Year '1932' ('
MCMXXXII') was a
leap year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1932 calendar) of the
Gregorian calendar.
Events of 1932
January
★
January 3 - British arrest and intern
Mohandas Gandhi and
Vallabhbhai Patel.
★
January 8 - In Britain the
Archbishop of Canterbury forbids church remarriage of divorces.
★
January 12 -
Hattie W. Caraway becomes the first woman elected to the
United States Senate.
★
January 14 -
Maurice Ravel's
Concerto in G (Ravel) 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 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
★
February 2
★
★ General convention of
disarmament begins in
Geneva.
★
★
League of Nations again recommends negotiations between the
Republic of China and
Japan.
★
February 4 -
1932 Winter Olympics open in
Lake Placid, New York.
Japan occupies
Harbin,
China.
★
February 11 -
Pope Pius XI meets
Benito Mussolini in the
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 Augustus Lindbergh III, the infant 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.
★
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; he commits suicide shortly afterwards.
★
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 the
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 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, 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 30 - German
chancellor Heinrich Brüning resigns. President Hindenburg takes
Franz von Papen to form a new government.
June
★ June - 15,000
World War I veterans march in
Washington, DC.
★
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.
July
★
July 1 - ABC (
Australian Broadcasting Commission) is established.
★
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 - 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.
★
July 30 -
1932 Summer Olympics open in
Los Angeles.
August
★
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 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 reinstaurated,
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 27 -
Saudi Arabia is declared a unified nation with
Ibn Saud as a king.
★
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.
November
In 1932 the ''
Cipher Bureau'' broke the German Enigma cipher and overcame the ever-growing structural and operating complexities of the evolving
Enigma with
plugboard, the main German cipher device during
World War II.
★
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 converted 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
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.
★
November 30 - The
Cipher Bureau broke 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 25 -
Earthquake in the
Kansu Province in
China: 70,000 dead.
★
December 27 -
Radio City Music Hall opens in
New York City.
Undated
★ 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.
★
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.
★ York House School is founded in Vancouver, BC
★
Aldous Huxley publishes his most famous novel
Brave New World
Births
January-February
★
January 1 -
Tzaims Luksus, American artist and fashion designer
★
January 3
★
★
Dabney Coleman, American actor
★
★
Neil Levang, American musician
★
★
Coo Coo Marlin, American race car driver (d.
2005)
★
January 5
★
★
Johnny Adams, American musician (d.
1998)
★
★
Umberto Eco, Italian scholar and author
★
January 6 -
Stuart A. Rice, American chemist
★
January 13 -
Joseph Cardinal Zen, Catholic Bishop of Hong Kong
★
January 16 -
Dian Fossey, American zoologist (d.
1985)
★
January 18 -
Robert Anton Wilson, American author
★
January 22 -
Piper Laurie, American actress
★
January 25 -
Nikolay Anikin, Soviet cross-country skier
★
January 26 -
Coxsone Dodd, Jamaican record producer (d.
2004)
★
January 29
★
★
Tommy Taylor, English footballer (d.
1958)
★
★
George Allen, English footballer
★
January 30 -
Knock Yokoyama, Japanese comedian and politician
★
February 1 -
John Nott, British polictian
★
February 3 -
Peggy Ann Garner, American actress (d.
1984)
★
February 6 -
François Truffaut, French film director (d.
1984)
★
February 7 -
Gay Talese, American author
★
February 8 -
John Williams, American composer and conductor
★
February 9 -
Gerhard Richter, German painter
★
February 11
★
★
Jerome Lowenthal, American pianist
★
★
Dennis Skinner, British politician
★
February 12 -
Julian Lincoln Simon, American economist and author (d.
1998)
★
February 14 -
Alexander Kluge, German author and film director
★
February 16 -
Harry Goz, American actor (d.
