Guglielmo Marconi died on 20 July 1937 in Rome, aged 63. An Italian inventor born in Bologna, Marconi developed one of the first practical systems of wireless telegraphy. After experiments in Italy, he moved to Britain in 1896, where he patented his apparatus and set up a company that sold radio equipment, especially for ships. In 1901 he reported receiving a transatlantic signal in Newfoundland, sent from Cornwall, a milestone for long-distance radio communication. Marconi shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1909 with Karl Ferdinand Braun, and wireless sets helped save lives in sea disasters such as the sinking of the Titanic. In later years he became a supporter of Italian Fascism.
Before and after
- 23 June 1937Birth of Martti Ahtisaari
- from July 1937 to April 1945Construction of Buchenwald concentration camp
- from 7 July 1937 to 9 September 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
- from 7 July 1937 to 9 July 1937Marco Polo Bridge incident
- 20 July 1937Death of Guglielmo Marconi
- 28 August 1937Founding of Toyota
- 8 September 1937Bloudan Conference
- 21 September 1937Publication of The Hobbit
- 11 October 1937Birth of Bobby Charlton
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