January 1, 1937
Mass arrests and executions of Estonians in the USSR
1937 part of the Spanish Civil War
Parliamentary revolt in Canada
1937-38 Soviet ethnic cleansing of Poles
World Chess Championship 1937 — 1937 chess championship in the Netherlands
1937 South American Championship — football tournament
Nanjing Massacre — 1937 mass murder by the Japanese army
1937 battle of the Second Sino-Japanese War
9th Academy Awards — award ceremony presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences for achievement in filmmaking in 1936
1937 naval battle of the Spanish Civil War