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- Jan 1 Jacob Cocey Sr chosen as Mayor of Massillon, Ohio
Gandhi and Nehru Arrested
Jan 4 British Viceroy of India Lord Willingdon arrests Indian independence leaders Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru
- Jan 4 State of siege proclaimed in Honduras
- Jan 7 1st game played at Orchard Lake Curling Club, Mich
- Jan 8 Ratification of present San Francisco City Charter
- Jan 10 "Mickey Mouse" & "Silly Symphony" comics syndicated
- Jan 10 "Pete the Tramp" cartoon strip by C D Russell debuts
- Jan 12 Hattie W Caraway elected 1st woman senator (D-Ark)
- Jan 12 Philip Barry's play "The Animal Kingdom" premieres in NYC
- Jan 14 1st totalisator (to record racetrack bets) in US installed, Hialeah
Jockey Arcaro Wins 1st Race
Jan 14 Racing Hall of Fame jockey Eddie Arcaro wins his 1st race at Agua Caliente racetrack in Tijuana, Mexico - aged 16 years
- Jan 15 Record snowfall of 2 inches in city of Los Angeles, California
- Jan 19 Charlie Conacher becomes first Toronto player to score 5 goals in an NHL game as Maple Leafs rout the NY Americans, 11-3 at Maple Leaf Gardens
- Jan 21 USSR and Finland stop non-attack treaty
- Jan 23 El Salvador army kills 4,000 protesting farmers
- Jan 25 1st commencement exercises at Hebrew U in Jerusalem
- Jan 26 British submarine M-2 sinks in English Channel (60 dead)
- Jan 26 KUT-AM in Austin Texas changes call letters to KNOW
- Jan 28 1st US state unemployment insurance act enacted (Wisconsin)
- Jan 28 Japanese forces attack Shanghai.
- Jan 30 Clarrie Grimmett 7-116 in South Africa 1st innings at Adelaide Oval
- Jan 31 US railway unions accept 10% wage reduction
Bradman's 299 Not Out
Feb 1 Australian cricket's master batsman Don Bradman scores 299 not out in 10 wicket 4th Test win vs South Africa in Adelaide; runs out of partners going for 300
- Feb 2 Australian spin bowler Clarrie Grimmett takes 14 wickets v South Africa (7-116 & 7-83)
- Feb 2 Geneva disarmament conference begins with 60 countries
- Feb 2 Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) organized in the US to provide financial support to state and local governments and to make loans to banks, railroads, mortgage associations and other businesses
"Shanghai Express"
Feb 3 "Shanghai Express" directed by Josef von Sternberg and starring Marlene Dietrich, Clive Brook and Anna Mae Wong premieres in Los Angeles
- Feb 4 III Winter Olympic Games open in Lake Placid, New York
- Feb 4 Japanese troops occupy Harbin, Manchuria
- Feb 5 American speed skater Jack Shea wins the 1,500m at the Lake Placid Winter Olympics; clinches sprint double after also taking out the 500m
- Feb 6 1st Olympic dog sled race at Lake Placid, New York (demonstration sport)
- Feb 6 Fascist coup in the Memel territory
- Feb 8 American speed skater Irving Jaffee wins the 10,000m at the Lake Placid Winter Olympics; clinches distance double after also taking out the 5,000m
- Feb 9 US airship Columbia crashes during storm (Flushing, NY)
- Feb 9 USA enters Olympic 2-man bobsled competition for 1st time
- Feb 10 Sweden goes 1-2 in the 18k cross country event at the Lake Placid Winter Olympics; Sven Utterström wins gold ahead of teammate Axel Wikström
- Feb 11 73°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in February
- Feb 11 Johan Grøttumsbraaten leads a Norwegian medal sweep of the Nordic combined event at the Lake Placid Games; retains combined title after also winning in St. Moritz
