1937

Anastasio Somoza García becomes President of Nicaragua.

Airliner VH-UHH (Stinson) goes down over Lamington National Park, bound for Sydney, killing 5 people.

Aden becomes a British crown colony.

Wydad Athletic Club (WAC)(Arabic: نادي الوداد الرياضي; Berber: Wydad Dar al-Beida; commonly: Wydad al ouma) is established in Casablanca, Morocco; it will be best known for its Casablanca Association football team.

Wallis Simpson marries the Duke of Windsor, the former Edward VIII, in France.

The Peel Commission proposes partition of the British Mandate of Palestine into separate Arab and Jewish states.

The Soviet Union commences one of the largest campaigns of the Great Purge, to "eliminate anti-Soviet elements". Within the following year, at least 724,000 people are fired on order of the troikas, directed by Joseph Stalin. This is an offensive that targets social classes (such as the kulaks or nobles) and Stalin's personal opponents from the Communist Party and their sympathizers.

The Great Hong Kong Typhoon kills an estimated 11,000 persons.

The last recorded Bali tiger dies.

Germany, in a note to Brussels, guarantees the inviolability and integrity of Belgium so long as the latter abstains from military action against Germany.

The Kogushi Sulfur Mine collapse, in western Gunma, Japan, kills at least 245 people.

Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the world's first feature-length cel animated film, premieres at the Carthay Circle Theatre in Los Angeles.