1937 in Australia explained
The following lists events that happened during 1937 in Australia.
Incumbents
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 assimilating Australian Aboriginals (excluding those deemed full-blooded) in white culture.[1]
- 23 October – The ACTU calls on the government to boycott trade with Japan, following the Japanese invasion of China.
Arts and literature
See main article: 1937 in Australian 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) (died 2024)
- 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
- 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)[2]
- 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)
- 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
Notes and References
- Book: Aboriginal welfare: initial conference of Commonwealth and state Aboriginal authorities held at Canberra, 21st to 23rd April, 1937 . 1937 . English.
- News: Death of Mrs. A. J. Thynne. . . Brisbane . 8 May 1937 . 9 March 2014 . 15 . National Library of Australia.
