1932 in the United States

1932 in the United States
Decades:	1910s 1920s – 1930s – 1940s 1950s
Years:	1929 1930 1931 – 1932 – 1933 1934 1935
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Events from the year 1932 in the United States.

Incumbents

• President: Herbert Hoover (Republican)
• Vice President: Charles Curtis (Republican)
• Chief Justice: Charles Evans Hughes
• Speaker of the House of Representatives: John Nance Garner (D-Texas)
• Senate Majority Leader: James Eli Watson (R-Indiana)
• Congress: 72nd

Events

January–March

• January 1 – The United States Post Office Department issues a set of 12 stamps commemorating the 200th anniversary of George Washington's birth.
• January 12 – Hattie W. Caraway becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate.
• February 2 – The Reconstruction Finance Corporation begins operations in Washington, D.C.
• February 4 – The 1932 Winter Olympics open in Lake Placid, New York.
• 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, having originally been a late evening program.
• March 1 – Charles Lindbergh, Jr., the infant son of Anne Morrow Lindbergh and Charles Lindbergh, is kidnapped from the family home near Hopewell, New Jersey.
• March 7 – Four people are killed when police fire upon 3,000 unemployed autoworkers marching outside the Ford River Rouge Plant in Dearborn, Michigan.

April–June

• April 6 – U.S. president Herbert Hoover supports armament limitations.
• May 12 – Ten weeks after his abduction, the infant son of Charles Lindbergh is found dead just a few miles from the Lindberghs' home.
• May 20–21 – Amelia Earhart flies from the USA to Derry, Northern Ireland in 14 hours 54 minutes.
• May 29 – The first of approximately 15,000 World War I veterans arrive in Washington, D.C. demanding the immediate payment of their military bonus, becoming known as the Bonus Army.
• June 6 – The Revenue Act of 1932 is enacted, creating the first gas tax in the United States at 1 cent per US gallon (0.26 ¢/L) sold.
• June 29 – The comedy serial Vic and Sade debuts on NBC Radio.

July–September

• July 8 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level of the Great Depression, bottoming out at 41.22.
• July 28 – U.S. President Herbert Hoover orders the U.S. Army to forcibly evict the Bonus Army of World War I veterans gathered in Washington, D.C.. Troops disperse the last of the Bonus Army the next day.
• July 30 – The 1932 Summer Olympics open in Los Angeles.
• July 30 – Walt Disney's Flowers and Trees, the first animated cartoon to be presented in full Technicolor, premieres in Los Angeles, California. It releases in theaters, along with Eugene O'Neill's experimental play Strange Interlude (starring Norma Shearer and Clark Gable), and will go on to win the first Academy Award for Best Animated Short.
• August – A farmers' revolt begins in the Midwestern United States.
• August 7 – Raymond Edward Welch becomes the first one-legged man to scale 6,288 feet (1,917 m) New Hampshire.
• August 10 – A 5.1 kg chondrite-type meteorite breaks into at least 7 fragments and strikes earth near the town of Archie in Cass County, Missouri.
• August 31 – A total solar eclipse is visible from northern Canada through northeastern Vermont, New Hampshire, southwestern Maine, and the Capes of Massachusetts.

October–December

• October 15 – The Michigan Marching Band (then called the Varsity band) debuts Script Ohio at the Michigan versus Ohio State game in Columbus.
• October 23 – Fred Allen's radio comedy show debuts on CBS.
• November 1 – The San Francisco Opera House opens.
• November 7 – Buck Rogers in the 25th Century airs on American radio for the first time.
• November 8 – U.S. presidential election, 1932: Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats Republican President Herbert Hoover in a landslide victory.
• November 16 – New York City's Palace Theatre fully converts to a cinema, which is considered the final death knell of vaudeville as a popular entertainment in the United States.
• November 24 – In Washington, D.C., the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens.
• December 27 – Radio City Music Hall opens in New York City.

Undated

• Unemployment in the USA – ca. 33% – 14 million.
• The Republican Citizens Committee Against National Prohibition is established for the repeal of prohibition in the U.S.

Ongoing

• Lochner era (c. 1897–c. 1937)
• U.S. occupation of Haiti (1915–1934)
• Prohibition (1919–1933)
• Great Depression (1929–1933)
• Dust Bowl (1930–1936)

Births

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• August 1 — Meir Kahane, American-born Israeli rabbi and ultra-nationalist writer and political figure (died 1990)
• March 31 - Thomas Beers, co-founder of the needle-pointing business Sudberry House

Deaths

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External links

• Media related to 1932 in the United States at Wikimedia Commons