The US
President: Herbert C. Hoover
Vice President: Charles Curtis
Population: 124,840,471
Federal spending: $4.66 billion
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.02 (Raised to $0.03 on 7/6/32)

Headlines
- Congress sets up Reconstruction Finance Corporation to stimulate economy
- Charles A. Lindbergh's baby son is kidnapped & killed.
  (Bruno Richard Hauptmann is arrested in 1934, convicted in 1935, executed in 1936.)
- Amelia Earhart is first woman to fly Atlantic solo (May 20-21).
- Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall opens.
- Carl David Anderson discovers the positron, a subatomic particle.
- Physicists Sir John Douglas Cockcroft and Ernest Walton split the atom for the first time.
- James Chadwick discovers the sub-atomic neutron.
- World Series: NY Yankees d. Chicago Cubs (4-0)

1932 Oscars
Outstanding Production: Grand Hotel (MGM).
Best Actor: (tie) Wallace Beery, The Champ & Fredric March, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Best Actress: Helen Hayes, The Sin of Madelon Claudet.
Special Award: To Walt Disney for the creation of Mickey Mouse.

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