1932

May 2 - Comedian Jack Benny's radio show airs for the first time.
May 6 - Paul Gordulof assassinates French president Paul Doumer in Paris - Doumer dies the next day.
May 10 - Albert Lebrun becomes the new president of France
May 12 - Ten weeks after his abduction, the infant son of Charles Lindbergh is found dead in Hopewell, New Jersey just a few miles from the Lindbergh's home.
May 13 - The Premier of New South Wales, Jack Lang, is dismissed by the State Governor, Sir Phillip Game
May 15 - Japanese troops leave Shanghai; May 15 incident occurs.
May 16 - Massive riots between Hindus and Muslims in Bombay - thousands dead and injured.
May 18 - Assassination of Japanese prime minister Tsuyoshi Inukai
May 20-21 - Amelia Earhart flies from USA to Londonderry, Northern Ireland in 14 hours 54 minutes
May 30 - German chancellor Heinrich Br�ning resigns. President Hindenburg takes Franz von Papen to form a new government.
June - 15,000 World War I veterans march in Washington, DC
June 4 - Military coup in Chile
June 6 - The Revenue Act of 1932 is enacted, creating the first gas tax in the United States (1 cent per gallon sold).
June 14 - Bans against SS and SA overturned in Germany
June 20 - Benelux customs union negotiated
June 24 - After a relatively bloodless military rebellion, Siam becomes a constitutional monarchy

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July-October

July 1- ABC (Australian Broadcasting Commission) established
July 5 - Ant�nio de Oliveira Salazar becomes the fascists prime minister of Portugal (for the next 36 years)
July 7 - French submarine Sromethee sinks off Cherbourg - 66 dead
July 12 - Hedley Verity establishes a new first-class record by taking all ten wickets for only ten runs against Nottinghamshire on a pitch affected by a storm.
July 17 - Bloody Sunday of Altona in Germany - armed communists attack a national socialist demonstration - 18 dead. Many other political street fights follow.
July 28 - US President Herbert Hoover orders the United States Army to forcibly evict the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans gathered in Washington, DC. US troops dispersed the last of the "Bonus Army" the next day.
August 6 - First Venice Film Festival
August 10 - A 5.1 kg chondrite type meteorite broke into at least seven fragments and struck earth near the town of Archie in Cass County, Missouri.
August 18 - Auguste Piccard reaches altitude of 16.500 meters with an air balloon
August 30 - Hermann G�ring elected as a chairman of German senate
August 31 - Total solar eclipse visible from northern Canada through NE Vermont, New Hampshire, SW Maine, and the Capes of Massachusetts
September 9 - The Generalitat reinstaurated, Catalonia regains political autonomy inside the 2nd Spanish Republic from September 25
September 20 - Mohandas Gandhi begins an hunger strike in Poona prison
September 28 - According to Prussian statistics, 115 people have been killed in political riots during the year
October 15 - Tata Airlines (later to become Air India) makes its first flight
October 19 - Wedding of Prince Gustav Adolf of Sweden and Princess Sibylla of Sachse-Coburg

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November-December

November 1 - San Francisco Opera House opened
November 7 - Buck Rogers in the 25th Century airs on radio for the first time.
November 8 - U.S. presidential election, 1932: Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats Herbert Hoover in a landslide victory.
November 9 - Riots between conservative and socialist supporters in Switzerland - 12 dead, 60 injured
November 11 - Tornado and huge waves kills about thousand in Santa Crus del Sure in Cuba
November 19 - Second wife of Josef Stalin is found dead in her home
November 21 - German president Hindenburg begins negotiations with Adolf Hitler about the formation of a new government
November 24 - In Washington, DC, the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens.
December 3 - Hindenburg names Kurt von Schleicher as a German chancellor
December 12 - Japan and Soviet Union reform their diplomatic connections
December 25 - Earthquake in the Kansu Province in China - 70,000 dead

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Unknown dates

Saudi Arabia is declared a unified nation with Ibn Saud as a king.
Female suffrage in Brazil
Norway annexes northern Greenland.
Chaco war between Bolivia and Paraguay
In the next five years, Dr. Morris Bolber and associates successfully murder and collect the insurance money for more than 30 victims.
Mars candy bar
Zippo lighters
The Kennedy-Thorndike experiment shows that measured time as well as length are affected by motion, in accordance with the theory of special relativity.
Chadwick discovers the neutron.
Geneticist J. B. S. Haldane publishes The Causes of Evolution and thereby unifies the findings of Mendelian genetics with those of evolutionary science.
Second Polar Year, an international scientific collaboration.