WHAT ALL HAPPENED MAY TO OCTOBER 1932
Find out what all happened May to October 1932

The Revenue Act of 1932 is enacted, creating the first gas tax in the United States, at a rate of 1 cent per US gallon (1⁄4 ¢/L) sold. (6. June 1932)

Iraq gains independence from the United Kingdom. (3. October 1932)

Comedian Jack Benny's radio show airs for the first time. (2. May 1932)

Gandhi and Dr. B. R. Ambedkar agree to the Poona Pact, which reserved seats in the Indian provincial legislatures for the "Depressed Classes" (Untouchables). (24. September 1932)

Amelia Earhart takes off from Newfoundland to begin the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean by a female pilot, landing in Ireland the next day. (20. May 1932)

Altona Bloody Sunday: A riot between the Nazi Party paramilitary forces, the SS and SA, and the German Communist Party ensues. (17. July 1932)

A bloodless Revolution instigated by the People's Party ends the absolute power of King Prajadhipok of Siam (now Thailand). (24. June 1932)

Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly across the United States non-stop (from Los Angeles to Newark, New Jersey). (24. August 1932)

In Atlanta, Georgia, mobster Al Capone begins serving an eleven-year prison sentence for tax evasion. (4. May 1932)

Marmaduke Grove and other Chilean military officers lead a coup d'etat establishing the short-lived Socialist Republic of Chile. (4. June 1932)

The French Upper Volta is broken apart between Ivory Coast, French Sudan, and Niger. (5. September 1932)

A 5.1 kilograms (11 lb) chondrite-type meteorite breaks into at least seven pieces and lands near the town of Archie in Cass County, Missouri. (10. August 1932)

The state of São Paulo revolts against the Brazilian Federal Government, starting the Constitutionalist Revolution. (9. July 1932)

Chaco War: Last day of the Battle of Boquerón between Paraguay and Bolivia. (29. September 1932)

U.S. President Herbert Hoover orders the United States Army to forcibly evict the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans gathered in Washington, D.C. (28. July 1932)

Bad weather forces Amelia Earhart to land in a pasture in Derry, Northern Ireland, and she thereby becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. (21. May 1932)

Great Depression: in Washington, D.C., troops disperse the last of the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans. (29. July 1932)

Ten weeks after his abduction, the infant son of Charles Lindbergh, Charles Jr., is found dead in Hopewell, New Jersey, just a few miles from the Lindberghs' home. (12. May 1932)

The Indian Air Force is established. (8. October 1932)

World War I Veterans begin to assemble in Washington, D.C., in the Bonus Army to request cash bonuses promised to them to be paid in 1945. (29. May 1932)