- Feb 12 49-year-old Australian cricket spin bowler Bert Ironmonger captures 5-6 as South Africa dismissed for 36 in 5th Test in Melbourne; Australia wins by an innings & 72 runs; series 5-0
- Feb 12 Communist Party of Holland forms Unemployed Combat Committees
- Feb 12 Karl Schäfer of Austria wins the first of 2 consecutive men’s figure skating Olympic gold medals at the Lake Placid Winter Games in the United States
Olympic Gold
Feb 12 Sonja Henie of Norway wins her 2nd of 3 consecutive Olympic gold medals in women’s figure skating at the Lake Placid Winter Games; beats Austria’s Fritzi Burger into 2nd place for 2nd straight Games
- Feb 12 World champion French husband and wife team Pierrre and Andrée Brunet win their 2nd consecutive Olympic pairs figure skating gold medal at the Lake Placid Games
- Feb 13 "Free Eats" introduces George "Spanky" McFarland to "Our Gang"
- Feb 13 A 2-2 final round tie with the US is good enough for Canada to clinch its 4th consecutive Olympic ice hockey gold medal at Lake Placid; Canadian center Walter Monson is tournament top scorer with 11 points
- Feb 13 Finland goes 1-2 in the 50k cross country event at the Lake Placid Winter Olympics; Veli Saarinen wins gold ahead of teammate Väinö Liikkanen
- Feb 14 The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show debuts on CBS radio, airing there until 1937, moving to NBC until 1949, and returning to CBS in 1949, before moving to television
- Feb 15 American brothers Hubert and Curtis Stevens beat the 8-nation field to win the 2-man bobsleigh gold medal at the Lake Placid Winter Olympics
Olympic Gold
Feb 15 As a member of gold medal winning US 4-man bobsleigh team at Lake Placid, Eddie Eagan (boxing gold Antwerp 1920) becomes only Olympian to win gold medals at both summer & winter Games in different sports
- Feb 15 Australia beat South Africa in cricket by an innings in 5 hrs 53 min playing time
- Feb 15 George Burns & Gracie Allen debut as regulars on the "Guy Lombardo Show"
- Feb 15 III Winter Olympic Games close at Lake Placid, New York
There's Always Juliet
Feb 15 John Van Druten's play "There's Always Juliet" premieres in NYC
- Feb 16 1st patent for a tree issued to James Markham for a peach tree
- Feb 18 Japan proclaims and names Manchukuo in Manchuria, China, as an independent state
- Feb 18 Norway's Sonja Henie wins her 6th straight World Women's figure skating title
Event of Interest
Feb 19 William Faulkner completes his novel "Light in August"
- Feb 20 Japanese troops occupy Tunhua China
Fall of Laval's Government
Feb 20 Pierre Laval's first French government falls
Sports History
Feb 24 Malcolm Campbell sets world land speed record speed of 253.96 mph driving his famous Blue Bird car at Daytona Beach, Florida
Event of Interest
Feb 25 Austrian immigrant Adolf Hitler gets German citizenship
- Feb 27 Explosion in coal mine Boissevain, Virginia, USA leaves 38 dead
- Feb 29 Failed coup attempt by fascist Lapua Movement in Finland
- Feb 29 TIME magazine features eccentric American politician William "Alfalfa" Murray on its cover after Murray stated his intention to run for President of the United States.
- Mar 1 12 pro-independence revolutionaries captured in and around Chittagong in Bengal province, British India are sentenced to deportation for life, two to three-year prison terms with the remaining 32 being acquitted.
