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1932

Year 1932 (MCMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar.

Events of 1932

January

January 1 - The United States Post Office Department issues a set of 12 stamps commemorating the 200th anniversary of George Washington's birth.
January 3 - British arrest and intern Mohandas Gandhi and Vallabhbhai Patel.
January 7 - The Stimson Doctrine is proclaimed in response to the Japanese invasion of Manchuria.
January 8 - In Britain the Archbishop of Canterbury forbids church remarriage of divorced persons.

January 12 - Hattie W. Caraway becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate.
January 14 - Maurice Ravel's Concerto in G 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 60 hands.
January 28 - Japan occupies Shanghai.
January 29 - Minority government of Karl Mureschi in Austria ends the governmental crisis.
January 30 - Brave New World, a novel by Aldous Huxley, is first published.
January 31 - Japanese warships arrive in Nanking.

February

February 2

General convention of disarmament begins in Geneva.
League of Nations again recommends negotiations between the Republic of China and Japan.
Reconstruction Finance Corporation begins operations.

February 4 - 1932 Winter Olympics open in Lake Placid, New York. Japan occupies Harbin, China.
February 11 - Pope Pius XI meets Benito Mussolini in 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 Lindbergh, Jr., the infant son of Anne Morrow Lindbergh and Charles Lindbergh, is kidnapped from the family home near Hopewell, New Jersey.
March 7 - Four people are killed when police fire upon 3000 unemployed autoworkers marching outside the Ford River Rouge Plant in Dearborn, Michigan.
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.
April 5 - Prohibition is lifted in Finland at 10 in the morning (local time), resulting in a new mnemonic "543210".
April 6

U.S. president Herbert Hoover supports armament limitations.
Trial against fraudulent art dealer Otto Wacker begins in Berlin.

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 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 just a few miles from the Lindberghs' 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 29 - The first of approximately 15,000 World War I veterans arrive in Washington, D.C. demanding the immediate payment of their military bonus, becoming known as the Bonus Army.
May 30 - German chancellor Heinrich Brüning resigns. President Hindenburg takes Franz von Papen to form a new government.

June

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.
June 29 - The comedy serial Vic and Sade debuts on NBC Radio.

July

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

Norway annexes northern Greenland.
Hedley Verity establishes a new first-class cricket 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 - U.S. President Herbert Hoover orders the U.S. Army to forcibly evict the Bonus Army of World War I veterans gathered in Washington, D.C.. Troops dispersed the last of the Bonus Army the next day.
July 30

1932 Summer Olympics open in Los Angeles.
Walt Disney's Flowers and Trees, the first animated cartoon to be presented in full Technicolor, premieres in Los Angeles, California. It releases in theaters, along with Eugene O'Neill's experimental play Strange Interlude (starring Norma Shearer and Clark Gable), and will go on to win the first Academy Award for Best Animated Short.

August

August - Beginning of farmers' revolt in Midwestern United States.
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 7 - Raymond Edward Welch (1894 - 1964) became first one legged man to scale the 6,288 ft. Mount Washington, NH.
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 reinstated, 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

Tata Airlines (later to become Air India) makes its first flight.
The Michigan Marching Band (then called the Varsity band) debuts Script Ohio at the Michigan versus Ohio State game in Columbus.

October 19 - Wedding of Prince Gustav Adolf of Sweden and Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
October 23 - Fred Allen's radio comedy show debuts on CBS.

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

Riots between conservative and socialist supporters in Switzerland - 13 dead, 60 injured.
A hurricane and huge waves kills about 2,500 in Santa Cruz del Sur in the worst natural disaster in Cuba history.

November 16 - New York City's Palace Theatre fully converts 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 Joseph 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 breaks 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 19 - BBC World Service begins broadcasting as the BBC Empire Service.
December 25 - Earthquake in the Kansu Province in China: 70,000 dead.
December 27 - Radio City Music Hall opens in New York City.

Undated

Heath Hen becomes extinct.
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.
James 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.