In the year 1937, Ingrid Christensen becomes the first woman to set foot on Antarctica (Jan 30), John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men is published in the U.S. (Feb 6), Wallace H. Carothers receives a patent for nylon (Feb 16), Hindenburg disaster takes place in New Jersey (May 6), San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic (May 27), and the next day to vehicles. Volkswagen is established (May 28), the Soviet Union commence one of the largest campaigns of the Great Purge (Aug 5), Japan occupies Beijing (Aug 8), the last Bali tiger dies (Sep 27), Roosevelt gives his famous Quarantine Speech in Chigaco (Oct 5) - and all these fine people were born: Continue reading