Lindbergh kidnapping
Mar 1 The "Lindbergh kidnapping", 20 month old son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh kidnapped from home in East Amwell, New Jersey, found dead 12 May
De Valera Executive Council President
Mar 9 Fianna Fáil head Eamon De Valera elected President of Ireland's Executive Council
- Mar 9 Former Chinese emperor Henry Pu-Yi installed as head of Manchuria
- Mar 17 German police raid Adolf Hitler's Nazi headquarters
Morenz Surpasses Denneny
Mar 17 Montreal Canadiens center Howie Morenz registers his 334th career point with an assist in a 10-4 win v NY Americans; passes Cy Denneny as NHL leader for career points
Jack Benny Debut
Mar 29 Jack Benny debuts on radio, on Ed Sullivan's New York interview program
- Mar 31 150 wild swans die in Niagara Falls
- Mar 31 Ford publicly unveils its V-8 engine
Tarzan the Ape Man
Apr 2 "Tarzan the Ape Man" released starring Olympic swimmer Johnny Weissmuller in the first of his 12 Tarzan films
Lindbergh Pays Ransom
Apr 2 Charles Lindbergh turns over $50,000 as ransom for his kidnapped son
- Apr 4 Charles G. King, University of Pittsburgh isolates Vitamin C, using adrenal samples provided by Hungarian Albert Szent-Györgyi
Too True To Be Good
Apr 4 George Bernard Shaw's comedy play "Too True To Be Good" premieres in NYC; runs for 59 performances
- Apr 5 Dominion of Newfoundland: 10,000 rioters seize the Colonial Building leading to the end of self-government
- Apr 5 Dutch textile strike broken by trade unions
Event of Interest
Apr 9 German banking regulator Hans Luther is shot and suffers a shoulder wound at the Potsdam, Germany train station by an assailant who disliked his fiscal policies
- Apr 9 Stanley Cup Final, Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, ON: Toronto Maple Leafs beat New York Rangers, 6-4 for 3-0 series sweep; Toronto's first SC as the Maple Leafs
Hindenburg President
Apr 10 Paul von Hindenburg is re-elected President of Germany in a runoff election against Adolf Hitler
Grand Hotel
Apr 12 "Grand Hotel" directed by Edmund Goulding and starring Greta Garbo and John Barrymore premieres in New York, includes the line "I want to be alone" (Best Picture/Production 1932)
- Apr 12 Emmanuel Chabriers & Balanchines ballet premieres in Monte Carlo
Jeux d'Enfants
Apr 14 Léonide Massine & Joan Miro's adaptation for dance of Georges Bizet's "Jeux d'Enfants" premieres with the Ballet Russe de Monte-Carlo, at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo
- Apr 14 World's first particle accelerator built by Ernest Walton and John Cockcroft performs the first artificial nuclear fission with Lithium at Cambridge University [1]
The Music Box
Apr 16 Short film "The Music Box" released in the US, starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy (1932 Academy Award Best Live Action Short Film)
Haile Selassie Ends Slavery
Apr 17 Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia ends slavery
Bonnie Parker Captured
Apr 19 Bonnie Parker is captured in a failed hardware store burglary, and subsequently jailed; a grand jury fails to indict her, however, and she is released a few months later
Hoover's Five-Day Week
Apr 19 US President Herbert Hoover suggests five-day work week
- Apr 23 153-year old De Adriaan Windmill in Haarlem, the Netherlands, burns down
Shakespeare Memorial Theatre
Apr 23 Shakespeare Memorial Theatre opens at Stratford-on-Avon, England
The Ermine
Apr 26 Jean Anouilh's play "L'Hermine (The Ermine)" premieres in Paris
Radio Premiere
May 2 American comedian Jack Benny's 1st radio show premieres (NBC Blue Network)
Event of Interest
May 2 Pulitzer Prize for Literature awarded to novelist Pearl S. Buck for "The Good Earth", the first American woman to win
- May 3 24 tourists begin 1st air-charter holiday from London, England to Basel, Switzerland
- May 5 Japan and China sign t he Shanghai Ceasefire Agreement. making Shanghai a demilitarized zone
- May 9 Piccadilly Circus, London, first lit by electricity
- May 9 WOC-AM in Davenport Iowa merges with WHO to become WHO-WOC
- May 10 Government declares "Wilhelmus" as the Netherlands' national anthem
- May 10 Senate chairman Albert Lebrun becomes President of France
- May 12 Body of kidnapped son of Charles Lindbergh is found in Hopewell, New Jersey
- May 14 "We Want Beer!" parade in NY
- May 15 The 15th May Incident: in an attempted coup d'état, the Prime Minister of Japan Inukai Tsuyoshi is shot and killed by Navy officers in his home
- May 16 Yanks 4th straight shutout to equal record set by Cleveland & Boston
- May 17 US Congress changes name "Porto Rico" to "Puerto Rico"
Amelia Earhart Departs Newfoundland
May 20 Amelia Earhart leaves Newfoundland on her journey to become the 1st woman to fly solo and nonstop across the Atlantic
- May 20 Engelbert Dollfuss becomes chancellor of Austria
Earhart Crosses the Atlantic
May 21 After flying for 17 hours from Newfoundland, Amelia Earhart lands near Londonderry, Northern Ireland, completing the first transatlantic solo flight by a woman
- May 23 Australian cyclist Hubert Opperman sets paced world records 1,384km in 24 hours, and 1,609km (1,000 miles) in 28 hours, 55 minutes, 39 seconds at Melbourne Motordrome
- May 25 Goofy, aka Dippy Dawg, 1st appears in 'Mickey's Revue' by Walt Disney
- May 26 Admiral Makoto Saito forms parliament in Tokyo
- May 28 Netherlands closes off the Zuiderzee - a new system of dams and dykes to reclaim land and provide flood protection. The country's largest hydraulic engineering project of the 20th century.
