1932

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1932 Media

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  The Cipher Bureau (Poland) breaks the German Enigma cipher and overcomes the ever-growing structural and operating complexities of the evolving Enigma with plugboard, the main German cipher device during World War II.

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  Italiaanse schrijver Umberto Eco , kop; schrijvers

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  “Raisa Gorbacheva, spouse of CPSU General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev”. Raisa Gorbacheva, the wife of the CPSU General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev. The visit of the CPSU General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev to France.

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  Publicity photo of Piper Laurie

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  Hassan Al Turabi (1 February 1932 – 5 March 2016) , Islamist leader, in his private home in Shambat, Khartoum, Sudan, one year before his death

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  Franse regisseur Francois Truffaut voor bioscoop Cinétol, waar zijn film draait [Le Peau Douce?] tijdens Nouvelle Vague festival * * 15 maart 1965

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  Apollo 15 Command Module Pilot Al Worden.

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  Photo by me of John Williams.

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  Czech/american film director Miloš Forman at the 44th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2009, Czech Republic.

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1932 (MCMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday in the Gregorian calendar.

Events

• January 9 – Sakuradamon Incident: Korean nationalist Lee Bong-chang tries to assassinate Emperor Hirohito of Japan and fails.
• February 4 - The 1932 Winter Olympics open in Lake Placid, New York.
• August 6 - The first Venice Film Festival happens.
• October 30 - A hurricane forms. It hits Cuba in November.
• November 2 - The Emu War begins.
• November 18 - The United States has a presidential election.
• Unknown - Joseph Stalin starts the Holodomor.

Births

• January 19 – Richard Lester
• January 30 – Gino Conforti, American actor
• February 8 – John Williams
• February 12 – Johnny Cash (d. 2003)
• February 22 – Ted Kennedy (d. 2009)
• March 2 – Gun Hägglund, Swedish television star
• March 4 – Ryszard Kapuściński, Polish journalist (d. 2007)
• March 4 – Frank Wells, American businessman, president of the Walt Disney Company (d. 1994)
• April 27 – Casey Kasem, American radio show host, voice actor (d. 2014)
• July 2 – Dave Thomas, founder of the fast food chain Wendy's (d. 2002)
• August 2 – Peter O'Toole (d. 2013)
• September 25 – Adolfo Suárez (d. 2014)
• October 20 – William Christopher
• November 13 – Richard Mulligan
• November 29 – Jacques Chirac (d. 2019)
• December 5 - Little Richard, American rock and roll pianist (d. 2020)
• December 14 – Charlie Rich

Nobel Prizes

• Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine won by Charles Scott Sherrington, (1857 – 1952) and Edgar Douglas Adrian (1889 — 1977).