit patrol plan in Spanish war
Painting by A de Ferraris; illus
Gens Tukhashevsky, Kork, Yakir, Uborevitch, Eideman, Feldman, Putna and Primakoff tried secretly on charges of treason; reptd to have pleaded guilty; Brit press comment
Gas filling station strike threatened at Flint, Mich
1937Chad Everett, American actor and director (died 2012)[†]
Raymon Lee Cramton, known professionally as Chad Everett, was an American actor who appeared in more than 40 films and television series. He played Dr. Joe Gannon in the television drama Medical Center, which aired from 1969 to 1976.
1937Robin Warren, Australian pathologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2024)[†]
John Robin Warren was an Australian pathologist, Nobel laureate, and researcher who is credited with the 1979 re-discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori, together with Barry Marshall. The duo proved to the medical community that the bacterium Helicobacter pylori is the cause of most peptic ulcers.
1937R. J. Mitchell, English engineer, designed the Supermarine Spitfire (born 1895)[†]
Reginald Joseph Mitchell was a British aircraft designer who worked for the Southampton aviation company Supermarine from 1916 until 1936. He is best known for designing racing seaplanes such as the Supermarine S.6B, and for leading the team that designed the Supermarine Spitfire.
1937Great Purge: The Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin executes eight army leaders.[†]
The Great Purge or Great Terror, also known as the Year of '37 and the Yezhovshchina, was a political purge in the Soviet Union from 1936 to 1938. After the assassination of Sergei Kirov by Leonid Nikolaev in 1934, Joseph Stalin launched a series of show trials known as the Moscow trials to remove suspected dissenters from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The term "great purge" was popularized by historian Robert Conquest in his 1968 book, The Great Terror, whose title alluded to the French Revolution's Reign of Terror.