Editing 1932 (section)

==Events==
===January===
{{Main|January 1932}}
* [[January 4]] – The British authorities in India arrest and intern [[Mahatma Gandhi]] and [[Vallabhbhai Patel]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Gujarat State Gazetteers: Kheda|publisher=Directorate of Government Print., Stationery and Publications, Gujarat State|year=1977|page=127}}</ref>
* [[January 9]] – [[Sakuradamon Incident (1932)|Sakuradamon Incident]]: Korean nationalist [[Lee Bong-chang]] fails in his effort to assassinate Emperor [[Hirohito]] of Japan. The [[Kuomintang]]'s official newspaper runs an editorial expressing regret that the attempt failed, which is used by the Japanese as a pretext to attack [[Shanghai]] later in the month. 
* [[January 22]] – The [[1932 Salvadoran peasant uprising]] begins; it is suppressed by the government of [[Maximiliano Hernández Martínez]].
* [[January 24]] – Marshal [[Pietro Badoglio]] declares the end of [[Libya]]n resistance.
* [[January 26]] – British submarine {{HMS|M2|1918|6}} sinks with all 60 hands.
* [[January 28]] – [[January 28 incident]]: Conflict between Japan and China in Shanghai.
* [[January 31]] – Japanese warships arrive in [[Nanking]].

===February===

{{Main|February 1932}}
* [[February 2]]
** A general [[World Disarmament Conference]] begins in [[Geneva]]. The principal issue at the conference is the demand made by Germany for {{lang|de|Gleichberechtigung}} ("equality of status" i.e. abolishing Part V of the Treaty of Versailles, which had disarmed Germany) and the French demand for {{lang|fr|sécurité}} ("security" i.e. maintaining Part V).
** The [[League of Nations]] again recommends negotiations between the [[Republic of China (1912–49)|Republic of China]] and Japan.
** The [[Reconstruction Finance Corporation]] begins operations in Washington, D.C.
* [[February 4]]
** The [[1932 Winter Olympics]] open in [[Lake Placid, New York]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Lake Placid Winter Olympics - Athletes, Medals & Results |url=https://olympics.com/en/olympic-games/lake-placid-1932 |website=Olympics.com |access-date=17 September 2021 |language=en |date=25 April 2018}}</ref>
** Japan occupies [[Harbin]], China.
* [[February 9]] – [[League of Blood Incident]]: [[Junnosuke Inoue]], prominent Japanese businessman, banker and former governor of the Bank of Japan is assassinated by the right-wing extremist group the League of Blood.
* [[February 11]] – [[Pope Pius XI]] meets [[Benito Mussolini]] in [[Vatican City]].
* [[February 15]] – ''Clara, Lu & Em'', generally regarded as the first daytime network [[soap opera]], debuts in its morning time slot over the [[Blue Network]] of [[NBC]] Radio in the United States, having originally been a late evening program.
* [[February 18]] – Japan declares [[Manchukuo]] (Japanese name for [[Manchuria]]) formally independent from China.
* [[February 25]] – [[Adolf Hitler]] obtains German citizenship by [[naturalization]], opening the opportunity for him to run in the [[1932 German presidential election]].
* [[February 27]] – The [[Mäntsälä rebellion]] occurs in Finland.

===March===
{{Main|March 1932}}
* [[March 1]]
** [[Lindbergh kidnapping]]: Charles Lindbergh Jr., the infant son of [[Anne Morrow Lindbergh]] and [[Charles Lindbergh]], is kidnapped from the family home near [[Hopewell, New Jersey]].
** Japan installs [[Puyi]] as [[puppet emperor]] of [[Manchukuo]].
* [[March 2]] – The [[Mäntsälä rebellion]] ends in failure; Finnish democracy prevails. The [[Lapua Movement]] is condemned by conservative Finnish president [[Pehr Evind Svinhufvud]] in a radio speech.
* [[March 5]] – [[Dan Takuma]], prominent Japanese businessman and director of the [[Mitsui]] ''[[Zaibatsu]]'' conglomerate is assassinated by the radical right-wing League of Blood group. 
* [[March 9]] – [[Éamon de Valera]] is elected [[President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State]], the first change of government in the country since its foundation 10 years previously.
* [[March 14]] – [[George Eastman]], founder of [[Kodak]], commits suicide in [[Rochester, New York]].
* [[March 18]] – Peace negotiations between China and Japan begin.
