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March 1, 1932: Charles Lindbergh Jr., 20-month-old son of aviator Charles Lindbergh, is kidnapped from his home

The following events occurred in March 1932:

March 1, 1932 (Tuesday)

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March 2, 1932 (Wednesday)

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  • Finnish President Pehr Evind Svinhufvud gave a radio address telling participants in the Mäntsälä rebellion and informed them that, with the exception of the rebellion leaders, they had the opportunity to return home without punishment before Finnish troops moved into crush the uprising.[2] Four days later, those participants who chose not to flee were captured.
  • U.S. President Herbert Hoover consulted with Attorney General William D. Mitchell on the Lindbergh kidnapping. Mitchell announced afterward that every agency in the Department of Justice would do its utmost to assist New Jersey's state authorities, even though the kidnapping was not a federal case.[3]
  • Born: Takako Takahashi, Japanese author, in Kyoto (d. 2013)
  • Died: David Jayne Hill, 81, American diplomat and former Assistant U.S. Secretary of State

March 3, 1932 (Thursday)

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March 4, 1932 (Friday)

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March 5, 1932 (Saturday)

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  • Takuma Dan, the Director-General of Japan's the Mitsui Corporation, was shot to death as he was walking into the Mitsui Bank headquarters in Tokyo. Dan's killing was the second successful assassination by Japan's League of Blood after Junnosuke Inoue had been killed a month earlier.[2]
  • German diplomat Fritz von Twardowski was wounded by a student in Moscow who fired four shots at him before being overpowered by police.[7]
  • Died: Peder Kolstad, 53, Prime Minister of Norway since May 1931, died from a blood clot.

March 6, 1932 (Sunday)

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March 7, 1932 (Monday)

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March 8, 1932 (Tuesday)

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  • New York state Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt won the New Hampshire Democratic presidential primary, the first of the state primary elections to determine delegates for the nominating convention.[11]
  • Charles Lindbergh's attorney received a third ransom note, informing that an intermediary appointed by the Lindberghs would not be accepted. That same day, John F. Condon, a retired school principal in the Bronx, published an offer to act as a neutral go-between and to pay an additional $1,000.[1] Condon's offer was accepted by the kidnapper the next day and he received four more notes during the month (on March 12, 16, 21 and 30), outlining the kidnappers demands, followed by the arrangements for a ransom payment in April.

March 9, 1932 (Wednesday)

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The Emperor "Datong of Manchukuo"

March 10, 1932 (Thursday)

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March 11, 1932 (Friday)

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  • Ireland's new prime minister Éamon de Valera cut his own salary and that of his cabinet ministers as part of an economy drive.[17]
  • Adolf Hitler, the closest challenger to President Hindenburg in the German presidential election, issued a statement denying rumors that his Nazi Party was planning to stage a coup d'état after Sunday's voting. "The National Socialist Movement today has less reason than ever before to abandon the legal path it has taken and on which the system will be forced to its knees", Hitler's statement read. "All of the rumors circulating to the effect that the NSDAP is planning a putsch are false and to be seen as typical signs of our opponents' election campaign."[18]
  • Died:

March 12, 1932 (Saturday)

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  • Ivar Kreuger, one of the wealthiest financiers in Sweden who controlled more than two-thirds of the production of matches with money raised from investors through a Ponzi scheme, was found dead from a gunshot wound in his Paris hotel room, a day before he was scheduled to answer questions from the Sveriges Riksbank about the insolvency of his Kreurger & Toll Company. Sweden's State Council hastily attempted to put a moratorium on Sweden's foreign debt payments, creating a business panic.[19]
  • Born: Andrew Young, U.S. politician and former American ambassador to the United Nations; in New Orleans
  • Died: Ivar Kreuger, 52, Swedish civil engineer and industrialist (suicide)

March 13, 1932 (Sunday)

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  • The German presidential election was held. Although Paul von Hindenburg beat runner-up Adolf Hitler by more than 7 million votes, he fell less than 1% short of the 50% majority required to win outright, so a run-off election had to be held on April 10.[20]
  • Sweden ordered its stock exchange closed until further notice.[21]

March 14, 1932 (Monday)

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Eastman
  • Died:
    • George Eastman, 77, American entrepreneur who founded the Eastman Kodak film and camera manufacturing company, shot himself in the heart after a painful illness of several years. He left a suicide note that read, "To my friends, my work is done – Why wait? GE."[24]
    • Patrick Reynolds, 45, Irish politician, died of wounds sustained in a shooting one month earlier on February 14.

