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1925_2
Section: March (2): March 1 – New York City Fire Department Rescue 2 is put in service in Brooklyn. March 4 İsmet İnönü is appointed prime minister in Turkey (Turkey's 4th and İnönü's 3rd government). Calvin Coolidge is sworn in for a full term as President of the United States, in the first inauguration to be broadcas...
1925_3
Section: April (2): April–October – The Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes is held in Paris, giving a name to the Art Deco style. April 1 – In the United States: Frank Heath and his horse Gypsy Queen leave Washington, D.C. to begin a two-year journey to visit all 48 states. The Patent...
1925_4
Section: May (2): May 1 In the Destruction of early Islamic heritage sites in Saudi Arabia, the al-Baqi' mausoleums are destroyed by King Ibn Saud. Barcelona S.C. founded in Ecuador. The All-China Federation of Trade Unions, the world's largest trade union organisation, is founded in Guangzhou, Republic of China. May 5...
1925_5
Section: June (2): June 6 – The Chrysler Corporation is founded as an automobile manufacturer by Walter Percy Chrysler in the United States. June 13 – American engineer Charles Francis Jenkins achieves the first synchronized transmission of pictures and sound, using 48 lines and a mechanical system in "the first public...
1925_6
Section: July (2): July 10–21 – Scopes Trial: In a staged test case (the "Monkey Trial") in Dayton, Tennessee, United States, John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher (technically arrested on May 5 and indicted on May 25) is accused of assigning a reading from a state-mandated textbook on Darwinian evolution...
1925_7
Section: August (2): August 1 – The New Cape Central Railway between Worcester and Voorbaai is incorporated into the South African Railways. August 8 – The Ku Klux Klan, the largest fraternal racist organization in the United States, demonstrates its popularity by holding a parade with an estimated 30,000-35,000 marche...
1925_8
Section: September (2): September 3 – The U.S. Navy dirigible Shenandoah breaks up in a squall line near Caldwell, Ohio, killing 14 crewmen. September 27 – Feast of the Cross according to the Old Calendar: a celestial cross appears over Athens, Greece, while the Greek police pursues a group of Greek Old Calendarists. T...
1925_9
Section: October (2): October – The major money forgery and fraud of Alves dos Reis is exposed in Portugal. October 1 – Mount Rushmore National Memorial is dedicated in South Dakota. October 2 – In London, UK, John Logie Baird successfully transmits the first television pictures with a greyscale image. October 4 – S2, ...
1925_10
Section: November (2): November 9 – Formal foundation date of the Schutzstaffel (SS) as a personal bodyguard for Adolf Hitler in Germany. November 14 1925 Australian federal election: Stanley Bruce's Nationalist/Country Coalition Government is re-elected with an increased majority, defeating the Labor Party led by Matt...
1925_11
Section: December (2): December 1 – The Locarno Treaties are signed in London, intended to secure the post-war continental European territorial settlement. December 11 – Pope Pius XI's encyclical Quas primas, on the Feast of Christ the King, is promulgated. December 12 – The first motel in the world, the Milestone Mo-T...
1926_0
1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1926th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 926th year of the 2nd millennium, the 26th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1920s decade.
1926_0
Section: January (2): January 3 – Theodoros Pangalos declares himself dictator in Greece. January 8 Ibn Saud is crowned ruler of the Kingdom of Hejaz. Crown Prince Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Thuy ascends the throne as Bảo Đại, the last monarch of the Nguyễn dynasty of the Kingdom of Vietnam. January 16 – A British Broadcasting C...
1926_1
Section: February (2): February 1 – Land on Broadway and Wall Street in New York City is sold at a record $7 per sq inch; it is only affordable for four more years. February 12 – The Irish minister for Justice, Kevin O'Higgins, appoints the Committee on Evil Literature. February 20 – The Berlin International Green Week...
1926_2
Section: March (2): March 6 The Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon (England) is destroyed by fire. The first commercial air route from the United Kingdom to South Africa is established by Alan Cobham. March 14 – The El Virilla train accident occurs in Costa Rica killing 248 people and injuring 93. Marc...
