Timeline November 1932

Events in November 1932 16

• 1901 – 1932 Nadezhda Alliluyeva (1901-1932) Died 9 November 1932, aged 31 The second wife of Joseph Stalin killed herself in the Kremlin after a quarrel with him.
• 1932 Great Emu War Australian soldiers with machine guns sent against emus Soldiers armed with Lewis guns were sent to Western Australia's wheatbelt to cull emus that were destroying crops. The operation killed relatively few birds and was widely mocked, and it was withdrawn in December.
• 1932 The Emu War begins Australian soldiers deployed against emus in Western Australia The Australian military deployed soldiers with Lewis guns to the Campion district of Western Australia to cull emus damaging wheat crops. The birds proved remarkably resilient, scattering into small groups and outrunning the gunners. The operation was withdrawn in December having killed a fraction of the target, and is remembered as one of the more absurd episodes in Australian military history.
• 1932 – 2026 Francois Englert (1932-2026) Died 18 June 2026, aged 93 Belgian physicist awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize for Physics for proposing the field that gives elementary particles their mass.
• 1932 German federal election -- the last free vote The Nazi Party loses two million votes but stays largest The Nazi Party lost roughly two million votes and 34 seats but remained the largest party in the Reichstag, while the Communists gained to hold exactly 100 seats as the second largest. It was the last free election held for the whole of Germany until 1990. Ten weeks later Hitler was chancellor.
• 1932 Powell v. Alabama decided Supreme Court overturns Scottsboro convictions The US Supreme Court overturned the convictions of the Scottsboro Boys because they had not received adequate legal counsel. The ruling established a right to effective counsel in capital cases.
• 1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt elected President of the United States Landslide defeat of Herbert Hoover amid the Depression Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt defeated incumbent Herbert Hoover, winning 42 of 48 states. The result reflected public anger over the Great Depression and opened the way to the New Deal.
• 1932 Roosevelt defeats Hoover A landslide at the depth of the Great Depression Franklin D. Roosevelt defeated the incumbent Herbert Hoover, carrying 42 of the 48 states. The result ended twelve years of Republican control of the White House and set up the New Deal. Under the rules then in force Roosevelt did not take office until March 1933, leaving a four-month interregnum at the worst point of the banking crisis.
• 1932 Cuba hurricane destroys Santa Cruz del Sur Storm surge kills thousands A Category 5 hurricane struck Camagüey Province, Cuba. Its storm surge wiped out the town of Santa Cruz del Sur and killed about 3,000 people.
• 1932 – 2008 Roy Scheider (1932-2008) Died 10 February 2008, aged 75 American actor best known for playing police chief Martin Brody in Jaws and for his role in All That Jazz. He received two Academy Award nominations during his career.
• 1932 5th Academy Awards -- Grand Hotel wins Best Picture The only Best Picture winner nominated in no other category Held at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, the ceremony gave Best Picture to Grand Hotel -- still the only winner to have received no other nomination. The Best Actor award ended in a rare near-tie, with both Wallace Beery and Fredric March honoured.
• 1932 – 2026 Holmes Rolston III (1932-2026) Died 12 February 2026, aged 92 American philosopher and theologian who founded the fields of environmental ethics and environmental philosophy.
• 1932 The FBI crime laboratory opens Forensic science becomes a federal function The Bureau of Investigation opened its Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory in Washington DC, beginning as a single room with borrowed equipment. It grew into one of the largest forensic laboratories in the world and helped establish fingerprinting, ballistics and document analysis as standard investigative tools.
• 1932 – 2016 Umberto Eco Italian novelist and philosopher Eco wrote The Name of the Rose, combining mystery, semiotics, and historical fiction.
• 1932 – 2019 Jacques Chirac President of France 1995–2007 Jacques René Chirac was a French Gaullist politician who dominated the French right for three decades. He served twice as Prime Minister, eighteen years as Mayor of Paris, and twelve years as President of the Republic, remembered for his charm, his opposition to the 2003 Iraq War, and his recognition of France's role in the Holocaust.
• 1932 Jacques Chirac born in Paris 29 November 1932 Jacques René Chirac is born on 29 November 1932 in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, the son of a bank employee.