What Happened In February 1932 In History

Historical Events for February, 1932

• 4th » Second Sino-Japanese War: Harbin, Manchuria, Defense of Harbin or falls to Empire of Japan e.g Japan.
• 18th » The Empire of Japan declares Manzhouguo (the obsolete Chinese name for Manchuria) independent from the Republic of China.
• 25th » Adolf Hitler obtains German citizenship by naturalization, which allows him to run in the 1932 election for Reichspräsident.

Famous Birthdays on February in 1932

• 1st » Jan Ramberg, Swedish lawyer and judge
• 2nd » Arthur Lyman, American vibraphone player (d. 2002)
• 2nd » Robert Mandan, American actor
• 3rd » Peggy Ann Garner, American actress (d. 1984)
• 3rd » Stuart Hall (cultural theorist) e.g Stuart Hall, Jamaican-English sociologist and theorist (d. 2014)
• 5th » Cesare Maldini, Italian footballer and manager
• 6th » Camilo Cienfuegos, Cuban anarchist (d. 1959)
• 6th » Heinz-Klaus Metzger, German critic and theorist (d. 2009)
• 6th » François Truffaut, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1984)
• 7th » Gay Talese, American author
• 7th » Alfred Worden, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut
• 8th » Cliff Allison, English race car driver (d. 2005)
• 8th » Vladas Garastas, Lithuanian basketball player and coach
• 8th » Elspeth Howe, Baroness Howe of Idlicote, English politician
• 8th » Jean Saunders, English author (d. 2011)
• 8th » John Williams, American pianist, composer, and conductor
• 9th » Tatsuro Hirooka, Japanese baseball player and manager
• 9th » Gerhard Richter, German painter
• 11th » Jerome Lowenthal, American pianist
• 11th » Dennis Skinner, English politician
• 12th » Maurice Filion, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager
• 12th » Axel Jensen, Norwegian author (d. 2003)
• 12th » Julian Simon, American economist and author (d. 1998)
• 13th » Robert Fulford (journalist) or Robert Fulford, Canadian journalist
• 13th » Susan Oliver, American actress and director (d. 1990)
• 13th » Barbara Shelley, English actress
• 13th » Simms Taback, American author and illustrator (d. 2011)
• 14th » Alexander Kluge, German actor and director
• 14th » Jocelyn Stevens, English publisher
• 15th » Troy Kennedy Martin, Scottish-English screenwriter (d. 2009)
• 16th » Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, Sierra Leonean economist, lawyer, and politician, 3rd President of Sierra Leone (d. 2014)
• 16th » Gretchen Wyler, American actress and dancer (d. 2007)
• 18th » Miloš Forman, Czech-American director and screenwriter
• 19th » Joseph P. Kerwin, American physician and astronaut
• 20th » Adrian Cristobal, Filipino journalist and author (d. 2007)
• 20th » Tom Patey, Scottish mountaineer (d. 1970)
• 22nd » Ted Kennedy, American politician (d. 2009)
• 23rd » Majel Barrett, American actress and producer (d. 2008)
• 24th » Michel Legrand, French pianist, composer, and conductor
• 24th » Brenda Maddox, American journalist and author
• 24th » Zell Miller, American sergeant and politician, 79th Governor of Georgia
• 24th » John Vernon, Canadian-American actor (d. 2005)
• 25th » Tony Brooks, English race car driver
• 25th » Faron Young, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (d. 1996)
• 26th » Johnny Cash, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (The Tennessee Three and The Highwaymen (country supergroup) named The Highwaymen) (d. 2003)
• 27th » Elizabeth Taylor, English-American actress (d. 2011)
• 27th » David Young, Baron Young of Graffham, English politician, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills
• 28th » Don Francks, Canadian actor and singer
• 29th » Jaguar (cartoonist) named Jaguar, Brazilian cartoonist
• 29th » Gene H. Golub, American mathematician and academic (d. 2007)
• 29th » Masten Gregory, American race car river (d. 1985)
• 29th » Reri Grist, American soprano

Famous Deaths for February 1932

• 2nd » Agha Petros, Assyrian general (b. 1880)
• 8th » Mad Dog Coll, Irish-American gangster (b. 1908)
• 8th » Yordan Milanov, Bulgarian architect, designed the Sveti Sedmochislenitsi Church (b. 1867)
• 9th » A.K. Golam Jilani, Bangladeshi soldier and activist (b. 1904)
• 9th » Paul Neumann (swimmer) or Paul Neumann, Austrian swimmer (b. 1875)
• 10th » Edgar Wallace, English author and screenwriter (b. 1875)
• 15th » Minnie Maddern Fiske, American actress and playwright (b. 1865)
• 16th » Ferdinand Buisson, French academic and politician, Nobel Peace Prize e.g Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1841)
• 16th » Edgar Speyer, American-English financier and philanthropist (b. 1862)
• 27th » William Southam, Canadian publisher (b. 1843)
• 28th » Guillaume Bigourdan, French astronomer (b. 1851)

• « Year 1931
• Year 1933 »