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The explosion of the airship Hindenburg on May 6th 1937, which cause the end of the airship era.

One of three related Oklahoma drought refugee families on the highway near Lordsburg, New Mexico, going to Roswell to chop cotton. (May 1937)

Marijuana Tax Act

In USA, the Marijuana Tax Act was introduced, which levied a huge tax on marijuana, an early foreshadowing of the "war on drugs".

 

Events

Event	Description
Great Depression
Tuskegee syphilis experiment	A murderous experiment which looked at the progression of syphilis. Subjects were told that they were being treated, while in fact treatment was denied them. Exposed after 40 years by a whistleblower who went to the press.
The New Deal
Spanish civil war

 

New Groups

Group	Image	Description
Tribune
Volkswagen		German Multinational corporation

 

Deaths

Title	Born	Died	Place of death	Summary	Description
Elihu Root	15 February 1845	7 February 1937	New York	Politician Lawyer
Lewis Thompson Preston Sr.	27 November 1899	9 February 1937	New York US	Athlete
John D. Rockefeller	8 July 1839	23 May 1937	Florida The Casements Ormond Beach	Businessperson
Juliet Poyntz	25 November 1886	June 1937		Spook
Frank Vanderlip	17 November 1864	30 June 1937		Journalist Banker Deep state operative
Andrew Mellon	24 March 1855	26 August 1937	New York Southampton U.S.	Politician Banker
Walter Rothschild	8 February 1868	27 August 1937
Felix Warburg	14 January 1871	20 September 1937	New York US	Financier Deep politician	Super wealthy financier and deep politician.
Grayson Murphy	19 December 1878	18 October 1937	New York Manhattan U.S.	Financier Deep state operative
Ramsay MacDonald	12 October 1866	9 November 1937	Atlantic Ocean (on holiday aboard the ocean liner Reina del Pacifico	Journalist
Frank B. Kellogg	22 December 1856	21 December 1937	Minnesota St. Paul	Politician Lawyer

 

Births

Title	Born	Place of birth	Died	Summary	Description
John Stockwell	1937	US Texas Angleton		Author Whistleblower Spook	An early and prominent critic of the CIA with a fairly high ranking position.
André Lévy-Lang	1937	Egypt Alexandria		Academic Banker Businessperson	French banker on the Bilderberg Steering committee, 11 Bilderbergs, Le Siècle
Joe Fernandez	1937			Spook
Silvia Duran	1937	Mexico
Silvia Odio	1937	Cuba
Larrie Schmidt	1937	US Nebraska
Gaetano Scardocchia	1937	Italy Campobasso	1993	Editor
Emre Gönensay	1937			Politician	Turkish Foreign Minister
Peter Krogh	1937	US California		Academic
Björn Svedberg	1937			Engineer Businessperson
Rolf Tophoven	1937			Journalist Terror expert
Heribert Hellenbroich	1937			Spook	Former BND chief
Gerhard Güllich	1937
Peter Buxtun	1937	Prague		Researcher Whistleblower	Blew the whistle on the Tuskegee syphilis experiment.
Pieter Bottelier	1937			Banker
Hikmet Çetin	1937	Turkey Lice Diyarbakır Province		Politician
John Hume	18 January 1937	Northern Ireland Derry		Politician
Joseph Nye	19 January 1937	New Jersey South Orange U.S.		Academic
Peter Jay	7 February 1937	London UK		Diplomat Broadcaster Economist
John MacGregor	14 February 1937	London UK		Politician
Boris Pugo	19 February 1937	Russia Soviet Union Kalinin	22 August 1991
Harald V	21 February 1937	Norway Skaugum Akershus		Royalty
Gunter Huonker	24 February 1937	Germany Schwenningen am Neckar		Politician
Bob Schieffer	25 February 1937	Texas Austin U.S.		Journalist Anchor
Gerry Patrick Hemming	1 March 1937		29 January 2008	Spook Soldier Pilot
Ivan Boesky	6 March 1937	Michigan Detroit
Juvenal Habyarimana	8 March 1937	Ruanda-Urundi	6 April 1994	Soldier Politician	President of Rwanda whose assassination reportedly helped spark the Rwandan genocide.
Thomas McInerney	15 March 1937	Maryland Havre de Grace U.S.		Soldier Pilot Deep state functionary
Laurens Jan Brinkhorst	18 March 1937	Netherlands Zwolle		Politician
Bernard Nussbaum	23 March 1937	New York U.S.		Lawyer
Jens Kampmann	30 March 1937	Denmark Frederiksberg		Politician Businessperson
Sergio Siracusa	1 April 1937	Italy Naples		Spook
Colin Powell	5 April 1937	New York U.S.		Soldier Politician Deep state operative
Seymour Hersh	8 April 1937	US Chicago Illinois		Journalist
Michael Armacost	15 April 1937			Deep state operative	President of the Brookings Institution, Acting US Secretary of State for 5 days in 1989
Sterling Seagrave	15 April 1937	Ohio Columbus		Author Historian
Colette Flesch	16 April 1937	Luxembourg Dudelange		Politician Athlete	Luxembourgish politician. 3 Bilderbergs
Saddam Hussein	28 April 1937	Iraq Al-Awja Saladin Province	30 December 2006		A brutal dictator who enjoyed US support until he ceased following their orders.
Abu Nidal	May 1937	Palestine Jaffa	16 August 2002
Wayne Owens	2 May 1937	Utah Panguitch	18 December 2002	Politician	Found dead in Tel Aviv
Dennis DeConcini	8 May 1937	Arizona Tucson U.S.		Politician
Paul Wilkinson	9 May 1937	Middlesex Harrow School UK	11 August 2011	Academic Terror expert
George Carlin	12 May 1937	New York Manhattan U.S.	22 June 2008	Comedian	A comedian who developed an interest in deep politics towards the end of his life
Madeleine Albright	15 May 1937	Czechoslovakia Prague		Deep state operative	"We think the price is worth it."
Chris Prebensen	22 May 1937			Diplomat
Christopher Haskins	30 May 1937	Dublin Eire		Businessperson
Mortimer Zuckerman	4 June 1937	Canada Montreal Quebec		Executive chairman of Boston Properties Editor-in-chief of U.S. News & World Report
George David	10 June 1937			Businessperson	Greek Cypriot entrepreneur, Bilderberg Steering committee.
Nadhmi Auchi	11 June 1937	Baghdad		Fraudster Oligarch Businessperson	Cercle-connected fraudster
Jay Rockefeller	18 June 1937	New York U.S.
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