The following events occurred in September 1932:
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- Miners in Belgium ended their four-week strike and accepted a 10% increase in wages.[6]
- Born: Eileen Brennan, actress, in Los Angeles (d. 2013)
- Died: Zhang Zongchang, 51, Chinese warlord (assassinated)
- Disgraced Anglican priest Harold Davidson was fined in Blackpool court for causing an obstruction of traffic because of the large crowds he was attracting as he sat in a barrel along the waterfront charging money for a peep at him through a hole bored in the side.[15]
- The Reichstag passed a motion of no confidence against the Franz von Papen cabinet by an overwhelming vote of 513 to 32, though von Papen called the vote illegal because he was entitled to the floor and had already placed the decree on the speaker's desk dissolving parliament.[18]
- A French military train plunged into a ravine in Algeria, killing 55 and wounding over 300.[22]
- Died: Paul Gorguloff, 37, assassin of French President Paul Doumer (executed by guillotine)
- British pilot Cyril Uwins broke the world airplane altitude record by reaching a height of almost 45,000 feet (14,000 m).[25]
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- Manchukuo announced that if other countries did not recognize its sovereignty within six months, it would refuse to recognize the rights and interests of those countries in return.[34]
- Born: Algirdas Brazauskas, President of Lithuania, in Rokiškis (d. 2010)
- Parliamentary elections were held in Greece. The Liberals remained the largest party in both houses even though the People's Party won a slight plurality of votes for the Vouli.
- The first contingent of National Hunger Marchers left Glasgow for London.[36][37] and the marchers were greeted by a crowd of about 100,000 upon their arrival at Hyde Park on 27 October 1932.[38]
- Born: Glenn Gould, pianist, in Toronto, Canada (d. 1982); Charles Stanley, televangelist, in Dry Fork, Virginia (d. 2023); Adolfo Suárez, Prime Minister of Spain, in Cebreros (d. 2014)
- Died: Joel R. P. Pringle, 59, American admiral
- The Ierissos earthquake struck Greece, killing 491 people.[39]
- Gandhi ended his fast when the government in London accepted a compromise agreement allotting the Untouchables a certain number of legislative seats.[40]
- Born: Richard Herd, actor, in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 2020); Joyce Jameson, actress, in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1987); Manmohan Singh, economist and 14th Prime Minister of India, in Gah, Punjab, British India
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