Editing 1937 (section)

===January===
{{Main|January 1937}}
[[File:Howard Hughes.jpg|thumb|130px|right| [[January 19]]: [[Howard Hughes]] sets record.]]
[[File:The Second Moscow Trial.jpg|thumb|200px|The Second Moscow Trial]]
* [[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&nbsp;million people homeless and 385 people dead.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://kyclim.wku.edu/factSheets/ohioRiver.htm |title=Fact Sheet: Ohio River Floods |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080604134934/http://kyclim.wku.edu/factSheets/ohioRiver.htm |publisher=[[Western Kentucky University]] |archive-date=June 4, 2008 |access-date=August 10, 2015}}</ref>
* [[January 15]] – [[Spanish Civil War]]: The [[Second Battle of the Corunna Road]] ends inconclusively.<ref>{{cite book | title = The Spanish Civil War | author = Thomas, Hugh| year = 2001 | publisher =Penguin Books |page=480}}</ref>
* [[January 23]] – [[Moscow Trials]]: Trial of the Anti-Soviet Trotskyist Center – In the [[Soviet Union]] 17 leading [[Communist]]s go on trial, accused of participating in a plot led by [[Leon Trotsky]] to overthrow [[Joseph Stalin]]'s regime, and assassinate its leaders.
* [[January 30]] – The Moscow Trial initiated on January 23 is concluded. Thirteen of the defendants are [[Capital punishment|sentenced to death]] (including [[Georgy Pyatakov]], [[Nikolay Muralov]] and [[Leonid Serebryakov]]), while the rest, including [[Karl Radek]] and [[Grigory Sokolnikov]] are sent to [[Gulag|labor camps]] and later murdered. They were initially spared for implicating others, including [[Alexei Rykov|Rykov]], [[Nikolai Bukharin|Bukharin]] and [[Mikhail Tukhachevsky|Tukhachevsky]], setting the stage for further trials<ref>[[Andrey Vyshinsky]] [http://neworleans.media.indypgh.org/uploads/2007/02/the.treason.case.18feb07.pdf1xudb8.pdf The Treason Case Summed Up] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303190129/http://neworleans.media.indypgh.org/uploads/2007/02/the.treason.case.18feb07.pdf1xudb8.pdf |date=2016-03-03 }} April 1938 (in English)</ref>