1926_3
Section: April (2): April 4 – Greek dictator Theodoros Pangalos wins the presidential election, with 93.3% of the vote; turnout is light, as the result is considered a foregone conclusion. April 6 – Aarón Joaquín has a vision in the Nuevo León state of Mexico, origin of La Luz del Mundo, a nontrinitarian charismatic re...
1926_4
Section: May (2): May 4 – The United Kingdom general strike begins at midnight, in support of a strike by coal miners. May 9 Following the general strike which began May 4, martial law is declared in the United Kingdom. The French navy bombards Damascus, because of Druze riots. Explorer Richard E. Byrd and co-pilot Flo...
1926_5
Section: June (2): June 4 – Ignacy Mościcki becomes president of Poland. June 7 – Liberal politician Carl Gustaf Ekman succeeds Rickard Sandler as Prime Minister of Sweden. June 29 – Arthur Meighen briefly returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada during the King-Byng Affair. Subsections (0):
1926_6
Section: July (2): July 1 – The Kuomintang begins the Northern Expedition, a military unification campaign in northern China. July 3 – A Caudron C.61 aircraft, operated by Compagnie Internationale de Navigation Aérienne, crashes in Czechoslovakia. July 9 – In Portugal, General Óscar Carmona takes power in a military co...
1926_7
Section: August (2): August 1 – In Mexico, the entry into force of anticlerical measures stipulated in the Constitution of 1917 causes the Cristero War from August 3. August 2 – The short-lived Western Australian Secession League is founded. August 5 – In New York, the Warner Brothers' Vitaphone system is seen by audie...
1926_8
Section: September (2): September 1 – Lebanon under the French Mandate gets its first constitution, thereby becoming a republic, with Charles Debbas as its president. September 8 – The German Weimar Republic joins the League of Nations. September 11 – In Rome, Italy, Gino Lucetti throws a bomb at Benito Mussolini's car...
1926_9
Section: October (2): October 2 – Józef Piłsudski becomes prime minister of Poland. October 12 – British miners agree to end their strike. October 14 – A. A. Milne's children's book Winnie-the-Pooh is published in London, featuring the eponymous bear. October 16 – An ammunition explosion on troopship Kuang Yuang near J...
1926_10
Section: November (2): November 10 – In San Francisco, a necrophiliac serial killer named Earle Nelson (dubbed "Gorilla Man") kills and then rapes his 9th victim, a boarding house landlady named Mrs. William Edmonds. November 11 – The United States Numbered Highway System, including U.S. Route 66, is established. Novem...
1926_11
Section: December (2): December 2 – British prime minister Stanley Baldwin ends the martial law that had been declared due to the general strike. December 3 – English detective story writer Agatha Christie disappears from her home in Surrey; on December 14 she is found under her husband's mistress's surname at a Harrog...
1927_0
1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1927th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 927th year of the 2nd millennium, the 27th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1920s decade.
1927_0
Section: January (2): January 1 – The British Broadcasting Company becomes the British Broadcasting Corporation, when its Royal Charter of incorporation takes effect. John Reith becomes the first Director-General. January 7 The first transatlantic telephone call is made via radio from New York City, United States, to L...
1927_1
Section: February (2): February – Werner Heisenberg formulates his famous uncertainty principle, while employed as a lecturer at Niels Bohr's Institute for Theoretical Physics, at the University of Copenhagen. February 7 – An attempted military coup in Lisbon, Portugal, is successfully put down. February 12 – British t...
1927_2
Section: March (2): March 4 – A diamond rush in South Africa includes trained athletes, who have been hired by major companies to stake claims. March 7 – 1927 Kita Tango earthquake: A 7.0 Mw  earthquake kills at least 2,925 in the Toyooka and Mineyama areas of western Honshu, in Japan. March 11 – In New York City, the ...
1927_3
Section: April (2): April 7 – Bell Telephone Co. transmits an image of Herbert Hoover (then the Secretary of Commerce), which becomes the first successful long distance demonstration of television. April 12 The Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act 1927 renames the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland as the United...
1927_4
Section: May (2): May – Philo Farnsworth of the United States transmits his first experimental electronic television motion pictures, as opposed to the electromechanical TV systems that others have used before. May 9 – The Australian Parliament convenes for the first time in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory. Prev...
