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Henley ready for launching, Mare Island Navy Yard, California, United States, 12 Jan 1937; note Preston partially visible through the crane rails, at right	Vincennes making 10.74 knots during trials off Rockland, Maine, United States, at 1258 on 12 Jan 1937

Himmler, Heydrich, Daluege, and Adolf Hühnlein at a memorial ceremony on German Police Day, Horst-Wessel-Platz, Berlin, Germany, 16 Jan 1937	Wang Jingwei arriving at Ming Palace Airport, Nanjing, China, 18 Jan 1937, photo 1 of 2

Wang Jingwei arriving at Ming Palace Airport, Nanjing, China, 18 Jan 1937, photo 2 of 2	Japanese War Minister Hisaichi Terauchi and Prime Minister Koko Hirota at the Diet of Japan during a historic session that would lead to Hirota's resignation, 21 Jan 1937

Cummings' historical data plaque, photographed by the New York Navy Yard, United States, 25 Jan 1937	Destroyer USS Shaw at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, 26 Jan 1937. Photo 1 of 2.

Destroyer USS Shaw at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, 26 Jan 1937. Photo 2 of 2.	Destroyer USS Shaw moored at Philadelphia Navy Yard, 26 Jan 1937.

Göring trying a dish made by a German housewife during an event celebrating homemakers, Berlin, Germany, 29 Jan 1937	Carrier Soryu fitting out at the Kure Naval Arsenal, Japan, early 1937

Portrait of Chen Lifu, Feb 1937	Students from Beiping presenting Chiang Kaishek a sword forged with funding donated by fellow students, auditorium of the Republic of China Military Academy, Nanjing, China, Feb 1937

HMS Apollo underway in the Atlantic Ocean off St. Johns, Virgin Islands, 2 Feb 1937	Hitler speaking to 15,000 rail workers from balcony of Reich Chancellery, 4 Feb 1937; Government Secretary Hans-Heinrich Lammers and Minister of Transport Julius Heinrich Dorpmüller next to Hitler

Launching ceremony of Admiral Hipper, Blohm und Voss shipyard, Hamburg, Germany, 6 Feb 1937; note Wilhelm Gustloff in background	President of the House of Peers of the Japanese Diet Fumimaro Konoe at a press conference after receiving orders to form a new government, Tekigaiso residence, Tokyo, Japan, 2 Jun 1937

Carriers Enterprise (left) and Yorktown (right) under construction at Newport News, Virginia, United States, 8 Feb 1937	President of Boy Scouts of America Walter Head, US President Franklin Roosevelt, and Chief Scout Executive James West at the Oval Office, White House, Washington DC, United States, 8 Feb 1937