1937 in the United States

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 39. Chapters: Hindenburg disaster, Remington Rand strike of 1936-1937, List of American films of 1937, USS Panay incident, Leon Bates, New London School explosion, Ponce massacre, Dick Merrill, 9th Academy Awards, Ohio River flood of 1937, Flint Sit-Down Strike, 1937 International Lawn Tennis Challenge, Western Air Express Flight 7, 1937 Indianapolis 500, Elixir sulfanilamide, Memorial Day massacre of 1937, Battle of the Overpass, Miss America 1937, Great Lakes Exposition, Quarantine Speech, 1937 Pulitzer Prize, Second inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Excerpt: The Hindenburg disaster took place on Thursday, May 6, 1937, as the German passenger airship LZ 129 Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed during its attempt to dock with its mooring mast at the Lakehurst Naval Air Station, which is located adjacent to the borough of Lakehurst, New Jersey. Of the 97 people on board, 35 people died. There was one additional fatality on the ground. The disaster was the subject of spectacular newsreel coverage, photographs, and Herbert Morrison's recorded radio eyewitness report from the landing field, which was broadcast the next day. The actual cause of the fire remains unknown, although a variety of hypotheses have been put forward for both the cause of ignition and the initial fuel for the ensuing fire. The incident shattered public confidence in the giant, passenger-carrying rigid airship and marked the end of the airship era. Post card carried on the D-LZ129 "Hindenburg" on its last flight and dropped enroute over Cologne (The Cooper Collections)After opening its 1937 season by completing a single round trip passage to Rio de Janeiro in late March, the Hindenburg departed from Frankfurt on the evening of May 3 on the first of its 10 round trips between Europe and the United States scheduled for its second year of commercial service. In the United States, American Airlines, which had contracted with the operators of the Hindenburg, was prepared to shuttle fliers from Lakehurst to Newark for connections to airplane flights. Except for strong headwinds which slowed its passage, the Hindenburg's crossing was otherwise unremarkable until the airship's attempted early evening landing at Lakehurst three days later on May 6. Although carrying only half its full capacity of passengers (36 of 70) and 61 crew members (including 21 training crew members), the Hindenburg's return flight was fully booked with many of those passengers planning to attend the festivities for the coronation of King George VI in London the following week. The air