July 7, 1937

1937Tung Chee-hwa, Hong Kong businessman and politician, 1st Chief Executive of Hong Kong^[†]

Tung Chee-hwa is a Hong Kong businessman and retired politician who served as the first Chief Executive of Hong Kong between 1997 and 2005, upon the transfer of sovereignty on 1 July. He served as a vice chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) between 2005 and 2023.

1937The Marco Polo Bridge Incident (Lugou Bridge) provides the Imperial Japanese Army with a pretext for starting the Second Sino-Japanese War (China-Japan War).^[†]

The Marco Polo Bridge incident, also known as the Lugou Bridge incident or the July 7 incident, was a 3-day battle that began on 7 July 1937 in the district of Beijing between the 29th Army of the National Revolutionary Army of the Republic of China and the Imperial Japanese Army.

1937The Peel Commission Report recommends the partition of Palestine, which was the first formal recommendation for partition in the history of Palestine.^[†]

The Peel Commission, formally known as the Palestine Royal Commission, was a British Royal Commission of Inquiry, headed by Lord Peel, appointed in 1936 to investigate the causes of conflict in Mandatory Palestine, which was administered by the United Kingdom, following a six-month-long Arab general strike.