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Year 1932 ( MCMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1932 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.
Events of 1932
January
January 12 - Hattie W. Caraway becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate.
January 14 - Maurice Ravel's Concerto in G (Ravel) debuts with piano soloist Marguerite Long and Ravel conducting the Lamoureux Orchestra.
January 15 - About 6 million are unemployed in Germany.
January 26 - British submarine HMS M2 sinks with all 50 hands.
January 28 - Japan occupies Shanghai.
January 29 - Minority government of Karl Mureschi in Austria ends the governmental crisis.
January 31 - Japanese warships arrive in Nanking.
February
February 2
February 4 - 1932 Winter Olympics open in Lake Placid, New York. Japan occupies Harbin, China.
February 11 - Pope Pius XI meets Benito Mussolini in the Vatican City.
February 15 - Clara, Lu & Em, generally regarded as the first daytime network soap opera, debuts in its morning time slot over the Blue Network of NBC Radio, having originally been a late evening program.
February 18 - Japan declares Manzhouguo (Japanese name for Manchuria) formally independent from China.
February 25 - Adolf Hitler obtains German citizenship by naturalization, opening the opportunity for him to run in the 1932 election for Reichspräsident.
February 27 - Mäntsälä Rebellion occurs in Finland.
March
March 1 - Charles Augustus Lindbergh III, the infant son of Anne Morrow Lindbergh and Charles Lindbergh is kidnapped.
March 9 - Eamon de Valera is elected President of the Executive Council. It is the first change of government in the Irish Free State in 10 years.
March 18 - Peace negotiations between China and Japan begin.
March 19 - Sydney Harbour Bridge opens.
March 20 - Graf Zeppelin begins a regular route to South America.
March 25 - Tarzan the Ape Man opens, with Olympic gold medal swimmer Johnny Weissmuller in the title role. Weismuller starred in a total of 12 Tarzan films.
April
April - 10 000 disgruntled Newfoundlanders march on their legislature to show discontent with their current political situation; this was a flash point in the demise of the Dominion of Newfoundland.
April - Kreuger & Toll, the company of the "Match King" Ivar Kreuger, collapses; he commits suicide shortly afterwards.
April 5 - Prohibition is lifted in Finland at 10 in the morning (local time), resulting in a new mnemonic "543210".
April 6
April 10 - Paul von Hindenburg is elected president of Germany.
April 17 - Haile Selassie announces an anti-slavery law in Abyssinia.
April 19 - German art dealer Otto Wacker is sentenced to 19 months in prison for selling fraudulent paintings he attributed to Vincent van Gogh.
April 25 - Two of the companions of the Islam's Last Prophet Muhammad were moved from their graves upon informing of water in the graves in the dream of King Faisal of Iraq in Salmaan Paak, Iraq. Their names were Hazrat Hudhayfah ibn al-Yaman and Hazrat Jabir ibn Abd-Allah.
May
May 2 - Comedian Jack Benny's radio show airs for the first time.
May 6 - Paul Gorguloff assassinates French president Paul Doumer in Paris - Doumer dies the next day.
May 10 - Albert Lebrun becomes the new president of France.
May 12 - Ten weeks after his abduction, the infant son of Charles Lindbergh is found dead in Hopewell, New Jersey just a few miles from the Lindbergh's home.
May 13 - The Premier of New South Wales, Jack Lang, is dismissed by the State Governor, Sir Phillip Game.
May 15 - Japanese troops leave Shanghai; May 15 Incident, the assassination of Japanese prime minister Tsuyoshi Inukai, occurs.
May 16 - Massive riots between Hindus and Muslims in Bombay - thousands dead and injured.
May 20-21 - Amelia Earhart flies from USA to Derry, Northern Ireland in 14 hours 54 minutes.
May 30 - German chancellor Heinrich Brüning resigns. President Hindenburg takes Franz von Papen to form a new government.
June
June - 15,000 World War I veterans march in Washington, DC.
June 4 - Military coup occurs in Chile.
June 6 - The Revenue Act of 1932 is enacted, creating the first gas tax in the United States at 1 cent per US gallon (0.26 ¢/L) sold.
June 14 - Bans against SS and SA overturned in Germany.