2003)
★
February 18 -
Miloš Forman, Czech film director
★
February 22 -
Edward Kennedy, American politician
★
February 23 -
Majel Barrett, American actress
★
February 24 -
Michel Legrand, French composer
★
February 25 -
Faron Young American singer (d.
1996)
★
February 26 -
Johnny Cash, American singer (d.
2003)
★
February 27 -
Elizabeth Taylor, English-born actress
★
February 28 -
Don Francks, Canadian actor
March-April
★
March 4
★
★
Ryszard Kapuściński, Polish journalist
★
★
Miriam Makeba, South African singer
★
★
Ed Roth, American car designer (d.
2001)
★
★
Frank Wells, American entertainment businessman (d.
1994)
★
March 12
★
★
Barbara Feldon, American actress
★
★
Andrew Young, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
★
March 16 -
Don Blasingame,
Major League Baseball player and Japanese baseball manager (d.
2005)
★
March 18 -
John Updike, American author
★
March 21 -
Walter Gilbert, American chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate
★
March 25 -
Gene Shalit, American film critic
★
March 30 -
Ted Morgan, French-born author, biographer, and journalist
★
April 1
★
★
Gordon Jump, American television actor (d.
2003)
★
★
Debbie Reynolds, American actress
★
April 2 -
Michael Vernon, Australian consumer activist (d.
1993)
★
April 4
★
★
Anthony Perkins, American actor (d.
1992)
★
★
Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian film director (d.
1986)
★
April 8 -
Baginda Almutawakkil Alallah Sultan Iskandar Al-Haj ibni Almarhum Sultan Ismail, King of Malaysia
★
April 9
★
★
Armin Jordan, Swiss conductor (d.
2006)
★
★
Carl Perkins, American musician (d.
1998)
★
April 11 -
Joel Grey, American actor
★
April 12
★
★
Lakshman Kadirgamar, Sri Lankan politician (assassinated) (d.
2005)
★
★
Tiny Tim, American musician (d.
1996)
★
April 21 -
Elaine May, American movie director
★
April 23 -
Halston, American fashion designer (d.
1990)
★
April 25 -
William Roache, British actor (''
Coronation Street'')
★
April 26 -
Michael Smith, English-born chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
2000)
★
April 27
★
★
Casey Kasem, American disc jockey and voice actor
★
★
Gian-Carlo Rota, Italian-born mathematician and philosopher (d.
1999)
May-June
★
May 7
★
★
Jenny Joseph, English poet
★
★
Jordi Bonet, Canadian artist
★
May 8
★
★
Phyllida Law, Scottish actress
★
★
Sonny Liston, American boxer (d.
1970)
★
May 19 -
Alma Cogan, English singer (d.
1966)
★
May 25
★
★
John Gregory Dunne, American writer (d.
2003)
★
★
Roger Bowen, American actor (d.
1996)
★
June 4
★
★
John Drew Barrymore, American actor (d.
2004)
★
★
Maurice Shadbolt, New Zealand writer (d.
2004)
★
June 9 -
Jack Imel, American singer
★
June 12 -
Rona Jaffe, American novelist (d.
2005)
★
June 15 -
Mario Cuomo, American politician
★
June 18
★
★
Dudley R. Herschbach, American chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate
★
★
Geoffrey Hill, English poet
★
June 22 -
Prunella Scales, English Actress
★
June 25 -
Peter Blake, English artist
★
June 27 -
Anna Moffo, American soprano (d.
2006)
★
June 28 -
Pat Morita, American actor (d.
2005)
★
June 29 -
Brian Hutton, Baron Hutton, British Law Lord
July-August
★
July 2 -
Dave Thomas, American fast-food entrepreneur (d.
2002)
★
July 4 -
Otis Young, African-American actor (d.
2001)
★
July 7 -
Eileen Lemass, Irish politician
★
July 9 -
Donald Rumsfeld, U.S. Secretary of Defense
★
July 12 -
Otis Davis, American runner
★
July 16 -
Tim Asch, Anthropologist, photographer and ethnographic filmmaker
★
July 21 -
Ernie Warlick, American football player
★
July 29 -
Nancy Landon Kassebaum Baker, U.S. Senator
★
August 1 -
Meena Kumari, Indian actress (d.
