July 1932

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The following events occurred in July 1932:

July 1, 1932 (Friday)[edit]

July 2, 1932 (Saturday)[edit]

July 3, 1932 (Sunday)[edit]

July 4, 1932 (Monday)[edit]

July 5, 1932 (Tuesday)[edit]

July 6, 1932 (Wednesday)[edit]

  • At a Chicago hotel, Cubs shortstop Billy Jurges was shot by a scorned showgirl who intended to kill the ballplayer and then herself. Jurges suffered bullet wounds to a finger, rib and shoulder, but he only missed a few weeks of playing time and never pressed charges.[14]
  • Born: Phyllida Law, Scottish actress; in Glasgow
  • Died: Kenneth Grahame, 73, British writer

July 7, 1932 (Thursday)[edit]

July 8, 1932 (Friday)[edit]

July 9, 1932 (Saturday)[edit]

  • The Lausanne Conference ended with an agreement that Germany would make one final payment of 3 billion gold reichsmarks and then be free of reparations for all time.[21]
  • In Belgium, 2 were killed in mining towns during a day of rioting by miners striking for more pay and sympathetic labour elements.[22][23]
  • Born: Donald Rumsfeld, politician, in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2021)

July 10, 1932 (Sunday)[edit]

July 11, 1932 (Monday)[edit]

July 12, 1932 (Tuesday)[edit]

July 13, 1932 (Wednesday)[edit]

  • The British and French governments signed a pact of friendship at Lausanne.[28]
  • Three blocks in the west end of the famous Coney Island resort in New York were destroyed by a fire, doing an estimated $5 million in damage and leaving about 2,000 homeless.[29]
  • 3-year-old Joy Myrlene Hanny of Firth, Idaho, fell into a hot spring in Yellowstone National Park when she was startled by an eruption of Jewel Geyser. She died of her burns the following night.[30]
  • Amelia Earhart completed a transcontinental flight of the United States from Los Angeles to Newark in 19 hours 14 minutes and 40 seconds, a new record for a woman.[31]
  • Born: Per Nørgård, composer, in Gentofte, Denmark

July 14, 1932 (Thursday)[edit]

July 15, 1932 (Friday)[edit]

July 16, 1932 (Saturday)[edit]

  • Rioting broke out in front of the White House by members of the Bonus Army who still refused to leave the capital. Contrary to tradition, President Hoover did not attend the final day of the 72nd Congress before adjourning until December due to safety concerns.[34]

July 17, 1932 (Sunday)[edit]

July 18, 1932 (Monday)[edit]

July 19, 1932 (Tuesday)[edit]

July 20, 1932 (Wednesday)[edit]

July 21, 1932 (Thursday)[edit]

July 22, 1932 (Friday)[edit]

  • President Hoover signed the Federal Home Loan Bank Act.[45]
  • A diplomatic row broke out at the 28th Inter-Parliamentary Union in Geneva. Italian delegate Carlo Costamagna gave a speech extolling the accomplishments of Fascism in the field of justice when French representative Pierre Renaudel shouted, "What right have the Fascists, who don't know what a parliament is, to come here anyway! What right have they to talk about justice!" When the Italians demanded an apology, Renaudel responded, "What right have they got to ask me to apologize to the government that ordered the assassination of Matteotti?" A screaming match then broke out. Mussolini threatened to have Italy quit the Union, telling the League of Nations that the country could not be insulted in the building of which it shared the upkeep.[46]
  • Died: Errico Malatesta, 78, Italian anarchist; Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr., 65, American broadway impresario

July 23, 1932 (Saturday)[edit]

July 24, 1932 (Sunday)[edit]

  • In Havana, 9 were killed and 55 wounded in Cuban police raids on communist headquarters.[48]
  • Died: Hidaka Sōnojō, 84, Japanese admiral

July 25, 1932 (Monday)[edit]

  • The Soviet Union signed non-aggression pacts with Estonia, Finland and Poland.[28]
  • The German Supreme Court declined Prussia's request for an injunction restraining Chancellor Franz von Papen from taking over the government.[49]
  • Paul Gorguloff went on trial for the assassination of French President Paul Doumer, claiming he had been possessed by a demon as part of an insanity defense.[50][51]
  • Died: Charles Mills Gayley, 74, American professor

July 26, 1932 (Tuesday)[edit]

July 27, 1932 (Wednesday)[edit]

July 28, 1932 (Thursday)[edit]

  • President Hoover ordered Washington police to evict the Bonus Army squatters. Some of them reacted by throwing bricks, and in one skirmish two veterans were shot.[56] Hoover now called on the military, and the Secretary of War ordered Army Chief of Staff Douglas MacArthur to "surround the affected area and clear it without delay."[44] Infantry, cavalry and tanks were deployed and by 8:00 p.m. the protestors had been pushed across the Anacostia River with tear gas. The most controversial moment of the affair ensued an hour later, as MacArthur disobeyed orders and sent the military across the bridge, driving away the veterans and setting fire to their camp. The entire episode became a public relations disaster for the Hoover Administration as the military's actions were seen as overly harsh.[44][56]
  • Two days before the beginning of the Summer Olympics, Finnish running star Paavo Nurmi was suspended by the IAAF for violating his amateur status by accepting remuneration in excess of his expenses to run five exhibition races in Germany during September and October 1931.[57]
  • The horror film White Zombie was released.
  • Born: Jacob Neusner, scholar of Judaism, in Hartford, Connecticut (d. 2016)

July 29, 1932 (Friday)[edit]

  • In Hungary, two communist leaders were court-martialed and hanged on the same day, despite international pleas for clemency due to the speed of the trial and lack of evidence that they were plotting to overthrow the political and social order.[58]
  • Born: Nancy Kassebaum, politician, in Topeka, Kansas

July 30, 1932 (Saturday)[edit]

July 31, 1932 (Sunday)[edit]

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