* [[March 19]] – The [[Sydney Harbour Bridge]] opens in Australia.<ref>{{cite web |title=National Museum of Australia - Sydney Harbour Bridge opens |url=https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/sydney-harbour-bridge-opens |website=www.nma.gov.au |access-date=17 October 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[March 20]] – The ''[[LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin|Graf Zeppelin]]'' airship begins a regular route between Germany and South America.
* [[March 21]]–[[March 22|22]] – [[1932 Deep South tornado outbreak]]: A series of deadly tornadoes in the United States kills more than 220 people in [[Alabama]], 34 in [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]] and 17 in [[Tennessee]].
* [[March 22]] – ''[[Tarzan the Ape Man (1932 film)|Tarzan the Ape Man]]'' premieres in New Yord City, first of the classic film series starring [[Johnny Weissmuller]] and [[Maureen O'Sullivan]].

===April===
{{Main|April 1932}}
* [[April 5]]
** 10,000 disgruntled Newfoundlanders march on their legislature to show discontent with their current political situation; this is a flash point in the demise of the [[Dominion of Newfoundland]].
** The first [[Alko]] stores are opened in Finland at 10 in the morning (local time) following the end of Prohibition in that country, resulting in a new [[mnemonic]] "543210".
* [[April 6]]
** U.S. president [[Herbert Hoover]] supports armament limitations at the [[Conference for the Reduction and Limitation of Armaments|World Disarmament Conference]].
** The trial of fraudulent art dealer [[Otto Wacker]] begins in Berlin.
* [[April 11]] – [[1932 German presidential election]]: [[Paul von Hindenburg]] is re-elected as ''[[President of Germany (1919–1945)|Reichspräsident]]'', defeating Hitler.
* [[April 13]] – German Chancellor [[Heinrich Brüning]] bans the [[Sturmabteilung|SA]] and the [[Schutzstaffel|SS]] as threats to public order, arguing that they are chiefly responsible for the wave of political violence afflicting Germany.<ref name=Feuchtwanger>{{cite book|last=Feuchtwanger|first=Edgar|title=From Weimar to Hitler|location=Basingstoke|publisher=Macmillan|year=1993|pages=270–9|isbn=0333274660}}</ref> 
* [[April 14]] – [[John Cockcroft]] and [[Ernest Walton]] focus a proton beam on lithium and split its nucleus.
* [[April 17]] – [[Haile Selassie]] announces an anti-[[slavery]] law in [[Ethiopia|Abyssinia]].
* [[April 19]] – German art dealer [[Otto Wacker]] is sentenced to 19 months in prison for selling [[art forgery|fraudulent]] paintings he attributed to [[Vincent van Gogh]].
* [[April 25]]
** [[Gladys Elinor Watkins]] consecrates the [[carillon]] of the [[National War Memorial (New Zealand)|National War Memorial]] in New Zealand.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Wellington War Memorial Carillon Inauguration |url=https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5a1cb939a9db092c95c6db66/t/5a71781c0852295f5a31f698/1517385764473/Wellington+War+Memorail+Carillon.pdf |access-date=2021-06-24 |url-status=live |archive-date=2018-10-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181013053947/https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5a1cb939a9db092c95c6db66/t/5a71781c0852295f5a31f698/1517385764473/Wellington+War+Memorail+Carillon.pdf}}</ref>
** The bodies of [[Hudhayfah ibn al-Yaman]] and [[Jabir ibn Abd Allah]], two of the companions of Islamic prophet [[Muhammad]], are moved from their graves in Salmaan Paak following a dream of King [[Faisal I of Iraq]] that they are affected by water.
* [[April 29]] – Korean pro-independence paramilitary [[Yun Bong-gil]] detonates a bomb at a gathering of Japanese government and military officials in [[Shanghai]]'s [[Lu Xun Park (Shanghai)|Hongkou Park]], killing General [[Yoshinori Shirakawa]] and injuring [[Mamoru Shigemitsu]] and Vice Admiral [[Kichisaburō Nomura]].

