page_title: 1937
section_title: January
hierarchical_section_title: 1937 / Events / January
context_page_description: 1937 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1937th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 937th year of the 2nd millennium, the 37th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1930s decade.
context_section_description: January – February – The Ohio River flood of 1937 takes place, leaving 1 million people homeless and 385 people dead.
  January 1 – Anastasio Somoza García becomes President of Nicaragua.
  January 11 – The first issue of Look Magazine goes on sale in the United States.
  January 15 – Spanish Civil War: Second Battle of the Corunna Road (begun December 13, 1936) concludes with both sides withdrawing.
  January 19 – Howard Hughes establishes a record by flying from Los Angeles to New York City in 7 hours, 28 minutes and 25 seconds.
  January 20 – Second inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt: Franklin D. Roosevelt is sworn in for a second term as President of the United States. This is the first time Inauguration Day in the United States is on this date, on which it continues to occur; the change is due to the ratification in 1933 of the Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
  January 23 – Moscow Trials: Trial of the Anti-Soviet Trotskyist Center – In the Soviet Union 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 26 – Michigan celebrates its centennial anniversary as a U.S. state.
  January 31 – The Soviet Union executes 31 people for alleged Trotskyism.
caption: January 19: Howard Hughes sets record.
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