the Nyon Conference, led by the United Kingdom and France, to address international piracy in the Mediterranean. September 17 – Abraham Lincoln's head is dedicated at Mount Rushmore. September 19 – Swiss professional ice hockey club HC Ambrì-Piotta is founded. September 21 – George Allen & Unwin, Ltd. of London publishes the first edition of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit. September 25 – Second Sino-Japanese War - Battle of Pingxingguan: The Communist Chinese Eighth Route Army defeats the Japanese. September 27 – The last Bali tiger dies. September 30 – Austrian born actress of Jewish descent, Hedy Lamarr arrives in New York City to flee from her possessive husband Friedrich Mandl who made arms agreements with the Nazis, and to begin her Hollywood career. October October 1 The Marihuana Tax Act becomes law in the United States. October 2–8 – Parsley Massacre: Under the orders of President Rafael Trujillo, Dominican troops kill thousands of Haitians living in the Dominican Republic. October 3 – Second Sino-Japanese War: Japanese troops advance toward Nanking, capital of the Republic of China. October 5 – Roosevelt gives his famous Quarantine Speech in Chicago. October 9 – Jimmie Angel lands his plane on top of Devil's Mountain; however, the plane gets damaged, and he has to trek through the rainforest for help. October 11 – Duke and Duchess of Windsor's 1937 tour of Germany: The Duke and Duchess of Windsor arrive in Berlin to begin a 12-day tour of Nazi Germany, meeting Adolf Hitler on the 22nd. October 13 – Germany, in a note to Brussels, guarantees the inviolability and integrity of Belgium, so long as the latter abstains from military action against Germany. October 15 – Ernest Hemingway's novel To Have and Have Not is first published, in the United States. October 18–October 21 – Spanish Civil War: The whole Spanish northern seaboard falls into the Falangists' hands; Republican forces in Gijón, Spain, set fire to petrol reserves, prior to retreating before the advancing Falangists. October 23 – 1937 Australian federal election: Joseph Lyons' UAP/Country Coalition Government is re-elected with a slightly increased majority, defeating the Labor Party led by John Curtin. October 25 – Celâl Bayar forms the new (ninth) government of Turkey. November November 5 – World War II: In the Reich Chancellery, Adolf Hitler holds a secret meeting and states his plans for acquiring "living space" for the German people (recorded