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1932 January 1 Jacob Cocey Sr chosen as mayor of Massillon Ohio. [1] Rasse und Siedlungshauptamt publishes Himmler's wedding laws. [1] January 2 Young gang shoot dead 6 police in Springfield Missouri. [1] January 4 Bradman scores 167 for Australia vs South Africa at the MCG. [1] British East Indies Viceroy Willingdon arrests Gandhi and Nehru. [1] State of siege proclaimed in Honduras. [1] January 7 Henri Stroethoff Dutch actor (Bright Paradise), dies at 60. [1] January 8 Ratification of present San Francisco City Charter. [1] January 10 The first "Mickey Mouse" color comic page is published in Sunday editions of newspapers. [1] [6] The first "Silly Symphonies" color comic page is published in Sunday editions of newspapers. The edition is titled "Bucky Bug". [1] [6] "Pete the Tramp" cartoon strip by C D Russell debuts. [1] January 12 France's Laval government falls. [1] Hattie W Caraway elected first woman senator (Democrat-Arkansas). [1] Philip Barry's "Animal Kingdom" premieres in New York City, New York. [1] January 14 First totalisator (to record racetrack bets) in US installed, Hialeah. [1] Horse racing legend Eddie Arcaro won his first race. [1] January 15 Georg Kerschensteiner German educationalist, dies at 77. [1] January 16 Birth of Jim Berry cartoonist (Berry's World). [1] January 19 Charlie Conacher becomes first Toronto Maple Leaf to score five goals in a game, the first coming at 7 seconds of the game. [1] January 21 Finland and the Soviet Union sign a five-year Pact of Non-Agression. [10] [Giles] Lytton Strachey British biographer/critic, dies at 51. [1] January 22 British Anglicans and Old-Catholic church merge. [1] January 23 El Salvador army kills 4,000 protesting farmers. [1] January 25 First commencement exercises at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. [1] Bradman scores 167 New South Wales vs Victoria, 224 minutes, 22 fours. [1] January 26 British submarine M-2 sinks in Channel (60 dead). [1] KUT-AM in Austin Texas changes call letters to KNOW. [1] William K Wrigley owner (Wrigley Gum, Chicago Cubs), dies. [1] January 28 First US state unemployment insurance act enacted-Wisconsin. [1] Franz Xavier Arens composer, dies at 75. [1] Japan occupies Shanghai. [1] January 29 Test debut of Bill O'Reilly, vs South Africa at Adelaide. [1] January 31 US railway unions accept 10% wage reduction. [1] February 1 Bradman makes 299 vs South Africa, runs out partner going for 300th. [1] February 2 Al Capone sent to prison (Atlanta Georgia). [1] In Geneva, a World Disarmament Conference begins. [10] Reconstruction Finance Corp organized. [1] February 4 Japanese troop occupy Harbin, Manchuria. [1] February 6 Fascist coup in the Memel territory. [1] February 8 Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll mobster, killed by Dutch Schultz gang. [1] February 9 Junnosuke Inouye Japanese minister of Finance, murdered. [1] US airship Columbia crashes during storm (Flushing New York). [1] February 10 R H Edgar Wallace British writer/journalist (3 Just Men), dies at 76. [1] February 11 73 degrees F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in February. [1] February 12 Communist Party of Holland forms Unemployed Combat Committees. [1] February 13 "Free Eats" introduces George "Spanky" McFarland to "Our Gang". [1] February 15 George Burns and Gracie Allen debuted as regulars on "Guy Lombardo Show". [1] John Van Druten's "There's Always Juliet" premieres in New York City, New York. [1] Minnie Maddern Fiske actress (Henrik Ibsen's plays), dies at 66. [1] February 16 First patent issued for a tree, to James Markham for a peach tree. [1] February 17 Frans Gailliard Belgian painter/graphic artist (Egina), dies at 70. [1] Irving Berlin's musical "Face the Music" premieres in New York City, New York. [1] February 18 Frederik Augustus III King of Saxon (1904-18), dies at 66. [1] Japan declares Manchuria Independent. [1] February 19 William Faulkner completes his novel "Light in August". [1] February 20 Japanese troops occupy Tunhua China. [1] February 21 André Tardieu becomes premier of France. [1] Camera exposure meter patented, WN Goodwin. [1] February 22 Purple Heart award re-instituted. [1] February 24 Malcolm Campbell drives record speed (253.96 mph) at Daytona. [1] February 25 Immigrant Adolf Hitler gets German citizenship. [1] February 27 Explosion in coal mine Boissevain, Virginia, USA (38 dead). [1] February 29 Failed coup attempt by fascist Lapua Movement in Finland. [1] March 1 Charles Lindbergh Jr (20 months), kidnapped in New Jersey; found dead May 12. [1] Dino Campana Italian poet (Canti Orfici), dies at 46. [1] March 3 Eugene Francis Charles D'albert composer, dies at 67. [1] March 5 Takuma Dan Japanese baron/financier/industrial, murdered. [1] March 6 John Philip Sousa US composer (Stars and Stripes Forever), dies at 77. [1] March 7 Aristide