1937 1938 facts
While investigating facts about 1937 1938, I found out little known, but curios details like:
The island Nikumaroro, where Amelia Earhart is thought to have lived out her last few weeks in 1937, was colonized from 1938 to 1963.
John Steinbeck's next novels included In Dubious Battle (1936), Of Mice and Men (1937), and a collection of short stories titled The Long Valley (1938).
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In 1936 and 1937 she received a Guggenheim Fellowship to work in Jamaica and Haiti, the results of which she used in her 1938 book, Tell My Horse.
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Jean de Brunhoff expanded the Babar story into several more books including The Travel of Babar (1934), Babar the King (1935), ABC of Babar (1936), Zephir's Holidays (1937), Babar and His Family (1938), and Babar and Father Christmas (1940).
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Using Diethylene Glycol (DEG) in medicine killed 105 people in US in 1937, leading to the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938. DEG has since continued to kill people in several incidents in other countries, most recently killing 84 Nigerian children in 2008.
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Although Mahatma Gandhi was never awarded the Nobel Prize, he was nominated in 1937, 1938, 1939, 1947 and 1948. After his assassination in 1948, the Nobel committee decided to make no award in that year as "there was no suitable living candidate".
