1932 - August

August

• August – A farmers' revolt begins in the Midwestern United States.
• August 1 – The second International Polar Year, an international scientific collaboration, begins.
• August 2 – The first positron is discovered by Carl D. Anderson.
• August 6 – The first Venice Film Festival is held.
• August 6 – In Germany the first worldwide Autobahn opened by Konrad Adenauer: Bundesautobahn 555.
• August 7 – Raymond Edward Welch becomes the first one legged man to scale the 6,288 ft. Mount Washington, NH.
• August 10 – A 5.1 kg chondrite-type meteorite breaks fragments and strikes earth near the town of Archie in Cass County, Missouri.
• August 18 – Auguste Piccard reaches an altitude of 16,197 m (53,140 ft) with a hot air balloon.
• August 18–19 – Scottish aviator Jim Mollison becomes the first pilot to make an East-to-West solo transatlantic flight, from Portmarnock, Dublin, Ireland to Pennfield, New Brunswick, Canada, in his de Havilland Puss Moth biplane The Heart's Content.
• August 23 – The Panama Civil Aviation Authority is established.
• August 30 – Hermann Göring is elected as chairman of the German Senate.
• August 31 – A total solar eclipse is visible from northern Canada through northeastern Vermont, New Hampshire, southwestern Maine, and the Capes of Massachusetts.