February 1932

The following events occurred in February 1932:

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February 4, 1932: Winter Olympic Games opening ceremony in Lake Placid, New York

February 1, 1932 (Monday)

February 2, 1932 (Tuesday)

February 3, 1932 (Wednesday)
  • It came to light that Adolf Hitler may be a German citizen after all, which would make him eligible to run for president. It was revealed that in 1930, Thuringian Interior Minister Wilhelm Frick had appointed Hitler as police commissioner of the town of Hildburghausen. According to law, a German official automatically became a citizen. Hitler downplayed the revelation, saying he had refused the appointment and that "these are not the means by which I expect to become a German citizen."[7]
  • Born: Peggy Ann Garner, American child actress in film; in Canton, Ohio (died from pancreatic cancer, 1984)

February 4, 1932 (Thursday)

February 5, 1932 (Friday)
  • Latvia and the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression pact.[4]
  • Mahatma Gandhi's spinning wheel, along with a few other items, were seized by the government for nonpayment of taxes.[9]
  • In Indian River, Florida, Garfield Wood set a new boat speed record of 111.72 mph in the Miss America IX.[10]
  • Died: Barney Dreyfuss, 66, German-born American baseball executive and owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates; in 1903, he negotiated the agreement that made peace between the National League and the rival American League, with agreements not to raid each other's teams, and creating a post season World Series; enshrined in the National Baseball Hall of Fame 2008

February 6, 1932 (Saturday)

February 7, 1932 (Sunday)
  • Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands signed the Oslo Convention, an economic cooperation plan.[4]
  • Al Smith announced he was running for President of the United States again.[13]
  • Born: Gay Talese, American freelance journalist; in Ocean City, New Jersey

February 8, 1932 (Monday)
  • The Bulgarian government officially announced that it would not make any more war reparations payments.[4]
  • The jury in the Winnie Ruth Judd case found her guilty of first degree murder and voted for the death penalty.[14]
The site of Coll's killing
  • Born:
    • John Williams, American filmscore composer and conductor, winner of 25 Grammy Awards and five Academy Awards; in Queens, New York
    • Jean Innes Saunders, English romance novelist who wrote under her own name (as Jean Saunders and as Jean Innes) and under numerous pen names, including "Rowena Summers"; in London (d. 2011);
  • Died:

February 9, 1932 (Tuesday)
Inoue

February 10, 1932 (Wednesday)
  • Winter Legends for piano and orchestra by Arnold Bax was performed for the first time, at Queen's Hall in London.[2]
  • Died: Edgar Wallace, 56, English journalist and screenwriter, from complications of diabetes and pleural pneumonia

February 11, 1932 (Thursday)

February 12, 1932 (Friday)

February 13, 1932 (Saturday)

February 14, 1932 (Sunday)
  • Irish parliament representative Patrick Reynolds and his bodyguard, detective Patrick McGeehan, were both shot when Reynolds was walking door-to-door to campaign for the upcoming election. Reynolds got into an argument with the occupant of one house he visited, Joseph Leddy, a former Royal Irish Constabulary officer, who produced a double-barreled gun and fatally wounded both of them. McGeehan died at the scene and Reynolds died a month later.[20][21][22]
  • Born: Alexander Kluge, German author and film director; in Halberstadt

February 15, 1932 (Monday)
  • At the age of 84, Paul von Hindenburg agreed to run again for President of Germany in the March 13 election. "The appeal to stand for re-election came to me not from a party but from the broad masses of people", Hindenburg said. "Therefore, I recognize it as my duty to stand."[23]
  • The Winter Olympics in Lake Placid closed. The United States won the medal count with 6 gold medals and 12 overall.
  • The U.S. Supreme Court decided Blackmer v. United States, holding that U.S. jurisdiction applies overseas to a U.S. citizen who has failed to appear at an American court. The Court upheld a $30,000 fine levied against Harry M. Blackmer, who had been living in France when he was subpoenaed to appear at a federal trial.
Mrs. Fiske at 41

February 16, 1932 (Tuesday)
Cosgrave

February 17, 1932 (Wednesday)
The Mounties who caught the Mad Trapper
  • Over a month after the manhunt for Albert Johnson, "The Mad Trapper", began, the posse caught up with him and finally killed him in a shootout. An officer was seriously wounded, but survived. The case thrilled the public and popularized the saying "the Mounties always get their man".[6]

February 18, 1932 (Thursday)
Flag of the "Republic of Manchukuo"

February 19, 1932 (Friday)
  • The British government established an emergency "council of action" with full powers to take any measures deemed necessary to protect British interests in Shanghai.[24]
  • Symphonic Ode by Aaron Copland was performed for the first time in Boston's Symphony Hall.[2]

