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| 1937 |
| | | Congress passes a Neutrality Act, to prevent US aid being given to belligerent nations | |
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| 1937 |
| | | Congress rejects President Roosevelt's proposed reform of the US Supreme Court, amid furious accusations that he is trying to pack the Court with his nominees | |
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| 1937 |
| | | Neville Chamberlain follows Baldwin as prime minister at the head of the UK's National government | |
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| 1937 |
| | | The Golden Gate Bridge, linking San Francisco and Marin County, is the world's longest suspension bridge with a main span of 4200 feet (1280m) | |
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| 1937 |
| | | John Steinbeck publishes Of Mice and Men, a novel about two itinerant farm labourers in California | |
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| 1937 |
| | | Under Nazi influence the University of Bonn deprives Thomas Mann of his honorary doctorate, which is restored to him in 1946 | |
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| 1937 |
| | | German-born British scientist Hans Krebs discovers the biochemical cycle that becomes known by his name | |
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| 1937 |
| | | Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller is arrested for defying the Nazis and spends the next eight years in concentration camps | |
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| 1937 |
| | | Amelia Earhart and her navigator vanish somewhere over the Pacific four weeks into their attempt to fly round the world | |
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| 1937 |
| | | Danish author Karen Blixen publishes her autobiographical novel Out of Africa | |
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