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| 1932 |
| | | Ernest Hemingway, an aficionado of the sport, publishes Death in the Afternoon, a non-fiction account of bullfighting in Spain | |
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| 1932 |
| | | Troops using bayonets and tear gas drive out of Washington the Bonus Army, a group of protesting unemployed war veterans | |
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| 1932 |
| | | Winning 230 seats in the election, the Nazis become the largest party in the Reichstag (albeit not with a majority) | |
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| 1932 |
| | | British author Aldous Huxley gives a bleak view of a science-based future in his novel Brave New World | |
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| 1932 |
| | | Unemployment in Britain reaches three million, or more than 25% of the work force | |
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| 1932 |
| | | Mae West stars alongside George Raft in her first film, Night after Night | |
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| 1932 |
| | | Ernst Lubitsch has a great success with Trouble in Paradise, a Hollywood comedy about villainy and romance in Paris | |
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| 1932 |
| | | US novelist Erskine Caldwell publishes Tobacco Road, about white sharecroppers coping with poverty and desperation in Georgia | |
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| 1932 |
| | | Oswald Mosley holds his first rally in Trafalgar Square, at the head of his British Union of Fascists | |
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| 1932 |
| | | John Cowper Powys's novel A Glastonbury Romance is published first in New York | |
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| 1932 |
| | | De Valera withholds farmers' annuities from Britain, provoking British tariffs and a trade war | |
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| 1932 |
| | | A deeply flawed experiment with African American syphilis patients is launched in Tuskegee, Alabama | |
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| 1932 |
| | | Young Lonigan: a Boyhood in Chicago Streets is the first novel in James T. Farrell's Studs Lonigan trilogy | |
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| 1932 |
| | | Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O'Sullivan star as Tarzan and Jane in Tarzan the Ape Man, the first of countless Tarzan talkies | |
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| 1932 |
| | | 16-year-old Yehudi Menuhin records the Elgar violin concerto, conducted by the composer | |
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| 1932 |
| | | US author Damon Runyon publishes his first collection of stories about low-life New York, under the title Guys and Dolls | |
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| 1932 |
| | | The Bluebell Girls, formed by Margaret Kelly ('Miss Bluebell'), give their first performances in Paris | |
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| 1932 |
| | | The incumbent president, Republican Herbert Hoover, suffers a heavy defeat by Democrat F.D. Roosevelt in the US election | |
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| 1932 |
| | | George V reads on radio a Christmas address (written by Rudyard Kipling), beginning an annual royal tradition | |
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| 1932 |
| | | Unemployment in Germany rises during the world-wide depression to the unprecedented level of 6 million | |
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| 1932 |
| | | English fast-bowler Harold Larwood causes outrage using the 'body-line' attack, devised by his captain, Douglas Jardine, in Test matches against Australia | |
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| 1932 |
| | | English conductor Thomas Beecham founds another orchestra, calling it the London Philharmonic | |
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| c. 1932 |
| | | The British artist Graham Sutherland, after an early career as a printmaker, takes up painting relatively late in life | |
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| 1933 |
| | | President Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler chancellor of the German republic | |
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| 1933 |
| | | German chancellor Adolf Hitler orders the sterilization of carriers of hereditary mental diseases, in one of his government's first pieces of legislation | |
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| 1933 |
| | | Prohibition is lifted in the USA when the Twenty-First Amendment repeals the Eighteenth, which has been in force for 13 years | |
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| 1933 |
| | | The electoral campaign for a new Reichstag, demanded by Hitler, is conducted with escalating Nazi violence | |
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| 1933 |
| | | Polish cryptographers succeed in breaking some of the Enigma code used by the German military | |
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| 1933 |
| | | The burning of the Reichstag during the German election enables Adolf Hitler to introduce emergency measures restricting liberty | |
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| 1933 |
| | | President Roosevelt gives the first of his many 'fireside chats' to the US nation on radio | |
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| 1933 |
| | | Hungarian photographer Brassaï publishes his photographs of the seedier side of Paris night life in Paris de Nuit | |
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| 1933 |
| | | Heinrich Himmler sets up the first Nazi concentration camp, at Dachau near Munich | |
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| 1933 |
| | | The Austrian chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss suspends parliament and subsequently outlaws the Nazi party | |
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| 1933 |
| | | Pablo Neruda increases his international reputation with a collection of surrealist poems, Residencia en la tierra ('Residence on earth') | |
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| 1933 |
| | | Adolf Hitler puts a bill before the first meeting of the newly elected Reichstag, giving himself unrestricted powers | |
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| 1933 |
| | | Gustav Krupp and his son Alfried, Germany’s main manufacturers of armaments, join the Nazi party | |
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| 1933 |
| | | In My Life and Hard Times James Thurber's publishes an affectionate account of his family, including the night the bed fell on his father | |
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