1937 Headline News
    President Roosevelt restricts U.S. weapon trade with Japan.
Japanese planes bomb and sink U.S. gunboat Panary in Chinese waters.
Nazi demonstrations taking place in Austria are supported by Hitler. 294 people are killed when an explosion destroys a building in New London Texas.
 
The German airship Hindenburg is destroyed by fire in New Jersey.
Technetium, the first manmade element is developed.


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