===May===
{{Main|May 1932}}
* [[May 6]]
** [[Paul Gorguloff]] shoots French president [[Paul Doumer]] in Paris; Doumer dies the next day.
** The politically powerful General [[Kurt von Schleicher]] meets secretly with [[Adolf Hitler]].<ref name="auto">{{cite book|authorlink=Ian Kershaw|last=Kershaw|first=Ian|title=Hitler, 1889–1936: Hubris|location=New York|publisher=Norton|year=1998|page=366|isbn=978-0-393-04671-7}}</ref> Schleicher tells Hitler that he is scheming to bring down the Brüning government in Germany and asks for Nazi support of the new "presidential government" Schleicher is planning to form.<ref name="auto"/> Schleicher and Hitler negotiate a "gentlemen's agreement" where in exchange for lifting the ban on the SA and SS and having the [[Reichstag (Weimar Republic)|Reichstag]] dissolved for early elections this summer, the Nazis will support Schleicher's new chancellor. 
* [[May 10]]
** [[Albert Lebrun]] becomes the new [[president of France]].
** Violent scenes in the German [[Reichstag building]] in Berlin as [[Hermann Göring]] and other Nazi MRDs attack the Defense Minister General [[Wilhelm Groener]] for his lack of belief in a supposed Social Democratic ''[[putsch]]''.<ref name="auto"/> After the debate, General Schleicher tells Groener that he has lost the confidence of the Army and must resign at once.<ref name="auto"/>
** [[James Chadwick]] discovers the [[neutron]].
* [[May 12]] – General Wilhelm Groener resigns as German Defense Minister.<ref name="auto"/> Schleicher takes control of the Defense Ministry.
* [[May 13]] – The [[Premier of New South Wales]], [[Jack Lang (Australian politician)|Jack Lang]], is dismissed by the State Governor, Sir [[Philip Game]].
* [[May 15]] – [[May 15 Incident]], an attempted military coup in which Japanese prime minister [[Tsuyoshi Inukai]] is assassinated by naval officers. Japanese troops leave Shanghai.
* [[May 16]] – Massive riots between Hindus and Muslims in [[Mumbai|Bombay]] leave thousands dead and injured.
* [[May 20]]–[[May 21|21]] – [[Amelia Earhart]] flies from the United States to [[County Londonderry]], [[Northern Ireland]] in 14 hours 54 minutes.
* [[May 20]] – ''[[Federación Obrera de la Industria de la Carne]]'' initiates a major [[strike action|strike]] in the [[Argentina|Argentinian]] meat-packing industry.
* [[May 25]] – [[Goofy]] makes his appearance in the Disney animated short ''[[Mickey's Revue]]''.
* [[May 26]] – Judgement in ''[[Donoghue v Stevenson]]'' handed down in the [[House of Lords]] of the United Kingdom, creating the modern concept of a [[duty of care]] in English law.
* [[May 30]] – German chancellor [[Heinrich Brüning]] is dismissed by President von Hindenburg. President Hindenburg asks [[Franz von Papen]] to form a new government, known as the "Government of the President's Friends", which is openly dedicated to the destruction of democracy and the [[Weimar Republic]]. The downfall of Brüning is largely the work of Schleicher, who has been scheming against him since the beginning of May.<ref name=Feuchtwanger/> Schleicher takes the position of Defense Minister in his friend Papen's government.

===June===
{{Main|June 1932}}
* c. June – The [[Republican Citizens Committee Against National Prohibition]] is established for the [[repeal of Prohibition in the United States]].
* [[June 4]] 
** A [[military coup]] occurs in [[Chile]].
** The Papen government in Germany dissolves the [[Reichstag (Weimar Republic)|Reichstag]] for elections on July 31 in the full expectation that the Nazis will win the largest number of seats.<ref>{{cite book|authorlink=John Wheeler-Bennett|last=Wheeler-Bennett|first=John|title=The Nemesis of Power|edition=2nd|location=London|publisher=Macmillan|year=1967|page=250}}</ref>
* [[June 14]] – The Papen government lifts the ban against the SS and [[Sturmabteilung|SA]] in Germany. 
* [[June 16]]– [[Lausanne Conference of 1932|Lausanne conference]] opens to discuss [[World War I reparations|reparations]], which Germany had not paid since the [[Hoover Moratorium]] of June 1931.
* [[June 20]] – The [[Benelux]] customs union is negotiated.
* [[June 24]] – After a [[Siamese revolution of 1932|relatively bloodless military rebellion]], [[Thailand|Siam]] becomes a [[constitutional monarchy]].
* [[June 25]] – [[India national cricket team|India]] plays its first [[Test cricket]] match with [[England cricket team|England]] at [[Lord's]].

