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1932 Calendar

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•  February 17, 1932 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Monkey in Chinese astrology.
•  February 18, 1932 – The Empire of Japan declares Manzhouguo (the obsolete Chinese name for Manchuria) independent from the Republic of China.
•  April 28, 1932 – A vaccine for yellow fever is announced for use on humans.
•  May 15, 1932 – The May 15 Incident: in an attempted Coup d'état, the Prime Minister of Japan Inukai Tsuyoshi is killed.
•  June 3, 1932 – Lou Gehrig and teammate Tony Lazzeri hit four home runs in one game, and hit for the natural cycle, respectively. These two feats are both less common than a perfect game, which has occurred twenty one times in one hundred and twenty years.
•  June 17, 1932 – Bonus Army: around a thousand World War I veterans amass at the United States Capitol as the U.S. Senate considers a bill that would give them certain benefits.
•  July 9, 1932 – The state of São Paulo revolts against the Brazilian Federal Government, starting the Constitutionalist Revolution
•  September 11, 1932 – Franciszek Żwirko and Stanisław Wigura, Polish Challenge 1932 winners, are killed when their RWD 6 airplane crashes during a storm.
•  November 24, 1932 – In Washington, D.C., the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens.
•  December 5, 1932 – German-born Swiss physicist Albert Einstein is granted an American visa.

•  February 7, 1932 – Al Worden, American astronaut
•  February 8, 1932 – John Williams, American composer and conductor
•  June 27, 1932 – Anna Moffo, American soprano (d. 2006)
•  July 3, 1932 – Richard Mellon Scaife, American newspaper publisher
•  July 20, 1932 – Nam June Paik, Video artist (d. 2006)
•  July 31, 1932 – Ted Cassidy, American actor (d. 1979)
•  September 18, 1932 – Nikolai Rukavishnikov, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2002)
•  November 10, 1932 – Don Henderson, English actor (d. 1997)
•  December 5, 1932 – Little Richard, American singer and pianist
•  December 29, 1932 – Inga Swenson, American actress