1937

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1900s  1910s  1920s  – 1930s –  1940s  1950s  1960s
Years:	1934 1935 1936 – 1937 – 1938 1939 1940

1937 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1937 MCMXXXVII
Ab urbe condita	2690
Armenian calendar	1386 ԹՎ ՌՅՁԶ
Assyrian calendar	6687
Bahá'í calendar	93–94
Balinese saka calendar	1858–1859
Bengali calendar	1344
Berber calendar	2887
British Regnal year	1 Geo. 6 – 2 Geo. 6
Buddhist calendar	2481
Burmese calendar	1299
Byzantine calendar	7445–7446
Chinese calendar	丙子年 (Fire Rat) 4633 or 4573     — to — 丁丑年 (Fire Ox) 4634 or 4574
Coptic calendar	1653–1654
Discordian calendar	3103
Ethiopian calendar	1929–1930
Hebrew calendar	5697–5698
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1993–1994
- Shaka Samvat	1858–1859
- Kali Yuga	5037–5038
Holocene calendar	11937
Igbo calendar	937–938
Iranian calendar	1315–1316
Islamic calendar	1355–1356
Japanese calendar	Shōwa 12 (昭和１２年)
Javanese calendar	1867–1868
Juche calendar	26
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4270
Minguo calendar	ROC 26 民國26年
Nanakshahi calendar	469
Thai solar calendar	2479–2480
Tibetan calendar	阳火鼠年 (male Fire-Rat) 2063 or 1682 or 910     — to — 阴火牛年 (female Fire-Ox) 2064 or 1683 or 911

1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday in the Gregorian calendar.

Events

• American Ballet Theatre founded
• January 1 – Anastasio Somoza becomes President of Nicaragua
• January 11 – The first issue of Look magazine goes on sale in the United States.
• January 19 – Howard Hughes sets a new air record by flying from Los Angeles to New York City in 7 hours, 28 minutes and 25 seconds.
• January 23 – In Moscow, 17 leading Communists go on trial accused of participating in a plot led by Leon Trotsky to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime and assassinate its leaders.
• January 31 – Ohio River floods
• January 31 – 31 people executed in the Soviet Union for "Trotskyism"
• March 18 – 300 students and teachers die after an exploson is a caused by a gas leak at the New London school in Texas.
• May 7 – the German zeppelin (airship) LZ 129 Hindenburg catches fire, while trying to land in New Jersey.
• October - Dominican Republic dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina orders the execution of the Haitian population living within its borderlands with Haiti, resulting in the Parsley Massacre.
• December 21 – Walt Disney's first full length feature film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, is premiered at Carthay Circle Theater.

Births

• January 8 - Shirley Bassey, Welsh singer
• January 30 - Vanessa Redgrave, English actress
• February 21 - King Harald V of Norway
• March 20 – Jerry Reed, American musician (d. 2008)
• April 6 – Billy Dee Williams, American actor
• April 28 - Saddam Hussein, Iraqi leader (d. 2006)
• May 14 - Ferd Hugas, Dutch actor and screenwriter (d. 2025)
• July 18 – Hunter S. Thompson, American writer and journalist (d. 2005)
• December 21 – Jane Fonda, American actress
• December 30 - Gordon Banks, English footballer
• December 31 - Anthony Hopkins, Welsh actor

Hit songs

• "Sweet Leilani" – by Harry Owens, from the movie Waikiki Wedding, won the Academy Award for the best song.