| January 3 | Nels Stewart of Montreal Maroons scores 2 goals in 4 sec (record) |
| January 5 | 1st woman to purchase a baseball team Lucille Thomas purchases Topeka franchise in the Western League |
| January 8 | Philadelphia Quakers set then NHL record of 15 straight loses |
| January 10 | Philadelphia Quakers defeat Montreal, ends NHL-record 15-game losing streak |
| January 16 | Bradman scores 223 Australia vs. WI, 297 minutes, 26 fours |
| January 22 | French government of Steeg falls |
| January 22 | VARA begins experimental TV broadcast in Diamantbeurs Amsterdam |
| January 26 | Hungary-Austria sign peace treaty |
| January 26 | Lynn Riggs' "Green Grow the Lilacs," premieres in New York City |
| January 28 | Bradman scores 220 NSW vs. Victoria, 308 minutes, 13 fours |
| January 30 | Charlie Chaplin's "City Lights" premieres at Los Angeles Theater |
| January 31 | NHL's Quebec Bulldogs' Joseph Malone scores a record 7 goals |
| January 31 | Philip Barry's "Tomorrow and Tomorrow," premieres in New York City |
| February 2 | 1st siyyum of Talmud celebrated by Daf Yomi students |
| February 2 | 1st use of a rocket to deliver mail, Austria |
| February 3 | Arkansas legislature passes motion to pray for soul of H L Mencken after he calls state "apex of moronia" |
| February 4 | National League adopts a deader baseball |
| February 5 | Maxine Dunlap becomes 1st U.S. women to earn a glider pilot license |
| February 7 | U.S. opera, "Peter Ibbetson," by Deems Taylor premieres at Met Opera New York City |
| February 8 | Gas explosion Fire in Fushun-coal mine, Manchuria kills 3,000 |
| February 10 | New Delhi becomes capital of India |
| February 10 | Richard Rodgers/Lorenz Harts premieres in New York City |
| February 14 | Bradman scores 152 Australia vs. WI, 154 minutes, 13 fours 2 fives |
| February 14 | Spanish Government of General Damasco Berenguer falls |
| February 15 | 1st Dracula movie released |
| February 15 | Spring training site of New York Yankees in St. Petersburg is renamed Miller Huggins Field in honor of the team's late manager |
| February 16 | Extreme right wing Svinhufvud becomes president of Finland |
| February 17 | 1st telecast of a sporting event in Japan (baseball) |
| February 17 | Hockey's Hershey Bears (now with AHL) 1st game |
| February 20 | Congress allows California to build Oakland-Bay Bridge |
| February 21 | Alka Seltzer introduced |
| February 21 | Chicago White Sox and New York Giants play 1st exhibition night game |
| February 28 | Canadian Rugby Union adopts the forward pass |
| February 28 | Oswald Mosley founds his New Party |
| March 3 | Cab Calloway records "Minnie Moocher" (Jazz's 1st million seller) |
| March 3 | "Star Spangled Banner" officially becomes U.S. national anthem |
| March 4 | Bradman bowled by Herman Griffith for a duck as W I win the Test |
| March 4 | West Indies beat Australia for the 1st time, by 30 runs at SCG |
| March 5 | Gandhi and British viceroy Lord Irwin sign pact |
| March 10 | British Labour party removes fascist Sir Oswald Mosley |
| March 14 | 1st theater built for rear movie projection (New York City) |
| March 16 | Genootschap Onze Taal (Our Language) organizes (Netherlands) |
| March 17 | Stalin throws Krupskaya Lenin out of Central Committee |
| March 18 | 1st electric shavers go on sale in U.S. from Schick |
| March 18 | Juan Bautista Aznar becomes premier of Spain |
| March 19 | Nevada legalizes gambling |
| March 20 | Bishop Schreiber warns against national-socialism in Berlin |
| March 21 | KRO-broadcast studio initiated in Hilversum Holland |
| March 21 | U.S. Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson |
| March 21 | U.S. Mens Figure Skating championship won by Roger Turner |