===July===
{{Main|July 1932}}
* [[July 5]] – {{lang|pt|[[António de Oliveira Salazar]]|italic=no}} becomes the [[fascist]] prime minister of Portugal (for the next 36 years).
* [[July 7]] – French submarine {{lang|fr|[[French submarine Prométhée (1930)|Prométhée]]|italic=yes}} sinks off [[Cherbourg-Octeville|Cherbourg]]; 66 are killed.
* [[July 8]] – The [[Dow Jones Industrial Average]] in the United States reaches its lowest level of the [[Great Depression]], bottoming out at 41.22.
* [[July 9]]
** The [[Constitutionalist Revolution]] starts in Brazil with the uprising of the [[state of São Paulo]].
** Lausanne conference ends, agreeing to cancel [[World War I reparations]] against Germany.
* [[July 12]]
** Norway annexes northern [[Greenland]].
** [[Hedley Verity]] establishes a new [[first-class cricket]] record by taking all ten wickets for only ten runs against Nottinghamshire on a pitch affected by a storm.
* [[July 17]] – [[Altona Bloody Sunday]]: In Altona, Germany, a bloody clash with heavy police involvement occurs when [[Nazi Party|Nazi]] marchers enter a working class area with many [[Communist Party of Germany|communist]] supporters; 18 are killed.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Scheuermann-Peilicke |first=Wolfgang |date=14 July 2021 |title=Der "Altonaer Blutsonntag" 1932 |trans-title=The Altona Bloody Sunday 1932 |url=https://www.dhm.de/lemo/kapitel/weimarer-republik/innenpolitik/altonaer-blutsonntag-1932.html |access-date=9 December 2023 |website=Deutsches Historisches Museum |language=de}}</ref>
* [[July 20]] – The {{lang|de|[[Preußenschlag]]}} in Germany. The political coup gives [[Franz von Papen]] control of [[Free State of Prussia|Prussia]], the most powerful state in Germany, and is a major blow to German democracy.<ref>{{cite book|authorlink=Ian Kershaw|last=Kershaw|first=Ian|title=Hitler, 1889–1936: Hubris|location=New York|publisher=Norton|year=1998|isbn=978-0-393-04671-7|pages=368–69}}</ref>
* [[July 21]] – The [[British Empire Economic Conference]] opens in Ottawa, Canada. 
* [[July 30]]
** The [[1932 Summer Olympics]] open in [[Los Angeles]].
** Walt Disney's ''[[Flowers and Trees]]'', the first animated cartoon to be presented in full [[Technicolor]], premieres in Los Angeles. It releases in theaters, along with [[Strange Interlude (film)|the film version]] of [[Eugene O'Neill]]'s ''[[Strange Interlude]]'' (starring [[Norma Shearer]] and [[Clark Gable]]); ''Flowers and Trees'' goes on to win the first Academy Award for Best Animated Short.
* [[July 31]] – [[July 1932 German federal election]] sees the Nazis become the largest party in the [[Reichstag (Weimar Republic)|Reichstag]], winning 37% of the vote.

===August===
{{Main|August 1932}}
* [[August]] – A farmers' revolt begins in the [[Midwestern United States]].
* [[August 1]]
** The second [[International Polar Year]], an international scientific collaboration, begins.
** [[Forrest Edward Mars, Sr.|Forrest Mars]] produces the first [[Mars bar]] in his [[Slough]] factory in the UK.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=slough&f=generic_theme%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&%3dtheme_record_id=sl%2dsl%2dmars&s=MUhpLhrsY1I|title=Mars – the chocolate planet|work=Slough History Online|access-date=2010-02-08}}</ref>
* [[August 2]] – The first [[positron]] is discovered by [[Carl D. Anderson]].
* [[August 5]] – Hitler meets with Schleicher and reneges on the "gentlemen's agreement", demanding that he be appointed Chancellor.<ref>{{cite book|authorlink=John Wheeler-Bennett|last=Wheeler-Bennett|first=John|title=The Nemesis of Power|edition=2nd|location=London|publisher=Macmillan|year=1967|page=257}}</ref> Schleicher agrees to support Hitler as Chancellor provided that he can remain minister of defense.<ref>{{cite book|authorlink=Ian Kershaw|last=Kershaw|first=Ian|title=Hitler, 1889–1936: Hubris|location=New York|publisher=Norton|year=1998|isbn=978-0-393-04671-7|page=371}}</ref> Schleicher sets up a meeting between Hindenburg and Hitler on August 13 to discuss Hitler's possible appointment as Chancellor. 
