Events January January 4 – The British authorities in India arrest and intern Mahatma Gandhi and Vallabhbhai Patel. January 9 – Sakuradamon Incident: Korean nationalist Lee Bong-chang fails in his effort to assassinate Emperor Hirohito of Japan. The Kuomintang's official newspaper runs an editorial expressing regret that the attempt failed, which is used by the Japanese as a pretext to attack Shanghai later in the month. January 22 – The 1932 Salvadoran peasant uprising begins; it is suppressed by the government of Maximiliano Hernández Martínez. January 24 – Marshal Pietro Badoglio declares the end of Libyan resistance. January 26 – British submarine sinks with all 60 hands. January 28 – January 28 incident: Conflict between Japan and China in Shanghai. January 31 – Japanese warships arrive in Nanking. February February 2 A general World Disarmament Conference begins in Geneva. The principal issue at the conference is the demand made by Germany for ("equality of status" i.e. abolishing Part V of the Treaty of Versailles, which had disarmed Germany) and the French demand for ("security" i.e. maintaining Part V). The League of Nations again recommends negotiations between the Republic of China and Japan. The Reconstruction Finance Corporation begins operations in Washington, D.C. February 4 The 1932 Winter Olympics open in Lake Placid, New York. Japan occupies Harbin, China. February 9 – League of Blood Incident: Junnosuke Inoue, prominent Japanese businessman, banker and former governor of the Bank of Japan is assassinated by the right-wing extremist group the League of Blood. February 11 – Pope Pius XI meets Benito Mussolini in Vatican City. February 15 – Clara, Lu & Em, generally regarded as the first daytime network soap opera, debuts in its morning time slot over the Blue Network of NBC Radio in the United States, having originally been a late evening program. February 18 – Japan declares Manchukuo (Japanese name for Manchuria) formally independent from China. February 25 – Adolf Hitler obtains German citizenship by naturalization, opening the opportunity for him to run in the 1932 German presidential election. February 27 – The Mäntsälä rebellion occurs in Finland. March March 1 Lindbergh kidnapping: Charles Lindbergh Jr., the infant son of Anne Morrow Lindbergh and Charles Lindbergh, is kidnapped from the family home near Hopewell, New Jersey. Japan installs Puyi as puppet emperor of Manchukuo. March 2 – The Mäntsälä rebellion ends in failure; Finnish democracy prevails. The Lapua Movement is condemned