1927_5
Section: June (2): June – The volcanic island of Anak Krakatau begins to form in the Sunda Strait of Indonesia. June 4 – Yugoslavia severs diplomatic relations with Albania. June 4–6 – Clarence Chamberlin and Charles Albert Levine take off from Roosevelt Field, New York, and fly to Eisleben, Germany, in the Wright-Bell...
1927_6
Section: July (2): July 1 – The Food, Drug, and Insecticide Administration (FDIA) is established as a United States federal agency. July 10 – Timothy Coughlan, Bill Gannon and Archie Doyle, members of the anti-Treaty Irish Republican Army, shoot dead Kevin O'Higgins, Vice-President of the Executive Council of the Irish...
1927_7
Section: August (2): August 1 – The Communist Chinese People's Liberation Army is formed, during the Nanchang Uprising. August 2 U.S. President Calvin Coolidge announces, "I do not choose to run for president in 1928." American electrical engineer Harold Stephen Black invents the negative-feedback amplifier. August 7 –...
1927_8
Section: September (2): September – The Autumn Harvest Uprising occurs in China. September 7 The University of Minas Gerais is founded in Brazil. The first fully electronic television system is achieved by Philo Farnsworth. September 18 – The Columbia Phonographic Broadcasting System (later known as CBS) is formed in t...
1927_9
Section: October (2): October – Niels Bohr presents his theoretical principle of complementarity at the Fifth Solvay Conference on Physics. October 4 – Carving of the sculptures at Mount Rushmore, South Dakota begins. October 6 – The Jazz Singer, starring Al Jolson, premieres at the Warner Theater in New York City. Alt...
1927_10
Section: November (2): November 1 – İsmet İnönü forms a new government in Turkey (the 5th government). November 3–4 – Great Vermont Flood of 1927: Floods devastating Vermont cause the "worst natural disaster in the state's history". November 4 – Frank Heath and his horse Gypsy Queen return to Washington, D.C., having c...
1927_11
Section: December (2): December – The Communist Party Congress condemns all deviation from the general party line in the USSR. December 1 – Chiang Kai-shek marries Soong Mei-ling in Shanghai. December 2 – Following 19 years of Ford Model T production, the Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Model A as its new automobil...
1928_0
1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1928th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 928th year of the 2nd millennium, the 28th year of the 20th century, and the 9th year of the 1920s decade.
1928_0
Section: January (2): January – British bacteriologist Frederick Griffith reports the results of Griffith's experiment, indirectly demonstrating that DNA is the genetic material. January 1 – Eastern Bloc emigration and defection: Boris Bazhanov, Joseph Stalin's personal secretary, crosses the border to Iran to defect f...
1928_1
Section: February (2): February – The Ford River Rouge Complex at Dearborn, Michigan, an automobile plant begun in 1917, is completed as the world's largest integrated factory. February 8 – Scottish-born inventor John Logie Baird broadcasts a transatlantic television signal from London to Hartsdale, New York. February ...
1928_2
Section: March (2): March 15 March 15 incident: The Japanese government cracks down on socialists and communists, arresting over 1,000 people. Chinese warlord Shi Yousan sets fire to the Shaolin Monastery in Henan, destroying some of its ancient structures and artifacts. March 21 – Charles Lindbergh is presented with t...
1928_3
Section: April (2): April 10 – Pineapple Primary: The United States Republican Party primary elections in Chicago are preceded by violence, bombings and assassination attempts (two politicians are killed, Octavius C. Granady and Giuseppe Esposito). April 12 – A bomb attack against Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolin...
1928_4
Section: May (2): May 3 – Jinan incident: An armed conflict between the Imperial Japanese Army (allied with Northern Chinese warlords) and the Kuomintang's southern army occurs in Jinan, China. May 7 – Passage of the Representation of the People Act in the United Kingdom lowers the voting age for women from 30 to 21, g...
1928_5
Section: June (2): June 4 – Huanggutun incident: Zhang Zuolin, a warlord, is killed by Japanese agents in China. June 8 – By seizing Beijing and renaming it Běipíng, the National Revolutionary Army puts an end to the 'Fengtian warlords' Beiyang government there. June 9 Australian aviator Charles Kingsford Smith and his...
