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 Mohandas Gandhi and Vallabhai Patel[?] and intern[?] them
• January 8 - In Britain 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 Geneve[?]
• February 2 - League of Nations again recommends negotiations between China and Japan
• February 4 - Japan occupies Harbin, China
• February 11 - Pope Piux XI[?] meets Benito Mussolini in Vatican
• 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 Lindbergh's baby boy 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 - US 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 Abessinia[?]
• 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 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.
• August 6 - first Venice Film Festival
• August 18 - Auguste Piccard reaches altitude of 16.500 meters with an air balloon
• August 30 - Herman Göring[?] elected as a chairman of German senate
• 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 the Swedish prince Gustaf Adolf[?] and the princess Sibylla of Sachse-Coburg[?]
• November 1 - San Francisco Opera House[?] opened
• November 8 - Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats Herbert Hoover in the U.S. presidential election
• 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 death in her home
• November 21 - German president Hindenburg begins negotiations with Adolf Hitler about the formation of a new government
• 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

Sport, Art, Culture & Fashion

• 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 - Olympic games 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 - Umberto Eco, author
• January 5 - Raisa Gorbachev, Soviet political consort, (+ 1999)
• January 16 - Dian Fossey, zoologist (+ 1985)
• January 18 - Robert Anton Wilson, US author
• January 22 - Piper Laurie, actress
• February 3 - Peggy Ann Garner[?], actress (+ 1984)
• February 6 - François Truffaut, French film director (+ 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 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 (+ 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 (+ 1986)
• April 4 - Anthony Perkins, US actor (+ 1992)
• April 12 - Tiny Tim, musician
• 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 (+ 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 International[?]
• July 9 - Donald Rumsfeld, US Secretary of Defence (2001-present)
• August 2 - Peter O'Toole, Irish film and stage actor
• August 6 - Howard Hodgkin, painter and print-maker
• August 17 - V. S. Naipaul, writer
• August 18 - William R. Bennett, Premier of British Columbia
• September 18 - Nikolai Rukavishnikov, Soviet cosmonaut
• September 25 - Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist
• September 27 - Oliver E. Williamson , US economist
• November 29 - Jacques Chirac, president of France
• December 28 - Roy Hattersley, British politician
• December 28 - Dorsey Burnette, Rockabilly pioneer (+ 1979)

Deaths

• 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
• 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)

Science

• 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.

Nobel Prizes

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