1932 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1932 in the United Kingdom.
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[edit] Incumbents
- Monarch - George V of the United Kingdom
- Prime Minister - Ramsay MacDonald, national coalition
[edit] Events
- 8 January - The Archbishop of Canterbury forbids church remarriage of divorces.
- 26 January - British submarine HMS M2 sinks with all 50 hands.
- 4 February–15 February - Great Britain and Northern Ireland compete at the 1932 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York but do not win any medals.
- 1 March - Import Duties Act 1932 re-establishes protective trade tariffs.[1]
- 15 March - First broadcast from the newly opened BBC Broadcasting House.[1]
- 6 April - Ministry of Health encourages local councils to engage in widespread slum clearance.[1]
- 23 April - The Royal Shakespeare Theatre opens in Stratford-upon-Avon.[2]
- 10 May - James Chadwick discovers the neutron.[3]
- 12 July - Hedley Verity establishes a new first-class record by taking all ten wickets for only ten runs against Nottinghamshire on a pitch affected by a storm.
- 30 July–14 August - Great Britain and Northern Ireland compete at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California and win 4 gold, 7 silver and 5 bronze.
- 22 August - First experimental television broadcast by the BBC.[2]
- October
- Oswald Mosley founds the British Union of Fascists.[1]
- Thomas Beecham establishes the London Philharmonic Orchestra.[1]
- 30 October - Marches by the unemployed in London lead to several violent clashes with police.[1]
- 14 November - Book tokens go on sale in the UK.[2]
- 10 December
- John Galsworthy wins the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his distinguished art of narration which takes its highest form in The Forsyte Saga".[4]
- Charles Scott Sherrington and Edgar Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries regarding the functions of neurons".[5]
- 19 December - The BBC Empire Service, later known as the BBC World Service, begins broadcasting.[2]
- 25 December - King George V delivers the first Royal Christmas Message.[1]
[edit] Undated
- Geneticist J. B. S. Haldane publishes The Causes of Evolution and thereby unifies the findings of Mendelian genetics with those of evolutionary science.
[edit] Publications
- Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot novel Peril at End House.
- Lewis Grassic Gibbon's novel Sunset Song.
- Stella Gibbons' novel Cold Comfort Farm.
- Aldous Huxley's novel Brave New World.
- John Cowper Powys' novel A Glastonbury Romance.
- Evelyn Waugh's novel Black Mischief.
[edit] Births
- 29 January
- Tommy Taylor, footballer (died 1958)
- George Allen, footballer
- 1 February - John Nott, polictian
- 27 February - Elizabeth Taylor, actress
- 25 April - William Roache, actor (Coronation Street)
- 26 April - Michael Smith, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (doed 2000)
- 8 May - Phyllida Law, actress
- 19 May - Alma Cogan, singer (died 1966)
- 30 May - Ivor Richard, Baron Richard, politician
- 18 June - Geoffrey Hill, poet
- 22 June - Prunella Scales, actress
- 25 June - Peter Blake, artist
- 29 June - Brian Hutton, Baron Hutton, Law Lord
- 6 August - Howard Hodgkin, painter and print-maker
- 17 August - V. S. Naipaul, writer
- 20 August - Anthony Ainley, actor (died 2004)
- 4 September - Dinsdale Landen, actor (died 2003)
- 7 September - Malcolm Bradbury, author and academic (died 2000)
- 11 September - Peter Anderson, footballer
- 27 September - Michael Colvin, politician (died 2000)
- 8 October - Ray Reardon, snooker player
- 10 October - Harry Smith, footballer
- 15 November - Petula Clark, singer, actress, and songwriter
- 20 November - Richard Dawson, comedian and game show host
- 21 November - Beryl Bainbridge, novelist
- 24 December - Colin Cowdrey, cricketer (died 2000)
- 28 December - Roy Hattersley, politician
[edit] Deaths
- 21 January - Giles Lytton Strachey writer and biographer (born 1880)
- 24 January - Sir Alfred Yarrow, shipbuilder and philanthropist (born 1842)
- 10 February - Edgar Wallace, novelist and screenwriter (born 1875)
- 26 April - William Lockwood, cricketer (born 1868)
- 6 July - Kenneth Grahame, author (born 1859)
- 16 September - Ronald Ross, physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born 1857)
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d e f g Palmer, Alan & Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd, 375-376. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
- ^ a b c d (2006) Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. ISBN 0-141-02715-0.
- ^ The Existence of the Neutron, By J. Chadwick, F.R.S., Proc. Roy. Soc., A, 136, p. 692-708
- ^ The Nobel Prize in Literature 1932
- ^ The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1932
