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1.2 March-April

March 1 - Charles Augustus Lindbergh III, the baby son of Anne Morrow Lindbergh and Charles Lindbergh is kidnapped
March 9 - Eamon de Valera is elected President of the Executive Council. It is the first change of government in the Irish Free State in 10 years.
March 18 - Peace negotiations between China and Japan begin.
March 19 - Sydney Harbour Bridge opens
March 20 - Graf Zeppelin begins a regular route to South America
April 6 - U.S. president Herbert Hoover supports armament limitations
April 10 - Paul von Hindenburg elected president of Germany. Adolf Hitler receives over 13 million votes.
April 17 - Haile Selassie announces an anti- slavery law in Abyssinia
April 19 - German art dealer Otto Wacker is sentenced for 19 months for selling fraudulent paintings of Vincent van Gogh

1.3 May

May 6 - Paul Gordulof assassinates French president Paul Doumer in Paris - Doumer dies the next day.
May 10 - Albert Lebrun becomes the new president of France
May 12 - Ten weeks after his abduction, the infant son of Charles Lindbergh is found dead in Hopewell, New Jersey just a few miles from the Lindbergh's home.
May 13 - The Premier of New South Wales, Jack Lang, is dismissed by the State Governor, Sir Phillip Game
May 15 - Japanese troops leave Shanghai; May 15 incident occurs.
May 16 - Massive riots between hindus and muslims in Bombay - thousands dead and injured.
May 18 - Assassination of Japanese prime minister Tsuyoshi Inukai
May 20-21 - Amelia Earhart flies from USA to Londonderry, Northern Ireland in 14 hours 54 minutes
May 30 - German chancellor Heinrich Brüning resigns. President Hindenburg takes Franz von Papen to form a new government.

1.4 June-August

June - 15,000 World War I veterans march in Washington, DC
June 4 - Military coup in Chile
June 6 - The Revenue Act of 1932 is enacted, creating the first gas tax in the United States (1 cent per gallon sold).
June 14 - Bans against SS and SA overturned in Germany
June 20 - Benelux customs union negotiated
June 24 - After a relatively bloodless military rebellion, Siam becomes a constitutional monarchy
July 5 - António de Oliveira Salazar becomes the fascists prime minister of Portugal (for the next 36 years)
July 7 - French submarine Sromethee sinks off Cherbourg - 66 dead
July 17 - Bloody Sunday of Altona in Germany - armed communists attack a national socialist demonstration - 18 dead. Many other political street fights follow.
July 28 - US President Herbert Hoover orders the United States Army to forcibly evict the " Bonus Army" of World War I veterans gathered in Washington, DC. US troops dispersed the last of the "Bonus Army" the next day.
August 6 - First Venice Film Festival
August 18 - Auguste Piccard reaches altitude of 16.500 meters with an air balloon
August 30 - Hermann Göring elected as a chairman of German senate
August 31 - Total solar eclipse visible from northern Canada through NE Vermont, New Hampshire, SW Maine, and the Capes of Massachusetts

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