Events Date 1932 P 2 | History by KabAstro

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Hitler Refuses Hindenburg Proposal

Aug 13 Adolf Hitler refuses President von Hindenburg's proposal to become vice-chancellor of Germany

Ruffing's Winning HR

Aug 13 Yankees hurler Red Ruffing becomes first MLB pitcher since 1906 to hit an extra-inning, game-winning home run in NY's 1-0 win over the Senators in Washington

Baseball Hall of Fame Pitcher Red Ruffing

Aug 14 Brooklyn Dodgers reliever John Quinn, 49, becomes oldest pitcher to win a MLB game in a 2-1, 10th inning victory over NY Giants at the Polo Grounds
Aug 14 Philips makes 1 millionth radio
Aug 14 X Summer Olympic Games close in Los Angeles, California
Aug 18 Auguste Piccard and Max Cosyns reach 16,201m in a balloon launched from Dübendorf, Switzerland
Aug 18 Englishman James Mollisson is 1st to fly east to west over Atlantic

Ferrell's 20 Game Record

Aug 21 Cleveland Indians pitcher Wes Ferrell first to win 20 games in each of his 1st 4 seasons

Aug 22 BBC begins experimental regular TV broadcasts

Earhart's Record Flight

Aug 24 1st transcontinental non-stop flight by a woman, Amelia Earhart begins in Los Angeles, California

Aug 25 Amelia Earhart completes transcontinental non-stop flight, the first by a woman, landing in Newark, New Jersey
Aug 27 200,000 English textile workers strike
Aug 27 International anti-war congress opens in Amsterdam
Aug 29 International Anti-War Committee forms in Amsterdam
Aug 29 United Cigar Stores shuts 800 shops

Göring Elected President

Aug 30 Hermann Goering elected President of the German Reichstag

Sep 1 NYC Mayor James J "Gentleman Jimmy" Walker resigns (graft charges)

Jimmie Foxx Hits #51

Sep 3 A's first baseman Jimmie Foxx smashes his 50th & 51st home runs to become only 3rd player to reach 50 in a MLB season; joins Babe Ruth & Hack Wilson

MLB Hall of Fame 1st Baseman Jimmie Foxx

Baseball Hall of Fame Outfielder Hack Wilson

Sep 5 The French Upper Volta is broken apart between Ivory Coast, French Sudan, and Niger
Sep 7 Earl Grace, ends NL catcher record streak of 110 cons errorless games
Sep 9 Frank Crosetti ties record, striking out twice in 1 inning
Sep 9 Mine strikes at Belgian Borinage ends
Sep 9 Spanish Cortes grants Catalonia autonomy
Sep 9 Steamboat SS Observation explodes in NYC East River with 71 killed
Sep 10 Dodgers' Johnny Frederick hits record 6th pinch-hit HR of the season
Sep 10 Independent City Owned Rapid Transit Railroad (IND) opens in NYC
Sep 11 Polish aviators Franciszek Żwirko (36) and Stanisław Wigura (31), international 'Challenge 1932' winners, are killed when their RWD- 6 plane crashes in a forest of Těrlicko, Czechoslovakia during a storm enroute to an air meet in Prague
Sep 12 Brooklyn Dodger Johnny Frederick hits his record 6th pinch hit HR
Sep 12 German government of Papen falls and the Reichstag dissolved
Sep 13 NY Yankees clinch their 7th AL pennant
Sep 14 Military coup in Chile under Arturo Alessandri
Sep 16 30.8 cm rainfall at Westerly, Rhode Island (state record)
Sep 16 British actress Peg Entwistle (24) commits suicide by jumping from the letter "H" in the "Hollywoodland" (now "Hollywood") sign in Los Angeles, California [1]
Sep 20 Chicago Cubs clinch the NL pennant
Sep 20 Dutch South Seas rebaptized in IJsselmeer

Gandhi Begins Hunger Strike

Sep 20 Mahatma Gandhi begins a hunger strike against the way Hindu untouchables are treated

Pacifist and Spiritual Leader Mahatma Gandhi

Sep 22 Hungarian government of Károlyi falls

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Sep 23 Abdulaziz Ibn Saud merges the Kingdom of Nejd and Hejaz into the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

FDR Visits Los Angeles

Sep 24 New York Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt visits Los Angeles, California

Sep 25 Jimmie Foxx hits his 58th HR in last game of season
Sep 25 Poona Act signed by Madan Mohan Malaviya and B R. Amedkar in India, reserving legislative seats for depressed classes (untouchables)

Bill of Divorcement

Sep 29 Film "Bill of Divorcement" starring John Barrymore and Katharine Hepburn, directed by George Cukor premieres at the Mayfair

British Union of Fascists

Oct 1 Oswald Mosley forms British Union of Fascists

Oct 2 Washington Redskins (as Boston Braves) play franchise's debut NFL game; lose 14-0 to Brooklyn Dodgers at Braves Field
Oct 3 Iraq gains full independence from Britain, joins League of Nations
Oct 4 Anti-semite Julius Gombos forms new government in Hungary
Oct 5 With new ownership Detroit Falcons officially change name to Detroit Red Wings, and the Winged Wheel is introduced; previous names Cougars (1926-30), Falcons (1930-32)
Oct 8 The Indian Air Force is established