| March 25 | Hal Kemp and his Orchestra record Whistles, with Skinnay Ennis |
| March 25 | Scottsboro Boys (accused of raping a white woman) arrested in Alabama |
| March 26 | Iraq and Trans-Jordan sign peace treaty |
| March 26 | Leo Bentley bowls 3 consecutive perfect games in Lorain, Ohio |
| March 26 | New Delhi replaces Calcutta as capital of British-Indies |
| March 27 | Charlie Chaplin receives France's distinguished Legion of Honor |
| March 27 | John McGraw says night baseball will not catch on |
| April 1 | Earthquake devastate Managua Nicaragua, kills 2,000 |
| April 1 | Jackie Mitchell became 1st female in professional baseball |
| April 2 | Teenage girl strikes out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in an exhibition game in Chattanooga, Tennessee |
| April 6 | 1st broadcast of "Little Orphan Annie" on NBC-radio |
| April 7 | Seals Stadium opens in San Francisco |
| April 8 | Dmitri Sjostakovitch' ballet "The Arrow," premieres |
| April 8 | "White Horse Inn" opens in London |
| April 9 | Chicago Cy Wentworth beats Mont Canadiens at 13:50 of 6th period |
| April 12 | Joe McCarthy debuts as New York Yankee manager |
| April 12 | Spanish voters reject the monarchy |
| April 14 | Spain becomes republic with overthrow of King Alfonso XIII |
| April 14 | Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Chicago Blackhawks, 3 games to 2 |
| April 15 | 1st walk across American backwards begins |
| April 20 | 35th Boston Marathon won by Jim Henigan of Mass in 2:46:45.8 |
| April 20 | British House of Commons agrees for sports play on Sunday |
| April 22 | Egypt and Iraq sign peace treaty |
| April 26 | Lou Gehrig hits a HR but is called out for passing a runner, mistake costs him AL home run crown; he and Babe Ruth tie for season |
| April 27 | 100 degrees F (38 degrees C), Pahala, Hawaii (state record) |
| April 28 | Program for woman athletes approved for 1932 Olympics track and field |
| April 29 | Cleveland Indian Wes Ferrell no-hits St. Louis Browns, 9-0 |
| May 1 | Empire State Building opens in New York City |
| May 1 | Norway claims Peter I Island |
| May 1 | Singer Kate Smith begins her long-running radio program on CBS |
| May 4 | Mustafa Kemal Pasja becomes Turkish president |
| May 8 | Operette "Land of Smiles," premieres in London |
| May 9 | 57th Preakness: George Ellis aboard Mate wins in 1:59 |
| May 10 | Golf ball size hail falls in Burlington, New Jersey |
| May 11 | Credit-Anstalt, Austria's largest bank, fails beginning financial collapse of Central Europe |
| May 13 | Paul Doumer elected president of France |
| May 15 | Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Quadragesimo anno |
| May 16 | 57th Kentucky Derby: Charley Kurtsinger on Twenty Grand wins 2:01.8 |
| May 19 | Ironclad cruiser Germany launched in Kiel |
| May 21 | Belgian government of Jaspar falls |
| May 22 | Canned rattlesnake meat 1st goes on sale in Florida |
| May 23 | Whipsnade Zoo opens in Whipsnade Beds England |
| May 24 | 1st air-conditioned train installed-B&O Railroad |
| May 27 | 1st full scale wind tunnel for testing airplanes, Langley Field, Virginia |
| May 27 | Piccard and Knipfer make 1st flight into stratosphere, by balloon |
| May 30 | Phillies Chuck Klein homers off Ben Cantwell (Braves) in both ends DH |
| June 1 | Rozenburg soccer team forms in Rozenburg |
| June 5 | Jules Renkin becomes premier of Belgium |
| June 6 | "There Ought To Be A Moonlight Saving Time" by Guy Lombardo hits #1 |
| June 6 | Yankees turn triple-play but lose 7-5 to Indians |
| June 8 | Duke and Duchess of Kent wed |
| June 8 | Suriname Work Committee under Louis Doedel forms in Paramaribo |
| June 9 | 1st rocket-powered aircraft design patented, Robert Goddard |
| June 9 | 1st showing of a Donald Duck cartoon |
