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1932 Calendar

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•  February 4, 1932 – Second Sino-Japanese War: Harbin, Manchuria, falls to Japan.
•  February 17, 1932 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Monkey in Chinese astrology.
•  April 5, 1932 – Dominion of Newfoundland: 10,000 rioters seize the Colonial Building leading to the end of self-government.
•  July 12, 1932 – Hedley Verity takes a cricket world record 10 wickets for 10 runs in a county match for Yorkshire
•  July 17, 1932 – Altona Bloody Sunday.
•  July 29, 1932 – Great Depression: in Washington, D.C., troops disperse the last of the “Bonus Army” of World War I veterans.
•  August 2, 1932 – The positron (antiparticle of the electron) is discovered by Carl D. Anderson.
•  August 10, 1932 – A 5.1 kg chondrite-type meteorite breaks into at least seven pieces and lands near the town of Archie in Cass County, Missouri.
•  October 3, 1932 – Iraq gains independence from the United Kingdom.
•  November 24, 1932 – In Washington, D.C., the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens.

•  January 5, 1932 – Umberto Eco, Italian philosopher and writer
•  January 26, 1932 – George Clements, American civil rights activist and Roman Catholic priest
•  February 16, 1932 – Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, former President of Sierra Leone
•  February 23, 1932 – Majel Barrett, American actress (d. 2008)
•  March 4, 1932 – Ryszard Kapuściński, Polish journalist (d. 2007)
•  July 3, 1932 – Richard Mellon Scaife, American newspaper publisher
•  July 19, 1932 – Jan Lindblad, Swedish naturalist, writer and photographer (d. 1987)
•  August 17, 1932 – V. S. Naipaul, West Indian writer, Nobel Laureate
•  October 28, 1932 – Spyros Kyprianou, Cyprian politician (d. 2002)
•  November 18, 1932 – Danny McDevitt, American baseball player (d. 2010)