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Events on Friday 11 June 1937 2
1937 – 2024Robin Warren (1937-2024)Died 23 July 2024, aged 87Australian pathologist who shared the 2005 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for showing that bacteria cause stomach ulcers.
1937Tukhachevsky and Red Army commanders executedStalin's purge reaches the military high commandMarshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky and seven other senior Red Army commanders were convicted of treason in a secret trial and shot the next day. Their deaths began a purge that removed much of the Soviet officer corps.