January 1, 1937 – Safety glass in vehicle windscreens becomes mandatory in the United Kingdom.

January 19, 1937 – Howard Hughes sets a new air record by flying from Los Angeles, California to New York City in 7 hours, 28 minutes, 25 seconds.

February 11, 1937 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Ox in Chinese astrology.

March 21, 1937 – Ponce Massacre: 18 people and a 7-year-old girl in Ponce, Puerto Rico, are gunned down by a police squad acting under orders of US-appointed Governor, Blanton C. Winship.

July 8, 1937 – Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan sign the Treaty of Saadabad.

July 24, 1937 – Alabama drops rape charges against the so-called “Scottsboro Boys”.

August 1, 1937 – Josip Broz Tito reads the resolution “Manifesto of constitutional congress of KPH” to the constitutive congress of KPH (Croatian Communist Party) in woods near Samobor.

August 2, 1937 – The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 is passed in America, the effect of which is to render marijuana and all its by-products illegal.

August 14, 1937 – Chinese Air Force Day: The beginning of air-to-air combat of the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II in general, when 6 Imperial Japanese Mitsubishi G3M bombers are shot down by the Nationalist Chinese Air Force while raiding Chinese air bases.

September 21, 1937 – J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit is published.

January 19, 1937 – John Lions, Australian computer scientist (d. 1998)

February 25, 1937 – Barbara Piasecka Johnson, widow of John Seward Johnson I

March 4, 1937 – Leslie Gelb, American foreign policy advisor

March 24, 1937 – Billy Stewart, American singer (d. 1970)

May 15, 1937 – Madeleine Albright, American Secretary of State

June 16, 1937 – Erich Segal, American author (d. 2010)

July 12, 1937 – Robert McFarlane, Security Advisor to President Ronald Reagan, from 1983 through 1985.

July 22, 1937 – John Price, English cricketer

November 4, 1937 – Michael Wilson, Canadian politician

December 30, 1937 – John Hartford, American musician (d. 2001)