Video: 'The Attempted Assassination of Franklin D. Roosevelt'
(Monday, March 6, 1933, 6:57 a.m. local time) — Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak, wounded in the February 15, 1933, attempt on then-President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt’s life the previous month, died today at a Miami hospital at age 59, two days after FDR took office.
Gunman Giuseppe Zangara pleaded guilty to Cermak’s murder and was put to death in the electric chair just two weeks later on March 20, 1933.
(Friday, February 17, 1933) — Newsweek was first published today by Thomas J.C. Martyn, a former foreign-news editor for Time, under the title “News-Week.”
Video: 'First Lone Ranger!' (parts 1-4)
(Monday, January 30, 1933) — The first episode of The Lone Ranger radio program, about a masked ex-Texas Ranger who, with his Native American companion Tonto, fights injustice in the American Old West, was broadcast today on station WXYZ in Detroit.
Video: '**** She ** Done ** Him ** Wrong ** (1933) ****'
(Friday, January 27, 1933) — She Done Him Wrong, a romantic comedy film about a saloon singer who fights off smugglers, an escaped con and a Salvation Army officer out to reform her, premiered today in the U.S.
Directed by Lowell Sherman, the film stars Mae West, Cary Grant, Owen Moore, Gilbert Roland and Noah Beery, Sr.
(Friday, November 18, 1932) — Grand Hotel, a film about guests at a posh Berlin hotel, was named Best Picture of 1931-32 tonight at the 5th Academy Awards at The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.
Fredric March (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde) and Wallace Beery (The Champ) tied for Best Actor and Helen Hayes (The Sin of Madelon Claudet) won Best Actress.
Best Director went to Frank Borzage (Bad Girl).
Video: 'Republicans campaign for President 1932' (Oct. 31, 1932 at 1:57)
(Monday, October 31, 1932, evening, during the 1932 presidential campaign) — In a campaign speech to an overflow crowd tonight at Madison Square Garden in New York, U.S. President Herbert Hoover declared that the “inchoate new deal,” proposed by Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt and his supporters would “destroy the very foundations of our government and crack the timbers of the Constitution.”
Video: '1932 World Series Tribute'
(Sunday, October 2, 1932) — The New York Yankees won the 1932 World Series today, beating the Chicago Cubs 13-6 at at Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois, in the fourth and deciding game. It was the Yankees’ fourth World Series title. Continue reading New York Yankees win World Series 80 years ago today (1932)
Video: 'BABE RUTH did he call the shot ?'
(Saturday, October 1, 1932) — Babe Ruth of the New York Yankees made his supposed called shot today, hitting a home run against Chicago’s Charlie Root in the fifth inning of Game 3 of the World Series, won by the New York Yankees 7-5 at Wrigley Field.
Video: 'Smilin' Through' clip
(Saturday, September 24, 1932) — Smilin’ Through, a romantic drama film about a young woman who falls in love with the son of an old family enemy, opened today in the U.S.
Directed by Sidney Franklin, the film stars Norma Shearer, Fredric March and Leslie Howard.
Video: ‘Footage – Gandhi – 1932 September 24’
(Tuesday, September 20, 1932) — Mahatma K. Gandhi, the pre-eminent political and ideological leader of India during the Indian independence movement, solemnly began his “fast unto death” today behind the walls of Yerovda jail at Poona, where he’s been held since January.
Gandhi says he will starve himself to death unless the British government’s plan for creating a separate electorate for the depressed classes is discarded.
