Editing 1932 (section)

===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.