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August 1, 1937

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JAPANESE RAIDERS BOMB TROOP TRAINS; 20 Rolling Toward Peiping AreAttacked From Air, Reports to Shanghai Declare DAMAGE DONE AT PAOTING War Planes Set Fire to Rail Station-Nanking Determined to Fight, Official Insists Attack Order Reported Says Nanking Is Determined JAPANESE RAIDERS BOMB TROOP TRAINS Says Strategy Curbs Nanking General Sung Tries to Quit Bombing Extends Conflict Some Doubt Nanking Action

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Sung Chen-yuan's resignation rejected by Nanking

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C.I.O. PUTS $100,000 INTO SHIP YARD ROW; Thousands of Pickets to Help Strikers Here Also Pledged at Leaders' Parley $5,000 CHECK FROM LEWIS Union Head in Demand to End Dispute Urges Employers to Consent to Meeting Protest Meeting Wednesday C. I. O. VOTES FUND FOR SHIPYARD ROW Averted Maritime Walkout Two Mass Demonstrations

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CIO unions pledge money and pickets to aid strike; citizens to call meeting protesting hardships caused by employers' refusal to negotiate

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CHAMBERLAIN SENDS NOTE TO MUSSOLINI AS PEACE GESTURE; Prime Minister Brushes Aside Diplomatic Custom in Effort to Bring Nations Together MAY RECOGNIZE CONQUEST Guarantees Asked, However, on Italy's Policies in Near East and Mediterranean Recognition Held Possibility CHAMBERLAIN SENDS NOTE TO MUSSOLINI Italy Watching Chinese Events

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Chamberlain sends personal lr to Mussolini; London Sunday Observer believes Mediterranean issues to have been subject of Chamberlain-Grandi talk

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Notable Births

Al D'Amato

1937Al D'Amato, American lawyer and politician[†]

Alfonse Marcello D'Amato is an American attorney, lobbyist, and Republican politician who represented the state of New York in the United States Senate from 1981 to 1999. From 1995 to 1999, he chaired the Senate Banking Committee. As of 2025, he is the last Republican to serve New York in the U.S. Senate.

Historical Events

Josip Broz Tito

1937Josip Broz Tito reads the resolution "Manifesto of constitutional congress of KPH" to the constitutive congress of KPH (Croatian Communist Party) in woods near Samobor.[†]

Josip Broz, commonly known as Tito, was a Yugoslav communist revolutionary and politician. During World War II, he led the Yugoslav Partisans, often regarded as the most effective resistance movement in German-occupied Europe. Tito led Yugoslavia as prime minister from 1944 to 1963, and president from 1953 until his death in 1980. The political ideology and policies promulgated by Tito are known as Titoism.