Timeline January 1932

Events in January 1932 10

• 1861 – 1932 William Wrigley Jr. (1861-1932) Died 26 January 1932, aged 70 The American businessman built the Wrigley chewing gum company and owned the Chicago Cubs.
• 1862 – 1932 Julius Rosenwald (1862-1932) Died 6 January 1932, aged 69 The president of Sears, Roebuck and Company was a philanthropist who funded thousands of schools for Black children in the American South.
• 1877 – 1932 André Maginot (1877-1932) Died 7 January 1932, aged 54 As French Minister of War, Maginot pressed for the fortifications on the German border that became known as the Maginot Line.
• 1880 – 1932 Lytton Strachey (1880-1932) Died 21 January 1932, aged 51 The English biographer and member of the Bloomsbury Group changed the style of biography with Eminent Victorians.
• 1932 Australian Open 1932 Men: Jack Crawford · Women: Coral Buttsworth
• 1932 La Matanza in El Salvador Peasant uprising put down in mass killings An uprising of mostly Indigenous peasants in western El Salvador was crushed by the government of Maximiliano Hernández Martínez. Troops killed thousands of people in the weeks that followed.
• 1932 – 2023 Piper Laurie (1932-2023) American actress with Oscar nominations for The Hustler, Carrie and Children of a Lesser God.
• 1932 Piper Laurie born in Detroit Piper Laurie is born in Detroit.
• 1932 Reconstruction Finance Corporation established US federal agency set up to lend to failing institutions President Hoover signed the law creating the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. It lent federal money to banks, railroads and other businesses hit by the Depression.
• 1932 January 28 Incident in Shanghai Japanese and Chinese forces clash in Shanghai Japanese forces attacked Shanghai and met strong resistance from the Chinese 19th Route Army. Fighting ended in early March, and a ceasefire agreement was signed on 5 May.