1932 - Date Unknown

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• The Soviet famine of 1932–1933 begins.
• Women's suffrage is granted in Brazil.
• The heath hen becomes extinct.
• Mars Bars are sold for the first time.
• Zippo lighters are developed.
• Zero-length springs are invented, revolutionizing seismometers and gravimeters.
• The Kennedy-Thorndike experiment shows that measured time as well as length are affected by motion, in accordance with the theory of special relativity.
• James Chadwick discovers the neutron.
• Geneticist J. B. S. Haldane publishes The Causes of Evolution and thereby unifies the findings of Mendelian genetics with those of evolutionary science.
• Prontosil, the first oral antibiotic, is discovered by Gerhard Domagk, but no publication occurs until 1935.
• Walter B. Pitkin publishes Life Begins at Forty.
• The Republican Citizens Committee Against National Prohibition is established for the repeal of prohibition in the U.S.
• Yezd Atash Behram becomes established in Yazd, Iran.
• Unemployment in the USA – ca. 33% – 14 million. A similar level of unemployment now affects Germany. Many people in depressed countries are now not receiving unemployment benefit due to governments not being able to afford benefit payments.