* [[August 6]]
** The first [[Venice Film Festival]] is held.
** In Germany, the world's first [[Autobahn]] is opened by [[Konrad Adenauer]] ([[Bundesautobahn 555]]).
** [[Carl Gustaf Ekman]] resigns as [[Prime Minister of Sweden]] and is replaced by his Minister of Finance [[Felix Hamrin]].
* [[August 9]] – In Germany:
**The Papen government, which likes to take a tough "law and order" stance, passes via Article 48 a law prescribing the death penalty for a variety of offenses and with the court system simplified so that the courts can hand down as many death sentences as possible.<ref name="auto1">{{cite book|authorlink=Ian Kershaw|last=Kershaw|first=Ian|title=Hitler, 1889–1936: Hubris|location=New York|publisher=Norton|year=1998|isbn=978-0-393-04671-7|page=382}}</ref>
** [[Potempa Murder of 1932]]: In the eastern town of [[Potępa|Potempa]], five Nazi "[[Brownshirts]]" break into the house of Konrad Pietrzuch, a Communist miner, and proceed to castrate and beat him to death in front of his mother.<ref>{{cite book|authorlink=Ian Kershaw|last=Kershaw|first=Ian|title=Hitler, 1889–1936: Hubris|location=New York|publisher=Norton|year=1998|isbn=978-0-393-04671-7|page=381}}</ref>
* [[August 10]] – A 5.1&nbsp;kg [[chondrite]]-type [[meteorite]] breaks into fragments and strikes earth near the town of [[Archie, Missouri]], United States.
* [[August 11]] – To celebrate Constitution Day in Germany, Chancellor [[Franz von Papen]] and his interior minister Baron [[Wilhelm von Gayl]] present proposed amendments to the Weimar constitution for a "New State" to deal with the problems besetting Germany.<ref name="auto2">{{cite book|authorlink=Ian Kershaw|last=Kershaw|first=Ian|title=Hitler, 1889–1936: Hubris|location=New York|publisher=Norton|year=1998|isbn=978-0-393-04671-7|page=372}}</ref> 
* [[August 13]] – Hitler meets President von Hindenburg and asks to be appointed as Chancellor.<ref>{{cite book|authorlink=Ian Kershaw|last=Kershaw|first=Ian|title=Hitler, 1889–1936: Hubris|location=New York|publisher=Norton|year=1998|isbn=978-0-393-04671-7|page=373}}</ref> Hindenburg refuses under the grounds that Hitler is not qualified to be Chancellor and asks him instead to serve as Vice-Chancellor in Papen's government.<ref name="auto2"/> Hitler announces his "all or nothing" strategy in which he will oppose any government not headed by himself and will accept no office other than Chancellor. 
* [[August 18]] – [[Auguste Piccard]] reaches an altitude of {{convert|16197|m|ft|abbr=on}} with a [[hot air balloon]].
* [[August 18]]–[[August 19|19]] – Scottish aviator [[Jim Mollison]] becomes the first pilot to make an East-to-West solo [[transatlantic flight]], from [[Portmarnock]], [[County Dublin]], Ireland to [[RCAF Station Pennfield Ridge]], [[New Brunswick]], Canada, in his [[de Havilland Puss Moth]] high-wing monoplane ''The Heart's Content''.
* [[August 20]] – The Ottawa conference ends with the adoption of [[Imperial Preference]] tariff, turning the British Empire into one economic zone with a series of tariffs meant to exclude non-empire states from competing within the markets of Britain; the Dominions; and the rest of the empire. 
* [[August 22]] – [[Potempa murder of 1932|Potempa murder]]: The five SA men involved in the torture and murder of Konrad Pietrzuch are quickly convicted and sentenced to death under the new law introduced by the Papen government.<ref name="auto1"/> The Potempa case becomes a ''[[wikt:cause célèbre|cause célèbre]]'' in Germany, where some maintain the death sentences are appropriate given the brutality of the torture and murder, whilst Nazis demonstrate for amnesty for the "Potempa five" on the grounds they are patriotic heroes, justified in killing the Communist Pietrzuch, and should not be executed. Hitler sends a telegram congratulating the five<ref name="auto1"/> and they are released from jail in 1933 after he becomes [[Chancellor of Germany]].<ref>{{cite book|authorlink=Michael Burleigh|last=Burleigh|first=Michael|title=The Third Reich: A New History|location=New York|publisher=Hill & Wang|year=2000|page=159|isbn=0-8090-9325-1}}</ref>
* [[August 23]] – The [[Civil Aviation Authority (Panama)|Panama Civil Aviation Authority]] is established.
