1932

1932 (MCMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1932nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 932nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 32nd year of the 20th century, and the 3rd year of the 1930s decade.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1900s  1910s  1920s  – 1930s –  1940s  1950s  1960s
Years:	1929 1930 1931 – 1932 – 1933 1934 1935

1932 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1932 MCMXXXII
Ab urbe condita	2685
Armenian calendar	1381 ԹՎ ՌՅՁԱ
Assyrian calendar	6682
Bahá'í calendar	88–89
Balinese saka calendar	1853–1854
Bengali calendar	1339
Berber calendar	2882
British Regnal year	22 Geo. 5 – 23 Geo. 5
Buddhist calendar	2476
Burmese calendar	1294
Byzantine calendar	7440–7441
Chinese calendar	辛未年 (Metal Goat) 4628 or 4568     — to — 壬申年 (Water Monkey) 4629 or 4569
Coptic calendar	1648–1649
Discordian calendar	3098
Ethiopian calendar	1924–1925
Hebrew calendar	5692–5693
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1988–1989
- Shaka Samvat	1853–1854
- Kali Yuga	5032–5033
Holocene calendar	11932
Igbo calendar	932–933
Iranian calendar	1310–1311
Islamic calendar	1350–1351
Japanese calendar	Shōwa 7 (昭和７年)
Javanese calendar	1862–1863
Juche calendar	21
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4265
Minguo calendar	ROC 21 民國21年
Nanakshahi calendar	464
Thai solar calendar	2474–2475
Tibetan calendar	阴金羊年 (female Iron-Goat) 2058 or 1677 or 905     — to — 阳水猴年 (male Water-Monkey) 2059 or 1678 or 906

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
• 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).