1932

1932 (MCMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday in the Gregorian calendar.

 Events 
 January 9 – Sakuradamon Incident: Korean nationalist Lee Bong-chang tries to assassinate Emperor Hirohito of Japan and fails.
 February 4 - The 1932 Winter Olympics open in Lake Placid, New York.
 August 6 - The first Venice Film Festival happens.
 October 30 - A hurricane forms. It hits Cuba in November.
 November 2 - The Emu War begins.
 November 18 - The United States has a presidential election.
 Unknown - Joseph Stalin starts the Holodomor.

 Births 
 January 19 – Richard Lester
 January 30 – Gino Conforti, American actor
 February 8 – John Williams
 February 12 – Johnny Cash (d. 2003)
 February 22 – Ted Kennedy (d. 2009)
 March 2 – Gun Hägglund, Swedish television star
 March 4 – Ryszard Kapuściński, Polish journalist (d. 2007)
   March 4   – Frank Wells, American businessman, president of the Walt Disney Company (d. 1994)
 April 27 – Casey Kasem, American radio show host, voice actor (d. 2014)
 July 2 – Dave Thomas, founder of the fast food chain Wendy's (d. 2002)
 August 2 – Peter O'Toole (d. 2013)
 September 25 – Adolfo Suárez (d. 2014)
 October 20 – William Christopher
 November 13 – Richard Mulligan
 November 29 – Jacques Chirac (d. 2019)
 December 5 - Little Richard, American rock and roll pianist (d. 2020)
 December 14 – Charlie Rich

 Nobel Prizes 
 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine won by Charles Scott Sherrington,  (1857 –  1952) and Edgar Douglas Adrian (1889 — 1977).



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