Historical Events in August 1932

Aug 2 Carl David Anderson discovers and photographs a positron, the first known antiparticle

Aug 3 Official automatic timing & photo-finish camera for track events is used for the 1st time at Los Angeles Olympics, instrumental in changing 110m hurdles final, review gives Donald Finley bronze ahead of American Jack Keller

Aug 5 Clyde Barrow and two associates kill Sheriff C.G. Maxwell and his deputy, Eugene C. Moore, the first time the Barrow gang kills a lawman

Aug 6 1st Venice Film Festival opens, the world's oldest film festival
Aug 10 A 5.1-kg (11.2-pound) chondrite-type meteorite breaks into at least seven pieces and lands near the town of Archie in Cass County, Missouri.

Aug 13 Adolf Hitler refuses President von Hindenburg's proposal to become vice-chancellor of Germany

Aug 13 Yankees hurler Red Ruffing becomes first MLB pitcher since 1906 to hit an extra-inning, game-winning home run in NY's 1-0 win over the Senators in Washington
Aug 14 X Summer Olympic Games close in Los Angeles, USA
Aug 14 Brooklyn Dodgers reliever John Quinn, 49, becomes oldest pitcher to win a MLB game in a 2-1, 10th inning victory over NY Giants at the Polo Grounds
Aug 14 Philips makes 1 millionth radio
Aug 18 Auguste Piccard and Max Cosyns reach 16,201m in a balloon launched from Dübendorf, Switzerland
Aug 18 Englishman James Mollisson is 1st to fly east to west over Atlantic
Aug 19 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Helen Jacobs beats Carolin Babcock Stark 6-2, 6-2 for her first of 4 straight US singles crowns
Aug 21 Wes Ferrell is 1st to win 20 games in each of his 1st 4 seasons
Aug 22 BBC begins experimental regular TV broadcasts

Aug 24 1st transcontinental non-stop flight by a woman, Amelia Earhart

Aug 30 Hermann Goering elected Chairman of the Reichstag