1932

Centuries - Year in Review

19th century - 20th century - 21st century

Decades:1900s,1910s,1920s,1930s,1940s,1950s,1960s,1970s,1980s,1990s

1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939

1931 - 1932 - 1934 - decade 1930s - 20th century

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Births

• February 11 - [Jerome Lowenthal]?, pianist/professor.
• April 4 - Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian movie director
• August 17 - V. S. Naipaul, writer
• Donald Rumsfeld, US Secretary of Defence

Deaths

Events

• Kennedy? and Thorndike? prove that measured time as well length are affected by motion (see Einstein's [Special Relativity]? and General Relativity).

Nobel Prizes

• Physics - Werner Karl Heisenberg
• Chemistry - Irving Langmuir
• Medicine - [[Sir [Charles Scott Sherrington]?, [Edgar Douglas Adrian]?
• Literature -[John Galsworthy]?
• Peace - Not awarded.