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Events

January 1 - Anastasio Somoza becomes President of Nicaragua
January 9 - The first issue of Look magazine goes on sale in the United States.
February 11 - A sit-down strike ends when General Motors recognises the United Automobile Workers Union
World War II starts in Asia with invasions by Japan
Koh-i-Noor diamond last known to be worn in public
May 6 - In United States, the German airship Hindenburg bursts into flame when mooring to a mast in Lakehurst.
May 12 - Coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth
July 7 - Battle of Lugou Bridge officially marked large-scale Japanese invasion of China
December 13 - Battle of Nanjing ended as the Japanese took the city and began 3 months of atrocities
December 28 - The Irish Free State becomes the Republic of Ireland.

Art, Culture & Fashion

1937 in film
- The Life of Emile Zola
- A Star Is Born
- Snow White, first feature-length animated movie
1937 in literature
- Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
1937 in music
1937 in sports
- January 1 - The first Cotton Bowl game is played in Dallas, Texas
1937 in television
- May - Gilbert Seldes becomes the first television critic, with his Atlantic Monthly article, the "Errors of Television".
- May 15 - RCA demonstrates projection television, with images enlarged to 8 by 10 feet, at the Institute of Radio Engineers convention.
- CBS announces their efforts to develope television broadcasts

Births

January 4 - Dyan Cannon, actress
January 8 - Shirley Bassey, singer
February 11 - Bill Lawry, Australian cricket player.
- - Lodewijk Boer, Dutch violinist/playwright.
- - Marilyn Butler, Rector of Exeter College, Oxford University.
- - Peter Lashley, West Indies cricket player.
May 13 - Roch Carrier, Canadian author of fiction
July 6 - Vladimir Ashkenazy, pianist
August 8 - Dustin Hoffman, American actor
August 18 - Robert Redford, American actor
November 17 - Peter Cook, comedian, satirist and writer
J. M. Barrie, novelist and dramatist

Deaths