1937

June 9

Citizens War Memorial unveiled in Cathedral Square.

(no date)

Austrian refugee Dr. (now Sir) Karl Popper begins lectureship in philosophy at Canterbury University. He remained until the end of W.W.II. He is regarded today as one of the world’s leading philosophers of science.

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