1972)
★
August 2
★
★
Lamar Hunt, American sportsman
★
★
Peter O'Toole, Irish-born actor
★
August 6 -
Howard Hodgkin, British painter and print-maker
★
August 7 -
Dr. Maurice Rabb, Jr., African American ophthalmologist
★
August 8 -
Mel Tillis, American singer
★
August 11 -
Fernando Arrabal, Moroccan-born writer
★
August 12 -
Charlie O'Donnell, American game show announcer
★
August 17 -
V. S. Naipaul, West Indian-born writer,
Nobel Prize laureate
★
August 18 -
William R. Bennett, Premier of British Columbia
September-October
★
September 4 -
Dinsdale Landen, British actor (d.
2003)
★
September 7 -
Paul Getty, American-born philanthropist (d.
2003)
★
September 8 -
Patsy Cline, American singer (d.
1963)
★
September 11 -
Peter Anderson, English footballer
★
September 18 -
Nikolai Rukavishnikov, cosmonaut (d.
2002)
★
September 22 -
Algirdas Brazauskas,
President of Lithuania
★
September 25
★
★
Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist (d.
1982)
★
★
Charles Stanley, American televangelist
★
September 26
★
★
Richard Herd, American actor
★
★ Dr
Manmohan Singh,
Prime Minister of India
★
September 27 -
Oliver E. Williamson, American economist
★
September 29 -
Mehmood, Indian actor (d.
2004)
★
September 30 -
Shintaro Ishihara, Japanese author and politician
★
October 4 -
Milan Chvostek, Canadian television director
★
October 5 -
Michael John Rogers, English ornithologist (d.
2006)
★
October 8 -
Ray Reardon, Welsh snooker player
★
October 9 -
David Plowden, American photographer
★
October 10 -
Harry Smith, English footballer
★
October 11 -
Dottie West, American singer/songwriter (d.
1991)
★
October 12 -
Dick Gregory, American comedian and activist
★
October 13 -
Jean Edward Smith, American political scientist and biographer
★
October 18 -
Vytautas Landsbergis, Lithuanian politician
★
October 19 -
Robert Reed, American actor (d.
1992)
★
October 20
★
★
Rosey Brown, American football player (d.
2004)
★
★
William Christopher, American actor
★
October 24
★
★
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate
★
★
Robert Mundell, Canadian economist,
Nobel Prize laureate
★
October 25 -
Harry Gregg, Irish footballer and football manager
★
October 27 -
Sylvia Plath, American poet and author (d.
1963)
★
October 28 -
Suzy Parker, American actress (d.
2003)
November-December
★
November 3 -
Albert Reynolds,
President of Ireland
★
November 4
★
★
Thomas Klestil,
President of Austria (d.
2004)
★
★
Noam Pitlik, American actor and director (d.
1999)
★
November 11 -
Germano Mosconi, Italian journalist
★
November 10 -
Roy Scheider, American film actor
★
November 12 -
Jerry Douglas, American actor
★
November 13 -
Richard Mulligan, American actor (d.
2000)
★
November 15 -
★
★
Clyde McPhatter, American singer (d.
1972)
★
★
Petula Clark, British singer, actress, and songwriter
★
November 20 -
Richard Dawson, British-born comedian and game show host
★
November 22 -
Robert Vaughn, American actor
★
November 29
★
★
Jacques Chirac,
President of France
★
★
Diane Ladd, American actress
★
December 2 -
Manuel Puig, Argentinian writer (d.
