Editing 1937 (section)

== Events ==
* January 1 - [[Anastasio Somoza García]] becomes President of Nicaragua.
* January 8 - The Cuban government places certain gambling operations under the control of future Cuban President Colonel [[Fulgencio Batista]]. Batista then allows New York mobster [[Meyer Lansky]] and his associates to open the first syndicate casinos in Havana.
* January 8 - The [[Murder of Pamela Werner|severely mutilated body of Pamela Werner]], daughter of British diplomat E.T.C. Werner, is found near the Fox Tower in Beijing, China. No suspects have ever been found, but the strongest theory is that the murder was a political assassination carried out by the [[Kuomintang]] (though this is never proven.) 
* February 19 to 21 - [[Rodolfo Graziani]] orders the [[Yekatit 12]] to be carried out following a failed assassination attempt on him. An estimated 19,200 to 30,000 Ethiopian civilians are killed in and around Addis Ababa as part of the massacres. End of the Second Italo-Ethiopian War.
* March 21 - The [[Ponce Massacre]] takes place.
* April 13 - African-American men Roosevelt Townes and Robert McDaniels are both brutally [[Lynching|lynched]] in Duck Hill, Mississippi after being falsely accused for murdering a white shopkeeper. 
* April 19 - [[Francisco Franco]] becomes leader of the [[Falange de las J.O.N.S]].
* April 26 - The [[Bombing of Guernica]] is carried out in Spain, by the Condor Legion of the [[Nazi Party]]'s ''Luftwaffe'', in support of the Francoists. Three-quarters of the town is destroyed and hundreds are killed.
* June 4 - [[Fumimaro Konoe]] is named Prime Minister of Japan.
* July 7 - The [[Imperial Japan|Empire of Japan]] launches an invasion of the Republic of China. Beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War.
* July 28 - The [[Irish Republican Army]] attempts the assassination by bomb of King George VI in Belfast.
* August 7 - The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 is signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, after being proposed by Federal Bureau of Narcotics Commissioner [[Harry J. Anslinger]].
* September 22 - The Chinese Soviet Republic is formally dissolved.
* October 2 to 8 - The [[Parsley Massacre]] takes place when President [[Rafael Trujillo]] orders Dominican troops kill thousands of Haitians living in the Dominican Republic.
* December 13 - Beginning of the [[Rape of Nanking]].