Timeline February 1932

Events in February 1932 13

• 1875 – 1932 Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) Died 10 February 1932, aged 56 The prolific English thriller writer co-wrote the story for King Kong, and he died while working on the film in Hollywood.
• 1893 – 1932 Farabundo Martí (1893-1932) Died 1 February 1932, aged 38 The Salvadoran communist leader was executed by firing squad after the failed uprising of January 1932. El Salvador's FMLN later took his name.
• 1932 Duke Ellington records It Don't Mean a Thing If it ain't got that swing A title that gave the swing era its name.
• 1932 World Disarmament Conference opens in Geneva League of Nations seeks arms limitation Delegates from about 60 countries met in Geneva to negotiate arms reductions. The talks stalled over German demands for equal treatment, and Germany walked out in 1933.
• 1932 1932 Winter Olympics III Winter Games - Lake Placid Eddie Eagan became the first to win gold in both Summer and Winter games. Winner: USA.
• 1932 – 1984 François Truffaut (1932-1984) Died 21 October 1984, aged 52 French film director François Truffaut, a leading figure of the Nouvelle Vague, died of a brain tumor near Paris. His films included The 400 Blows and Jules et Jim.
• 1932 – present Gerhard Richter Contemporary · Germany Gerhard Richter (born February 9, 1932) is a German painter who works across photorealism, abstraction and glass. He is widely regarded as the greatest living painter and the most expensive living artist at auction.
• 1932 – 2018 Milos Forman (1932-2018) Died 13 April 2018, aged 86 Czech-American film director who won Academy Awards for Best Director for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Amadeus. He fled communist Czechoslovakia in 1968 and built his career in Hollywood. His films often explored themes of individuality against institutional control.
• 1932 – 2009 Ted Kennedy (1932-2009) Died 25 August 2009, aged 77 Kennedy represented Massachusetts in the US Senate for nearly 47 years, becoming one of the chamber's most influential legislators on healthcare and civil rights. He was the youngest brother of President John F. Kennedy and Senator Robert F. Kennedy. His death came as Congress debated major healthcare reform he had long championed.
• 1932 – 2003 Johnny Cash American singer-songwriter, "The Man in Black" Johnny Cash (1932-2003) was an American singer-songwriter whose stark baritone, songs of faith, hardship and redemption, and lifelong identification with prisoners and the poor made him one of the most influential artists in American music. The only artist inducted into the Country Music, Rock and Roll, Songwriters, and Gospel Music Halls of Fame, he sold over 90 million records across a career spanning five decades.
• 1932 Johnny Cash born in Kingsland, Arkansas 26 February 1932 John R. Cash was born on 26 February 1932 in Kingsland, Arkansas, the fourth of seven children of Ray Cash and Carrie Cloveree Rivers — a family of sharecroppers in the depths of the Great Depression.
• 1932 – 2011 Elizabeth Taylor (1932-2011) Died 23 March 2011, aged 79 The British-American actress, a two-time Academy Award winner known for films including "Cleopatra" and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?", died in Los Angeles of congestive heart failure. She was one of the last major stars of Hollywood's golden age. She was also known for her AIDS activism and jewelry collection.
• 1932 James Chadwick discovers the neutron Uncharged particle identified in the atomic nucleus At the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, James Chadwick showed that radiation from beryllium consisted of neutral particles with about the mass of a proton. His report appeared in Nature on 27 February. The discovery earned him the 1935 Nobel Prize in Physics and was essential to later work on nuclear fission.