June 20 - Benelux customs union is negotiated.
June 24 - After a relatively bloodless military rebellion, Siam becomes a constitutional monarchy.
July
July 1 - ABC (Australian Broadcasting Commission) is established.
July 5 - Antonio de Oliveira Salazar becomes the fascist prime minister of Portugal (for the next 36 years).
July 7 - French submarine Sromethee sinks off Cherbourg - 66 dead.
July 8 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level of the Great Depression, bottoming out at 41.22.
July 12
July 17 - Bloody Sunday of Altona in Germany - armed communists attack a national socialist demonstration - 18 dead. Many other political street fights follow.
July 28 - US President Herbert Hoover orders the United States Army to forcibly evict the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans gathered in Washington, DC. US troops dispersed the last of the "Bonus Army" the next day.
July 30 - 1932 Summer Olympics open in Los Angeles.
August
August 1 - Beginning of the second International Polar Year, an international scientific collaboration.
August 2 - First positron is discovered by Carl D. Anderson.
August 6 - First Venice Film Festival is held.
August 10 - A 5.1 kg chondrite-type meteorite broke into at least seven fragments and struck earth near the town of Archie in Cass County, Missouri.
August 18 - Auguste Piccard reaches altitude of 16,197 meters with an air balloon.
August 30 - Hermann Göring is elected as a chairman of German senate.
August 31 - Total solar eclipse visible from northern Canada through NE Vermont, New Hampshire, SW Maine, and the Capes of Massachusetts.
September
September 9 - The Generalitat reinstaurated, Catalonia regains political autonomy inside the 2nd Spanish Republic from September 25.
September 11 - Canadian operations end on the Great Gorge and International Railway.
September 18 - Actress Peg Entwistle commits suicide jumping from the letter H of the (then) "Hollywoodland" sign.
September 20 - Mohandas Gandhi begins a hunger strike in Poona prison.
September 23 - The Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd is renamed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
September 28 - According to Prussian statistics, 115 people have been killed in political riots during the year.
October
October 15
October 19 - Wedding of Prince Gustav Adolf of Sweden and Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
November
November 1 - San Francisco Opera House opens.
November 7 - Buck Rogers in the 25th Century airs on radio for the first time.
November 8 - U.S. presidential election, 1932: Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats Herbert Hoover in a landslide victory.
November 9
November 16 - New York City's Palace Theatre fully converted to a cinema, which is considered the final death knell of vaudeville as a popular entertainment in the United States.
November 19 - Second wife of Josef Stalin is found dead in her home.
November 21 - German president Hindenburg begins negotiations with Adolf Hitler about the formation of a new government.
November 24 - In Washington, DC, the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens.
November 30 - The Cipher Bureau broke the German Enigma cipher.
December
December 3 - Hindenburg names Kurt von Schleicher as a German chancellor.
December 12 - Japan and Soviet Union reform their diplomatic connections.
December 25 - Earthquake in the Kansu Province in China: 70,000 dead.
December 27 - Radio City Music Hall opens in New York City.
Undated
Female suffrage granted in Brazil.
Beginning of the Chaco War between Bolivia and Paraguay.
Mars Bar is sold for the first time.
Zippo lighters are developed.
Zero-length springs are invented, revolutionizing seismometers and gravimeters.
The Kennedy-Thorndike experiment shows that measured time as well as length are affected by motion, in accordance with the theory of special relativity.
Chadwick discovers the neutron.
Geneticist J. B. S. Haldane publishes The Causes of Evolution and thereby unifies the findings of Mendelian genetics with those of evolutionary science.
Republican Citizens Committee Against National Prohibition established for repeal of prohibition in U.S.
Prontosil, the first oral antibiotic, is discovered by Gerhard Domagk, but no publication occurs until 1935.
