The following events occurred in November 1932:
November 1, 1932 (Tuesday) The Liberal Party won mid-term parliamentary elections in Cuba. Police in London clashed with National Hunger Marchers trying to present a petition to parliament against the Means Test. It was rumored that Eva Braun attempted suicide in Munich. Born: Al Arbour, ice hockey player, in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada (d. 2015)
November 2, 1932 (Wednesday) 12 were shot in Hamburg during fighting between Communists and Nazis. The Emu War is begun by the military against emus in Western Australia.
November 3, 1932 (Thursday) 15,000 transit employees went on strike in Berlin, encouraged by both the Communists and the Nazis. Panagis Tsaldaris became Prime Minister of Greece. Born: Albert Reynolds, politician, in Roosky, Ireland (d. 2014)
November 4, 1932 (Friday) Three were killed in Berlin during violence related to the transit strike when police fired on a mob trying to wreck street cars. Benito Mussolini unveiled a 54-foot high obelisk in Rome bearing his name carved in huge letters. Born: Thomas Klestil, 10th President of Austria, in Vienna (d. 2004); Noam Pitlik, television director and actor, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1999) Died: Belle Bennett, 41, American actress (cancer)
November 5, 1932 (Saturday) A five-day-old strike of 200,000 Lancashire cotton workers ended after the strikers agreed to a wage cut.
November 6, 1932 (Sunday) Federal elections were held in Germany. The Nazi Party lost 2 million votes and 35 seats but remained the largest party in the Reichstag. The Communist Party gained 11 seats to hold exactly 100. Italy published a far-reaching amnesty decree freeing most prisoners serving terms of less than five years and reducing the sentences of many others serving longer terms. Mussolini called the amnesty "equal in grandiosity to the events of the decennial wherewith it is connected."
November 7, 1932 (Monday) The U.S. Supreme Court decided Powell v. Alabama, overturning the convictions of the Scottsboro Boys. Born: Dick Stuart, baseball player, in San Francisco, California (d. 2002)
November 8, 1932 (Tuesday) Franklin D. Roosevelt defeated the incumbent Herbert Hoover in the United States presidential election, winning 42 of 48 states. The five-day-old transit strike ended in Berlin.
November 9, 1932 (Wednesday) In Geneva, Switzerland, the Social Democratic Party and the fascist National Union held competing demonstrations. In the resulting trouble the army fired on the demonstrators and killed 13 people. The Cuba hurricane killed over 3,000 people. Died: Nadezhda Alliluyeva, 31, second wife of Joseph Stalin
November 10, 1932 (Thursday) Riots broke out at Breslau University when Nazi students staged violent demonstrations in protest against the appointment of a Jewish law professor. The crime drama film I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang starring Paul Muni was released. Born: Don Henderson, actor, in Leytonstone, Essex, England (d. 1997); Roy Scheider, actor, in Orange, New Jersey (d. 2008)
November 11, 1932 (Friday) Latvia and the Soviet Union broke off five weeks of futile negotiations for a new trade treaty. Nadezhda Alliluyeva was buried in the most elaborate funeral in the Soviet Union since the death of Lenin. Born: Germano Mosconi, sportswriter and television presenter, in San Bonifacio, Italy (d. 2012)
November 12, 1932 (Saturday) 25 were feared dead in an explosion at the Edge Green colliery in Ashton-in-Makerfield, Greater Manchester, England. Born: Jerry Douglas, actor, in Chelsea, Massachusetts (d. 2021)
November 13, 1932 (Sunday) Construction of the Boulder Dam reached a milestone as diverting tunnels on the Arizona side of the Colorado River were filled with water for the first time. Born: Richard Mulligan, actor, in the Bronx, New York (d. 2000)
November 14, 1932 (Monday) A typhoon caused heavy damage in Japan. An Old Prussian cemetery from the 9th century was discovered during excavations in Wiskiauten.
November 15, 1932 (Tuesday) The Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union passed a tough new law subjecting any worker who missed even a single day of work without "an important reason" to dismissal and the loss of all job-related privileges, including housing and government services. Born: Petula Clark, singer, actress and composer, in Epsom, Surrey, England; Clyde McPhatter, singer, in Durham, North Carolina (d. 1972) Died: Charles W. Chesnutt, 74, American writer and activist