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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 - Mntsl Rebellion in Finland * March 1 - Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., the baby son of Anne Morrow Lindbergh and Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Sr. 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 Brning 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 - Antnio 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 Gring 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 Prince Gustav Adolf of Sweden and 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 dead 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 Fdration 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 - Franois 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 12 - Julian Simon, economist, author * 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 23 - Halston, fashion designer (+ 1990) * 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 * October 28 - Suzy Parker, actress * 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 * January 24 - Sir Alfred Yarrow, shipbuilder, philanthropist * 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) * July 6 - Kenneth Grahame, author, The Wind in the Willows 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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