* [[August 30]] – [[Hermann Göring]] is elected as Speaker of the German [[Reichstag (Weimar Republic)|Reichstag]].
* [[August 31]] – A [[total solar eclipse]] is visible from northern Canada through northeastern Vermont, New Hampshire, southwestern Maine and the Capes of Massachusetts.

===September===
{{Main|September 1932}}
* [[September 2]] – Despite the court's sentence of death against the "Potempa five", Chancellor von Papen in his capacity as Reich Commissioner of Prussia refuses to have the "Potempa five" executed under the grounds that they were not aware of the emergency law at the time they committed the murder, but in reality because he is still hoping for Nazi support for his government.<ref name="auto1"/>
* [[September 9]] 
** The {{Lang|es|[[Cortes Generales]]|italic=no}} (Parliament) of the [[Second Spanish Republic]] approves the [[Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia of 1932|Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia]] which grants full autonomy for [[Catalonia]] for the first time in [[modern history]].
** Beginning of the [[Chaco War]] between [[Paraguay]] and [[Bolivia]] because of delimitation problems and others.
* [[September 10]] – The [[IND Eighth Avenue Line]], at this time the world's longest [[rapid transit|subway]] line ({{convert|31|mi|km}}), begins operation in [[Manhattan]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mta.info/nyct/facts/ffhist.htm |title=New York City Transit – History and Chronology|publisher=[[Metropolitan Transportation Authority]]|year=2009|access-date=2012-01-03|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021019203759/http://www.mta.info/nyct/facts/ffhist.htm|archive-date=2002-10-19}}</ref>
* [[September 11]]
** Canadian operations end on the [[International Railway (New York–Ontario)]].
** A bronze statue of [[Youssef Bey Karam]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ehdenfamilytree.org/getperson.php?personID=I1&tree=ehden|title=Youssef Bey Karam|work=Ehden Family Tree|access-date=March 29, 2019|archive-date=March 29, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329220258/https://www.ehdenfamilytree.org/getperson.php?personID=I1&tree=ehden|url-status=dead}}</ref> is erected in his memory outside the Cathedral of Saint Georges, [[Ehden]] in Lebanon.
* [[September 12]] – The very unpopular Papen government in Germany is defeated on a massive motion of no-confidence in the [[Reichstag (Weimar Republic)|Reichstag]]. With the exceptions of the [[German People's Party]] and the [[German National People's Party]], every party in the Reichstag votes for the no-confidence motion. Papen has Hindenburg dissolve the Reichstag for new elections in November. 
*[[September 17]] 
** A speech by [[Laureano Gómez]] leads to the escalation of the [[Leticia Incident]] between Colombia and Peru.
** Start of the [[Han–Liu War]] over [[Shandong]].
* [[September 20]] – [[Mahatma Gandhi]] begins a [[hunger strike]] in [[Poona]] prison, India.
* [[September 22]] – [[Soviet famine of 1932–33]] begins; millions starve to death as a result of forced collectivization and as part of the government's effort to break rural resistance to its policies. The Soviet regime denies the famine and allows the deaths. 
* [[September 23]] – The [[Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd]] is proclaimed the Kingdom of [[Saudi Arabia]], concluding the country's [[Unification of Saudi Arabia|unification]] under the rule of [[Ibn Saud|King Abdulaziz]].
* [[September 24]] – After his party's victory in the election to the Swedish Riksdag's second chamber, Social Democrat [[Per Albin Hansson]] becomes the new prime minister of Sweden, after [[Felix Hamrin]].
* [[September 27]] – [[Ryutin Affair]] at its height in the Soviet Union. The Politburo meets and condemns the so-called "Ryutin Platform" and agrees to expel those associated with it from the Communist Party, but refuses Stalin's request to execute those associated with the Platform.
* [[September 28]] – The court of [[Helsinki]] sentences Vilho Kallio, Ville Saari and Ida Maria Viden to prison for the [[Tattarisuo case|Tattarisuo mutilation case]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://digi.kansalliskirjasto.fi/sanomalehti/binding/1739850?page=3|title=Tattarisuon juttu pois päiväjärjestyksestä. Noita-Kallion y.m. tuomiot vahvistettu|work=Laatokka|date=13 October 1934|language=fi}}</ref>

===October===
{{Main|October 1932}}
* [[October]] – [[Hergé]]'s ''[[Tintin in America]] (Tintin en Amérique)'' concludes serial publication and is issued in book format (in black and white) in Belgium.
