1932
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'''1932''' '''(MCMXXXII)''' is a leap year starting on Friday.
Events
January-February
January 3 - British arrest and intern Mohandas Gandhi and Vallabhbhai Patel
January 8 - In Britain the Archbishop of Canterbury forbids church remarriage of divorcees
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 - Pierre Laval forms a new government in France
January 15 - About 6 million unemployed in Germany
January 26 - British submarine M-2 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 2 - General convention of disarmament begins in Geneva
February 2 - League of Nations again recommends negotiations between the Republic of China and Japan
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 18 - Japan declares Manzhouguo (Japanese name for Manchuria) formally independent from China
February 27 - Adolf Hitler gains German citizenship prior to elections
February 27 - Mäntsälä Rebellion in Finland
March-April
March 1 - Charles Augustus Lindbergh III, the baby 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 5 - Prohibition is lifted in Finland at 10 in the morning (local time), inventing a new mnemonic "543210".
April 6 - U.S. president Herbert Hoover supports armament limitations
April 6 - Trial against fraudulent art dealer Otto Wacker begins in Berlin
April 10 - Paul von Hindenburg elected president of Germany. Adolf Hitler receives over 13 million votes.
April 17 - Haile Selassie announces an anti-slavery law in Abyssinia
April 19 - German art dealer Otto Wacker is sentenced for 19 months for selling art forgery|fraudulent paintings of Vincent van Gogh
May-June
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 (Australia)|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 Londonderry, 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 - 15,000 World War I veterans march in Washington, DC
June 4 - Military coup 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 negotiated
June 24 - After a relatively bloodless military rebellion, Thailand|Siam becomes a constitutional monarchy
July-October
July 1- ABC (Australian Broadcasting Commission) established
July 5 - António de Oliveira Salazar becomes the fascists prime minister of Portugal (for the next 36 years)
July 7 - French submarine Sromethee sinks off Cherbourg - 66 dead
July 12 - Hedley Verity establishes a new first-class cricket|first-class record by taking all ten wickets for only ten runs against Nottinghamshire on a pitch affected by a storm.
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, California|Los Angeles.
August 6 - First Venice Film Festival
August 10 - A 5.1 kilogram|kg chondrite type meteorite broke into at least seven fragments and struck earth near the town of Archie, Missouri|Archie in Cass County, Missouri.
August 18 - Auguste Piccard reaches altitude of 16.500 meters with an air balloon
August 30 - Hermann Göring 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 9 - The Generalitat reinstaurated, Catalonia regains political autonomy inside the Spain|2nd Spanish Republic from September 25
September 18 - Actress Peg Entwhistle commits suicide jumping from the letter H of the (then) Hollywoodland sign
September 20 - Mohandas Gandhi begins an hunger strike in Poona prison
September 28 - According to Prussian statistics, 115 people have been killed in political riots during the year
October 15 - Tata Airlines (later to become Air India) makes its first flight
October 19 - Wedding of Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten|Prince Gustav Adolf of Sweden and Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
November-December
November 1 - San Francisco Opera House opened
November 7 - ''Buck Rogers in the 25th Century'' airs on radio for the first time.
November 8 - U.S. presidential election, 1932: Franklin Delano Roosevelt|Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats Herbert Hoover in a landslide victory.
November 9 - Riots between conservative and socialist supporters in Switzerland - 12 dead, 60 injured
November 11 - Tornado and huge waves kills about thousand in Santa Crus del Sure in Cuba
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.
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 | Kansu Province in China - 70,000 dead
Unknown dates
Saudi Arabia is declared a unified nation with Ibn Saud as a king.
Female suffrage in Brazil
Norway annexes northern Greenland.
Chaco war between Bolivia and Paraguay
In the next five years, Dr. Morris Bolber and associates successfully murder and collect the insurance money for more than 30 victims.
Mars candy bar
Zippo lighters
Zero-length springs 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.
James Chadwick|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 evolution|evolutionary science.
IGY|Second Polar Year, an international scientific collaboration.
''Kreuger & Toll'' of the "Match King" Ivar Kreuger collapses - he commits suicide.
Republican Citizens Committee Against National Prohibition established for repeal of prohibition in U.S.
