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Taym for turn 4! (jan 1937)


 * January – February – The Ohio River flood of 1937 takes place, leaving 1 million people homeless and 385 people dead.
 * January 1 – Anastasio Somoza García becomes President of Nicaragua.
 * January 11 – The first issue of Look magazine goes on sale in the United States.
 * January 15 – Spanish Civil War: Second Battle of the Corunna Road (begun 13 December 1936) concludes with both sides withdrawing.
 * January 19 – Howard Hughes establishes a record by flying from Los Angeles to New York City in 7 hours, 28 minutes and 25 seconds.
 * 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 Inauguration Day in the United States is on this date, on which it continues to occur; 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 seventeen 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.
 * January 26 – Michigan celebrates its centennial anniversary as a U.S. state.
 * January 30 – Ingrid Christensen becomes the first woman to set foot on the continent of Antarctica.
 * January 31 – The Soviet Union executes 31 people for alleged Trotskyism.

Wars:

Italy-uruguay war: Italian victory in uruguay

British-italian war: britain declares war for italy's occupation of malta, british troops slowyt take over italian african lands