1932

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Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
  • 1929
  • 1930
  • 1931
  • 1932
  • 1933
  • 1934
  • 1935
1932 in various
Minguo calendar
ROC 21
民國21年
Nanakshahi calendar464
Thai solar calendar2474–2475
Tibetan calendar阴金羊年
(female Iron-Goat)
2058 or 1677 or 905
    — to —
阳水猴年
(male Water-Monkey)
2059 or 1678 or 906

1932 (MCMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1932nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 932nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 32nd year of the 20th century, and the 3rd year of the 1930s decade.

Events

January

February

March

April

May

  • May 6
    • Paul Gorguloff shoots French president Paul Doumer in Paris; Doumer dies the next day.
    • The politically powerful General Kurt von Schleicher meets secretly with Adolf Hitler.[6] Schleicher tells Hitler that he is scheming to bring down the Brüning government in Germany and asks for Nazi support of the new "presidential government" Schleicher is planning to form.[6] Schleicher and Hitler negotiate a "gentlemen's agreement" where in exchange for lifting the ban on the SA and SS and having the Reichstag dissolved for early elections this summer, the Nazis will support Schleicher's new chancellor.
  • May 10
  • May 12 – General Wilhelm Groener resigns as German Defense Minister.[6] Schleicher takes control of the Defense Ministry.
  • May 13 – The Premier of New South Wales, Jack Lang, is dismissed by the State Governor, Sir Philip Game.
  • Tsuyoshi Inukai
    is assassinated by naval officers. Japanese troops leave Shanghai.
  • May 16 – Massive riots between Hindus and Muslims in Bombay leave thousands dead and injured.
  • May 2021Amelia Earhart flies from the United States to County Londonderry, Northern Ireland in 14 hours 54 minutes.
  • Federación Obrera de la Industria de la Carne initiates a major strike in the Argentinian
    meat-packing industry.
  • May 25Goofy makes his appearance in the Disney animated short Mickey's Revue.
  • May 26 – Judgement in Donoghue v Stevenson handed down in the House of Lords of the United Kingdom, creating the modern concept of a duty of care in English law.
  • May 30 – German chancellor Heinrich Brüning is dismissed by President von Hindenburg. President Hindenburg asks Franz von Papen to form a new government, known as the "Government of the President's Friends", which is openly dedicated to the destruction of democracy and the Weimar Republic. The downfall of Brüning is largely the work of Schleicher, who has been scheming against him since the beginning of May.[4] Schleicher takes the position of Defense Minister in his friend Papen's government.

June

July

August

  • August – A farmers' revolt begins in the Midwestern United States.
  • August 1
  • Carl D. Anderson
    .
  • August 5 – Hitler meets with Schleicher and reneges on the "gentlemen's agreement", demanding that he be appointed Chancellor.[11] Schleicher agrees to support Hitler as Chancellor provided that he can remain minister of defense.[12] Schleicher sets up a meeting between Hindenburg and Hitler on August 13 to discuss Hitler's possible appointment as Chancellor.
  • August 6
  • August 9 – In Germany:
    • The Papen government, which likes to take a tough "law and order" stance, passes via Article 48 a law prescribing the death penalty for a variety of offenses and with the court system simplified so that the courts can hand down as many death sentences as possible.[13]
    • Brownshirts" break into the house of Konrad Pietrzuch, a Communist miner, and proceed to castrate and beat him to death in front of his mother.[14]
  • August 10 – A 5.1 kg chondrite-type meteorite breaks into fragments and strikes earth near the town of Archie, Missouri, United States.
  • August 11 – To celebrate Constitution Day in Germany, Chancellor Franz von Papen and his interior minister Baron Wilhelm von Gayl present proposed amendments to the Weimar constitution for a "New State" to deal with the problems besetting Germany.[15]
  • August 13 – Hitler meets President von Hindenburg and asks to be appointed as Chancellor.[16] Hindenburg refuses under the grounds that Hitler is not qualified to be Chancellor and asks him instead to serve as Vice-Chancellor in Papen's government.[15] Hitler announces his "all or nothing" strategy in which he will oppose any government not headed by himself and will accept no office other than Chancellor.
  • August 18Auguste Piccard reaches an altitude of 16,197 m (53,140 ft) with a hot air balloon.
  • August 1819 – Scottish aviator Jim Mollison becomes the first pilot to make an East-to-West solo transatlantic flight, from Portmarnock, County Dublin, Ireland to RCAF Station Pennfield Ridge, New Brunswick, Canada, in his de Havilland Puss Moth high-wing monoplane The Heart's Content.
  • August 20 – The Ottawa conference ends with the adoption of Imperial Preference tariff, turning the British Empire into one economic zone with a series of tariffs meant to exclude non-empire states from competing within the markets of Britain; the Dominions; and the rest of the empire.
  • August 22Potempa murder: The five SA men involved in the torture and murder of Konrad Pietrzuch are quickly convicted and sentenced to death under the new law introduced by the Papen government.[13] The Potempa case becomes a cause célèbre in Germany, where some maintain the death sentences are appropriate given the brutality of the torture and murder, whilst Nazis demonstrate for amnesty for the "Potempa five" on the grounds they are patriotic heroes, justified in killing the Communist Pietrzuch, and should not be executed. Hitler sends a telegram congratulating the five[13] and they are released from jail in 1933 after he becomes Chancellor of Germany.[17]
  • August 23 – The Panama Civil Aviation Authority is established.
  • August 30Hermann Göring is elected as Speaker of the German Reichstag.
  • total solar eclipse
    is visible from northern Canada through northeastern Vermont, New Hampshire, southwestern Maine and the Capes of Massachusetts.

