by conservative Finnish President Pehr Evind Svinhufvud in a radio speech. March 5 – Dan Takuma, prominent Japanese businessman and director of the Mitsui Zaibatsu conglomerate is assassinated by the radical right-wing League of Blood group. March 9 – Éamon de Valera is elected President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State, the first change of government in the country since its foundation 10 years previously. March 14 – George Eastman, founder of Kodak, commits suicide in Rochester, New York. March 18 – Peace negotiations between China and Japan begin. March 19 – The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens in Australia. March 20 – The Graf Zeppelin airship begins a regular route between Germany and South America. March 21–22 – 1932 Deep South tornado outbreak: A series of deadly tornadoes in the United States kills more than 220 people in Alabama, 34 in Georgia and 17 in Tennessee. April April 5 10,000 disgruntled Newfoundlanders march on their legislature to show discontent with their current political situation; this is a flash point in the demise of the Dominion of Newfoundland. The first Alko stores are opened in Finland at 10 in the morning (local time) following the end of Prohibition in that country, resulting in a new mnemonic "543210". April 6 U.S. president Herbert Hoover supports armament limitations at the World Disarmament Conference. The trial of fraudulent art dealer Otto Wacker begins in Berlin. April 11 – 1932 German presidential election: Paul von Hindenburg is re-elected as Reichspräsident, defeating Hitler. April 13 – German Chancellor Heinrich Brüning bans the SA and the SS as threats to public order, arguing that they are chiefly responsible for the wave of political violence afflicting Germany. April 14 – John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton focus a proton beam on lithium and split its nucleus. April 17 – Haile Selassie announces an anti-slavery law in Abyssinia. April 19 – German art dealer Otto Wacker is sentenced to 19 months in prison for selling fraudulent paintings he attributed to Vincent van Gogh. April 25 Gladys Elinor Watkins consecrates the carillon of the National War Memorial in New Zealand. The bodies of Hudhayfah ibn al-Yaman and Jabir ibn Abd Allah, two of the companions of Islamic prophet Muhammad, are moved from their graves in Salmaan Paak following a dream of King Faisal I of Iraq that they are affected by water. April 29 – Korean pro-independence paramilitary