Major Events
- Mar 19 The Sydney Harbour Bridge is opened in Sydney, Australia
- May 21 After flying for 17 hours from Newfoundland, Amelia Earhart lands near Londonderry, Northern Ireland, becoming the 1st transatlantic solo flight by a woman
- Dec 19 British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) begins transmitting overseas
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1932 in Film & TV
- Apr 12 "Grand Hotel" directed by Edmund Goulding and starring Greta Garbo and John Barrymore premieres in New York, includes the line "I want to be alone" (Best Picture/Production 1932)
- Apr 16 Short film "The Music Box" released in the US, starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy (1932 Academy Award Best Live Action Short Film)
- Apr 29 1st broadcast of "One Man's Family" on NBC radio, longest-running dramatic serial on US radio (ends 1959)
- Jul 28 "White Zombie" - 1st feature length zombie film directed by Victor Halperin and starring Bela Lugosi is released in the US
- Aug 22 BBC begins experimental regular TV broadcasts
- Nov 7 1st broadcast of "Buck Rogers in the 25th century" on CBS-radio
- Dec 22 "The Mummy" directed by Karl Freund and starring Boris Karloff is released in the US - 1st Mummy horror film
1932 in Music
- Dec 27 Radio City Music Hall, designed by Edward Durell Stone and Donald Deskey opens at Rockerfeller Center in Manhattan, New York City
1932 in Sport
- Feb 15 As a member of gold medal winning US 4-man bobsleigh team at Lake Placid, Eddie Eagan (boxing gold Antwerp 1920) becomes only Olympian to win gold medals at both summer & winter Games in different sports
F. W. de Klerk
Fernando Botero
Bob Packwood
Manmohan Singh
Sylvia Plath
Jacques Chirac
Roberto Suárez Gómez
Elizabeth Taylor
Anthony Perkins
Andrei Tarkovsky
Casey Kasem
Ted Cassidy
Johnny Cash
Loretta Lynn
Melvin Van Peebles
Patsy Cline
Little Richard
Chuck Noll
Angela Mortimer
Abebe Bikila
Al Arbour
Bob Pettit
Colin CowdreyMore People Born in 1932
Fun Fact About 1932
The "Great Emu War" ends: Emu's surprising resilience to bullets led to Emu victory over Australian military in Campion district, Western Australia
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Edgar Wallace
John Philip Sousa
Aristide Briand
George Eastman
King C. GilletteMore 1932 Deaths
Articles About 1932
Famous Weddings in 1932
- Feb 1 Film director Frank Capra (34) weds secretary Lucille Reyburn
- Apr 30 Australian Test cricket batsman Don Bradman (23) weds Jessie Martha Menzies at St Paul's Anglican Church in Burwood, Sydney
- May 13 Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich (25) weds Russian physicist Nina Varsar (23), mostly until her death in 1954
More Weddings in 1932
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Fredric March
Helen Hayes
Wallace Beery
Herbert Hoover
Joseph Stalin
Ramsay MacDonald