1932

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

Contents  (full)

1 Events of 1932

-  Jan. ^. Feb. ^. March ^. April

-  May ^. June ^. July  ^.  Aug.

-  Sept. ^. Oct. ^. Nov. ^.  Dec.

-  Undated ^. Ongoing ^. Fictional

2 Births

3 Deaths

4 Nobel prizes

5 See also -  Notes -  External links

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[edit] Events of 1932

[edit] 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 3: Arrest of Gandhi & Patel.

• 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.

[edit] February

• February 2 - General convention of disarmament begins in Geneva.
• February 2 - League of Nations again recommends negotiations between the Republic of China and Japan.

Feb. 4: Winter Olympics open

• 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 the German citizenship by naturalization, opening the opportunity for him to run in the 1932 election for Reichspräsident.
• February 27 - Mäntsälä Rebellion occurs in Finland.

[edit] 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.

[edit] April

• 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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 egotiated.
• June 24 - After a relatively bloodless military rebellion, Siam becomes a constitutional monarchy.

[edit] 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 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.
• July 30 - 1932 Summer Olympics open in Los Angeles.

[edit] August

• 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 16.500 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.

[edit] 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 28 - According to Prussian statistics, 115 people have been killed in political riots during the year.

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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 - 12 dead, 60 injured.
• November 9 - 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] Undated

• Saudi Arabia is declared a unified nation with Ibn Saud as a king.
• Female suffrage granted 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 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.
• Second Polar Year, an international scientific collaboration.
• Kreuger & Toll of the "Match King" Ivar Kreuger collapses; he commits suicide.
• 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

[edit] Ongoing

• (none)

[edit] Fictional

The following are references to year 1932 in fiction: (unknown).

The Green Mile, a novel by Stephen King takes place in 1932.

[edit] Births

[edit] January-February

• 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 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

[edit] March-April

• March 4 - Ryszard Kapuściński, Polish journalist
• March 4 - Miriam Makeba, South African singer
• March 4 - Ed Roth, American car designer (d. 2001)
• March 4 - 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)
• April 1 - Debbie Reynolds, American actress
• April 2 - Michael Vernon, Australian consumer activist (d.1993)
• April 4 - Anthony Perkins, American actor (d. 1992)
• April 4 - 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)
• April 9 - Carl Perkins, American musician (d. 1998)
• April 11 - Joel Grey, American actor
• April 12 - Lakshman Kadirgamar, Sri Lankan politician (assassinated) (d. 2005)
• April 12 - 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
• April 27 - Gian-Carlo Rota, Italian-born mathematician and philosopher (d. 1999)

[edit] May-June

• May 7 - Jenny Joseph, English poet
• May 8 - Phyllida Law, Scottish actress
• May 8 - Sonny Liston, American boxer (d. 1970)
• May 19 - Alma Cogan, English singer (d. 1966)
• May 25 - John Gregory Dunne, American writer (d. 2003)
• May 25 - Roger Bowen, American actor (d. 1996)

• June 4 - John Drew Barrymore, American actor (d. 2004)
• June 4 - 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
• June 18 - 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

[edit] July-August

• July 2 - Dave Thomas, American fast-food entrepreneur (d. 2002)
• July 4 - Otis Young, African-American actor (d. 2001)
• 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
• August 2 - 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

[edit] 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)
• September 25 - 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 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 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)

[edit] November-December

• November 3 - Albert Reynolds, President of Ireland
• November 4 - Thomas Klestil, President of Austria (d. 2004)
• November 4 - Noam Pitlik, American actor and director (d. 1999)
• 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
• November 29 - Diane Ladd, American actress

• December 2 - Manuel Puig, Argentinian writer (d. 1990)
• December 5 - Sheldon Lee Glashow, American physicist
• December 5 - Little Richard, American singer
• December 6 - Don King, American boxing promoter
• December 7 - Ellen Burstyn, American actress
• December 9 - Bill Hartack, American jockey
• December 21 - Edward Hoagland, American essayist
• December 24 - On Kawara, Japanese conceptual artist
• December 24 - Earl Dodge, American temperance movement leader
• December 28 - Dhirubhai Ambani, Indian businessman (d. 2002)
• December 28 - Dorsey Burnette, American singer (d. 1979)
• December 28 - Roy Hattersley, British politician
• December 28 - Nichelle Nichols, American actress and singer

[edit] Unknown dates

• Basil Blackshaw, Irish artist
• Paul Caponigro, American photographer
• Mohammed Hamri, Moroccan artist (d. 2000)
• Eileen Lemass, Irish politician
• Mehmood, Indian actor (d. 2004)
• Irene Jai Narayan, Fiji politician
• David Plowden, American photographer
• Blaze Starr, American dancer

[edit] Deaths

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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 5th - Christopher Brennan (b. 1870)
• December 19 - Yoon Bong-Gil, Korean resister against Japanese occupation of Korea (executed) (b. 1908)

[edit] Unknown dates

• Lucy Bacon, American painter (b. 1857)

[edit] 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

[edit] See also

• 20th century

[edit] Notes

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