| June 10 | Norway occupies East-Greenland |
| June 12 | Al Capone is indicted on 5,000 counts of prohibition and perjury |
| June 13 | 63rd Belmont: Charley Kurtsinger aboard Twenty Grand wins in 2:29.6 |
| June 14 | French "St. Philbert" overturns off St. Nazaire France, drowns 450 |
| June 14 | Reinhard Heydrichs 1st meeting with Himmler |
| June 15 | Eddie Collins and Harry Heilmann, retire from baseball |
| June 15 | Poland and U.S.S.R. sign friendship and trade treaty |
| June 16 | Austrian government of Ender falls |
| June 19 | 1st photoelectric cell installed commercially West Haven Ct |
| June 20 | Karl Buresch becomes chancellor of Austrian |
| June 22 | RVU, Radio-Volks-University, forms |
| June 23 | Wiley Post and Harold Catty took off for flight around world |
| June 24 | U.S.S.R. and Afghanistan sign neutrality treaty |
| June 27 | 3rd Ryder Cup: U.S., 9-3 at Scioto CC Ohio |
| June 29 | 109 degrees F (43 degrees C), Monticello, Florida (state record) |
| June 29 | Pope Pius XI encyclical on Nun abbiamo bisogno Mussolini |
| July 1 | Cleveland Municipal Stadium is completed |
| July 1 | Ice vending machines introduced in LA 25 lbs, 15 cents |
| July 1 | Phillies Chuck Klein hits for cycle vs. Chicago Cubs |
| July 1 | Trans African Railway in use (Benguela, Angola-Jadotville, Congo) |
| July 3 | 51st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Sid Wood, Jr. beats F X Shields (walkover) |
| July 3 | Max Schmeling TKOs Young Stribling in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
| July 4 | 1st fireworks are held at Cleveland Stadium |
| July 4 | 1st trailside museum opens in Cleveland Metroparks |
| July 6 | 35th U.S. Golf Open: Billy Burke shoots a 292 at Inverness Club Ohio |
| July 11 | New York Giants beat Phillies 23-8 |
| July 12 | 45,715 fans in 35,000 seat Sportsman Park St. Louis, help cause many ground ruled doubles, 11 in 1st game and 21 in 2nd game for 32 |
| July 18 | 1st air-conditioned ship (Mariposa) launched |
| July 21 | Reno race track, becomes 1st in U.S. to use daily double wagering |
| July 23 | Ashmore and Cartier Is in Indian Ocean transferred to Australia |
| July 23 | France announces they can't afford to send a team to 1932 LA olympics |
| July 24 | George Gunn gets 183 and son of a gunn George Vernon 100* same innings |
| July 24 | Paavo Nurmi runs world record 2 mile (8:59.6) |
| July 27 | Chilean president Carlos Ibanez forced out |
| July 27 | Grasshoppers in Iowa, Nebr and SD destroyed thousands of acres of crops |
| July 28 | Congress makes "Star-Spangled Banner" our 2nd national anthem |
| July 28 | White Sox score 11 in 8th to beat Yankees 14-12 |
| August 2 | Spanish Catalonia agrees (99+%) for autonomous status |
| August 5 | Det Tiger Tommy Bridges perfect game is broken up with 2 outs in 9th |
| August 8 | Washington Senator Bob Burke no-hits Boston Red Sox, 5-0 |
| August 12 | Yangtzee River floods after heavy rain crumbles dikes in China |
| August 13 | Cincinnati Red Tony Cuccinello goes 6 for 6 |
| August 15 | Ernest Lassy completes longest canoe journey without port (6,102 mi) |
| August 15 | Roy Wilkins joined NAACP as Assistant Secretary |
| August 15 | Spakenburg soccer team forms |
| August 18 | Lou Gehrig hitless in Detroit, his 1,000th consecutively played game |
| August 19 | Lefty Grove wins AL record tying 16th consecutive game |
| August 20 | 45th U.S. Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats Eileen Whitingstall (64 61) |
| August 21 | Babe Ruth hits his 600th HR, off George Blaeholder of Browns |
| August 23 | 45th U.S. Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats Eileen B Whitingstall (64 61) |
| August 23 | Count Gyula Karolyi becomes premier of Hungary |
