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 six police in Springfield Missouri. [1]

January 4

• 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 age 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 wins his first race. [1]

January 15

• Georg Kerschensteiner German educationalist, dies at age 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 age 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]

January 26

• British submarine M-2 sinks in Channel (60 dead). [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 age 75. [1]
• Japan occupies Shanghai. [1]

January 31

• US railway unions accept 10% wage reduction. [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 age 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 age 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 age 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 age 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 III, the 20-month-old son of aviation hero Charles Lindbergh, is kidnapped from the family's new mansion in Hopewell, New Jersey. A ransom note demanding US$50,000 is left in their son's empty room. [1] [129]
• Dino Campana Italian poet (Canti Orfici), dies at age 46. [1]

March 3

• Eugene Francis Charles D'albert composer, dies at age 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 age 77. [1]

March 7

• Aristide Briand 11 x premier of France (Nobel Prize 1926), dies at age 69. [1]
• Riots at Ford-factory Dearborn Michigan, kills 4. [1]

March 8

• Jan de Louter Dutch lawyer/tutor of Queen Wilhelmina, dies at age 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. He is estimated to have spent US$400 million of investor money in 15 years. [1] [7] [80.56] [135.115]

March 14

• George Eastman, US industrialist (Kodak-camera), suicide at age 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 age 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 1

• In Canada, the RCMP absorbs provincial police of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Manitoba, and Alberta. [242.4]

April 2

• Charles Lindbergh turns over $50,000 as ransom for kidnapped son. [1]
• Hugo Kaun composer, dies at age 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 age 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 age 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 age 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 age 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 age 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 age 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 takes off from Newfoundland (landing in Ireland the next day) to become the world's first female to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean. [1] [5]
• 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 age 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]
• The Dow Jones Industrial Average removes Liggett & Myers, Mack Trucks, United Air Transport, Paramount Publix, Radio Corporation, Texas Gulf Sulphur, National Cash Register, and Hudson Motor from its index, replacing them with American Tobacco B, Drug Incorporated, Procter & Gamble Company, Loew's, Nash Motors, International Shoe, International Business Machines, and Coca-Cola Company. [227] [228]

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. [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 8

• The Dow Jones Industrial Average hits a low point of 41.22, 90 percent of its pre-crash peak. [1] [227]
• 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

• The British Broadcasting Corporation begins experimental regular TV broadcasts. [1] [5]

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 10

• "Betty and Bob" premieres 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 age 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 age 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 age 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 age 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 theater opens in New York City, New York. [1] [129]

December 31

• John P O'Brien sworn-in as mayor of New York City, New York. [1]