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1932 is a leap year starting on a Friday.

Years:
1929 1930 1931 - 1932 - 1933 1934 1935
Decades:
1900s 1910s 1920s - 1930s - 1940s 1950s 1960s
Centuries:
19th century - 20th century - 21st century

Events

January-February

  • January 3 - British arrest and intern Mohandas Gandhi and Vallabhbhai Patel
  • January 8 - In Great 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 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 monarchy
  • July-October

  • 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 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 declared as 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.
  • Births

    January

  • 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 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 ()
  • 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-July

  • April 1 - Gordon Jump, actor, "Maytag Repairman" (d. 2003)
  • April 1 - Debbie Reynolds, actress
  • April 4 - Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian movie director (d. 1986)
  • April 4 - Anthony Perkins, US 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 performer
  • Irene 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
  • February 10 - Edgar Wallace, novelist, screenwriter for King Kong
  • March 6 - John Philip Sousa, US band leader, conductor, composer
  • March 1 - Frank Teschemacher, jazz clarinetist and alto-saxophonist
  • 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
  • April 26 - Hart Crane, American poet (b. 1899)
  • May 3 - Charles Fort, US researcher of the unusual
  • May 7 - Paul Doumer, French president (assassinated)
  • May 15 - Tsuyoshi Inukai, Japanese prime minister (assassinated)
  • July 6 - Kenneth Grahame, author, The Wind in the Willows
  • July 23 - Alberto Santos-Dumont, Brazilian aviation pioneer
  • September 23 - Jules Chéret, master poster designer
  • November 9 - Nadezhda Alliluyeva-Stalin, second wife of Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin
  • Nobel Prizes

  • 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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