October
- October 1 – Babe Ruth makes his famous called shot in the fifth inning of game 3 of the 1932 World Series.
- October 3 – Iraq becomes an independent kingdom under Faisal.
- October 13– Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes lays the cornerstone for a new U.S. Supreme Court building.
- October 15
- Tata Airlines (later to become Air India) makes its first flight.
- The Michigan Marching Band (then called the Varsity band) debuts Script Ohio at the Michigan versus Ohio State game in Columbus.
- October 19 – Prince Gustav Adolf of Sweden marries Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
- October 23 – Fred Allen's radio comedy show debuts on CBS.
- October 25 21-year old Michael D'Oyly Carte, grandson of theatrical impresario and hotelier Richard D'Oyly Carte, is killed in a car crash in Switzerland
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“The autumnal change of our woods has not yet made a deep impression on our own literature yet. October has hardly tinged our poetry.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)