February 20, 1932 (Saturday)
The theater lobby card for Freaks
  • The controversial horror film Freaks, produced and directed by Tod Browning was released and featured well-known actors Wallace Ford and Leila Hyams, supported by a cast of carnival sideshow performers with physical deformities, who had earned a living by appearing before the public in traveling shows. Though unpopular and widely-criticized at the time as insensitive, and even banned in the United Kingdom for its scenes of horror (with Hyams's character being brutally mutilated at the film's end), Freaks would receive critical reappraisal 30 years later and a cult classic; in 1994, it would be selected by the U.S. National Film Registry for preservation as being culturally significant.
  • Born: Adrian Cristobal, Philippine newspaper columnist and playwright (d. 2007)

February 21, 1932 (Sunday)
  • André Tardieu became Prime Minister of France for the third time.[25]
  • Leon Trotsky and 36 other opponents of Joseph Stalin were officially banished from the Soviet Union "for all time". Trotsky and his family, who had been deported to Turkey in 1929, were stripped of their Soviet citizenship. He eventually settled in Mexico, where he was assassinated in 1940.[26]

February 22, 1932 (Monday)
  • The bicentennial of George Washington's Birthday was observed in the United States. U.S. President Herbert Hoover addressed a joint session of Congress opening celebrations that were to continue through Thanksgiving Day. "The true eulogy of Washington is this mighty nation," Hoover said, adding "He contributed more to its origins than any other man. The influence of his character and of his accomplishments has contributed to the building of human freedom and ordered liberty, not alone upon this continent but upon all continents."[27] John Philip Sousa conducted the combined band of the Army, Navy and Marine Corps in front of the United States Capitol in the first performance of Sousa's George Washington Bicentennial March.[2]
  • At a Nazi rally in the Berlin Sportpalast, Joseph Goebbels announced that Adolf Hitler would be a candidate for President of Germany. Hitler, who was not present at the rally, still needed to establish German citizenship before the March 13 election in that he had been born in Austria.[29]
  • Born:
  • Died: Johanna Gadski, 60, German-born American soprano, was killed in a car accident while visiting Berlin

February 23, 1932 (Tuesday)
  • In Germany, Danatbank, which had collapsed in July 1931, was taken over by Dresdner Bank.[30]
  • The National Police Gazette magazine ceased publication because of bankruptcy.[31] Three months later it was purchased and publication resumed under different ownership.[32]
  • The U.S. Supreme Court decided Crowell v. Benson, which upheld the authority of federal administrative agencies to make binding legal rulings. The Court rejected claims that authority conferred by the Legislative Branch (Congress) on agencies in the Executive Branch did not violate the Separation of Powers requirement of the U.S. Constitution, and that rulings by such agencies after hearings did not violate the Due Process Clause.
  • Born:
    • Majel Barrett, American TV actress and producer known for her portrayal of various characters in the Star Trek franchise of TV series and films, and as the wife (after the original series ended) of Gene Roddenberry; as Majel Leigh Hudec in Cleveland (d. 2008)
    • Bill Bonds, American news anchor for evening news in Los Angeles, New York and Detroit from 1968 to 1995; in Detroit (d. 2014)

February 24, 1932 (Wednesday)
Campbell in The Blue Bird

February 25, 1932 (Thursday)

February 26, 1932 (Friday)
  • The Nazi Party and DNVP made a renewed attempt to bring down the government of German Chancellor Heinrich Brüning on a motion of no confidence in the Reichstag, but the motion failed with 264 opposing and 289 approving the government.[35] The Nazi members then walked out of parliament, and the Communist Party introduced a motion to stop payment of federal subsidies to Brunswick for "plotting against the republic with the Nazis." The motion was passed.[36]
  • The Spanish Cortes Generales passed a bill on second reading allowing divorce.[35]
  • Born: Johnny Cash, American country music singer and songwriter known as "The Man in Black"; as J. R. Cash in Kingsland, Arkansas (d. 2003)

February 27, 1932 (Saturday)

February 28, 1932 (Sunday)

February 29, 1932 (Monday)
Vitali

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  9. "Seize Gandhi's Spinning Wheel for Tax Default". Chicago Daily Tribune. February 6, 1932. p. 2.
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  14. "Guilty; Ruth Judd to Hang". Chicago Daily Tribune. February 9, 1932. p. 1.
  15. "Duce Like King As He Has First Visit With Pope". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. February 11, 1932. p. 1.
  16. "Pope Pius Prays for 'Return of Peace to Earth'". Chicago Daily Tribune. February 13, 1932. p. 5.
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