* [[October 1]] – [[Gyula Gömbös]] becomes Prime Minister of Hungary, the first time a member of the radical right has become the country's head of government. 
* [[October 3]] – [[Iraq]] becomes an independent kingdom under [[Faisal I of Iraq|Faisal]].
* [[October 15]] – Tata Airlines (later to become [[Air India]]) makes its first flight.
* [[October 19]] – [[Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten|Prince Gustav Adolf of Sweden]] marries [[Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha]].
* [[October 25]] – [[George Lansbury]] became the leader of the opposition British [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]].<ref>{{cite book|last= Shepherd|first= John|title= George Lansbury: At the Heart of Old Labour|publisher= Oxford University Press|location= Oxford|year= 2002|isbn= 0-19-820164-8|page=282}}</ref>

===November===
{{Main|November 1932}}
[[File:Enigma-plugboard.jpg|right|300px|thumb|The [[Polish Cipher Bureau|Cipher Bureau]] breaks the German Enigma cipher and overcomes the ever-growing structural and operating complexities of the evolving [[Enigma machine|Enigma]] with [[plugboard]], the main German cipher device during World War II.]]
* [[November 1]] – The [[Kennedy–Thorndike experiment]] is published, showing that measured time as well as length is affected by motion, in accordance with the theory of [[special relativity]].
* [[November 2]] – The [[Emu War]], a nuisance wildlife management military operation, begins in Australia.
* [[November 3]] – Strike by transport workers in Berlin. The Nazis and the Communists both co-operate in support of the strike. The Nazi-Communist co-operation damages the Nazis at the upcoming election with many right-wing voters switching back to the [[German National People's Party]]. 
* [[November 6]] – [[November 1932 German federal election]]: The Nazis remain the largest party in the [[Reichstag (Weimar Republic)|Reichstag]] but their share of the seats drops from 37% to 32%.
* [[November 7]] – ''[[Buck Rogers|Buck Rogers in the 25th Century]]'' debuts on American [[radio]]. It is the first science fiction program on radio.
* [[November 8]] – [[1932 United States presidential election]]: [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] governor of [[New York (state)|New York]] [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] defeats Republican president Herbert Hoover in a landslide victory.
* [[November 9]]
** A [[hurricane]] and huge waves kill about 2,500 in [[Santa Cruz del Sur]] in the worst [[natural disaster]] in [[Cuba]]n history.
** Geneva massacre: [[Military of Switzerland]] fire on a socialist anti-fascist demonstration in [[Geneva]] leaving 13 dead and 60 injured.
* [[November 21]] – German president [[Paul von Hindenburg|Hindenburg]] begins negotiations with Adolf Hitler about the formation of a new government.
* [[November 27]] – The [[Second Eastern Women's Congress]] opens in Tehran, Iran.<ref>{{cite book | last = Moghissi | first = Haideh | title = Women and Islam: critical concepts in sociology | publisher = Routledge | location = London New York | year = 2005 | isbn = 9780415324212 | page=224}}</ref>
* [[November 30]] – The [[Polish Cipher Bureau]] breaks the German [[Enigma machine|Enigma]] cipher.

===December===
{{Main|December 1932}}
* [[December 1]] – Germany returns to the [[World Disarmament Conference]] after the others powers agree to accept ''gleichberechtigung'' {{Clarify|date=December 2014}} "in principle". Henceforward, it is clear that Germany will be allowed to rearm beyond the limits imposed by the [[Treaty of Versailles]]. 
* [[December 3]] – Hindenburg names [[Kurt von Schleicher]] as German chancellor after he ousts Papen. Papen is deeply angry about how his former friend Schleicher has brought him down and decides that he will do anything to get back into power.
