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Movie history events from 1932
Howard Hughes branches into aviation. (The Aviator)
Lucy Pevensie is born. (The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)
The Mummy released in cinemas. (King Kong)
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is established. (The Kingdom)
The invading Japanese army found the state of Manchukuo and install Puyi as its ruler. (Manchuria, China) (The Last Emperor)
Rayford Gibson and Claude Banks are sentenced to Life for a murder they didn't commit; they are sent to Camp 8 Mississippi. (Mississippi Camp 8) (Life)
Royal O'Reilly Tenenbaum born. (The Royal Tenenbaums)
Johnny Hooker and Henry Gondorff con Doyle Lonnegan out of half a million dollars. (Chicago, Illinois) (The Sting)
Atticus Finch defends Tom Robinson in a rape trial. (To Kill A Mockingbird)
Saturday 5th March: $3,000 is found missing from the Plain View Bank. The banker's son, Joe Abercrombie Jr., frames one of the clerks, Lee Austen. Austen is convicted on Abercrombie's testimony and spends three years in prison. (Plainview, Kentucky) (Life Begins at Forty)
Tuesday 8th March: Joe Abercrombie Jr. and his pal Wally Stevens lose the $3,000 Abercrombie stole from his father's bank betting on horses at Churchill Downs. (Louisville, Kentucky) (Life Begins at Forty)
Tuesday 12th April: Johnny Dangerously takes over the Dundee Mob, District Attorney Burr dies in a beer commercial, and gun manufacturer makes .88 Magnum for gangsters. (New York, New York) (Johnny Dangerously)
Friday 27th May: Businessman C.B. Gaerste discovers is mistress, Red Andrews Legendre, has been carrying on under his nose behind his back with Albert the chauffeur. C.B. fires Albert and Red wires her husband Willie Legendre Jr. in Renwood, Ohio, that she wants to come home. (New York City, New York) (Red-Headed Woman)
Sunday 5th June: Christy Brown is born with "complications." (Dublin, Ireland) (My Left Foot)
Thursday 16th June: Mae West leaves New York for California to make her first film. (Mae West)
Friday 19th August: 'Gunny' Saks and his dance partner Jenny win the Coney Island Marathon and, despite having just met, recklessly decide to marry. (New York, New York) (Born to Dance)
Sunday 21st August: The alleged rape of Mayella Ewell by Tom Robinson. (Maycomb, Alabama) (To Kill A Mockingbird)
September: Idgie Threadgoode takes a pregnant Ruth Bennet away from her abusive husband. (Georgia) (Fried Green Tomatoes)
September: Scout Finch starts school, and wears a dress she hates. (To Kill A Mockingbird)
Friday 16th September: Mohandas Gandhi begins a hunger strike to protest caste separation. (near Bombay, India) (Gandhi)
Thursday 27th October: Sylvia Plath is born. (Boston, Massachusetts) (Sylvia)
Tuesday 13th December: Prof. Auguste A. Topaze is unfairly dismissed from his teaching position when the Baroness Hortense de la Tour complains that he won't show special treatment to her spoiled son, Charlemagne. (France) (Topaze)
Thursday 15th December: San Francisco police detective Steve Burke proposes to Countess Barilhaus even after she confesses her true identity to be conwoman 'Barrel House' Betty. (Aboard the SS Maloa bound for San Francisco) (One Way Passage)
Thursday 15th December: On the gangplank of the SS Maloa, dapper murder suspect Dan Hardesty says "Auf wiedershen" to his shipboard romance, Joan Ames. Hardesty is handcuffed to police detective Steve Burke on his way to stand trial. (San Francisco, CA) (One Way Passage)
Sunday 25th December: King George V delivers the first Royal Christmas Message over the radio and bullies his son Albert, the Duke York. (London, England) (The King's Speech)