- 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 English Channel (60 dead). [1]
- January 28
- Japan occupies Shanghai, China. [1]
- February 2
- In Geneva, Switzerland, a World Disarmament Conference begins. [10]
- February 4
- Japanese troops occupy Harbin, Manchuria. [1]
- February 6
- Fascist coup in the Memel territory. [1]
- February 9
- Junnosuke Inouye, Japanese minister of Finance, is murdered. [1]
- US airship Columbia crashes during storm (Flushing, New York). [1]
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- February 12
- Communist Party of Holland forms Unemployed Combat Committees. [1]
- February 16
- First patent issued for a tree, to James Markham for a peach tree. [1]
- February 18
- Japan declares Manchuria independent. [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 25
- Immigrant Adolf Hitler gets German citizenship. [1]
- February 27
- Explosion in coal mine in 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. (The boy is found dead May 12.) [1] [129]
- March 5
- Takuma Dan, Japanese baron/financier/industrial, is murdered. [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 17
- German police raid Adolf Hitler's headquarters. [1]
- March 20
- Kara-Kalpak Autonomous Region in RSFSR becomes Kara-Kalpak ASSR. [1]
- April 1
- In Canada, the RCMP absorbs provincial police of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Manitoba, and Alberta. [242.4]
- April 4
- Vitamin C first isolated, by C C King, at University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. [1]
- April 5
- Dutch textile strike broken by trade unions. [1]
- April 10
- Paul von Hindenburg re-elected President of Germany. [1]
- April 17
- Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia ends slavery. [1]
- April 23
- Shakespeare Memorial Theatre opens at Stratford-on-Avon. [1]
- April 24
- German national election (NSDAP 36.3 percent in Prussia). [1]
- April 28
- 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
- Pulitzer prize awarded to Pearl S Buck (The Good Earth). [1]
- May 3
- 24 tourists begin first air-charter holiday (London, England, to Basle, Switzerland). [1]
- May 5
- Japan and China sign a peace treaty. [1]
- May 9
- Piccadilly Circus, London, England, is first lit by electricity. [1]
- May 10
- Government declares "Wilhelmus" Netherlands national anthem. [1]
- Senate chairman Albert Lebrun becomes President of France. [1]
- May 11
- Siam officially suspends gold standard. [404.44]
- May 12
- 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 15
- Peru officially suspends gold standard. [494.60]
- Ki Inukai, premier of Japan (1931-32), is murdered. [1]
- May 17
- US Congress changes spelling of the name "Porto Rico" back to "Puerto Rico". [1] [1135]
- Canada prohibits export of gold coins. [412.84] [494.60]
- May 20
- Engelbert Dollfuss becomes chancellor of Austria. [1]
- May 24
- The Canadian Parliament passes a bill establishing a national broadcasting system - the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). [457]
- May 26
- Admiral Makoto Saito forms parliament in Tokyo. [1]
- June 10
- First demonstration of artificial lightning, in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, USA. [1]
- June 19
- Hailstones kill 200 in Hunan Province, China. [1]
- June 24
- Coup ends absolute monarchy in Siam. [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]
- July 18
- US and Canada sign a treaty to develop Saint Lawrence Seaway. [1]
- July 25
- Poland and the Soviet Union sign a five-year Non-Aggression Pact. [10]
- August 2
- Carl Anderson of CalTech discovers the anti-electron, the positron. [423.191]
- August 4
- In Sao Christovao, Brazil, a meteorite fall destroys a warehouse roof. [521]
- August 6
- (to August 21) First film festival, held in Venice, Italy. Films are shown from USA, Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and Soviet Russia. [55.67]
- August 10
- In Archie, Missouri, USA a falling meteoroid strikes a homestead; no injuries. [521]
- August 22
- The British Broadcasting Corporation begins experimental regular TV broadcasts. [1] [5]
- September 23
- Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd renamed Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. [1]
- October 3
- The British Mandate to administer Iraq is relinquished, as Iraq becomes a member of the League of Nations. [1215.811]
- October 20
- Swedish Prince Gustav Adolf marries Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. [7]
- November 1
- Wernher von Braun named head of German liquid-fuel rocket program. [1]
- November 2
- The Great Emu War of Western Australia begins. A pair of machine gunners of the Royal Australian Artillery begin a cull of the over-population of an estimated 20,000 emu. (By the end of the operation in December, about 2000 have been killed.) [1427.10]
- November 8
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Democrat) elected President of US. [1]
- November 9
- Hurricane storm wave sweeps over Santa Cruz del Sur, Cuba; kills 2,500. [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 Walt Disney for the film Flowers and Trees. This is the first Academy Award for a cartoon. [1] [6]
- November 29
- France and the Soviet Union sign a Pact of Non-Aggression. [10]
- December 3
- General Kurt von Schleicher becomes chancellor of Germany. [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, USA. [1]
- December 10
- King Rama VII (Prajadhipok) grants Siam a constitution. [1]
- December 12
- USSR and China resume diplomatic relations. [1]
- December 14
- French government of Edouard Herriot falls. [1]
- December 16
- Heavy earthquake ravages Kansu, China, 70,000 killed. [1]
- December 19
- British Broadcasting Corp begins transmitting overseas. [1]
- December 24
- Arturo Alessandri wins presidental election in Chile. [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
- South Africa officially suspends gold standard. [464.44]
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