York House School is founded in Vancouver, BC
Aldous Huxley publishes his most famous novel Brave New World
Births
January-February
January 1 - Tzaims Luksus, American artist and fashion designer
January 3
January 5
January 6 - Stuart A. Rice, American chemist
January 13 - Joseph Cardinal Zen, Catholic Bishop of Hong Kong
January 16 - Dian Fossey, American zoologist (d. 1985)
January 18 - Robert Anton Wilson, American author
January 22 - Piper Laurie, American actress
January 25 - Nikolay Anikin, Soviet cross-country skier
January 26 - Coxsone Dodd, Jamaican record producer (d. 2004)
January 29
January 30 - Knock Yokoyama, Japanese comedian and politician
February 1 - John Nott, British polictian
February 3 - Peggy Ann Garner, American actress (d. 1984)
February 6 - François Truffaut, French film director (d. 1984)
February 7 - Gay Talese, American author
February 8 - John Williams, American composer and conductor
February 9 - Gerhard Richter, German painter
February 11
February 12 - Julian Lincoln Simon, American economist and author (d. 1998)
February 14 - Alexander Kluge, German author and film director
February 16 - Harry Goz, American actor (d. 2003)
February 18 - Miloš Forman, Czech film director
February 22 - Edward Kennedy, American politician
February 23 - Majel Barrett, American actress
February 24 - Michel Legrand, French composer
February 25 - Faron Young American singer (d. 1996)
February 26 - Johnny Cash, American singer (d. 2003)
February 27 - Elizabeth Taylor, English-born actress
February 28 - Don Francks, Canadian actor
March-April
March 4
March 12
March 16 - Don Blasingame, Major League Baseball player and Japanese baseball manager (d. 2005)
March 18 - John Updike, American author
March 21 - Walter Gilbert, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
March 25 - Gene Shalit, American film critic
March 30 - Ted Morgan, French-born author, biographer, and journalist
April 1
April 2 - Michael Vernon, Australian consumer activist (d.1993)
April 4
April 8 - Baginda Almutawakkil Alallah Sultan Iskandar Al-Haj ibni Almarhum Sultan Ismail, King of Malaysia
April 9
April 11 - Joel Grey, American actor
April 12
April 21 - Elaine May, American movie director
April 23 - Halston, American fashion designer (d. 1990)
April 25 - William Roache, British actor (Coronation Street)
April 26 - Michael Smith, English-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2000)
April 27
May-June
May 7
May 8
May 19 - Alma Cogan, English singer (d. 1966)
May 25
June 4
June 9 - Jack Imel, American singer
June 12 - Rona Jaffe, American novelist (d. 2005)
June 15 - Mario Cuomo, American politician
June 18
June 22 - Prunella Scales, English Actress
June 25 - Peter Blake, English artist
June 27 - Anna Moffo, American soprano (d. 2006)
June 28 - Pat Morita, American actor (d. 2005)
June 29 - Brian Hutton, Baron Hutton, British Law Lord
July-August
July 2 - Dave Thomas, American fast-food entrepreneur (d. 2002)
July 4 - Otis Young, African-American actor (d. 2001)
July 7 - Eileen Lemass, Irish politician
July 9 - Donald Rumsfeld, U.S. Secretary of Defense
July 12 - Otis Davis, American runner
July 16 - Tim Asch, Anthropologist, photographer and ethnographic filmmaker
July 21 - Ernie Warlick, American football player
July 29 - Nancy Landon Kassebaum Baker, U.S. Senator
August 1 - Meena Kumari, Indian actress (d. 1972)
August 2
August 6 - Howard Hodgkin, British painter and print-maker
August 7 - Dr. Maurice Rabb, Jr., African American ophthalmologist
August 8 - Mel Tillis, American singer
August 11 - Fernando Arrabal, Moroccan-born writer
August 12 - Charlie O'Donnell, American game show announcer
August 17 - V. S. Naipaul, West Indian-born writer, Nobel Prize laureate
August 18 - William R. Bennett, Premier of British Columbia
September-October
September 4 - Dinsdale Landen, British actor (d. 2003)
September 7 - Paul Getty, American-born philanthropist (d. 2003)
September 8 - Patsy Cline, American singer (d. 1963)
September 11 - Peter Anderson, English footballer
September 18 - Nikolai Rukavishnikov, cosmonaut (d. 2002)
September 22 - Algirdas Brazauskas, President of Lithuania
