1932 in the United Kingdom

1932 in the United Kingdom:

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Sport

1932 English cricket season

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Events from the year 1932 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

• Monarch - King George V
• Prime Minister - Ramsay MacDonald, national coalition

Events

• 8 January - The Archbishop of Canterbury forbids church remarriage of divorcees.
• 24 January - Inmates at Dartmoor Prison mutiny.^[1]
• 26 January - British submarine HMS M2 sinks off the Dorset coast with all fifty hands.
• 4 February–15 February - Great Britain and Northern Ireland compete in the Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, New York but do not win any medals.

Broadcasting House

• 1 March - Import Duties Act re-establishes protective trade tariffs.^[2]
• 15 March - First broadcast from the newly opened BBC Broadcasting House.^[2]
• 6 April - Ministry of Health encourages local councils to engage in widespread slum clearance.^[2]
• 13 April - Mass trespass of Kinder Scout, a willful trespass by ramblers at Kinder Scout, in the Peak District of England, to protest against lack of free public access to open country.^[3]
• 23 April - New Shakespeare Memorial Theatre opens in Stratford-upon-Avon.^[4] Designed by Elisabeth Scott, it is the country's first important work by a woman architect.^[5]
• 1 May - Protestors and police clash in Hyde Park, London, during a May day protest against Japan's attitude towards China when they try to march on the Japanese Embassy.
• 10 May - James Chadwick discovers the neutron.^[6]
• 26 May - The Scots law case of Donoghue v Stevenson is decided in the House of Lords, establishing the modern concept of a duty of care in cases of negligence.^[7]
• 4 July - George Carwardine patents the Anglepoise lamp.
• 12 July - Hedley Verity of Yorkshire 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.
• 19 July - King George V opens the replacement Lambeth Bridge.
• 30 July–14 August - Great Britain and Northern Ireland compete at the Olympics in Los Angeles, California and win 4 gold, 7 silver and 5 bronze.
• 1 August - Forrest Mars produces the first Mars bar in his Slough factory.^[8]
• 22 August - First experimental television broadcast by the BBC.^[4]
• 20 September - Methodist Union: The Methodist Church is formed in Britain by merger of the Wesleyan Methodist Church, the Primitive Methodists and the United Methodist Church.
• 26 September - First contingent of the National Hunger March leaves Glasgow.^[9][10]
• October - Oswald Mosley founds the British Union of Fascists.^[2]
• 3 October - The Times newspaper first appears set in the Times New Roman typeface devised by Stanley Morison.^[11]
• 7 October - Thomas Beecham establishes the London Philharmonic Orchestra.^[2][12]
• 13 October - Britain grants independence to Iraq in exchange for a restrictive long-term military alliance.
• 27 October - Arrival of the Hunger March in London leads to several violent clashes with police.^[13]
• 14 November - Book tokens go on sale in the UK.^[4]
• 30 November - The BBC begins a series of radio broadcasts to mark the 75th birthday of Sir Edward Elgar.
• 2 December - English cricket team in Australia in 1932–33: Opening of the 'bodyline' series.
• 5 December - The comic strip character Jane first appears in the Daily Mirror.
• 10 December
  • John Galsworthy wins the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his distinguished art of narration which takes its highest form in The Forsyte Saga".^[14]
  • Charles Scott Sherrington and Edgar Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian, win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries regarding the functions of neurons".^[15]
• 19 December - The BBC Empire Service, later known as the BBC World Service, begins broadcasting.^[4]
• 25 December - King George V delivers the first Royal Christmas Message.^[2]

Undated

• Opening of the Hoover Building on the Western Avenue in Perivale, Middlesex, a noted example of Art Deco architecture, designed by Wallis, Gilbert and Partners for The Hoover Company.^[16]
• English Folk Dance and Song Society formed by merger of the Folk-Song Society and the English Folk Dance Society.

Publications

• Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot novel Peril at End House.
• Lewis Grassic Gibbon's novel Sunset Song.
• Stella Gibbons' parodic novel Cold Comfort Farm.
• J. B. S. Haldane's book The Causes of Evolution, unifying Mendelian genetics and evolutionary science.
• Aldous Huxley's novel Brave New World.
• F. R. Leavis' book New Bearings in English Poetry.
• Q. D. Leavis' book Fiction and the Reading Public.
• John Cowper Powys' novel A Glastonbury Romance.
• Evelyn Waugh's novel Black Mischief.
• First issue of the journal of literary criticism Scrutiny: a quarterly review edited by F. R. Leavis (published in May).
• First issue of the magazine Woman's Own.

Births

• 29 January
  • Tommy Taylor, footballer (died 1958)
  • George Allen, footballer
• 1 February - John Nott, polictian
• 27 February - Elizabeth Taylor, actress
• 25 April - William Roache, actor (Coronation Street)
• 26 April - Michael Smith, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2000)
• 8 May - Phyllida Law, actress
• 19 May - Alma Cogan, singer (died 1966)
• 30 May - Ivor Richard, politician
• 18 June - Geoffrey Hill, poet
• 22 June - Prunella Scales, actress
• 25 June - Peter Blake, artist
• 29 June - Brian Hutton, Baron Hutton, Law Lord
• 6 August - Howard Hodgkin, painter and print-maker
• 17 August - V. S. Naipaul, writer
• 20 August - Anthony Ainley, actor (died 2004)
• 4 September - Dinsdale Landen, actor (died 2003)
• 7 September - Malcolm Bradbury, author and academic (died 2000)
• 11 September - Peter Anderson, footballer
• 27 September - Michael Colvin, politician (died 2000)
• 8 October - Ray Reardon, snooker player
• 10 October - Harry Smith, footballer
• 15 October - Vince Karalius (d. 2008), English rugby league footballer and coach
• 15 November - Petula Clark, singer, actress, and songwriter
• 20 November - Richard Dawson, comedian and game show host
• 21 November - Beryl Bainbridge, novelist (died 2010)
• 24 December - Colin Cowdrey, cricketer (died 2000)
• 28 December - Roy Hattersley, politician

Deaths

• 21 January - Lytton Strachey writer and biographer (born 1880)
• 24 January - Sir Alfred Yarrow, shipbuilder and philanthropist (born 1842)
• 10 February - Edgar Wallace, novelist and screenwriter (born 1875)
• 26 April - William Lockwood, cricketer (born 1868)
• 6 July - Kenneth Grahame, author (born 1859)
• 16 September - Ronald Ross, physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born 1857)
• 12 November - Sir Dugald Clerk, mechanical engineer (born 1854)

References

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