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List of events
The following lists events that happened during 1937 in Australia .
Incumbents
Joseph Lyons
State Premiers
State Governors
Events
9 February –
Cairns is hit by a
tropical cyclone .
15 February – An explosion kills 13 men at the
State Coal Mine in
Wonthaggi, Victoria .
20 February – A
general election is held in
Tasmania . The incumbent
Labor government led by
Albert Ogilvie is returned to power.
1 March –
Bernard O'Reilly locates the wreckage of an Airlines of Australia
Stinson airliner, VH-UHH City of Brisbane , in the
McPherson Range in southern
Queensland . Two survivors are rescued, five others did not survive.
20 April – Regular
airmail services begin between Australia and the USA.
21-23 April - The first conference of Commonwealth and State Aboriginal authorities is held in Canberra. The conference sees several resolutions pass with the aim of assimiliating Australian Aboriginals (excluding those deemed full-blooded) in white culture.
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23 October – The
ACTU calls on the government to boycott trade with Japan, following the
Japanese invasion of China .
Arts and literature
Sport
Births
16 January –
Lorraine Bayly , actor
19 January –
John Lions , computer scientist and academic (died 1998)
21 January
25 January –
John Watson , Liberal Senator for Tasmania
4 February –
John Devitt , Olympic swimmer (died 2023)
19 February
20 February –
Robert Evans , minister and amateur astronomer (died 2022)
21 February –
Ron Clarke , Olympic athlete (died 2015)
3 March –
Kevin O'Halloran , Olympic swimmer (died 1976)
7 April –
Louise Faulkner , missing woman
13 April –
Col Joye , entertainer
19 April –
Lindsay Fox , businessman
27 May –
Peter Pinne , writer and composer
1 June –
Colleen McCullough , novelist (died 2015)
11 June –
Robin Warren , Nobel Prize-winning pathologist
7 July
Jocelyn Newman , politician (died 2018)
26 July
28 August –
Tony Marchant , Olympic track cyclist
1 September –
Ian Callinan , High Court judge
4 September –
Dawn Fraser , Olympic swimmer
17 September –
Gary Chapman , Olympic swimmer (died 1978)
18 September –
Barry Muir , rugby league footballer (died 2022)
3 October –
John Hodges , Minister for Immigration (1982–1983)
7 October –
Colin Guest , cricketer (died 2018)
10 October –
Bruce Devlin , golfer
21 November –
John Kerin , politician (died 2023)
12 December
17 December –
Kerry Packer , businessman (died 2005)
Deaths
George Prendergast
11 February –
Walter Burley Griffin , architect of
Canberra (born in the
United States and died in
India ) (b.
1876 )
18 March –
Walter Wilson Froggatt , geologist and economic entomologist (b.
1858 )
7 May –
Christina Jane Corrie , Queensland politician and suffragette (born in the
United Kingdom ) (b.
1867 )
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9 June –
Charles Chewings , geologist and anthropologist (b.
1859 )
10 July –
Thomas Brentnall , accountant and musician (born in the
United Kingdom ) (b.
1846 )
22 July –
Ted McDonald , cricketer and Australian rules footballer (
Essendon ,
Fitzroy ) (died in the
United Kingdom ) (b.
1891 )
28 July –
Sir George Hyde , 7th
Naval Member and Chief of the Australian Naval Staff (born in the
United Kingdom ) (b.
1877 )
14 August –
Bruce Smith , New South Wales politician (born in the
United Kingdom ) (b.
1851 )
28 August –
George Prendergast , 28th
Premier of Victoria (b.
1854 )
28 September –
William Ramsay Smith , physician and anthropologist (born in the
United Kingdom ) (b.
1859 )
2 October –
Sir Granville Ryrie , New South Wales politician, diplomat and soldier (b.
1865 )
8 October –
Dame Eadith Walker , philanthropist and heiress (b.
1861 )
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4 November –
Alfred Walter Campbell , neurologist (b.
1868 )
6 November –
William Moore , art and drama critic (b.
1868 )
17 November –
Jack Worrall , cricketer and Australian rules footballer (
Fitzroy ) (b.
1861 )
19 November –
Rayner Hoff , sculptor (born in the
United Kingdom ) (b.
1894 )
27 November –
Walter Howchin , geologist (born in the
United Kingdom ) (b.
1845 )
11 December –
Godfrey Irving , 8th
Chief of the General Staff (b.
1867 )
16 December –
Sir Murray Bourchier , 5th
Deputy Premier of Victoria and soldier (died in the
United Kingdom ) (b.
1881 )
See also
References
1937 in Oceania
Sovereign states Associated states of New Zealand