1932

Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century

Decades: 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s - 1930s - 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s

Years: 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 - 1932 - 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937

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Events

January 3 - British arrest and intern Mohandas Gandhi and Vallabhai 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 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 - 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 the citizenship of Germany prior to elections
February 27 - Mäntsälä Rebellion in Finland
March 1 - Charles Augustus Lindbergh III, the baby son of Anne Morrow Lindbergh and Charles Lindbergh is kidnapped
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
April 6 - U.S. president Herbert Hoover supports armament limitations
April 19 - Eamon de Valera elected as the prime minister of Irish Free State
April 10 - Marshall Hindenburg elected president of Germany. Adolf Hitler receives over 13 million votes.
April 17 - Haile Selassie announces an anti-slavery law in Abyssinia
May 6 - Paul Gordulof 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 16 - Massive riots between hindus and muslims in Bombay - thousands dead and injured.
May 18 - Assassination of Japanese prime minister Tsuyoshi Inukai
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 14 - Bans against SS and SA overturned in Germany
June 20 - Benelux customs union negotiated
June 24 - after a relatively bloodless military rebellion, Siam becomes a constitutional monarchy
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 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.
August 6 - first Venice Film Festival
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 2nd Spanish Republic from September 25
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 19 - Wedding of Prince Gustav Adolf of Sweden and Princess Sibylla of Sachse-Coburg
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 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 Kansu province in China - 70,000 dead
Saudi Arabia declared as a unified nation with Abdul Aziz 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
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.
Electronic microscope
Second Polar Year, an international scientific collaboration.

Year in topic

1932 in film
- Grand Hotel
- Shanghai Express
- One Hour with You
- January 30 - 9-year-old Jackie Cooper signs a movie contract that gives him $50.000 annual income
- Shirley Temple's film career begins
1932 in literature
- Aldous Huxley - Brave New World
1932 in music
- British composer Thomas Beecham founds London Philharmonic Orchestra
1932 in sports
- February 4 - 1932 Winter Olympics open in Lake Placid, New York
- July 30 - August 14 - 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles
1932 in television
- July 22 - First BBC TV-broadcasts
- August 15 - CBS begins The Wide World Review
- November 8 - For the first time, a television network (CBS) reports on the presidential election, with commentary, vote tallys, and still cartoons of the politicians
- RCA demonstrates an electronic television system
June 18 Fédération Internationale de Basketball founded

Births

January 3 - Dabney Coleman, actor
January 4 - Carlos Saura, director
January 5 - Umberto Eco, Italian semiotic scholar and author
January 5 - Raisa Gorbachev, Soviet political consort, (d. 1999)
January 16 - Dian Fossey, zoologist (d. 1985)
January 18 - Robert Anton Wilson, US author
January 22 - Piper Laurie, actress
January 26 - Clement Seymour "Sir Coxsone" Dodd, Jamaican record producer
February 3 - Peggy Ann Garner, actress (d. 1984)
February 6 - François Truffaut, French film director (d. 1984)
February 7 - Gay Talese, author
February 8 - John Williams, composer, conductor
February 9 - Gerhard Richter, painter and graphic artist
February 11 - Jerome Lowenthal, pianist/professor
February 12 - Julian Simon, economist, author
February 14 - Alexander Kluge, actor and film director
February 18 - Milos Forman, film director
February 22 - Edward Kennedy, US politician and brother of John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy
February 24 - Michel Legrand, composer
February 25 - Faron Young country music singer (d. 1996)
February 26 - Johnny Cash, US country music singer
February 27 - Elizabeth Taylor, US actress
March 4 - Miriam Makeba, singer
March 12 - Andrew Young, civil rights activist, politician, ambassador to the United Nations
March 18 - John Updike, US author
April 1 - Debbie Reynolds, actress
April 4 - Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian movie director (d. 1986)
April 4 - Anthony Perkins, US actor (d. 1992)
April 12 - Tiny Tim, musician
April 23 - Halston, fashion designer (d. 1990)
April 25 - Meadlowlark Lemon, basketball star, member of the Harlem Globetrotters
April 27 - Gian-Carlo Rota, Italian-born American mathematician and philosopher
May 8 - Sonny Liston, boxer (d. 1970)
May 8 - Pyllida Law, actress
May 21 - Gabriele Wohmann, author
May 25 - Jeanne Crain, actress
June 25 - Peter Blake, artist
July 2 - Dave Thomas - founder of Wendy's restaurant chain
July 9 - Donald Rumsfeld, US Secretary of Defence (2001-present)
July 29 - Nancy Landon Kassebaum Baker, US Senator (1978-1996)
August 2 - Peter O'Toole, Irish film and stage actor
August 2 - Lamar Hunt, American sportsman
August 6 - Howard Hodgkin, painter and print-maker
August 11 - Fernando Arrabal, writer
August 17 - V. S. Naipaul, writer
August 18 - William R. Bennett, Premier of British Columbia
September 18 - Nikolai Rukavishnikov, Soviet cosmonaut
September 27 - Oliver E. Williamson , US economist
October 28 - Suzy Parker, actress
November 3 - Albert Reynolds, Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland
November 29 - Jacques Chirac, president of France
December 9 - Bill Hartack, jockey
December 28 - Roy Hattersley, British politician
December 28 - Dorsey Burnette, Rockabilly pioneer (d. 1979)

Deaths

January 24 - Sir Alfred Yarrow, shipbuilder, philanthropist
March 6 - John Philip Sousa, US band leader, conductor, composer
March 7 - Aristide Briand, diplomat, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (1928)
March 14 - George Eastman, camera inventor
March 31 - Eben Byers, steel tycoon and Pittsburgh socialite, from radiation poisoning due to the ingestion of the radium-laced nostrum Radithor over three years. His gruesome death made front-page news and led to the eventual regulation of radium and empowerment of the FDA.
April 3 - Wilhelm Ostwald, chemist
April 20 - Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician
May 3 - Charles Fort, US researcher of the unusual
May 7 - Paul Doumer, French president (assassinated)
May 18 - Tsuyoshi Inukai, Japanese prime minister (assassinated)
July 6 - Kenneth Grahame, author, The Wind in the Willows

Nobel Prizes

Physics - Werner Karl Heisenberg
Chemistry - Irving Langmuir
Medicine - Sir Charles Scott Sherrington, Edgar Douglas Adrian
Literature -John Galsworthy
Peace - Not awarded.