September 25
September 26
September 27 - Oliver E. Williamson, American economist
September 29 - Mehmood, Indian actor (d. 2004)
September 30 - Shintaro Ishihara, Japanese author and politician
October 4 - Milan Chvostek, Canadian television director
October 5 - Michael John Rogers, English ornithologist (d. 2006)
October 8 - Ray Reardon, Welsh snooker player
October 9 - David Plowden, American photographer
October 10 - Harry Smith, English footballer
October 11 - Dottie West, American singer/songwriter (d. 1991)
October 12 - Dick Gregory, American comedian and activist
October 13 - Jean Edward Smith, American political scientist and biographer
October 18 - Vytautas Landsbergis, Lithuanian politician
October 19 - Robert Reed, American actor (d. 1992)
October 20
October 24
October 25 - Harry Gregg, Irish footballer and football manager
October 27 - Sylvia Plath, American poet and author (d. 1963)
October 28 - Suzy Parker, American actress (d. 2003)
November-December
November 3 - Albert Reynolds, President of Ireland
November 4
November 11 - Germano Mosconi, Italian journalist
November 10 - Roy Scheider, American film actor
November 12 - Jerry Douglas, American actor
November 13 - Richard Mulligan, American actor (d. 2000)
November 15 -
November 18 - Yoyoy Villame, Philippine Novelty singer and movie actor (d. 2007)
November 20 - Richard Dawson, British-born comedian and game show host
November 22 - Robert Vaughn, American actor
November 29
December 2 - Manuel Puig, Argentinian writer (d. 1990)
December 5
December 6 - Don King, American boxing promoter
December 7
December 9 - Bill Hartack, American jockey
December 21 - Edward Hoagland, American essayist
December 24
December 28
date unknown
Deaths
January - June
January 8 - Eurosia Fabris, Italian Catholic Blessed (b. 1866)
January 13 - J. Ernest Mangnall, English football manager (b. 1866)
January 21 - Giles Lytton Strachey British writer and biographer (b. 1880)
January 24 - Sir Alfred Yarrow, English shipbuilder and philanthropist (b. 1842)
January 26 - William Wrigley Jr., U.S. chewing gum industrialist (b. 1861)
February 10 - Edgar Wallace, English novelist and screenwriter (b. 1875)
February 16 - Ferdinand Buisson, French pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1841)
March 1 - Frank Teschemacher, American musician (b. 1906)
March 6 - John Philip Sousa, American band leader, conductor, and composer (b. 1854)
March 7 - Aristide Briand, French statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1862)
March 14 - George Eastman, American inventor (b. 1854)
March 31 - Eben Byers, American steel tycoon and socialite (radiation poisoning) (b. 1880)
April 4 - Wilhelm Ostwald, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1853)
April 20 - Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician (b. 1858)
April 26 -
May 3 -
May 7 - Paul Doumer, President of France (assassinated) (b. 1857)
May 15 - Tsuyoshi Inukai, Prime Minister of Japan (assassinated) (b. 1855)
May 17 - Frederick C. Billard, Commandant of the United States Coast Guard (b. 1873)
May 22 - Lady Gregory, Irish writer and folklorist (b. 1852)
June 21 - Major Taylor, American cyclist (b. 1878)
July - December
July 2 - Manuel II of Portugal, last king of Portugal (b. 1889)
July 6 - Kenneth Grahame, English author (b. 1859)
July 7 - Henry Eyster Jacobs, American Lutheran theologian (b. 1844)
July 22 - Errico Malatesta, Italian Anarchist (b. 1853)
July 23 - Alberto Santos-Dumont, Brazilian aviation pioneer (b. 1873)
September 16 - Ronald Ross, English physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1857)
September 20 - Wovoka, Paiute visionary
September 23 - Jules Chéret, French poster designer (b. 1836)
October 5 - Christopher Brennan (b. 1870)
October 17 - Lucy Bacon, American painter (b. 1857)
December 19 - Yoon Bong-Gil, Korean resister against Japanese occupation of Korea (executed) (b. 1908)
Nobel prizes
Physics - Werner Karl Heisenberg
Chemistry - Irving Langmuir
Physiology or Medicine - Sir Charles Scott Sherrington, Edgar Douglas Adrian
Literature - John Galsworthy
Peace - not awarded
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