Editing 1937 (section)

===February===
{{Main|February 1937}}
* [[February 8]] – [[Spanish Civil War]]: Falangist troops take [[Málaga]].
* [[February 8]]–[[February 27|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.<ref>{{US patent|2071250}} "Linear Condensation Polymers", filed July 1931, issued February 1937</ref>
* [[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 [[Eritrea]]n 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, Ethiopia|Danan]] and slaughtering almost 300 monks at the [[Debre Libanos]] Monastery.
** The red, white and blue colours of the [[flag of the Netherlands]] are confirmed by royal decree.<ref>Wilhelmina en De Minister van Staat, Minister van Koloniën, Voorzitter van den Raad van Ministers (19 februari 1937): [https://web.archive.org/web/20170905235449/http://www.koenigsbanner.de/fotw/flags/nl.html Koninklijk Besluit nr. 93, Zell am See].</ref>
* [[February 21]] – The [[League of Nations]] [[Non-Intervention Committee]] prohibits foreign nationals from fighting in the Spanish Civil War.
* [[February 25]] – [[Hergé]]'s [[Tintin (character)|Tintin]] adventure ''[[The Broken Ear]]'' (''L'Oreille cassée'') concludes serialization in the Belgian weekly newspaper supplement ''[[Le Petit Vingtième]]'', and soon afterwards is published as a book in black and white.