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| 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 | མེ་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་ (male Fire-Rat) 2063 or 1682 or 910 — to — མེ་མོ་གླང་ལོ་ (female Fire-Ox) 2064 or 1683 or 911 |
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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.