- May 29 The Bonus Army of World War I veterans begins to assemble in Washington, D.C. to request cash bonuses promised to them to be paid in 1945
- May 30 Yankees dedicate a plaque to Miller Huggins
Chancellor Franz von Papen
Jun 1 Franz von Papen becomes Reich Chancellor of Germany
- Jun 2 Fisherman George W. Perry catches the world record largemouth bass, weighing in at 22 pounds, 4 ounces, at Lake Montgomery, Georgia
- Jun 2 German Chancellor Franz von Papen forms his "Cabinet of the Barons"
Gehrig 1st to Hit Four HRs
Jun 3 Future Baseball Hall of Fame first baseman Lou Gehrig first to hit 4 consecutive HRs in a MLB game; NY Yankees beat Philadelphia A's, 20-13 at Shibe Park
- Jun 3 German President Paul von Hindenburg disbands Heinrich Brüning's Parliament
- Jun 3 John McGraw, who came to NY in 1902, resigns as manager of Giants
- Jun 4 Chilean coup led by Colonel Marmaduke Grove against President Juan Esteban Montero
Event of Interest
Jun 4 Edouard Herriot becomes Premier of France
- Jun 6 Ijsselmeervogels soccer team forms in Spakenburg
- Jun 6 The Revenue Act of 1932 is enacted, creating the first gas tax in the United States, at a rate of 1 cent per US gallon (1/4 ¢/L) sold
- Jun 7 At 47, Brooklyn pitcher Jack Quinn becomes oldest player in MLB history to record an extra-base hit (double) as the Dodgers beat Chicago Cubs, 9-2
- Jun 10 1st demonstration of artificial lightning Pittsfield, Massachusetts
- Jun 13 Great Britain and France sign peace treaty
- Jun 14 German government of Franz von Papen forms
- Jun 16 Germany forbids SA/SS-gang fights
- Jun 16 Sutcliffe and Holmes make 555 opening cricket stand for Yorkshire v Essex
- Jun 16 US President Herbert Hoover and Vice President Charles Curtis renominated by Republican Convention
- Jun 17 Bonus Army: around a thousand World War I veterans amass at the United States Capitol as the US Senate considers a bill that would give them certain benefits
- Jun 17 Oil tanker Cymbeline explodes in Montreal, Canada
- Jun 19 1st concert given in San Francisco's Stern Grove
- Jun 19 Hailstones kill 200 in Hunan Province, China
- Jun 20 A's Roger Cramer gets 6 consecutive hits in a game (repeats in 1935)
Max Schmeling vs Jack Sharkey
Jun 21 German champion Max Schmeling loses NYSAC, NBA and lineal heavyweight boxing titles in controversial split points decision to American Jack Sharkey in NYC, New York
- Jun 22 Congress approves "Lindbergh Act" making kidnapping a federal offense (amended 1934)
- Jun 22 NL finally approves players wearing numbers
- Jun 23 St Louis Browns beat NY Yankees, 14-10; Lou Gehrig's 1,103rd consecutive game in a Yankees uniform, equaling Joe Sewell's record with one team (Cleveland Indians)
- Jun 24 Coup ends absolute monarchy in Thailand
- Jun 25 Commencement of India's 1st cricket Test v England at Lord's, London (England initially rattled but go on to win)
- Jun 29 USSR & China sign non-aggression treaty
Roosevelt Nominated for President
Jul 1 NY Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt nominated for president at Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois
- Jul 1 NY newspaper Evening Standard goes bankrupt
Hagen Wins 5th Western Open
Jul 2 American golfer Walter Hagen wins his 5th and last Western Open in Cleveland, 16 years after he won his first
- Jul 2 FDR makes 1st presidential nominating conventional acceptance speech
- Jul 3 After 30 years as manager of the New York Giants, John McGraw retires from baseball (2,583 wins / 1,948 losses NY)
- Jul 4 Don Bradman scores a North American record 260 v Western Ontario in Guelph during Australian cricket team's Goodwill Tour of North America
Estado Novo Regime
