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1931
 
    
Boris Karloff gives a touching portrayal of the monster created by Dr Frankenstein, in the first of several screen performances in the role       
Boris Karloff, photo c.1933
Mary Evans Picture Library

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1932
 
    
Russian-born architect Berthold Lubetkin and others set up in London the modernist firm of Tecton       
1932
 
    
The French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson has his first exhibition, in the Julien Levy Gallery in New York       
1932
 
    
US poet Archibald MacLeish publishes a narrative epic, Conquistador, about the conquest of Mexico       
1932
 
   
Charles and Anne Lindbergh's one-year-old son, Charles Jr, is kidnapped and subsequently found murdered      
1932
 
   
Japan renames the Chinese province of Manchuria, calling it Manchukuo – supposedly independent but in fact a puppet state      
1932
 
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The Chaco War breaks out between Bolivia and Paraguay, in dispute over the swampy plain known as the Gran Chaco      
1932
 
   
One of the defining landmarks of Sydney, in Australia, is opened – the single-span steel arch bridge across the city's harbour      
1932
 
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Adolf Hitler stands for election as president of the German republic and wins 36% of the vote      
1932
 
    
The newly formed Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo opens for its first season, with George Balanchine as ballet master