1932
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Decades : 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s - 1930s - 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s
Years: 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 - 1932 - 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937
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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 Geneve[?]
February 2 - League of Nations again recommends negotiations between China and Japan
February 4 - Japan occupies Harbin , China
February 11 - Pope Piux 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 - Mäntsälä 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 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 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 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 - 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.
August 6 - first Venice Film Festival
August 18 - Auguste Piccard reaches altitude of 16.500 meters with an air balloon
August 30 - Herman Göring[?] 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 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
Sport, Art, Culture & Fashion
Births
January 3 - Dabney Coleman[?] , actor
January 4 - Carlos Saura[?] , director
January 5 - Umberto Eco , Italian semiotic scholar and author
January 5 - Umberto Eco , 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 - François 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 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 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
Nobel Prizes
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