* [[December 4]] – Chancellor Schleicher meets with [[Gregor Strasser]] and offers to appoint him Vice-Chancellor and ''Reich'' Commissioner for Prussia out of the hope that if faced with a split in the NSDAP, Hitler will support his government.<ref>{{cite book|last=Turner|first=Henry Ashby|title=Hitler's Thirty Days to Power|location=New York|publisher=Addison-Wesley|year=1996|isbn=0201328003|page=25}}</ref> 
* [[December 5]] – At a secret meeting of the Nazi leaders, Strasser urges Hitler to drop his "all or nothing" strategy and accept Schleicher's offer to have the Nazis serve in his cabinet.<ref name="auto3">{{cite book|last=Turner|first=Henry Ashby|title=Hitler's Thirty Days to Power|location=New York|publisher=Addison-Wesley|year=1996|isbn=0201328003|page=26}}</ref> Hitler gives a dramatic speech saying that Schleicher's offer is not acceptable and he will stick to his "all or nothing" strategy whatever the consequences might be and wins the Nazi leadership over to his viewpoint.<ref name="auto3"/>
* [[December 8]] – [[Gregor Strasser]] resigns as the chief of the NSDAP's organizational department in protest against Hitler's "all or nothing" strategy.<ref>{{cite book|last=Turner|first=Henry Ashby|title=Hitler's Thirty Days to Power|location=New York|publisher=Addison-Wesley|year=1996|isbn=0201328003|pages=27–28}}</ref>
* [[December 10]] – The [[Emu War]] in Australia ends in failure.
* [[December 12]] – Japan and the [[Soviet Union]] reform their diplomatic connections.{{clarify|date=December 2016}}
* [[December 19]] – [[BBC World Service]] begins broadcasting as the BBC Empire Service using a [[shortwave radio]] facility at its [[Daventry transmitting station]] in England.
* [[December 24]] – [[1932 Moweaqua Coal Mine disaster]]
* [[December 25]]
** The 7.6 {{M|s}} [[1932 Changma earthquake|Changma earthquake]] shakes the [[Gansu|Gansu Province]] in China with a maximum [[Mercalli intensity scale|Mercalli intensity]] of X (''Extreme''). Two-hundred and seventy-five people are killed.
** [[IG Farben]] files a [[patent]] application in Germany for the medical application of the first [[Sulfonamide (medicine)|sulfonamide]] oral [[antibiotic]], which will be marketed as [[Prontosil]], following [[Gerhard Domagk]]'s laboratory demonstration of its properties as an antibiotic.<ref>{{cite book|last=Lesch|first=J. E.|title=The First Miracle Drugs: How the Sulfa Drugs Transformed Medicine|chapter=Prontosil|pages=51–61|location=New York|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2007|isbn=978-0-19-518775-5}}</ref>
** King [[George V]] delivers the first [[Royal Christmas Message]]<ref name=CBH>{{cite book|last=Palmer|first=Alan|last2=Palmer |first2=Veronica|year=1992|title=The Chronology of British History|publisher=Century Ltd|location=London|pages=375–376|isbn=0-7126-5616-2}}</ref> on the new BBC Empire Service radio from [[Sandringham House]]; the text has been written by [[Rudyard Kipling]].
* [[December 27]] – Internal passports are introduced in the Soviet Union.
* [[December 28]] – The Cologne banker [[Kurt Baron von Schröder|Kurt von Schröder]]-who is a close friend of Papen and a NSDAP member-meets with [[Adolf Hitler]] to tell him that Papen wants to set up a meeting to discuss how they can work together. Papen wants Nazi support to return to the Chancellorship while Hitler wants Papen to convince Hindenburg to appoint him Chancellor. Hitler agrees to meet Papen on January 3, 1933.

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* [[Zero-length spring]]s are invented, revolutionizing [[seismometer]]s and [[gravimeter]]s.
* Geneticist [[J. B. S. Haldane]] publishes ''The Causes of Evolution'', unifying the findings of Mendelian [[genetics]] with those of [[evolution]]ary science.
* The [[heath hen]] becomes extinct in North America.
* [[Walter B. Pitkin]] publishes ''[[Life Begins at Forty]]'' in the United States.
* [[SPAR (retailer)|SPAR]], the global [[retail]] brand, is founded in [[Zegwaart]], [[Netherlands]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=History|url=https://spar-international.com/aboutus/history/|access-date=2021-08-02|website=SPAR International|language=en-US}}</ref>
* Unemployment in the United States – ca. 33% – 14&nbsp;million. A similar level of unemployment affects Germany. Many people in depressed countries do not receive unemployment benefit due to governments not being able to afford benefit payments.<ref>[http://www.historyhome.co.uk/europe/weimar.htm US unemployment statistics], historyhome.co.uk; accessed December 10, 2014.</ref>