1928_6
Section: July (2): July 2 – Charles Jenkins Laboratories' W3XK station begins broadcasting on 6.42 MHz, using 48 lines. July 3 – Scottish inventor John Logie Baird demonstrates the world's first colour television transmission in Glasgow. July 7 – The first machine-sliced and machine-wrapped loaf of bread is sold in Chi...
1928_7
Section: August (2): August – Margaret Mead's influential cultural anthropology text, Coming of Age in Samoa, is published in the U.S. August 2 – Italy and Ethiopia sign the Italo-Ethiopian Treaty. August 16 – Serial killer Carl Panzram is arrested in Washington, D.C., for burglary. Later it will be discovered that he ...
1928_8
Section: September (2): September 1 – Ahmet Zogu, President of the Albanian Republic, declares the country to be a constitutional monarchy, the Albanian Kingdom, with himself as King Zog I. September 3 – Philo Farnsworth demonstrates to the press in San Francisco the world's first working all-electronic television syst...
1928_9
Section: October (2): October – The women's organisation Gruaja Shiqiptare is founded in Albania, with Princess Senije as its chair. October 1 – Joseph Stalin launches the first five-year plan (1928–1932); the average nonfarm wage falls by 50% in the Soviet Union. October 2 Josemaría Escrivá founds Opus Dei. Arvid Lind...
1928_10
Section: November (2): November 1 – Turkey passes a law switching the country from the Arabic to the Latin-based modern Turkish alphabet. November 6 – 1928 United States presidential election: Republican Herbert Hoover wins by a wide margin, over Democratic New York Governor Al Smith. November 9 – 16 – Radclyffe Hall's...
1928_11
Section: December (2): December 3 – In Rio de Janeiro, a seaplane sent to greet Alberto Santos-Dumont crashes, killing all on board. The pilot had tried to avoid another plane which came too close. December 4 – Cosmo Gordon Lang is enthroned as the Archbishop of Canterbury, the first bachelor to be appointed in 150 yea...
1929_0
1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1929th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 929th year of the 2nd millennium, the 29th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1920s decade.
1929_0
Section: January (2): January 6 6 January Dictatorship: King Alexander of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes suspends his country's constitution. Albanian missionary sister Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, later known as Mother Teresa, arrives in Calcutta from Ireland to begin her work in India. January 10 – The first appearance of...
1929_1
Section: February (2): February 9 – "Litvinov's Pact" is signed in Moscow by the Soviet Union, Poland, Estonia, Romania and Latvia, who agree not to use force to settle disputes between themselves. February 11 – The Kingdom of Italy and the Holy See of the Catholic Church sign the Lateran Treaty, to establish the Vatic...
1929_2
Section: March (2): March 2 – The longest bridge in the world at this time, the San Francisco Bay Toll-Bridge, opens. March 3 – A revolt by Generals José Gonzalo Escobar and Jesús María Aguirre fails in Mexico. March 4 Herbert Hoover is sworn in, as the 31st president of the United States. The National Revolutionary Pa...
1929_3
Section: April (2): April 3 – Persia signs the Litvinov Protocol. April 14 – The first edition of the Monaco Grand Prix is held. Subsections (0):
1929_4
Section: May (2): May 1 – The 7.2 Mw Kopet Dag earthquake shakes the Iran-Turkmenistan border region, with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), killing up to 3,800 and injuring 1,121. May 7 – "The Battle Of Blood Alley" is fought by a razor gang in Sydney, Australia. May 16 – The 1st Academy Awards are present...
1929_5
Section: June (2): June 1 – The 1st Conference of the Communist Parties of Latin America is held in Buenos Aires. June 3 – The Treaty of Lima settles a border dispute between Peru and Chile. June 7 – The Lateran Treaty, making Vatican City a sovereign state, is ratified. June 8 – Ramsay MacDonald forms the United Kingd...
1929_6
Section: July (2): July 24 The Kellogg–Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, goes into effect (it was first signed in Paris on August 27, 1928, by most leading world powers). Union Airways Pty. Ltd. is founded, to be nationalised as South African Airways, on 1 February 1934. July 25 – Pope Piu...
