What is 1932?
{{Year nav|1932}} {{Year in various calendars|1932}} '''1932''' ([[Roman numerals|MCMXXXII]]) was a [[leap year starting on Friday]] in the [[Gregorian calendar]], the 1932nd year of the [[Common Era]] (CE) and ''[[Anno Domini]]'' (AD) designations, {{Year article header/year number|1932}}. == Events == * [[January 9]] – [[Sakuradamon Incident (1932)|Sakuradamon Incident]]: Korean nationalist [[Lee Bong-chang]] tries to [[wikt:assassinate|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]] - [[1932 Cuba hurricane|A hurricane]] forms. It hits [[Cuba]] in November. * [[November 2]] - The [[Emu War]] begins. * [[November 18]] - The [[United States]] has [[1932 United States presidential election|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]], [[Poland|Polish]] journalist (d. [[2007]]) * March 4 – [[Frank Wells]], [[United States|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 Me