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1932 Salvadoran peasant uprising
The 1932 Salvadoran peasant uprising (Levantamiento campesino de El Salvador de 1932) was a January 1932 rebellion of indigenous and ladino peasants in western El Salvador.
1932 Summer Olympics
1932 Summer Olympics, Games of the Xth Olympiad, Los Angeles, July 30 to August 14, 1932; 37 nations, 1,332 athletes; first Olympic Village, victory podium, 16-day schedule, and photo-finish timing.
1932 Torbet-I-Kheydarly earthquake
The 1932 Torbet-I-Kheydarly earthquake was a magnitude 5.4 earthquake that struck Mazandaran province in northern Iran on 20 May 1932, killing 1,070 people despite its moderate size.
1932 United States presidential election
1932 U.S. presidential election: Franklin D. Roosevelt and John Nance Garner defeated Herbert Hoover 472–59 electoral votes, 57.4%–39.6%, beginning the New Deal coalition and Democratic realignment.
1932 United States Senate elections
1932 United States Senate elections, held November 8, 1932 with the FDR-Hoover presidential race, gave Democrats control of the previously one-vote Republican Senate, starting the New Deal realignment, with 48-47 lame-duck counts and contested Alabama, Minnesota, and Louisiana seats.
1933
1933: the year Hitler became German Chancellor (January 30) and dismantled democracy via the Enabling Act, while Roosevelt launched the New Deal and took the US off the gold standard; also Dachau, book burnings, and Prohibition's repeal.
1933 Banking Act
The 1933 Banking Act, commonly called the Glass–Steagall Act, is a US federal statute that created FDIC deposit insurance and separated commercial from investment banking.
1933 Dodecanese Islands earthquake
The 1933 Dodecanese Islands earthquake was a magnitude 6.4 to 6.6 earthquake that destroyed the town of Kos on 23 April 1933, killing roughly 180 people.
1933 double eagle
The 1933 double eagle is a $20 gold coin struck at the Philadelphia Mint in 1933. It is the last gold coin struck for circulation in the United States.
1933 Fulham East by-election
The 1933 Fulham East by-election, also called the East Fulham by-election, was won by Labour's John Wilmot from the Conservatives on a 29 percent swing in west London.
1933 Sanriku earthquake
The 1933 Sanriku earthquake (昭和三陸地震, Shōwa Sanriku Jishin) was a magnitude-8-class normal-faulting earthquake off Japan's Sanriku coast on March 3, 1933, generating a tsunami that killed 3,064 people.
1933 Sichuan earthquake
The 1933 Sichuan earthquake, also called the Diexi earthquake (叠溪地震), struck Mao County, Sichuan, China, on 25 August 1933; landslide dams later burst, flooding 250 km of the Min River valley and killing about 2,400 people.
1934
1934 (MCMXXXIV), a common year: New Deal laws (Communications Act, Indian Reorganization Act, Gold Reserve Act), Dollfuss assassinated, Night of the Long Knives, Long March begins, Fermi's neutron work, Bonnie and Clyde and Dillinger killed.
1934 Bolivian coup d'état
The 1934 Bolivian coup d'état, known as the Corralito de Villamontes, was a military coup in which the army forced President Daniel Salamanca to resign during the Chaco War.
1934 FIFA World Cup
1934 FIFA World Cup, second edition, held in fascist Italy May 27-June 10, 1934; 16-team knockout; Italy beat Czechoslovakia 2-1 after extra time in Rome; Nejedlý top scorer with 5 goals.
1934 FIFA World Cup qualification
1934 FIFA World Cup qualification: first-ever World Cup qualifiers, 32 teams in 12 groups for 16 spots in Italy. Sweden v Estonia opened it; hosts Italy had to qualify; Uruguay boycotted; Egypt and USA also qualified.
1934 Latvian coup d'état
The 1934 Latvian coup d'état was a bloodless self-coup by Prime Minister Kārlis Ulmanis on 15–16 May 1934, suspending the constitution and dissolving the Saeima.
1934 Nepal earthquake
The 1934 Nepal earthquake, also called the Bihar–Nepal earthquake, was a magnitude 8.2 quake that struck on January 15, 1934, killing more than 15,700 people in Nepal and Bihar, India.
1935
1935 (MCMXXXV): the year of the Second New Deal (Social Security Act, Wagner Act), the Nuremberg Race Laws, German rearmament, Italy's invasion of Ethiopia, the Saar plebiscite, the DC-3's first flight, and Black Sunday.
1935 Canadian federal election
1935 Canadian federal election (October 14, 1935): eighteenth general election in which Mackenzie King's Liberals won 173 of 245 seats on 44.64% as Bennett's Conservatives fell to 39 amid CCF, Social Credit, and Reconstruction Party vote splitting.
1935 Constitution
The 1935 Constitution, or Saligang Batas ng 1935, was drafted in 1934 and 1935 and ratified on May 14, 1935, creating the Commonwealth of the Philippines under the Tydings-McDuffie Act.
1935 Copperbelt strike
The 1935 Copperbelt strike was a mass work stoppage by African mineworkers in Northern Rhodesia, now Zambia, in May 1935, triggered by a tax increase and demanding higher wages.
1935 Kevsut earthquake
The 1935 Kevsut earthquake, also spelled Kusut, struck eastern Mazandaran in the Alborz mountains of northern Iran on 11 April 1935, killing about 480 to 700 people.
1935 Kigi earthquake
The 1935 Kigi earthquake, known in Turkish sources as the 1935 Digor earthquake, was a magnitude 6.1 quake that struck Kars Province in northeastern Turkey on 1 May 1935.
1935 Labor Day hurricane
The 1935 Labor Day hurricane was a Category 5 hurricane that struck the Florida Keys on September 2, 1935, killing roughly 400 to 600 people.
1935 Mialoi earthquake
The 1935 Mialoi earthquake, better known as the Hsinchu-Taichung earthquake, was a magnitude 7.1 earthquake that struck central Taiwan on April 21, 1935, killing 3,276 people and injuring 12,053.
1935 Quetta earthquake
The 1935 Quetta earthquake was a magnitude 7.7 event that struck Quetta in British India (now Pakistan) on May 30, 1935, killing 35,000 people.
1935 Saar status referendum
1935 Saar status referendum (Saarabstimmung): plebiscite of January 13, 1935 in the League-governed Saar Basin offering status quo, France, or Germany; 477,119 of 528,705 votes chose Germany, and the territory returned to German rule on March 1, 1935.
1935 United Kingdom general election
The 1935 United Kingdom general election, held on 14 November 1935, returned a reduced majority for Stanley Baldwin's National Government, while Labour under Clement Attlee recovered 102 seats.
1935 Xiinzhu earthquake
The 1935 Xiinzhu earthquake, known as the Hsinchu–Taichung earthquake, struck central Taiwan on 21 April 1935 with magnitude 7.1, killing over 3,200 people and remaining Taiwan's deadliest recorded earthquake.