Briand 11 x premier of France (Nobel Prize 1926), dies at 69. [1] Riots at Ford-factory Dearborn Michigan, kills 4. [1] March 8 Jan de Louter Dutch lawyer/tutor of Queen Wilhelmina, dies at 84. [1] March 9 Eamon De Valera becomes President of Ireland. [1] Former Chinese emperor Henry Pu-Yi installed as head of Manchuria. [1] March 12 Ivar Kreuger, Swedish financier, is found shot dead in his Paris apartment, presumably a suicide. [1] [7] [80.56] March 14 George Eastman, US industrialist (Kodak-camera), suicide at 77. [1] [5] March 17 German police raid Hitler's Nazi-headquarter. [1] March 20 Kara-Kalpak Autonomous Region in RSFSR becomes Kara-Kalpak ASSR. [1] March 24 First US radio broadcast from a moving train (Belle Baker, WABC from Maryland). [1] March 26 Jean Cartan composer, dies at 25. [1] March 29 Jack Benny debuts on radio. [1] March 30 Amelia Earhart is first woman to fly solo cross the Atlantic. [1] March 31 150 wild swans die in Niagara waterfall. [1] Ford publicly unveils its V-8 engine. [1] April 2 Charles Lindbergh turns over $50,000 as ransom for kidnapped son. [1] Hugo Kaun composer, dies at 69. [1] April 4 George Bernard Shaw's "Too True to be Good", premieres in New York City. [1] Ottokar T Czernin von und zu Chudenitz Austrian minister, dies at 59. [1] Vitamin C first isolated, C C King, University of Pittsburgh. [1] Wilhelm Ostwald physical chemist (Nobel Prize 1909), dies. [1] April 5 Dutch textile strike broken by trade unions. [1] April 7 Erv A Kelley US policeman, shot to death by Pretty Boy Floyd. [1] April 9 Birth of Paul Krassner comic strip cartoonist (MAD Magazine)/founder (Yippies). [1] April 10 André Baillon Belgian/French author (and sabots), dies at 56. [1] Paul von Hindenburg re-elected President of Germany. [1] April 12 Emmanuel Chabriers and Balanchines ballet premieres in Monte Carlo. [1] April 13 Johannes T de Visser first Dutch minister of Education, dies at 75 [or 14th]. [1] April 14 Bizet, Massine and Miró's "Jeux d'Enfants", premieres in Monte Carlo. [1] April 17 Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia ends slavery. [1] April 19 President Herbert Hoover suggests five day work week. [1] Wladyslaw Rzepko composer, dies at 77. [1] April 20 Giuseppe Peano mathematician, dies. [1] April 23 Shakespeare Memorial Theatre opens at Stratford-on-Avon. [1] April 24 German national election (NSDAP 36.3% in Prussia). [1] April 25 Rose Franken's "Another Language", premieres in New York City. [1] April 26 Jean Anouilh's "L'Ermine", premieres in Paris France. [1] April 27 Harold "Heart" Crane US poet (Bridge), commits suicide by jumping from a steamer while sailing from México to New York at 32. [1] April 28 First broadcast of "One Man's Family" on NBC-radio. [1] Yellow fever vaccine for humans announced. [1] May 1 First Suriname union congress at Paramaribo. [1] Paul Doumer President of France (1931-32), assassinated by Russia's Paul Gargalov. [1] May 2 Jack Benny's first radio show premieres (NBC Blue Network). [1] Pulitzer prize awarded to Pearl S Buck (The Good Earth). [1] May 3 24 tourists begin first air-charter holiday (London-Basle, Switzerland). [1] Anton Wildgans Austrian writer (Dies Irae)/director Burgtheater, dies at 51. [1] May 4 Al Capone, convict of income tax evasion, enters Atlanta Penitentiary. [1] May 5 Japan and China sign a peace treaty. [1] May 7 Albert Thomas French social minister of Weapon production, dies. [1] May 8 Albert Thomas French socialist politician. [1] May 9 Piccadilly Circus, first lit by electricity. [1] WOC-AM in Davenport Iowa merges with WHO to become WHO-WOC. [1] May 10 Government declares "Wilhelmus" Netherlands national anthem. [1] Senate chairman Albert Lebrun becomes President of France. [1] May 12 Dead body of kidnapped son of Charles Lindbergh is found in Hopewell, New Jersey. [1] The Mickey Mouse film Mickey's Revue is released to theaters in the USA. Pluto and Horace Horsecollar also appear. Goofy appears for the first time, with the name "Dippy Dawg". [1] [6] May 13 Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich marries Nina Varsar. [1] May 14 "We Want Beer!" parade in New York. [1] May 15 Ki Inukai, premier of Japan (1931-32), murdered. [1] May 16 William Pember Reeves politician/poet, dies. [1] May 17 US Congress changes the name "Porto Rico" to "Puerto Rico". [1] May 20 Amelia Earhart leaves Newfoundland first woman fly solo across Atlantic. [1] Engelbert Dollfuss becomes chancellor of Austria. [1] May 21 First Curtis Cup: US, 5.5-3.5. [1] First transatlantic solo flight by a woman (Amelia Earhart) lands. [1] May 22 Lady Augusta [Isabella Gregory] playwright (Gold Apple), dies at 80. [1] May 23 Sir Hubert Ferdinand Opperman sets 24 hour record of 860 miles, 367 yards. [1] May 26 Admiral Makoto Saito forms parliament in Tokyo. [1] May 28 Dam closed, at current monument (South Seas). [1] June 6 US Federal gas tax