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The following events occurred in April 1932:

April 1, 1932 (Friday)

April 2, 1932 (Saturday)

Hitler (left) and Prince Wilhelm (right) [2]
  • Former German Crown Prince Wilhelm endorsed Adolf Hitler for president in the April 10 election. By making a political statement, Wilhelm broke his word to the German government that he would refrain from politics as a condition of his return to Germany from exile.[3]
  • John F. Condon received an eleventh ransom note in the Lindbergh kidnapping case. He was directed to a twelfth note that led him to the unidentified man known as "John" and paid $50,000 for another note containing instructions for where the Lindbergh child could be found.[4]
  • Born: Michael Vernon, English-born Australian consumer activist, in Portsmouth (d. 1993)
  • Died:
    • Edward Marjoribanks, 32, British member of parliament, committed suicide by shooting himself in the chest
    • Bill Pickett, 61, African-American rodeo and Wild West show performer, died after being kicked in the head by a horse

April 3, 1932 (Sunday)

  • Germany's "Easter truce" forbidding political activities expired at noon with violent clashes around the country.[5]
  • A search was made for the Lindbergh baby near Martha's Vineyard in accordance with the directions given by "John", but nothing was found and the case went cold.[4]

April 4, 1932 (Monday)

April 5, 1932 (Tuesday)

  • In St. John's, Newfoundland, a parade of demonstrators calling on the Legislature to investigate certain charges against the Richard Squires government turned into a violent riot. All the windows of the Colonial Building were smashed and Squires had to leave the building under protection.[10]
  • The documents seized by German police in last month's raids on Nazi headquarters were presented to the government. According to authorities, they showed Nazi plans to start a civil war in which a secret army would seize arms and ammunition and cut off water supplies to city centers.[11]
  • Chancellor Heinrich Brüning told an audience in Stuttgart that the re-election of Hindenburg would pave the way for a settlement of the reparations problem, while the election of Hitler would cause the German mark to drop with a crash "in no time."[11]
  • The first government-owned Alko stores, for the sale of alcohol, opened in Finland, originally under the name Oy Alkoholiliike Ab, to sell government-manufactured and government-imported products. "Tällainen on Alkon uusi tiskimyymälä – muistatko, kuinka viinakaupassa ennen asioitiin?" ("This is Alko's new counter store - Do you remember how you used to shop in a liquor store?"), by Antti Halonen, Ilta-Sanomat, September 22, 2017
  • Died: María Blanchard, 51, Spanish Cubist painter, from tuberculosis

April 6, 1932 (Wednesday)

  • Parts of Bucharest were submerged by flooding.[12]
  • Four powers (Britain, France, Germany and Italy) opened the Danube Conference in London, discussing the perilous economic situation of the countries that once made up Austria-Hungary.[13][14]
  • With the Lindbergh kidnapping ransom payment still a secret from the public, U.S. Treasurer W. O. Woods sent an official circular to banks telling them to watch for certain large amounts of bills in specific denominations, but did not say that it was connection with the Lindbergh case.[15]
  • Died: Archduchess Maria Dorothea of Austria, 64

April 7, 1932 (Thursday)

  • Negotiations were held in the British consulate in Shanghai between representatives of China and Japan over setting a timetable through the League of Nations for Japanese withdrawal, but the Japanese insisted that the League was not qualified to handle the issue.[16]
  • The Danube Conference broke down, with Italy and Germany at odds with the French proposal that would have seen them lose their favored nation trading status with the Danubian nations.[14]
  • U.S. presidential candidate Franklin D. Roosevelt gave a famous campaign speech over the radio in which he said that prosperity depended on plans "that build from the bottom up and not the top down, that put their faith once more in the forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid."[17][18]
  • Died: Grigore Constantinescu, 57, Romanian priest and journalist

April 8, 1932 (Friday)

April 9, 1932 (Saturday)

  • Reichsbank President and two-time German chancellor Hans Luther was shot at close range at a subway station in Berlin, but the bullet only grazed his arm. Two men were arrested without resistance, who identified themselves as former Nazis who wanted to kill Luther because they disapproved of the Reichsbank's deflation policy.[20]
  • The Toronto Maple Leafs defeated the New York Rangers 6-4 to complete a three-game sweep and win their first Stanley Cup in franchise history.
  • It was revealed to the public for the first time that a $50,000 ransom had been paid in the Lindbergh kidnapping case but that the child had not been returned.[15]
  • Italy's Grand Council of Fascism passed a resolution saying that the "first necessary step toward the economic recovery of the world" was the cancellation of all war debts.[21]
Cinema lobby card for Scarface

April 10, 1932 (Sunday)

Hindenburg campaigning

April 11, 1932 (Monday)

April 12, 1932 (Tuesday)

April 13, 1932 (Wednesday)

April 14, 1932 (Thursday)

  • The Queen Street Riot occurred in Auckland, New Zealand when thousands of unemployed clashed with police while smashing and looting shops on the city's main commercial thoroughfare. The violence, the worst riot in New Zealand's history, injured 200 people.[30][31]
  • Eleven construction workers were killed when a gas explosion ripped through the new Ohio State Office Building being constructed in Columbus.[32]
  • Adolf Hitler released a statement characterizing the government's crackdown on his stormtroopers as "a last blow of despair" and declaring April 24, the date of local elections, as "retaliation day".[33]
  • The film Symphony of Six Million starring Ricardo Cortez and Irene Dunne premiered at the Gaiety Theatre in New York City.[28]
  • Born: Loretta Lynn, American country music singer-songwriter; in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky

April 15, 1932 (Friday)

April 16, 1932 (Saturday)

  • Unofficial delegates from eleven countries met in Innsbruck to consider a plan of economic cooperation in the Danube region.[13][36]
  • Born: Imre Polyák, Hungarian wrestler and 1964 Olympic gold medalist, world champion in 1955, 1958 and 1962; in Kecskemét (d. 2010)

April 17, 1932 (Sunday)

  • Emperor Haile Selassie abolished slavery in Ethiopia.[9]
  • The Gustav Holst composition Hammersmith was performed in Washington (performed on an earlier date in London.) Holst was scheduled to be in attendance but canceled due to ill health.[6]
  • Died: William Redmond, 45, Irish politician who was a member of the United Kingdom House of Commons from 1910 to 1922, then of Ireland's Dáil Éireann since 1923

April 18, 1932 (Monday)

April 19, 1932 (Tuesday)

April 20, 1932 (Wednesday)

A bedroom compartment on the National Limited

April 21, 1932 (Thursday)

April 22, 1932 (Friday)

Sarojini Naidu (right) with the Mahatma Gandhi
  • Sarojini Naidu, the most prominent female independence activist in India at the time, was taken off of a train en route to Delhi and arrested for disobeying an order against attending a National Congress meeting there.[46]
  • President Hindenburg reduced the price of Germany's alcohol from 36 to 30 marks per gallon to cut down on foreign imports, smuggling and bootlegging.[47]
  • Died:

April 23, 1932 (Saturday)

The Theatre in 1965

April 24, 1932 (Sunday)

  • The Nazi Party made big gains in local elections held across Germany, winning pluralities in four out of five Landtag elections.[49][50]
  • Fifteen Nazis were elected city councilmen in Vienna, the first time they had won any elective office in the city.[51]

April 25, 1932 (Monday)

April 26, 1932 (Tuesday)

April 27, 1932 (Wednesday)

April 28, 1932 (Thursday)

April 29, 1932 (Friday)

General Shirakawa shortly before his assassination

April 30, 1932 (Saturday)

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