1932
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Events
Dated Events
- Real World: January 28. Japanese troops occupy Shanghai, China.
- Real World: January 31. Japanese warships arrive at Nanking, China.
- Real World: February 4. Japanese troops occupy Harbin, China.
- Real World: February 18. Japan declares Manchuria (Manchukuo) independent from China.
- Real World: May 6. Paul Doumer, President of France, is mortally wounded by assassin Paul Gordulof.
- Real World: March 1. The son of Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Charles Lindbergh III, is kidnapped.
- Real World: May 7. French President Doumer dies.
- Real World: May 10. Albert Lebrun replaces the late Paul Doumer as President of France.
- Real World: May 12. Charles Lindbergh III is found dead a few miles from the Lindbergh home.
- Real World: May 15. Japanese troops begin withdrawing from Shanghai. Japanese Prime Minister Tsuyoshi Inukai is assassinated.
- Real World: May 16. Outbreaks of violence erupt between members of the Hindu and Muslim populations of Bombay, resulting in thousands of casualties.
- Real World: June. The "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans in Washington, D.C. march.
- Real World: July 28. U.S. President Herbert Hoover orders the U.S. Army to remove the "Bonus Army" from Washington, D.C.
- Real World: August 10. A meteorite breaks into at least seven pieces and strikes near the town of Archie, Missouri.
- Real World: August 30. Herman Goring elected Chairman of the German Senate.
- Real World: November 8. Franklin Delano Roosevelt is elected President of the United States.
- Real World: December 25. An earthquake in the Kansu Province of China results in 70,000 deaths.
Undated Events
- GURPS Infinite Worlds: The history of Campbell diverges from Homeline's history when science-fiction writer John W. Campbell is killed in a traffic accident. (GURPS Infinite Worlds)
- Real World: Saudi Arabia is formed.
- Real World: The Kennedy-Thorndike experiment lends weight to the Theory of Special Relativity.
New Fictional Works
Notable Books
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.
Notable Films
Chandu the Magician, Doctor X, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Freaks, The Mask of Fu Manchu, The Most Dangerous Game, The Mummy, Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Old Dark House, Shadow of the Eagle (serial), Tarzan the Ape Man, White Zombie.
Notable Radio Programs
First broadcast of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century.
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