Timeline August 1932

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• 1932 Ottawa Imperial Economic Conference British Empire adopts imperial preference Britain and its dominions met in Ottawa and agreed tariff preferences for trade within the Empire. The agreements marked Britain's move away from free trade.
• 1932 1932 Summer Olympics X Olympiad - Los Angeles First use of an Olympic Village and podiums. Winner: USA.
• 1932 US Championships 1932 Men: Ellsworth Vines · Women: Helen Jacobs
• 1932 Carl Anderson discovers the positron First antimatter particle observed Using a cloud chamber at Caltech, Carl D. Anderson recorded tracks of a positively charged particle with the mass of an electron. It confirmed Paul Dirac's prediction of antimatter, and Anderson shared the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physics.
• 1932 – 2006 Lamar Hunt (1932-2006) Died 13 December 2006, aged 74 Lamar Hunt, the American sports magnate who founded the American Football League and helped create the Super Bowl, died of prostate cancer. He was also a founding figure in North American professional soccer. He is credited with coining the term "Super Bowl."
• 1932 – 2013 Peter O'Toole (1932-2013) Died 14 December 2013, aged 81 Peter O'Toole was a British actor best known for his Academy Award-nominated performance in Lawrence of Arabia. He died in a London hospital after a long illness.
• 1932 – present Venice Film Festival First Film Festival The oldest film festival in the world, held annually on the island of the Lido in Venice.
• 1932 Soviet Law of Spikelets decreed Theft of collective farm produce made punishable by death A Soviet decree set execution, or ten years in the camps, as the penalty for theft of collective farm property, including gleaned grain. It was harshly enforced as famine spread through Ukraine and other grain regions.
• 1932 – 2018 V.S. Naipaul (1932-2018) Died 11 August 2018, aged 85 Trinidad-born British writer awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001 for his body of fiction and travel writing. His novels, including A House for Mr Biswas, examined colonialism, displacement and postcolonial society. He was knighted for his services to literature.
• 1932 – 2022 Luc Montagnier (1932-2022) Died 8 February 2022, aged 89 French virologist who shared the 2008 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for identifying HIV.