Stalin Expels Kamenev and Zinoviev

Oct 9 Soviet leader Joseph Stalin expels Lev Kamenev and Grigory Zinoviev from the Communist Party after a power struggle

Oct 10 "Betty & Bob" premieres on radio
Oct 10 Dnjepr Dam in USSR put into operation (world's biggest)
Oct 11 1st political telecast (Democratic National Committee) at CBS, NYC
Oct 15 Tata Airlines (later to become Air India) makes its first flight
Oct 18 Belgium government of Renkin falls
Oct 19 Austria forbids demonstration by Nazis & anti fascists
Oct 19 British government signs trade agreement with Soviet Union

Henry Ford on the Radio

Oct 19 Henry Ford gives his 1st radio speech

Oct 19 Jimmie Foxx wins AL MVP and Chuck Klein wins NL MVP
Oct 20 Journalist Robert Trout joins CBS
Oct 22 Charles de Broqueville becomes premier of Belgium

Red Dust

Oct 22 Film "Red Dust" directed by Victor Fleming, starring Clark Gable, Jean Harlow and Mary Astor premieres

Oct 22 George Kaufman & Edna Ferbers "Dinner at 8" premieres in NYC

The Fred Allen Show

Oct 23 Radio comedy program "The Fred Allen Show" premieres

Oct 24 British government signs trade treaty with USSR

Mussolini's 30 Year Promise

Oct 25 Benito Mussolini promises to remain dictator for 30 years

Oct 25 Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts Company consultant
Oct 29 French liner Normandie is launched

Venizelos Government Falls

Oct 31 Greek government of Eleftherios Venizelos falls after defeat in national elections

Greek Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos

German Rocket Program

Nov 1 Wernher von Braun named head of German liquid-fuel rocket program

Nov 2 The "Great Emu War" begins: Australian soldiers armed with Lewis Guns seek to cull the Emu population over crop destruction in Campion district, Western Australia
Nov 5 Benito Mussolini frees 16,000 convicts
Nov 6 German election - KPD defeats NSDAP
Nov 7 1st broadcast of "Buck Rogers in the 25th century" on CBS-radio
Nov 8 Amidst the Great Depression, Democrat candidate Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected President of the United States, defeating Republican incumbent Herbert Hoover
Nov 9 Hurricane storm wave sweeps over Santa Cruz del Sur Cuba kills 2,500
Nov 9 Riots between conservative and socialist supporters in Switzerland kill 12 and injure 60.
Nov 12 24 killed at Lancashire mine explosion
Nov 15 Walt Disney Art School created
Nov 17 German government of von Papen resigns
Nov 18 "Flowers & Trees" receives 1st Academy Award for a cartoon

First Ever Tie

Nov 18 5th Academy Awards: Fredric March and Wallace Beery in 1st ever tie for Best Actor. "Grand Hotel" and Helen Hayes also win.

Nov 19 Joe Kershalla scores 71 points in a college football game
Nov 19 Shaft & Thyssen demand Adolf Hitler become German chancellor
Nov 20 Earthquake at Uden, Netherlands
Nov 22 Pump patented that computes quantity and price delivered
Nov 24 In Washington, D.C., the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens.

Event of Interest

Nov 24 Newark-Jersey City Viaduct, a 3.5 mile long highway bridge-causeway over the Passaic and Hackensack rivers, and the New Jersey Meadowlands opens; later named the General Casimir Pulaski Skyway, in honor of the Polish military leader who fought in the US Revolutionary War [1]

Nov 27 Poland & USSR sign non-aggression treaty

Groucho Marx

Nov 28 Groucho Marx performs on radio for the first time

Nov 29 France & USSR sign non-aggression pact
Dec 2 "Adventures of Charlie Chan" 1st heard on NBC-Blue radio network
Dec 2 Australia ends Day 1 of controversial 'Bodyline' cricket series v England at 290/6 in Sydney; Stan McCabe 127no (finishes at 187no); notorious England fast bowler Harold Larwood takes 4 wickets; England wins by 10 wickets
Dec 3 Gen Kurt von Schleicher becomes chancellor of Germany

Kurt von Schleicher

Dec 4 Kurt von Schleicher succeeds Franz von Papen as Reich Chancellor of Germany

Einstein Granted Visa

Dec 5 German physicist Albert Einstein granted a visa to enter America

Dec 7 1st gyro-stabilized vessel to cross Atlantic arrives in NY
Dec 10 King Rama VII (Prajadhipok) grants Thailand a constitution
Dec 10 The "Great Emu War" ends: Emu's surprising resilience to bullets led to Emu victory over Australian military in Campion district, Western Australia
Dec 11 San Francisco's coldest day (27°F) - it snows
Dec 12 S N Behrman's "Biography" premieres in NYC
Dec 12 USSR & China resume diplomatic relations

Event of Interest

Dec 14 French government of Édouard Herriot falls

Prime Minister of France Édouard Herriot

Cardinals Trade Bottomley

Dec 17 St. Cardinals trade future Baseball HOF first baseman Jim Bottomley to Cincinnati Reds for Estel Crabtree & Ownie Carroll

Dec 19 British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) begins transmitting overseas
Dec 20 50-year-old Australian cricket Test spinner Bert Ironmonger captures 7-13 as Queensland dismissed for 74; Victoria wins by an innings & 139 runs in Melbourne