1932

1932 is a leap year starting on a Friday.

align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1929 1930 1931 - 1932 - 1933 1934 1935

align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1900s 1910s 1920s - 1930s - 1940s 1950s 1960s

align="center" | Centuries:
19th century - 20th century - 21st century

Events

January-February

January 3 - British arrest and intern Mohandas Gandhi and Vallabhbhai Patel
January 8 - In Britain the 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 the Republic of China and Japan
February 4 - Japan occupies Harbin, China
February 11 - Pope Pius XI meets Benito Mussolini in the Vatican City
February 18 - Japan declares Manzhouguo (Japanese name for Manchuria) formally independent from China
February 27 - Adolf Hitler gains German citizenship prior to elections
February 27 - Mntsl Rebellion in Finland

March-April

March 1 - Charles Augustus Lindbergh III, the baby 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
April 5 - Prohibition is lifted in Finland at 10 in the morning (local time), inventing a new mnemonic "543210".
April 6 - U.S. president Herbert Hoover supports armament limitations
April 10 - Paul von Hindenburg elected president of Germany. Adolf Hitler receives over 13 million votes.
April 17 - Haile Selassie announces an anti-slavery law in Abyssinia
April 19 - German art dealer Otto Wacker is sentenced for 19 months for selling fraudulent paintings of Vincent van Gogh

May-June

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 15 incident occurs.
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 6 - The Revenue Act of 1932 is enacted, creating the first gas tax in the United States (1 cent per gallon sold).
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-October

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 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.
August 6 - First Venice Film Festival
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 Gring 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 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 15 - Tata Airlines (later to become Air India) makes its first flight
October 19 - Wedding of Prince Gustav Adolf of Sweden and Princess Sibylla of Sachse-Coburg

November-December

November 1 - San Francisco Opera House opened
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 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
November 24 - In Washington, DC, the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens.
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

unknown dates

Saudi Arabia declared as a unified nation with Ibn Saud 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
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.