Timeline July 1932

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• 1855 – 1932 King Camp Gillette (1855-1932) Died 9 July 1932, aged 76 The American businessman popularised the safety razor with disposable blades and founded the Gillette company.
• 1859 – 1932 Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932) Died 6 July 1932, aged 73 The Scottish-born author wrote the children's classic The Wind in the Willows.
• 1867 – 1932 Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. (1867-1932) Died 22 July 1932, aged 65 The Broadway impresario created the Ziegfeld Follies revues and produced the musical Show Boat.
• 1873 – 1932 Alberto Santos-Dumont (1873-1932) Died 23 July 1932, aged 59 The Brazilian aviation pioneer flew early airships and, in 1906, the 14-bis aeroplane in Paris. He is regarded as a national hero in Brazil.
• 1889 – 1932 Manuel II of Portugal (1889-1932) Died 2 July 1932, aged 42 Portugal's last king was deposed by the republican revolution of 1910 and died in exile in England.
• 1932 Bonus Army expelled from Washington Troops clear camps of protesting veterans Thousands of First World War veterans camped in Washington to demand early payment of their service bonuses. On 28 July, army troops under Douglas MacArthur drove them out and burned their camps. The episode badly damaged Herbert Hoover's reputation.
• 1932 Lausanne Conference ends German reparations Allies agree to cancel most reparations Britain, France, Germany and other powers agreed to cut Germany's First World War reparations to a final payment that was never made. In practice, the agreement ended reparations.
• 1932 Wimbledon 1932 Men: Ellsworth Vines · Women: Helen Wills Moody
• 1932 – 2002 Dave Thomas (1932-2002) Died 8 January 2002, aged 69 Dave Thomas founded the Wendy's hamburger chain in Columbus, Ohio, in 1969 and built it into one of the largest fast-food companies in the world. A childhood spent partly in foster care led him to campaign for adoption reform. From 1989 he appeared in more than 800 folksy television adverts for the chain, an unusually long run for a company founder.
• 1932 Salazar becomes Prime Minister of Portugal Start of the Estado Novo era António de Oliveira Salazar, previously finance minister, was appointed President of the Council of Ministers. He went on to build the authoritarian Estado Novo and ruled Portugal until 1968.
• 1932 Constitutionalist Revolution in São Paulo São Paulo rises against Getúlio Vargas São Paulo state rebelled against the provisional government of Getúlio Vargas to demand a constitution. The revolt was defeated after nearly three months, but a new constitution followed in 1934.
• 1932 – 2021 Donald Rumsfeld (1932-2021) Died 29 June 2021, aged 88 American politician who served twice as United States secretary of defense and was a principal architect of the Iraq War.
• 1932 Marjan Berk born in Zeist Marie-Janne van Baaren is born in Zeist, Utrecht, the daughter of parents who divorce when she is five years old. With her mother and younger brother she moves to Amersfoort, where her mother runs a small boarding house. During the Second World War the family shelters people in hiding; from one of them the young Marie-Janne contracts scarlet fever. The Amersfoort boarding house is her entire childhood world -- a small, female-run household on the margins of bourgeois Dutch society, which later informs her novels' recurrent interest in women navigating constrained circumstances with wit and resilience.
• 1932 Prussian coup Reich government takes over Prussia Chancellor Franz von Papen used an emergency decree to remove Prussia's Social Democrat-led government and place the state under Reich control. The move weakened one of the main defences of the Weimar Republic.
• 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 – 2026 Nancy Kassebaum (1932-2026) Died 21 August 2026, aged 94 American Republican politician, the first woman to represent Kansas in the US Senate, where she served from 1978 to 1997.
• 1932 1932 Summer Olympics X Olympiad - Los Angeles First use of an Olympic Village and podiums. Winner: USA.
• 1932 Flowers and Trees released First full-colour Technicolor cartoon Walt Disney's Silly Symphony short was the first commercial film made in three-strip Technicolor. It won the first Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.
• 1932 – 2025 John Searle (1932-2025) Died 17 September 2025, aged 93 American philosopher known for speech act theory and for the Chinese Room argument in the philosophy of mind.
• 1932 Nazi Party becomes largest party in the Reichstag German federal election of July The Nazi Party won 37 percent of the vote and 230 seats in the German federal election, making it the largest party in the Reichstag. It still fell short of a majority, and Germany's political deadlock continued.