enacted. [1] June 10 First demonstration of artificial lightning Pittsfield Massachusetts [1] June 11 E Delporte discovers asteroid #1222 Tina. [1] June 16 President Hoover and Vice President Charles Curtis renominated by Republican Convention. [1] June 19 First concert given in SF's Stern Grove. [1] Hailstones kill 200 in Hunan Province, China PR. [1] June 24 Coup ends absolute monarchy in Thailand. [1] July 1 New York Governor Franklin Roosevelt nominated for president at the Democratic Convention in Chicago. [1] July 2 Franklin Roosevelt makes first presidential nominating conventional acceptance speech. [1] July 5 Oliveira Salazar becomes dictator of fascist Portugal. [1] July 6 First class postage back up to 3 cents from 2 cents. [1] July 8 Depression low point of Dow Jones Industrial Average, 41.22. [1] G Neujmin discovers asteroid #1255 Schilowa. [1] July 10 Jack Burnett gets 9 hits, Eddie Rommel relieves in second and continues to. [1] July 18 US and Canada signed a treaty to develop Saint Lawrence Seaway. [1] July 23 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1246 Chaka. [1] July 25 Poland and the Soviet Union sign a five-year Non-Aggression Pact. [10] July 28 President Hoover evicts bonus marchers from their encampment. [1] July 30 Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood premieres the Silly Symphony film Flowers and Trees. This is the first full color cartoon. [6] G Van Biesbroeck discovers asteroid #2253 Espinette. [1] August 2 Charlie Grimm replaces Roger Hornsby as manager of Chicago Cubs. [1] August 10 Popular pooch Rin Tin Tin dies. [5] August 22 BBS begins experimental regular TV broadcasts. [1] August 24 First transcontinental non-stop flight by a woman, Amelia Earhart. [1] August 25 Amelia Earhart completes transcontinental flight. [1] September 1 New York City Mayor James J "Gentleman Jimmy" Walker resigns (graft charges). [1] September 23 Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd renamed Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. [1] October 1 Babe Ruth's points and hits a home run there, off of Chicago Cubs Charlie Root. [1] October 10 "Betty and Bob" premiers on radio. [1] October 11 First political telecast (Democratic National Committee) at CBS, New York City. [1] October 20 Swedish Prince Gustav Adolf marries Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. [7] October 22 Anna Dickinson dies just a week shy of her 90th birthday. [1] October 23 "Fred Allen Show" premieres on radio. [1] October 29 French liner Normandie is launched. [1] November 1 Wernher von Braun named head of German liquid-fuel rocket program. [1] November 8 Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Democrat) elected President for first time. [1] November 9 Hurricane storm wave sweeps over Santa Cruz del Sur Cuba kills 2,500. [1] November 15 Walt Disney Art School created. [1] November 18 The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awards an Honorable Mention Oscar award to Walt Disney Productions for "Distinctive Achievement", the creation of Mickey Mouse. [6] The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awards an Oscar (Short Subjects, Cartoons) to Disney for the film Flowers and Trees. This is the first Academy Award for a cartoon. [1] [6] November 22 Pump patented that computes quantity and price delivered. [1] November 29 France and the Soviet Union sign a Pact of Non-Aggression. [10] December 1 Amadeo Vives composer, dies at 61. [1] December 2 "Adventures of Charlie Chan" first heard on NBC-Blue radio network. [1] December 3 General Kurt von Schleicher becomes chancellor of Germany. [1] December 4 Gustav Meyrink writer, dies at 64. [1] December 5 German physicist Albert Einstein granted a visa. [1] December 7 First gyro-stabilized vessel to cross the Atlantic arrives in New York. [1] December 10 King Rama VII (Prajadhipok) grants Thailand a constitution. [1] December 11 San Francisco's coldest day (27 degrees F) - snow falls. [1] December 12 Egon Richter writer, dies. [1] S N Behrmans "Biography" premieres in New York City, New York. [1] USSR and China resume diplomatic relations. [1] December 14 French government of Herriot falls. [1] December 16 Heavy earthquake ravages Kansu China, 70,000 killed. [1] December 18 Eduard "Ede" Bernstein German marxist/revisionist, dies at 82. [1] December 19 British Broadcasting Corp begins transmitting overseas. [1] December 21 Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, first joint movie (Flying Down to Rio). [1] December 24 Arturo Alessandri wins presidental election in Chile. [1] Eyvind Alnaes composer, dies at 60. [1] December 25 During King George V Christmas dinner speech, his chair collapes. [1] December 26 Earthquake kills 70,000 in Kansu China. [1] December 27 Radio City Music Hall opens (New York City, New York). [1] December 31 John P O'Brien sworn-in as mayor of New York City, New York. [1]