| August 23 | Philadelphia A's Lefty Grove, loses 1-0 (Browns) after winning 16 straight |
| August 24 | France and U.S.S.R. sign neutrality/no attack treaty |
| September 1 | Gehrig hits his 3rd grand slam in 4 days and his 6th HR in consec games |
| September 10 | Lord Cecil of British Government says War was never so improbable |
| September 12 | 51st U.S. Mens Tennis: H E Vines beats George M Lott, Jr. (79 63 97 75) |
| September 13 | Captain G H Stainworth flies world speed record (655 kph) |
| September 13 | Right-radical coup of Dr. Pfrimer fails in Austria |
| September 15 | British naval fleet mutinies at Invergordon over pay cuts |
| September 15 | Philadelphia A's clinch pennant, beating Cleveland |
| September 16 | Blimp is moored to Empire State Building (New York City) |
| September 16 | St. Louis Cardinals repeat as NL champions with a 6-3 win over Phillies |
| September 17 | 1st LP record demonstrated (RCA Victor, New York City), venture failed |
| September 17 | Operetta "Victoria and Her Husband," premieres in London |
| September 17 | Red Sox Earl Webb sets record with 65 en route to 67 doubles |
| September 18 | Japan takes Manchuria, renames it Manchukuo |
| September 19 | 14th PGA Championship: Tom Creavy at Wannamoisett CC Rumford RI |
| September 19 | Japanese troops conquer Mukden, South Manchuria |
| September 19 | Lefty Grove wins his 30th game of season over White Sox, 2-1 |
| September 20 | Lou Gehrig's 4 RBIs break his old RBI mark of 175 en route to 184 |
| September 21 | Britain abandons gold standard/pound devalues 20% |
| September 24 | Round-robin playoff among New York City's 3 major league teams, to raise money for unemployed, concludes with Brooklyn losing to both Giants and Yankees |
| September 26 | Earl Claus von Stauffenberg marries Freiin Nina von Lerchenfeld |
| September 27 | Closest NL batting race ends Chick Hafey (.3488) beats Bill Terry's |
| September 27 | Lou Gehrig completes his 6th straight season, playing in every game (.3486) Jim Bottomley (.3481) |
| September 28 | Peking (200,000 demonstrators demand declaration of war on Japan) |
| October 1 | Spanish Cortes accept general female suffrage |
| October 1 | World Series is a rematch as A's seek 3rd straight title vs Cards |
| October 2 | Pope Pius XI encyclical On economic crisis |
| October 4 | Dick Tracy comic strip by Chester Gould debuts |
| October 4 | Juan Esteban Montero becomes president of Chile |
| October 5 | 1st nonstop transpacific flight, Japan to Washington (Herndon and Pangborn) |
| October 5 | Paul Green's "House of Connelly," premieres in New York City |
| October 6 | Js Van Severen forms Verdinaso (Union of Flemish National Solidarists) |
| October 7 | 1st infra-red photograph, Rochester, New York |
| October 10 | A J Bennett hits H Garbarino for 1st scoring pass in Canada's Big 4 |
| October 10 | St. Louis Cardinals beat Philadelphia A's, 4 games to 3 in 28th World Series |
| October 10 | William Waltons "Belshazzar's Feast," premieres in Leeds |
| October 11 | 100,000 extreme-right Germans form "Harzburger Front" |
| October 12 | 1st International Conference on Calendar Reform |
| October 13 | Musical "Everybody's Welcome" with T/J Dorsey premieres in New York City |
| October 13 | Noel Cowards "Cavalcade," premieres in London |
| October 14 | 1st broadcast of Dutch Radio Peoples University |
| October 14 | Spanish Cortes agrees to separation of Church and State |
| October 16 | Trunk murderess Winnie Ruth Judd chops 1st |
| October 17 | Al Capone convicted of tax evasion, sentenced to 11 years |
| October 20 | Frankie Frisch of the Cards named MVP |
| October 24 | Gangster Al Capone is sentenced to 11 years for tax evasion |
| October 24 | George Washington Bridge connecting New York to New Jersey opens |
