Page 9: Historical Events In 1932

Jun 25   36th US Golf Open: Gene Sarazen shoots a 286 at Fresh Meadows NY   

Jun 25   Peter Blake, British artist   

Jun 27   Hugh Wood, composer.   

Jun 29   USSR and China sign no attack treaty   

Jul 01   NY Gov FDR nominated for president at the Dem Convention in Chicago   

Jul 02   52nd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Ellsworth Vines beats H Austin (64 62 60).   

Jul 02   FDR makes inaugural presidential nominating conventional acceptance speech   

Jul 02   Manoel II, last king of Portugal (1908-10), dies at 43   

Jul 03   1st Sunday game at Fenway Park, Yanks beat Red Sox 13-2.   

Jul 03   John McGraw retires from baseball.   

Jul 05   Antonio de Oliveira Salazar is recorded as becoming premier/dictator of Portugal.   

Jul 05   Edgar Louis Vanderstegen Millington Drake, painter   

Jul 05   Oliveira Salazar is recorded as becoming dictator of fascist Portugal.   

Jul 06   1st class postage back up to 3 cents from 2 cents.   

Jul 06   Della Reese, Detroit, singer/actress (Della Reese Show, Royal Family)   

Jul 06   inaugural class postage back up to 3. from 2.   

Jul 07   Bradman scores a cricket double century in Montreal   

Jul 07   Josef Zawinal, singer/pianist (Weather Report).   

Jul 08   Depression low point of Dow Jones Industrial Average, 41.22   

Jul 08   Florenz Ziegfeld, US theatre producer (Ziegfeld Follies), dies.   

Jul 08   G Neujmin discovers asteroid #1255 Schilowa.   

Jul 09   Donald Rumsfeld, politician (involved in Watergate)   

Jul 09   Henry Howell, English cricket fast bowler (5 Tests 1920-24), dies.   

Jul 09   Washington Redskins (then Boston Braves) forms   

Jul 10   Jack Burnett gets 9 hits, Eddie Rommel relieves in 2nd 18-17 victory in 18 as his A's beats Indians in longest relief job.   

Jul 12   Harold William Woolhouse, plant scientist   

Jul 12   Hedley Verity establishes a inaugural-class cricket record by taking all ten wickets for only ten runs against Nottinghamshire on a pitch affected by a storm   

Jul 13   Per Norgard, composer   

Jul 14   Belgian Chamber rules Dutch language for education of Flanders.   

Jul 15   Nina Van Pallandt, Copenhagen Denmark, actress (American Gigolo).   

Jul 15   President Hoover cuts own salary 15%   

Jul 15   The Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway is opened throughout between North Bay and Moosonee, Ont. Construction was started on May 10, 1902. The name was subsequently changed to Ontario Northland Transportation   

Jul 16   John Chilton, jazz trumpeter.   

Jul 17   Niccolo Castiglioni, composer.   

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Jan 01   Arnfried g d p: Dutch manufacturer (breadcrumbs)/drugs dealer   

Jan 01   Jackie parker: American football player    

Jan 02   Dabney coleman: Austin texas, (that girl, mary hartman, buffalo bill)   

Jan 03   Anatoli petrovich kuklin: Russia, cosmonaut   

Jan 03   Jaswick taylor: Cricketer (wi pace bowler 50s, 10 wkts in 3 tests)   

Jan 03   Mara corday: Santa monica calif, actress (foxfire, black scorpion)   

Jan 03   Coo coo marlin: American race car driver    

Jan 04   Richard stahl: Detroit mich, actor (howard-it's a living)   

Jan 01   C p scott: British journalist, publisher and politician (b. 1846)   

Jan 07   Henri stroethoff: Dutch actor (bright paradise),   

Jan 08   Eurosia fabris: Italian catholic (b. 1866)   

Jan 13   Sophia of prussia: Consort of constantine i of greece (b. 1870)   

Jan 15   Georg kerschensteiner: German educationalist,    

Jan 17   Albert jacka: Vc, australian soldier (b. 1893)   

Jan 21   [giles] lytton strachey: British biographer/critic,   

Jan 24   Alfred yarrow: English shipbuilder (b. 1842)