Jul 5 António de Oliveira Salazar becomes the premier and dictator of Portugal (1932-1968), founding the authoritarian Estado Novo (New State) regime
- Jul 6 1st class postage back up to 3 cents from 2 cents
- Jul 6 Cubs' future All Star shortstop Billy Jurges is shot twice in Chicago hotel room by a spurned girlfriend, Violet Popovich Valli; no charges laid
- Jul 7 Australian cricket batsman supreme Don Bradman scores a double century during a Goodwill Tour in Montreal, Canada
- Jul 8 Depression low point of Dow Jones Industrial Average, 41.22
- Jul 8 Herbert Sutcliffe scores his 100th 100, Yorkshire v Gloucshire
- Jul 9 The state of São Paulo revolts against the Brazilian federal government, starting the Constitutionalist Revolution
- Jul 9 Washington Redskins (then Boston Braves) formed
- Jul 9 Yanks' Ben Chapman hits 2 inside-the-park HRs, tying record
- Jul 10 Jack Burnett gets 9 hits, Eddie Rommel relieves in 2nd 18-17 victory in 18 as his A's beats Indians in longest relief job
- Jul 12 Hedley Verity establishes a first-class cricket record by taking all ten wickets for only ten runs against Nottinghamshire on a pitch affected by a storm
- Jul 14 Belgian Chamber rules Dutch language for education of Flanders
- Jul 15 LPGA Western Open Women's Golf, Ozaukee CC: Jane Weiller beats June Beebe 5 & 4 for golf's only major title
- Jul 15 US President Herbert Hoover cuts own salary 15%
- Jul 18 Belgium, Luxembourg & Netherlands sign Ouchy Convention, a customs treaty
- Jul 18 US and Canada sign a treaty to develop St Lawrence Seaway
The Babe meets The Don
Jul 20 An injured Babe Ruth entertains the touring Australian cricketers in his private box at Yankee Stadium as his NY Yankees beat Chicago White Sox, 7-2; 'The Babe' meets 'The Don' (Don Bradman)
- Jul 20 Franz von Papen launches a coup against the Prussian government
- Jul 20 In Washington, D.C., police fire tear gas on World War I veterans part of the Bonus Expeditionary Force who attempt to march to the White House
- Jul 27 Paul Gorgoulov, assassin of French president Doumer, sentenced to death
White Zombie
Jul 28 "White Zombie" - 1st feature length zombie film directed by Victor Halperin and starring Bela Lugosi is released in the US
- Jul 28 US President Herbert Hoover uses federal troops to evict the Bonus Army (WWI veterans and their families) from their encampment, 4 die
- Jul 29 Great Depression: in Washington, D.C., U.S. troops disperse the last of the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans
- Jul 30 X Summer Olympic Games open in Los Angeles, California
- Jul 31 Cleveland Indians christen their new home, Municipal Stadium before more than 76,000 fans; lose opener, 1-0 to the Philadelphia A's
- Jul 31 German Election (NSDAP gets 37.3%)
- Aug 1 George Washington quarter goes into circulation
Discovery of the Positron
Aug 2 Carl David Anderson discovers and photographs a positron, the first known antiparticle
- Aug 3 Official automatic timing & photo-finish camera for track events is used for the 1st time at Los Angeles Olympics, instrumental in changing 110m hurdles final, review gives Donald Finley bronze ahead of American Jack Keller
Barrow Gang Kills Lawman
Aug 5 Clyde Barrow and two associates kill Sheriff C.G. Maxwell and his deputy, Eugene C. Moore, the first time the Barrow gang kills a lawman
- Aug 10 A 5.1-kg (11.2-pound) chondrite-type meteorite breaks into at least seven pieces and lands near the town of Archie in Cass County, Missouri.
- Aug 10 The Lego Group founded in Billund, Denmark, by Ole Kirk Christiansen; name is contraction of Danish words 'leg godt' ('play well' in English)
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