1990)
★
December 5
★
★
Sheldon Lee Glashow, American physicist
★
★
Little Richard, American singer
★
December 6 -
Don King, American boxing promoter
★
December 7
★
★
Ellen Burstyn, American actress
★
★
Paul Caponigro, American photographer
★
December 9 -
Bill Hartack, American jockey
★
December 21 -
Edward Hoagland, American essayist
★
December 24
★
★
On Kawara, Japanese conceptual artist
★
★
Earl Dodge, American temperance movement leader
★
December 28
★
★
Dhirubhai Ambani, Indian businessman (d.
2002)
★
★
Dorsey Burnette, American singer (d.
1979)
★
★
Roy Hattersley, British politician
★
★
Nichelle Nichols, American actress and singer
★ ''date unknown''
★
★
Basil Blackshaw, Irish artist
★
★
Mohamed Hamri, Moroccan artist (d.
2000)
★
★
Irene Jai Narayan, Fiji politician
★
★
Blaze Starr, American dancer
Deaths
January - June
★
January 8 -
Eurosia Fabris, Italian Catholic ''Blessed'' (b.
1866)
★
January 13 -
J. Ernest Mangnall, English football manager (b.
1866)
★
January 21 -
Giles Lytton Strachey British writer and biographer (b.
1880)
★
January 24 - Sir
Alfred Yarrow, English shipbuilder and philanthropist (b.
1842)
★
January 26 -
William Wrigley Jr.,
U.S. chewing gum industrialist (b.
1861)
★
February 10 -
Edgar Wallace, English novelist and screenwriter (b.
1875)
★
February 16 -
Ferdinand Buisson, French pacifist, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (b.
1841)
★
March 1 -
Frank Teschemacher, American musician (b.
1906)
★
March 6 -
John Philip Sousa, American band leader, conductor, and composer (b.
1854)
★
March 7 -
Aristide Briand, French statesman, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (b.
1862)
★
March 14 -
George Eastman, American inventor (b.
1854)
★
March 31 -
Eben Byers, American steel tycoon and socialite (radiation poisoning) (b.
1880)
★
April 4 -
Wilhelm Ostwald, German chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1853)
★
April 20 -
Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician (b.
1858)
★
April 26 -
★
★
Hart Crane, American poet (b.
1899)
★
★
William Lockwood, English cricketer (b.
1868)
★
May 3 -
★
★
Henri de Gaulle, father of
Charles de Gaulle (b.
1848
★
★
Charles Fort, American researcher of the unusual (b.
1874)
★
May 7 -
Paul Doumer,
President of France (assassinated) (b.
1857)
★
May 15 -
Tsuyoshi Inukai,
Prime Minister of Japan (assassinated) (b.
1855)
★
May 17 -
Frederick C. Billard,
Commandant of the United States Coast Guard (b.
1873)
★
May 22 -
Lady Gregory, Irish writer and folklorist (b.
1852)
★
June 21 -
Major Taylor, American cyclist (b.
1878)
July - December
★
July 2 -
Manuel II of Portugal, last king of Portugal (b.
1889)
★
July 6 -
Kenneth Grahame, English author (b.
1859)
★
July 7 -
Henry Eyster Jacobs, American Lutheran theologian (b.
1844)
★
July 22 -
Errico Malatesta, Italian Anarchist (b.
1853)
★
July 23 -
Alberto Santos-Dumont, Brazilian aviation pioneer (b.
1873)
★
September 16 -
Ronald Ross, English physician, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1857)
★
September 20 -
Wovoka, Paiute visionary
★
September 23 -
Jules Chéret, French poster designer (b.
1836)
★
October 5 -
Christopher Brennan (b.
1870)
★
October 17 -
Lucy Bacon, American painter (b.
1857)
★
December 19 -
Yoon Bong-Gil, Korean resister against Japanese occupation of Korea (executed) (b.
1908)
Nobel prizes
★
Physics -
Werner Karl Heisenberg
★
Chemistry -
Irving Langmuir
★
Physiology or Medicine - Sir
Charles Scott Sherrington,
Edgar Douglas Adrian
★
Literature -
John Galsworthy
★
Peace - not awarded
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