3rd January » Martial law is declared in Honduras to stop a revolt by banana workers fired by the United Fruit Company.
12th January » Hattie Caraway becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate.
25th January » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Republic of China known as Chinese National Revolutionary Army Defense of Harbin known as begins its defense of Harbin.
28th January » Japanese forces January 28 Incident e.g attack Shanghai.
4th February » Second Sino-Japanese War: Harbin, Manchuria, Defense of Harbin or falls to Empire of Japan e.g Japan.
18th February » The Empire of Japan declares Manzhouguo (the obsolete Chinese name for Manchuria) independent from the Republic of China.
25th February » Adolf Hitler obtains German citizenship by naturalization, which allows him to run in the 1932 election for Reichspräsident.
1st March » The son of Charles Lindbergh, Charles Augustus Lindbergh III, is kidnapped.
11th March » Boomming Ben, the last Heath Hen was seen for the final time.
5th April » Alcohol prohibition in Finland ends. Alcohol sales begin in Alko liquor stores.
5th April » Dominion of Newfoundland: 10,000 rioters seize the Colonial Building leading to the end of self-government.
23rd April » The 153-year-old De Adriaan, Haarlem called De Adriaan Windmill in Haarlem, Netherlands burns down. It is rebuilt and reopens exactly 70 years later.
24th April » Benny Rothman leads the mass trespass of Kinder Scout, leading to substantial legal reforms in the United Kingdom.
28th April » A vaccine for yellow fever is announced for use on humans.
4th May » In Atlanta, Georgia, mobster Al Capone begins serving an eleven-year prison sentence for tax evasion.
21st May » Bad weather forces Amelia Earhart to land in a pasture in Derry, Northern Ireland, and she thereby becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
23rd May » In Brazil, four students are shot and killed during a manifestation against the Brazilian dictator Getúlio Vargas, which occurred in the city of São Paulo. Their names and surnames were used to form the MMDC, a revolutionary group that would act against t
28th May » In the Netherlands, construction of the Afsluitdijk is completed and the Zuiderzee bay is Zuiderzee Works or converted to the freshwater IJsselmeer.
29th May » World War I veterans begin to assemble in Washington, D.C., in the Bonus Army to request cash bonuses promised to them to be paid in 1945.
30th May » The National Theatre of Greece is founded.
6th June » The Revenue Act of 1932 is enacted, creating the first gas tax in the United States, at a rate of 1 cent per US gallon (1/4¢/L) sold.
17th June » Bonus Army: Around a thousand World War I veterans amass at the United States Capitol as the United States Senate called U.S. Senate considers a bill that would give them certain benefits.
8th July » The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level of the Great Depression, closing at 41.22.
9th July » The state of São Paulo (state) e.g São Paulo revolts against the Brazilian Federal Government, starting the Constitutionalist Revolution.
12th July » Hedley Verity takes a cricket Hedley Verity World record world record ten wickets for ten runs in a County Championship county match for Yorkshire County Cricket Club Yorkshire.
17th July » Altona Bloody Sunday: A riot between the Nazi Party paramilitary forces, the Schutzstaffel SS and Sturmabteilung SA, and the Communist Party of Germany German Communist Party ensues.
20th July » In Washington, D.C., police fire tear gas on World War I veterans, part of the Bonus Expeditionary Force, who attempt to march to the White House.
28th July » President of the United States or U.S. President Herbert Hoover orders the United States Army to forcibly evict the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans gathered in Washington, D.C.
29th July » Great Depression: In Washington, D.C., troops disperse the last of the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans.
31st July » The NSDAP (Nazi Party) wins more than 38% of the vote in German federal election, July 1932 known as German elections.
2nd August » The positron (antiparticle of the electron) is discovered by Carl David Anderson e.g Carl D. Anderson.
10th August » A convert 5.1 kg lb chondrite-type meteorite breaks into at least seven pieces and lands near the town of Archie, Missouri Archie in Cass County, Missouri.
22nd August » The BBC first experiments with television broadcasting. (See also Timeline of the BBC 1930s known as Timeline of the BBC.)
24th August » Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly across the United States non-stop (from Los Angeles to Newark, New Jersey).
5th September » The French Upper Volta is broken apart between Ivory Coast, French Sudan, and Niger.
7th September » The Battle of Boquerón, the first major battle of the Chaco War, commences.
11th September » Franciszek Żwirko and Stanisław Wigura, Polish Challenge 1932 winners, are killed when their RWD 6 airplane crashes during a storm.
17th September » A speech by Laureano Gómez leads to the escalation of the Leticia Incident.
23rd September » The Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd is renamed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
24th September » Mohandas K. Gandhi or Gandhi and Dr. B. R. Ambedkar agree to the Poona Pact, which reserved seats in the Indian provincial legislatures for the "Dalits named Depressed Classes" (Untouchables).
29th September » Chaco War: Last day of the Battle of Boquerón between Paraguay and Bolivia.
3rd October » Iraq gains independence from the United Kingdom.
8th October » The Indian Air Force is established.
15th October » Tata Airlines (later to become Air India) makes its first flight.
3rd November » Panagis Tsaldaris becomes the List of Prime Ministers of Greece Second Hellenic Republic (1924–1935) e.g 142nd Prime Minister of Greece.
24th November » In Washington, D.C., the Federal Bureau of Investigation e.g FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens.
5th December » Germany German-born Swiss people Swiss physicist Albert Einstein is granted an American visa (document) visa.
10th December » Thailand becomes a Constitution of Thailand called constitutional monarchy.
18th December » The Chicago Bears defeat the Detroit Lions Portsmouth Spartans 9–0 in the first ever History of National Football League Championship NFL Championship Game. Because of a blizzard, the game is moved from Wrigley Field to the Chicago Stadium, the field meas
19th December » BBC World Service begins broadcasting as the BBC Empire Service.
25th December » A 1932 Changma earthquake or magnitude 7.6 earthquake in Gansu, China kills 275 people.
27th December » Radio City Music Hall, "Showplace of the Nation", opens in New York City called New York, New York.