1929_7
Section: August (2): August 8–29 – German rigid airship LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin makes a circumnavigation of the Northern Hemisphere eastabout out of Lakehurst, New Jersey, including the first nonstop flight of any kind across the Pacific Ocean (Tokyo–Los Angeles). August 16 – The 1929 Palestine riots break out between Pal...
1929_8
Section: September (2): September 3 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average peaks at 381.17, a height it would not reach again until November 1954. September 5 – Aristide Briand presents his plan for the United States of Europe. September 7 – The steamship SS Kuru sank in Lake Näsijärvi near Tampere, Finland, leading to 138...
1929_9
Section: October (2): October 3 – The country officially known as the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes changes its name to Kingdom of Yugoslavia. October 6 – Serie A, the top-class professional football league of Italy, replaces the Divisione Nazionale. October 12 – 1929 Australian federal election: The Labor Part...
1929_10
Section: November (2): November – Vladimir Zworykin takes out the first patent for color television. November 1 An annual solar eclipse is seen over the Atlantic Ocean and Africa. Conscription in Australia ends. November 7 – In New York City, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) opens to the public. The first exhibition Céz...
1929_11
Section: December (2): December – New York toy salesman Edwin S. Lowe popularizes Bingo after coming across the game of "Beano" in Atlanta, Georgia. After someone accidentally yells "bingo" instead of "beano" with a group of friends in Brooklyn, New York, he begins production of the game, going on to develop more than ...
1930_0
1930 (MCMXXX) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1930th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 930th year of the 2nd millennium, the 30th year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1930s decade.
1930_0
Section: January (2): January 15 – The Moon moves into its nearest point to Earth, called perigee, at the same time as its fullest phase of the Lunar Cycle. This is the closest moon distance at 356,397 km (221,455 mi) in recent history, and the next one will be on January 1, 2257, at 356,371 km (221,439 mi). January 26...
1930_1
Section: February (2): February 10 – The Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng launch the Yên Bái mutiny in the hope of ending French colonial rule in Vietnam. February 18 – While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh confirms the existence of Pluto, a celestial body considered a planet until redefined as a dwarf plan...
1930_2
Section: March (2): March 2 Mahatma Gandhi informs the British Viceroy of India that civil disobedience will begin the following week. André Tardieu begins his second term as Prime Minister of France. March 6 International Unemployment Day is observed in countries throughout the world. The first frozen foods of Clarenc...
1930_3
Section: April (2): April 6 In an act of civil disobedience, Mahatma Gandhi breaks the salt laws of British India by making salt by the sea at the end of the Salt March. The International Left Opposition (ILO) is founded in Paris, France. April 17 – Neoprene is invented by DuPont. April 18 – The Chittagong Rebellion be...
1930_4
Section: May (2): May 6 – The 7.1 Mw  Salmas earthquake shakes northwestern Iran and southeastern Turkey, with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent); up to 3,000 people are killed. May 10 – The National Pan-Hellenic Council is founded in Washington, D.C. May 15 – Nurse Ellen Church becomes the world's first flig...
1930_5
Section: June (2): June 7 – Carl Gustaf Ekman becomes Prime Minister of Sweden, for the second and final time. June 14 – The Federal Bureau of Narcotics is established under the United States Department of the Treasury, replacing the Narcotics Division of the Prohibition Unit. June 17 – President Herbert Hoover signs t...
1930_6
Section: July (2): July 3–10 – The First Eastern Women's Congress takes place in Damascus in Syria. July 4 – The dedication of George Washington's sculpted head is held at Mount Rushmore, South Dakota. July 5 – The Seventh Lambeth Conference of Anglican bishops opens. This conference approves the use of birth control i...
1930_7
Section: August (2): August – The volcanic island of Anak Krakatau begins to form permanently in the Sunda Strait. August 7 – R. B. Bennett takes office as the eleventh Prime Minister of Canada. August 12 – Turkish troops move into Persia to fight Kurdish insurgents. August 16 – The first British Empire Games open in H...