March 15, 1932 (Tuesday)

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March 16, 1932 (Wednesday)

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  • The opera Maria egiziaca by Italian composer Ottorino Respighi was performed for the first time at Carnegie Hall in New York City.[2]
  • John F. Condon, the intermediary between the Lindbergh family and the kidnapper of their baby, received a baby's one-piece sleeper pajamas in the mail, sent as proof by the kidnapper of the baby's identity.[1]
  • Born: Don Blasingame, American baseball player who later played and managed the Nankai Hawks in Japan; in Corinth, Mississippi (d. 2005)

March 17, 1932 (Thursday)

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  • Nazi headquarters throughout Prussia were raided by police looking for evidence of a Nazi plot to plunge the country into civil war. Hitler issued a statement calling the raids "a political maneuver inspired by anxiety over the intended rescue from defeat of the Socialist Party at the forthcoming diet elections", stating further, "I have long known that the raids were planned. Minister [Carl] Severing knows that the seizure of power by the National Socialists is only a question of time, but this maneuver will not save his party from coming to ruin."[27]
  • The German government declared an "Easter truce" from March 18 to April 3, forbidding open air political meetings, political speeches and distribution of political posters and leaflets.[27]
  • The United States announced that it would refuse to recognize the Japanese puppet republic of Manchukuo.[28]
  • The film The Wet Parade premiered at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.[29]
  • Born: Donald N. Langenberg, American physicist and professor, in Devils Lake, North Dakota (d. 2019)

March 18, 1932 (Friday)

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March 19, 1932 (Saturday)

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March 20, 1932 (Sunday)

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  • Mexican bandits derailed a train 12 miles (19 km) north of Querétaro, killing two passengers. The ensuing attack was quickly repulsed by a small guard and one bandit was slain.[35]
  • Born:
  • Died:
    • Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance (pen name for Sylvester Clark Long), 41, African-American journalist, writer and actor who claimed to have been a Cherokee Indian; from a gunshot wound presumed to be a suicide
    • Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov, 61, Russian biologist and animal breeder known for his experiments with artificially inseminating female chimpanzees with human sperm in an attempt to create a hybrid species

March 21, 1932 (Monday)

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March 22, 1932 (Tuesday)

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  • The Irish government released an official statement declaring that the Irish Free State had the right to modify the constitution by removing the Oath of Allegiance to the King, and that the results of the recent election constituted a mandate to do so.[37]
  • Born: Els Borst, Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1998 to 2002; in Amsterdam (d. 2014)

March 23, 1932 (Wednesday)

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March 24, 1932 (Thursday)

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March 25, 1932 (Friday)

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March 26, 1932 (Saturday)

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  • A Japanese government spokesman said that Japan would quit the League of Nations if it asserted undue pressure over the situation in Manchuria and Shanghai and that the dispute could only be settled through direct talks with China.[42]

March 27, 1932 (Sunday)

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March 28, 1932 (Monday)

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March 29, 1932 (Tuesday)

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  • British pastor Harold Davidson was brought before court to answer charges that he had pursued and molested young girls. The case became a notorious tabloid sensation.[45][46]
  • Died: Filippo Turati, 74, Italian sociologist, criminologist and Socialist politician

March 30, 1932 (Wednesday)

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  • Government by presidential decree was inaugurated in Poland.[47]
  • Frank Lloyd Wright's autobiography was published.[48]
  • John F. Condon received a new demand from the Lindbergh baby's kidnappers threatening to raise the amount of the ransom demanded from $70,000 to $100,000.[1]
  • Born: Ted Morgan, Swiss-born French-American writer, in Geneva (d. 2023)

March 31, 1932 (Thursday)

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References

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