Timeline September 1932

Events in September 1932 10

• 1857 – 1932 Ronald Ross (1857-1932) Died 16 September 1932, aged 75 The British physician showed that mosquitoes transmit malaria, and he received the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
• 1932 Leticia Incident Peruvian civilians seize the Colombian town of Leticia Armed Peruvian civilians seized the Colombian Amazon port of Leticia, which led to an armed conflict between Colombia and Peru. The League of Nations mediated a settlement in 1933 that returned the town to Colombia.
• 1932 – 2024 Robert H. Dennard (1932-2024) Died 23 April 2024, aged 91 American engineer who invented the one-transistor DRAM cell, the basis of modern computer memory.
• 1932 Patsy Cline born in Winchester, Virginia Virginia Patterson Hensley Grows up poor in Winchester.
• 1932 Kingdom of Saudi Arabia proclaimed Ibn Saud unites Hejaz and Nejd Abdulaziz Ibn Saud merged the Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd into the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The day is still celebrated as Saudi National Day.
• 1932 Poona Pact Agreement on seats for Depressed Classes Mahatma Gandhi fasted in protest against separate electorates for the Depressed Classes under the British Communal Award. B. R. Ambedkar and Hindu leaders then agreed to reserve seats within a joint electorate instead.
• 1932 – 2014 Adolfo Suarez (1932-2014) Died 23 March 2014, aged 81 Adolfo Suarez, Spain's first democratically elected prime minister after the death of Francisco Franco, died in Madrid. He oversaw Spain's peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy in the late 1970s. He had suffered from Alzheimer's disease for years before his death.
• 1932 – 2014 Adolfo Suárez First Democratic PM The pivotal Prime Minister during the transition who legalized political parties.
• 1932 – 2024 Manmohan Singh (1932-2024) Died 26 December 2024, aged 92 Indian economist and prime minister from 2004 to 2014 whose 1991 reforms as finance minister opened the Indian economy.
• 1932 – 2025 Rainer Weiss (1932-2025) Died 25 August 2025, aged 92 German-born American physicist awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize for Physics for his work on LIGO and the first direct detection of gravitational waves.