Timeline Friday 22 January 1932

Events on Friday 22 January 1932 4

• 1932 La Matanza in El Salvador Peasant uprising put down in mass killings An uprising of mostly Indigenous peasants in western El Salvador was crushed by the government of Maximiliano Hernández Martínez. Troops killed thousands of people in the weeks that followed.
• 1932 – 2023 Piper Laurie (1932-2023) American actress with Oscar nominations for The Hustler, Carrie and Children of a Lesser God.
• 1932 Piper Laurie born in Detroit Piper Laurie is born in Detroit.
• 1932 Reconstruction Finance Corporation established US federal agency set up to lend to failing institutions President Hoover signed the law creating the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. It lent federal money to banks, railroads and other businesses hit by the Depression.