1932

1931 1932 1933

Events

Great Depression: Frederick Louis Allen and William Manchester label 1932 "cruelest year." Deaths of children from malnutrition are reported in New York and San Francisco.
Marx brothers film Horse Feathers is released and Marlene Dietrich appears in Blond Venus.
Conservative Roman Catholic lawyer António de Oliveira Salazar becomes the fascist dictator of Portugal, a position he will have until his death in 1968. Friend of conservative politicians in Britain and white minority ruled Rhodesia, Salazar insists on holding all of Portuguese overseas empire.
Thailand adopts a formal constitution.
Pres. Herbert Hoover signs Revenue Act of 1932, rate of the top income tax bracket increased from 25% to 63%.
U.S. Marines continue the nineteen year long occupation of Haiti, from 1915-1934.
Black Elk Speaks is published.
Kim Philby becomes Treasurer of the Cambridge University Socialist Society.
Filippo Turrati dies.

January 8: The Sakurada or Cheery Gate Incident--a Korean nationalist threw a hand granade at the Japanese Emperor, who was returning from a miltiary parade. The attacker was executed.
January 25: Soviet Union and Poland sign a Treaty of Non-aggression.
February 22: Future Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy is born.
March 29: Filippo Turati, one of the founders of the Italian Socialist Party, dies in Paris.
April 3: Vichuga Uprising of textile workers begins in the Soviet Union.
July 28: Bonus Army protestor William Hushka is shot and killed by Washington, DC police.
September 4: Sergeant's Revolt in Cuba.
November 8: Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats Herbert Hoover in the U.S. presidential election.