| October 26 | Eugene O'Neill's "Mourning Becomes Electra," premieres in New York City |
| October 27 | Chuhei Numbu of Japan, sets then long jump record at 26' 2" |
| October 29 | Lefty Grove, A's pitcher who won 31 games, is named the AL's MVP |
| October 30 | W2XB TV channel 1 in New York City, New York (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| November 1 | Dupont introduces synthetic rubber |
| November 2 | Warren, Dixon and Young's musical "Laugh Parade," premieres in New York City |
| November 3 | 1st commercially produced synthetic rubber manufactured |
| November 4 | Jean Genet's "Judith," premieres in Paris |
| November 7 | Chinese People's Republic proclaimed by Mao Tse Tung |
| November 11 | Cornerstones laid for Opera House and Veteran's Building |
| November 12 | Maple Leaf Gardens opens in Toronto - Chicago Blackhawks beat Leafs, 2-1 |
| November 12 | Sibelius/Ashton's ballet "Lady of Shalott," premieres in London |
| November 13 | Hattie Caraway (D-AK) appointed 1st U.S. woman senator |
| November 14 | Ottawa Mint Act is proclaimed in England |
| November 17 | Bradman scores 135 NSW vs. South Africa, 128 minutes, 15 fours |
| November 20 | Commercial teletype service begins (AT&T) |
| November 22 | Ferde Grofe's "Grand Canyon Suite," premieres |
| November 23 | Nationally Crisis Committee forms in Hague |
| November 27 | 1st Test Cricket match at the Gabba Bradman scores 200 on 1st day |
| November 28 | Bradman scores 226, the 1st Test Cricket century at Gabba, vs. South Africa |
| November 30 | Crystal Palace in Hyde Park London destroyed by fire |
| November 30 | His Master's Voice and Columbia Records merge into EMI |
| December 1 | Ottawa branch of Royal Mint begins operation as Royal Canadian Mint |
| December 3 | Alka Seltzer goes on sale |
| December 4 | "Frankenstein" opens at Mayfair |
| December 5 | CFL Grey Cup: Mtl AAA beats Regina, 22-0 at Montreal |
| December 7 | Bradman scores 219 NSW vs. South Africa, 234 minutes, 15 fours |
| December 8 | Coaxial cable patented |
| December 9 | Baseball cuts squad from 25 to 23 players and NL continues to prohibit uniform numbers |
| December 9 | Benn W Levy's "Springtime for Henry," premieres in New York City |
| December 9 | Japanese army attacks Chinese province of Jehol |
| December 9 | Spain becomes a republic |
| December 10 | Jane Addams (1st U.S. woman) named co-recipient of Nobel Peace Prize |
| December 10 | Manuel Azana becomes premier/Niceto Zamora president of Spain |
| December 11 | British Statute of Westminster gives complete legislative independence to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Ireland, Newfndlnd |
| December 11 | Japan leaves the Golden Standard |
| December 12 | Japanese Government of Imukai forms |
| December 14 | 1st assembly of Anton Musserts NSB in Utrecht |
| December 16 | German SPD begins Eiserne Front against fascism |
| December 19 | Bradman scores 112 Australia vs. South Africa at cricket SCG |
| December 19 | Joseph A Lyons (C) becomes premier of Australia |
| December 25 | Albert Lonergan scores 137 SA vs. Qld at Adelaide before 5,697 |
| December 25 | Fleetwood-Smith takes 5-69 Victoria vs. Tas at Hobart |
| December 25 | NY's Metropolitan Opera broadcasts an entire opera over radio |
| December 26 | George/Ira Gershwin's "Of Thee I Sing," premieres in New York City |
| December 26 | Pulitzer Prize-winning musical play "Of Thee I Sing" opens on Bdwy |
| December 26 | SS-Sturmbannfuhrer Reinhard Heydrich marries Lina von Osten |
| December 28 | Lin-Sen succeeds Chiang Kai-shek as president of Nanjing-China |
| December 29 | Identification of heavy water publicly announced, HC Urey |
| December 29 | Victoria score 7 for 435 in second innings to beat NSW |
