1932
1932 is a leap year starting on a 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 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 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 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 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 fraudulent paintings of Vincent van Gogh
May-June 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 15 incident occurs. 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 6 - The Revenue Act of 1932 is enacted, creating the first gas tax in the United States (1 cent per gallon 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, Siam becomes a constitutional monarchyJuly-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 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. August 6 - First Venice Film Festival 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 16.500 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 15 - Tata Airlines (later to become Air India) makes its first flight October 19 - Wedding of Prince Gustav Adolf of Sweden and Princess Sibylla of Sachse-Coburg
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 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 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 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. Second Polar Year, an international scientific collaboration.
BirthsJanuary 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 January 29 - Tommy Taylor, English footballer (d. 1958) January 30 - Knock Yokoyama, Japanese comedian and politician
February-March 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, author 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 23 - Majel Barrett, actress (Star Trek: Original Television series and The Next Generation) February 24 - Michel Legrand, composer February 25 - Faron Young country music singer (d. 1996) February 26 - Johnny Cash, US country music singer (d. 2003) 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 16 - Don Blasingame, a MLB All-Star and Japanese baseball manager (d. 2005) March 18 - John Updike, US author
April-July April 1 - Gordon Jump, American television actor (d. 2003) April 1 - Debbie Reynolds, American actress April 4 - Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian movie director (d. 1986) April 4 - Anthony Perkins, American actor (d. 1992)April 8 - Baginda Almutawakkil Alallah Sultan Iskandar Al-Haj ibni Almarhum Sultan Ismail, later Sultan of Johor and 8th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia. April 12 - Tiny Tim, musician (d. 1996) April 23 - Halston, fashion designer (d. 1990) April 27 - Casey Kasem, American disc jockey April 27 - Gian-Carlo Rota, Italian-born American mathematician and philosopher May 8 - Phyllida Law, actress May 8 - Sonny Liston, boxer (d. 1970) May 21 - Gabriele Wohmann, author June 4 - John Drew Barrymore, actor (d. 2004) June 4 - Maurice Shadbolt, New Zealand writer (d. 2004) June 12 - Rona Jaffe, novelist June 25 - Peter Blake, artist June 27 - Anna Moffo, American soprano June 28 - Pat Morita, actor July 2 - Dave Thomas - founder of Wendy's restaurant chain (d. 2002) July 9 - Donald Rumsfeld, US Secretary of Defence (2001-present) July 12 - Otis Davis, American runner July 21 - Ernie Warlick, American football player July 29 - Nancy Landon Kassebaum Baker, US Senator (1978-1996)
August-December 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 September 8 - Patsy Cline, singer and the first woman elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame August 18 - William R. Bennett, Premier of British Columbia September 18 - Nikolai Rukavishnikov, Soviet cosmonaut September 25 - Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist (d. 1982) September 26 - Dr. Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India September 27 - Oliver E. Williamson , US economist October 19 - Robert Reed, actor (The Brady Bunch) (d. 1992) October 20 - Rosey Brown, Pro Football Hall of Famer (d. 2004) October 26 - Eidegenegen Eidagaruwo, first Angam Baby October 28 - Suzy Parker, actress November 3 - Albert Reynolds, Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland November 4 - Noam Pitlik, actor/director (d. 1999) November 15 - Petula Clark, singer-actress-composer November 20 - Richard Dawson, game show host November 29 - Jacques Chirac, president of France December 9 - Bill Hartack, jockey December 24 - Earl Dodge, United States Prohibition Party Presidential candidate. December 28 - Roy Hattersley, British politician December 28 - Dorsey Burnette, Rockabilly pioneer (d. 1979)
unknown dates Blaze Starr, American stripper and burlesque performerIrene Jai Narayan, Fijian politician.Mehmood, Indian actor
Deaths January 21 - Giles Lytton Strachey British writer and biographer (b. 1880) January 24 - Sir Alfred Yarrow, shipbuilder, philanthropist (b. 1842) February 10 - Edgar Wallace, novelist, screenwriter for King Kong (b. 1875) March 6 - John Philip Sousa, US band leader, conductor, composer (b. 1854) March 1 - Frank Teschemacher, jazz clarinetist and alto-saxophonist (b. 1906) March 7 - Aristide Briand, diplomat, winner of the (1928) Nobel Peace Prize March 14 - George Eastman, inventor of the camera (b. 1854) March 31 - Eben Byers, steel tycoon and Pittsburgh socialite (b. 1880). He died 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 (b. 1853) April 20 - Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician (b. 1858) April 26 - Hart Crane, American poet (b. 1899) April 26 - William Lockwood, Surrey fast bowler (b. 1868) May 3 - Charles Fort, US researcher of the unusual (b. 1874) May 7 - Paul Doumer, French president (assassinated) (b. 1857) May 15 - Tsuyoshi Inukai, Japanese prime minister (assassinated) (b. 1855) May 17 - Fredrick C. Billard, Commandant of the United States Coast Guard from 1924 until his death (b. 1873). July 6 - Kenneth Grahame, author, The Wind in the Willows (b. 1859) July 23 - Alberto Santos-Dumont, Brazilian aviation pioneer (b. 1873) September 23 - Jules Chéret, master poster designer (b. 1836) November 9 - Nadezhda Alliluyeva-Stalin, second wife of Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin (b. 1901)
Physics - Werner Karl Heisenberg Chemistry - Irving Langmuir Medicine - Sir Charles Scott Sherrington, Edgar Douglas Adrian Literature -John Galsworthy Peace - Not awarded.
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