September

  • September 2 – Despite the court's sentence of death against the "Potempa five", Chancellor von Papen in his capacity as Reich Commissioner of Prussia refuses to have the "Potempa five" executed under the grounds that they were not aware of the emergency law at the time they committed the murder, but in reality because he is still hoping for Nazi support for his government.[13]
  • September 9
    • The
      modern history
      .
    • Beginning of the Chaco War between Paraguay and Bolivia because of delimitation problems and others.
  • September 10 – The IND Eighth Avenue Line, at this time the world's longest subway line (31 miles (50 km)), begins operation in Manhattan.[18]
  • September 11
  • September 12 – The very unpopular Papen government in Germany is defeated on a massive motion of no-confidence in the Reichstag. With the exceptions of the German People's Party and the German National People's Party, every party in the Reichstag votes for the no-confidence motion. Papen has Hindenburg dissolve the Reichstag for new elections in November.
  • September 17
  • Poona
    prison, India.
  • Soviet famine of 1932–33
    begins; millions starve to death as a result of forced collectivization and as part of the government's effort to break rural resistance to its policies. The Soviet regime denies the famine and allows the deaths.
  • Ibn Saud
    .
  • September 24 – After his party's victory in the election to the Swedish Riksdag's second chamber, Social Democrat Per Albin Hansson becomes the new Prime Minister of Sweden, after Felix Hamrin.
  • Ryutin Affair
    at its height in the Soviet Union. The Politburo meets and condemns the so-called "Ryutin Platform" and agrees to expel those associated with it from the Communist Party, but refuses Stalin's request to execute those associated with the Platform.

October

November

Cipher Bureau breaks the German Enigma cipher and overcomes the ever-growing structural and operating complexities of the evolving Enigma with plugboard
, the main German cipher device during World War II.

December

  • World Disarmament Conference after the others powers agree to accept gleichberechtigung[clarification needed] "in principle". Henceforward, it is clear that Germany will be allowed to rearm beyond the limits imposed by the Treaty of Versailles
    .
  • December 3 – Hindenburg names Kurt von Schleicher as German chancellor after he ousts Papen. Papen is deeply angry about how his former friend Schleicher has brought him down and decides that he will do anything to get back into power.
  • December 4 – Chancellor Schleicher meets with Gregor Strasser and offers to appoint him Vice-Chancellor and Reich Commissioner for Prussia out of the hope that if faced with a split in the NSDAP, Hitler will support his government.[22]
  • December 5 – At a secret meeting of the Nazi leaders, Strasser urges Hitler to drop his "all or nothing" strategy and accept Schleicher's offer to have the Nazis serve in his cabinet.[23] Hitler gives a dramatic speech saying that Schleicher's offer is not acceptable and he will stick to his "all or nothing" strategy whatever the consequences might be and wins the Nazi leadership over to his viewpoint.[23]
  • December 8Gregor Strasser resigns as the chief of the NSDAP's organizational department in protest against Hitler's "all or nothing" strategy.[24]
  • December 10 – The Emu War in Australia ends in failure.
  • December 12 – Japan and the Soviet Union reform their diplomatic connections.[clarification needed]
  • December 19BBC World Service begins broadcasting as the BBC Empire Service using a shortwave radio facility at its Daventry transmitting station in England.
  • December 25
  • December 27 – Internal passports are introduced in the Soviet Union.
  • December 28 – The Cologne banker Kurt von Schröder-who is a close friend of Papen and a NSDAP member-meets with Adolf Hitler to tell him that Papen wants to set up a meeting to discuss how they can work together. Papen wants Nazi support to return to the Chancellorship while Hitler wants Papen to convince Hindenburg to appoint him Chancellor. Hitler agrees to meet Papen on January 3, 1933.

Date unknown

Births

Births
January · February · March · April · May · June · July · August · September · October · November · December

January

Umberto Eco
Piper Laurie

February

John Williams
Ted Kennedy
Johnny Cash
Dame Elizabeth Taylor

March

Ryszard Kapuściński
Alan Bean
John Updike

April

Debbie Reynolds
Omar Sharif
Casey Kasem

May

Phyllida Law

June

David Scott
Dudley R. Herschbach
Amrish Puri
Pat Morita

July

Gyula Horn
Otis Davis
John Searle

August

Peter O'Toole
Luc Montagnier

September

Ingemar Johansson
Adolfo Suárez
Manmohan Singh
Oliver E. Williamson
Rainer Weiss

October

Dick Gregory
Sylvia Plath

November

Roy Scheider
Benigno Aquino Jr.
Jacques Chirac

December

Little Richard

Deaths

January – February

Edgar Wallace
Saint Angela of the Cross
Paolo Boselli
Louise Reed Stowell
Wilhelm Ostwald

March – April

Madame Minna Craucher

May – June

July – August

King Manuel II of Portugal
Kate M. Gordon
Duke Alexander Petrovich of Oldenburg
C. C. van Asch van Wijck

September – October

November – December

Nobel Prizes

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