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1932
 
    
British author C.S. Lewis publishes a moral parable, The Screwtape Letters, about the problems confronting a trainee devil       
1932
 
    
Marcel Duchamp coins the term 'mobile' for Alexander Calder's new suspended art form       
1932
 
    
French playwright Jean Anouilh has his first play, L'Hermine, produced and published       
1932
 
   
US aviator Amelia Earhart lands in Ireland 15 hours after leaving Newfoundland, to become the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic      
Amelia Earhart after her transatlantic flight, 1932
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1932
 
    
British physicist James Chadwick shows that the behaviour of subatomic particles can be explained by the existence of neutrons, or particles with no electrical charge       
1932
 
    
The town of Maxim Gorky's birth, Nizhny-Novgorod, is renamed Gorky in his honour       
1932
 
    
Presidential candidate F.D. Roosevelt pledges himself at the Democratic convention to deliver 'a new deal for the American people'       
1932
 
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Fianna Fáil wins enough seats in the Irish Free State's election for Eamon de Valera to form a government       
1932
 
   
US athlete Mildred 'Babe' Didrikson breaks four world records in one afternoon in Evanston, Illinois      
1932
 
    
After gaining control of most of the Arabian peninsula, Ibn Saud gives his kingdom a new name, Saudi Arabia