Births
January
January 3 - Dabney Coleman, American actor
January 3 - Coo Coo Marlin, American race car driver (d. 2005)
January 5 - Johnny Adams, American musician (d. 1998)
January 5 - Umberto Eco, Italian scholar and author
January 6 - Stuart A. Rice, American chemist
January 16 - Dian Fossey, American zoologist (d. 1985)
January 18 - Robert Anton Wilson, American author
January 22 - Piper Laurie, American actress
January 26 - Coxsone Dodd, Jamaican record producer (d. 2004)
January 29 - Tommy Taylor, English footballer (d. 1958)
January 30 - Knock Yokoyama, Japanese comedian and politician
February-March
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 (composer)|John Williams, American composer and conductor
February 9 - Gerhard Richter, German painter
February 11 - Jerome Lowenthal, American pianist
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 - Milos 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
March 4 - Miriam Makeba, South African singer
March 12 - Andrew Young, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
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 in Chemistry|Nobel Prize laureate
March 30 - Ted Morgan, French-born author, biographer, and journalist
April-July
April 1 - Gordon Jump, American television actor (d. 2003)
April 1 - Debbie Reynolds, American actress
April 2 - Michael Vernon, Australian consumer activist (d.1993)
April 4 - Anthony Perkins, American actor (d. 1992)
April 4 - Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian film director (d. 1986)
April 8 - Baginda Almutawakkil Alallah Sultan Iskandar Al-Haj ibni Almarhum Sultan Ismail, King of Malaysia
April 9 - Carl Perkins, American musician (d. 1998)
April 12 - Lakshman Kadirgamar, Sri Lankan politician (assassinated) (d. 2005)
April 12 - Tiny Tim, American musician (d. 1996)
April 23 - Halston, American fashion designer (d. 1990)
April 26 - Michael Smith (chemist)|Michael Smith, English-born chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2000)
April 27 - Casey Kasem, American disc jockey and voice actor
April 27 - Gian-Carlo Rota, Italian-born mathematician and philosopher (d. 1999)
May 8 - Phyllida Law, Scottish actress
May 8 - Sonny Liston, American boxer (d. 1970)
May 25 - John Gregory Dunne, American writer (d. 2003)
June 4 - John Drew Barrymore, American actor (d. 2004)
June 4 - Maurice Shadbolt, New Zealand writer (d. 2004)
June 12 - Rona Jaffe, American novelist
June 18 - Dudley R. Herschbach, American chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize laureate
June 18 - Geoffrey Hill, English poet
June 25 - Peter Blake (artist)|Peter Blake, English artist
June 27 - Anna Moffo, American soprano
June 28 - Pat Morita, American actor (d. 2005)
July 2 - Dave Thomas, American fast-food entrepreneur (d. 2002)
July 9 - Donald Rumsfeld, U.S. Secretary of Defense
July 12 - Otis Davis, American runner
July 21 - Ernie Warlick, American football player
July 29 - Nancy Kassebaum Baker|Nancy Landon Kassebaum Baker, U.S. Senator
August-December
August 1 - Meena Kumari, Indian actress
August 2 - Lamar Hunt, American sportsman
August 2 - Peter O'Toole, Irish-born actor
August 6 - Howard Hodgkin, British painter and print-maker
August 11 - Fernando Arrabal, Moroccan-born writer
August 17 - V. S. Naipaul, West Indian-born writer, Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize laureate
August 18 - William R. Bennett, Premier of British Columbia
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 18 - Nikolai Rukavishnikov, cosmonaut (d. 2002)
September 22 - Algirdas Brazauskas, President of Lithuania
September 25 - Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist (d. 1982)
September 26 - Richard Herd, American actor
September 26 - Dr. Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India
September 27 - Oliver E. Williamson , American economist
September 30 - Shintaro Ishihara, Japanese author and politician
October 19 - Robert Reed, American actor (d. 1992)
October 20 - Rosey Brown, American football playerr (d. 2004)
October 24 - Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize laureate
October 24 - Robert Mundell, Canadian economist, Nobel Prize in Economics|Nobel Prize laureate
October 28 - Suzy Parker, American actress (d. 2003)
November 3 - Albert Reynolds, President of Ireland
November 4 - Thomas Klestil, President of Austria (d. 2004)
November 4 - Noam Pitlik, American actor and director (d. 1999)
November 15 - Petula Clark, British singer, actress, and songwriter
November 20 - Richard Dawson, British-born game show host
November 29 - Jacques Chirac, President of France
December 2 - Manuel Puig, Argentinian writer (d. 1990)
December 5 - Sheldon Lee Glashow, American physicist
December 9 - Bill Hartack, American jockey
December 24 - Earl Dodge, American temperance movement leader
December 28 - Dhirubhai Ambani, Indian businessman (d. 2002)
December 28 - Dorsey Burnette, American singer (d. 1979)
December 28 - Roy Hattersley, British politician
Unknown dates
Mehmood, Indian actor (d. 2004)
Irene Jai Narayan, Fiji politician
Blaze Starr, American dancer
Deaths
January 21 - Giles Lytton Strachey British writer and biographer (b. 1880)
January 24 - Sir Alfred Yarrow, English shipbuilder and philanthropist (b. 1842)
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 in Chemistry|Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1853)
April 20 - Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician (b. 1858)
April 26 - Hart Crane, American poet (b. 1899)
April 26 - William Lockwood, English cricketer (b. 1868)
May 3 - Charles Fort, American researcher of the unusual (b. 1874)
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)
June 21 - Major Taylor, American cyclist (b. 1878)
July 6 - Kenneth Grahame, English author (b. 1859)
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)
December 19 - Yoon Bong-Gil, Korean resister against Japanese occupation of Korea (executed) (b. 1908)
Unknown date
Lucy Bacon, American painter
Nobel Prizes
Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics - Werner Heisenberg|Werner Karl Heisenberg
Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry - Irving Langmuir
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Physiology or Medicine - Sir Charles Scott Sherrington, Edgar Douglas Adrian
Nobel Prize in Literature|Literature - John Galsworthy
Nobel Peace Prize|Peace - not awarded
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