1932 - January

January

• January 1 – The United States Post Office Department issues a set of 12 stamps commemorating the 200th anniversary of George Washington's birth.
• January 3 – The British arrest and intern Mohandas Gandhi and Vallabhbhai Patel.
• January 7 – The Stimson Doctrine is proclaimed, in response to the Japanese invasion of Manchuria.
• January 8 – In Britain the Archbishop of Canterbury forbids church remarriage of divorced persons.
• January 12 – Hattie W. Caraway becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate.
• January 14 – Maurice Ravel's Concerto in G debuts with piano soloist Marguerite Long and Ravel conducting the Lamoureux Orchestra.
• January 15 – About 6 million are unemployed in Germany.
• January 22 – The 1932 Salvadoran peasant uprising begins, it is suppressed by the government of Maximiliano Hernández Martínez
• January 24 – Marshal Pietro Badoglio declares the end of Libyan resistance.
• January 26 – The British submarine M2 sinks with all 60 hands.
• January 28 – Conflict between Japan and China in the Battle of Shanghai.
• January 29 – The minority government of Karl Buresch in Austria ends the governmental crisis.
• January 30 – Brave New World, a novel by Aldous Huxley, is first published.
• January 31 – Japanese warships arrive in Nanking.