Outbreak of riots and civil disturbances

1937-38 Soviet ethnic cleansing of Poles

Mass arrests and executions of Estonians in the USSR

1937 battle of the Second Sino-Japanese War

1937 part of the Spanish Civil War

EuroBasket 1937 — 1937 edition of Eurobasket

Parliamentary revolt in Canada

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

9th Academy Awards — award ceremony presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences for achievement in filmmaking in 1936