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1937
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January 1937
January 1 – Anastasio Somoza García becomes President of Nicaragua.
January 5 – Water levels begin to rise in the Ohio River in the United States, leading to the Ohio River flood of 1937, which continues into February, leaving 1 million people homeless and 385 people dead.
January 15 – Spanish Civil War: Second Battle of the Corunna Road ends inconclusively.
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 that the United States presidential inauguration occurs on this date; 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.
February 1937
February 8 – Spanish Civil War: Falangist troops take Málaga.
February 8 – February 27 – Spanish Civil War – Battle of Jarama: Nationalist and Republican troops fight to a stalemate.
February 16 – Wallace H. Carothers receives a patent for nylon in the United States.
February 19
Airliner VH-UHH (Stinson) goes down over Lamington National Park, bound for Sydney, killing 5 people.
Yekatit 12: During a public ceremony at the Viceregal Palace (the former Imperial residence) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, two Eritrean nationalists attempt to kill viceroy Rodolfo Graziani with a number of grenades. Italian security guards fire into the crowd of Ethiopian onlookers. Authorities exact further reprisals, which include indiscriminately slaughtering native Ethiopians over the next 3 days, detaining thousands of Ethiopians at Danan and slaughtering almost 300 monks at the Debre Libanos Monastery.
The flag of the Netherlands is officially adopted.
February 20 – Roberto Ortiz is elected president of Argentina.
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