1932 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1932?
- January 3, 1932 – Martial law is declared in Honduras to stop a revolt by banana workers fired by the United Fruit Company.
- February 17, 1932 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Monkey in Chinese astrology.
- February 25, 1932 – Adolf Hitler obtains German citizenship by naturalization, which allows him to run in the 1932 election for Reichspräsident.
- March 1, 1932 – The son of Charles Lindbergh, Charles Augustus Lindbergh III, is kidnapped.
- April 24, 1932 – Benny Rothman leads the mass trespass of Kinder Scout, leading to substantial legal reforms in the United Kingdom.
- April 28, 1932 – A vaccine for yellow fever is announced for use on humans.
- May 2, 1932 – Comedian Jack Benny’s radio show airs for the first time.
- May 15, 1932 – The May 15 Incident: in an attempted Coup d'état, the Prime Minister of Japan Inukai Tsuyoshi is killed.
- June 3, 1932 – Lou Gehrig and teammate Tony Lazzeri hit four home runs in one game, and hit for the natural cycle, respectively. These two feats are both less common than a perfect game, which has occurred twenty one times in one hundred and twenty years.
- June 6, 1932 – The Revenue Act of 1932 is enacted, creating the first gas tax in the United States, at a rate of 1 cent per US gallon (1/4 ¢/L) sold.
- July 9, 1932 – The state of São Paulo revolts against the Brazilian Federal Government, starting the Constitutionalist Revolution
- August 2, 1932 – The positron (antiparticle of the electron) is discovered by Carl D. Anderson.
- August 22, 1932 – The BBC first experiments with television broadcasting. (See also Timeline of the BBC.)
- August 24, 1932 – Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly across the United States non-stop (from Los Angeles to Newark, New Jersey).
- September 10, 1932 – The New York City Subway’s third competing subway system, the municipally-owned IND, is opened.
- October 3, 1932 – Iraq gains independence from the United Kingdom.
- October 8, 1932 – The Indian Air Force is established.
- November 24, 1932 – In Washington, D.C., the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens.
- December 5, 1932 – German-born Swiss physicist Albert Einstein is granted an American visa.
- December 25, 1932 – A magnitude 7.6 earthquake in Gansu, China kills 275 people.
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