1930_8
Section: September (2): September 3 – The huge 1930 San Zenón hurricane in the Caribbean demolishes most of the city of Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic. September 6 – 1930 Argentine coup d'état: José Félix Uriburu carries out a military coup, overthrowing Hipólito Yrigoyen, President of Argentina. September 8 –...
1930_9
Section: October (2): October – The Indochinese Communist Party is formed. October 1 – British rule of Weihaiwei ends, as it is returned to China. October 3 – The German Socialist Labour Party in Poland – Left is founded, following a split in the DSAP in Łódź. October 5 – British airship R101, the world's largest flyin...
1930_10
Section: November (2): November 2 – Haile Selassie is crowned emperor of Ethiopia. November 3 – Getúlio Vargas becomes president of Brazil. November 25 An earthquake in the Izu Peninsula of Japan kills 223 people and destroys 650 buildings. Cecil George Paine, a pathologist at the Sheffield Royal Infirmary in England, ...
1930_11
Section: December (2): December – All adult Turkish women are given the right to vote in elections. December 19 – Mount Merapi volcano in central Java, Indonesia, erupts, destroying numerous villages and killing 1,300 people. December 24 – In London, inventor Harry Grindell Matthews demonstrates his device to project p...
1931_0
1931 (MCMXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1931st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 931st year of the 2nd millennium, the 31st year of the 20th century, and the 2nd year of the 1930s decade.
1931_0
Section: January (2): January 2 – South Dakota native Ernest Lawrence invents the cyclotron, used to accelerate particles to study nuclear physics. January 4 – German pilot Elly Beinhorn begins her flight to Africa. January 22 – Sir Isaac Isaacs is sworn in as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia. Ja...
1931_1
Section: February (2): February 4 – Soviet leader Joseph Stalin gives a speech calling for rapid industrialization, arguing that only strong industrialized countries will win wars, while "weak" nations are "beaten". Stalin states: "We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this di...
1931_2
Section: March (2): March 5 – The British viceroy of India and Mohandas Gandhi sign the Gandhi–Irwin Pact. March 7 – The Finnish Parliament House opens in Helsinki, Finland. March 11 – The Ready for Labour and Defence of the USSR programme, abbreviated as GTO, is introduced in the Soviet Union. March 23 – Indian revolu...
1931_3
Section: April (2): April 1 – The Second Encirclement Campaign against Jiangxi Soviet in China is launched by the Kuomintang government, to destroy the Communist forces in Jiangxi Province. April 6 – The Portuguese government declares martial law in Madeira and in the Azores, because of the Madeira uprising in Funchal....
1931_4
Section: May (2): May 1 – Construction of the Empire State Building is completed in New York City. May 4 – Kemal Atatürk is re-elected president of Turkey. May 5 – İsmet İnönü forms a new government in Turkey (7th government). May 11 – The Creditanstalt, Austria's largest bank, goes bankrupt, beginning the banking coll...
1931_5
Section: June (2): June–November – 1931 China flood: the Yangtze and Huai Rivers flood in a populous region, leaving an estimated 422,000 dead (150,000 drowned) with many more dying of consequential starvation and disease in the aftermath. June 5 German Chancellor Heinrich Brüning visits London, where he warns British ...
1931_6
Section: July (2): July 1 – The rebuilt Milano Centrale railway station officially opens in Italy. July 9 – Irish racing driver Kaye Don breaks the world water speed record at Lake Garda, Italy. July 10 – Norway issues a royal proclamation claiming the uninhabited part of eastern Greenland as Erik the Red's Land. July ...
1931_7
Section: August (2): August 2 – Murder of Paul Anlauf and Franz Lenck: Two Berlin police officers are killed by Communists. August 9 – A referendum in Prussia for dissolving the Landtag ends with the "yes" side winning 37% of the vote, which is insufficient for calling the early elections. The elections are intended to...
1931_8
Section: September (2): September 7 – The Second Round Table Conference on the constitutional future of India opens in London; Mahatma Gandhi represents the Indian National Congress. September 10 – The worst hurricane in British Honduras history kills an estimated 1,500. September 18 – The Japanese military stages the ...
