Editing 1937 (section)

===July===
{{Main|July 1937}}
[[File:Earhart.jpg|thumb|[[July 2]]: [[Amelia Earhart]] disappears from [[New Guinea]].]]
[[File:Diagram of the 1937 Fox vault fire.jpg|thumb|[[July 9]]: The silent film archives of [[Fox Film Corporation]] are destroyed by the [[1937 Fox vault fire]].]]
* [[July 1]]
** The [[Gestapo]] arrests pastor [[Martin Niemöller]] in Germany.
** In a referendum the people of the [[Irish Free State]] accept the new Constitution by 685,105 votes to 527,945.
* [[July 2]] – [[Amelia Earhart]] and navigator [[Fred Noonan]] disappear after taking off from [[New Guinea]], during Earhart's attempt to become the first woman to fly around the world.<ref>{{cite web |title=Amelia Earhart {{!}} Biography, Disappearance, & Facts |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Amelia-Earhart |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=12 December 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[July 7]]
** In the [[Marco Polo Bridge Incident]], Japanese and Chinese forces exchange fire near Beijing, beginning the [[Second Sino-Japanese War]].
** The [[Peel Commission]] proposes partition of the [[Mandatory Palestine|British Mandate of Palestine]] into separate Arab and Jewish states.<ref>{{cite book|title=League of Nations Mandates – Palestine: Report of the Palestine Royal Commission |url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/peel1.html|access-date=2012-03-08 |date=July 1937}}</ref>
* [[July 9]] – [[1937 Fox vault fire]]: The silent film archives of [[Fox Film Corporation]] are destroyed
* [[July 20]] – The [[Geibeltbad Pirna]] water sports facility is opened in [[Dresden]], Germany.
* [[July 21]] – [[Éamon de Valera]] is elected [[President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State|President of the Executive Council]] (prime minister) of the [[Irish Free State]], by the [[Dáil]] (parliament).
* [[July 22]] – [[New Deal]]: The [[United States Senate]] votes down President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]'s proposal to add more justices to the [[Supreme Court of the United States]].
* [[July 25]]–[[July 31|31]] – [[Second Sino-Japanese War|Sino-Japanese War]]: [[Battle of Beiping–Tianjin]], a series of actions fought around [[Beijing|Beiping]] and [[Tianjin]], result in Japanese victory.
* [[July 29]] – [[Tongzhou Mutiny]]: Units of the [[East Hebei Army]] mutiny and kill Japanese troops and civilians in [[Tongzhou District, Beijing|Tongzhou]].
* [[July 31]] – [[NKVD Order No. 00447]] "Об операции по репрессированию бывших кулаков, уголовников и других антисоветских элементов" ("The operation for repression of former [[kulak]]s, criminals and other anti-Soviet elements") is approved by the [[About the anti-Soviet elements|decision of the Politbureau of the CC of the VKP(b)]] of the [[Soviet Union]], initially as a 4-month plan for 75,950 people to be executed and an additional 193,000 to be sent to the [[Gulag]].