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1932




Events

   * January 3 - British arrest Mohandas Gandhi and Vallabhai Patel and
     intern them
   * January 8 - In Britain 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
     China and Japan
   * February 4 - Japan occupies Harbin, China
   * February 11 - Pope Pius XI meets Benito Mussolini in Vatican
   * February 18 - Japan declares Manzhouguo (Japanese name for Manchuria)
     formally independent from China
   * February 27 - Adolf Hitler gains the citizenship of Germany prior to
     elections
   * February 27 - MŠntsŠlŠ rebellion in Finland
   * March 1 - Charles Lindbergh's baby boy is kidnapped
   * 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 - US president Herbert Hoover supports armament limitations
   * April 19 - Eamon de Valera elected as the prime minister of Irish Free
     State
   * April 10 - Marshall Hindenburg elected president of Germany. Adolf
     Hitler receives over 13 million votes.
   * April 17 - Haile Selassie announces an anti-slavery law in Abessinia
   * 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 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 BrŸning 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 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 5 - Ant—nio 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 - Herman Gšring elected as a chairman of German senate
   * 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 19 - Wedding of the Swedish prince Gustaf Adolf and the
     princess Sibylla of Sachse-Coburg
   * November 1 - San Francisco Opera House opened
   * November 3 -
   * November 8 - Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats Herbert Hoover in the U.S.
     presidential election
   * 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 death in her home
   * November 21 - German president Hindenburg begins negotiations with
     Adolf Hitler about the formation of a new government
   * 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 Kansu province in China - 70,000 dead

   * Saudi Arabia declared as a unified nation with Abdul Aziz 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

Sport, Art, Culture & Fashion

   * 1932 in film
        o Grand Hotel
        o Shanghai Express
        o One Hour with You
        o January 30 - 9-year-old Jackie Cooper signs a movie contract that
          gives him $50.000 annual income
        o Shirley Temple's film career begins
   * 1932 in literature
        o Aldous Huxley - Brave New World
   * 1932 in music
        o British composer Thomas Beecham founds London Philharmonic
          Orchestra
   * 1932 in sports
        o February 4 - 1932 Winter Olympics open in Lake Placid, New York
        o July 30 - August 14 - 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles
   * 1932 in television
        o July 22 - First BBC TV-broadcasts
        o August 15 - CBS begins The Wide World Review
        o November 8 - For the first time, a television network (CBS)
          reports on the presidential election, with commentary, vote
          tallys, and still cartoons of the politicians
        o RCA demonstrates an electronic television system
   * June 18 FŽdŽration Internationale de Basketball founded

Births

   * 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, (+ 1999)
   * January 16 - Dian Fossey, zoologist (+ 1985)
   * January 18 - Robert Anton Wilson, US author
   * January 22 - Piper Laurie, actress
   * February 3 - Peggy Ann Garner, actress (+ 1984)
   * February 6 - Franois Truffaut, French film director (+ 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 14 - Alexander Kluge, actor 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 24 - Michel Legrand, composer
   * February 25 - Faron Young country music singer (+ 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 1 - Debbie Reynolds, actress
   * April 4 - Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian movie director (+ 1986)
   * April 4 - Anthony Perkins, US actor (+ 1992)
   * April 12 - Tiny Tim, musician
   * April 25 - Meadlowlark Lemon, basketball star, member of the Harlem
     Globetrotters
   * April 27 - Gian-Carlo Rota, Italian-born American mathematician and
     philosopher
   * May 8 - Sonny Liston, boxer (+ 1970)
   * May 8 - Pyllida Law, actress
   * May 21 - Gabriele Wohmann, author
   * May 25 - Jeanne Crain, actress
   * June 25 - Peter Blake, artist
   * July 2 - Dave Thomas - founder of Wendy's International
   * July 9 - Donald Rumsfeld, US Secretary of Defence (2001-present)
   * August 2 - Peter O'Toole, Irish film and stage actor
   * August 6 - Howard Hodgkin, painter and print-maker
   * August 11 - Fernando Arrabal, writer
   * August 17 - V. S. Naipaul, writer
   * August 18 - William R. Bennett, Premier of British Columbia
   * September 18 - Nikolai Rukavishnikov, Soviet cosmonaut
   * September 25 - Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist
   * September 27 - Oliver E. Williamson , US economist
   * November 3 - Albert Reynolds, Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland
   * November 29 - Jacques Chirac, president of France
   * December 28 - Roy Hattersley, British politician
   * December 28 - Dorsey Burnette, Rockabilly pioneer (+ 1979)

Deaths

   * March 6 - John Philip Sousa, US band leader, conductor, composer
   * March 7 - Aristide Briand, diplomat, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
     (1928)
   * March 14 - George Eastman, camera inventor
   * April 3 - Wilhelm Ostwald, chemist
   * April 20 - Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician
   * May 3 - Charles Fort, US researcher of the unusual
   * May 7 - Paul Doumer, French president (assassinated)
   * May 18 - Tsuyoshi Inukai, Japanese prime minister (assassinated)

Science

   * 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.
   * Electronic microscope
   * Second Polar Year, an international scientific collaboration.

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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