1931_9
Section: October (2): October 5 – American aviators Clyde Edward Pangborn and Hugh Herndon, Jr., complete the first non-stop flight across the Pacific Ocean, flying their plane, Miss Veedol, from Misawa, Japan, to East Wenatchee, Washington, in 41½ hours. October 11 – A rally in Bad Harzburg, Germany leads to the Harzb...
1931_10
Section: November (2): November 7 The Chinese Soviet Republic is proclaimed by Mao Zedong. Red China News Agency (a predecessor of the Xinhua News Agency) is officially founded, and news wire service start in Ruijin, Jiangxi Province, China. November 8 French police launch a large-scale raid against Corsican bandits. T...
1931_11
Section: December (2): December 5 – The original Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow (1883) is dynamited, by order of Joseph Stalin. December 8 – Carl Friedrich Goerdeler is appointed Reich Price Commissioner, in Germany to enforce the deflationary policies of the Brüning government. December 9 – The Spanish Cons...
1932_0
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.
1932_0
Section: January (2): January 4 – The British authorities in India arrest and intern Mahatma Gandhi and Vallabhbhai Patel. January 9 – Sakuradamon Incident: Korean nationalist Lee Bong-chang fails in his effort to assassinate Emperor Hirohito of Japan. The Kuomintang's official newspaper runs an editorial expressing re...
1932_1
Section: February (2): February 2 A general World Disarmament Conference begins in Geneva. The principal issue at the conference is the demand made by Germany for Gleichberechtigung ("equality of status" i.e. abolishing Part V of the Treaty of Versailles, which had disarmed Germany) and the French demand for sécurité (...
1932_2
Section: March (2): March 1 Lindbergh kidnapping: Charles Lindbergh Jr., the infant son of Anne Morrow Lindbergh and Charles Lindbergh, is kidnapped from the family home near Hopewell, New Jersey. Japan installs Puyi as puppet emperor of Manchukuo. March 2 – The Mäntsälä rebellion ends in failure; Finnish democracy pre...
1932_3
Section: April (2): April 5 10,000 disgruntled Newfoundlanders march on their legislature to show discontent with their current political situation; this is a flash point in the demise of the Dominion of Newfoundland. The first Alko stores are opened in Finland at 10 in the morning (local time) following the end of Pro...
1932_4
Section: May (2): May 6 Paul Gorguloff shoots French president Paul Doumer in Paris; Doumer dies the next day. The politically powerful General Kurt von Schleicher meets secretly with Adolf Hitler. Schleicher tells Hitler that he is scheming to bring down the Brüning government in Germany and asks for Nazi support of t...
1932_5
Section: June (2): c. June – The Republican Citizens Committee Against National Prohibition is established for the repeal of Prohibition in the United States. June 4 A military coup occurs in Chile. The Papen government in Germany dissolves the Reichstag for elections on July 31 in the full expectation that the Nazis w...
1932_6
Section: July (2): July 5 – António de Oliveira Salazar becomes the fascist prime minister of Portugal (for the next 36 years). July 7 – French submarine Prométhée sinks off Cherbourg; 66 are killed. July 8 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average in the United States reaches its lowest level of the Great Depression, bottomi...
1932_7
Section: August (2): August – A farmers' revolt begins in the Midwestern United States. August 1 The second International Polar Year, an international scientific collaboration, begins. Forrest Mars produces the first Mars bar in his Slough factory in the UK. August 2 – The first positron is discovered by Carl D. Anders...
1932_8
Section: September (2): September 2 – Despite the court's sentence of death against the "Potempa five", Chancellor von Papen in his capacity as Reich Commissioner of Prussia refuses to have the "Potempa five" executed under the grounds that they were not aware of the emergency law at the time they committed the murder,...
1932_9
Section: October (2): October – Hergé's Tintin in America (Tintin en Amérique) concludes serial publication and is issued in book format (in black and white) in Belgium. October 1 – Gyula Gömbös becomes Prime Minister of Hungary, the first time a member of the radical right has become the country's head of government. ...
1932_10
Section: November (2): November 1 – The Kennedy–Thorndike experiment is published, showing that measured time as well as length is affected by motion, in accordance with the theory of special relativity. November 2 – The Emu War, a nuisance wildlife management military operation, begins in Australia. November 3 – Strik...