Charles Fort: A Fortean Chronology, 1932.

Charles Fort's final book 'Wild Talents' was published shortly before his death on May 3rd. His friend Aaron Sussman bought advanced copies of 'Wild Talents' to his hospital bed but Fort hadn't strength to take them in his hand, he died that very day.

January

• January 3: The British arrest and intern Mohandas Gandhi and Vallabhbhai Patel.
• January 8: In Britain the Archbishop of Canterbury forbids church remarriage of divorced persons.
• January 12: Hattie W. Caraway becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate.
• January 15: About 6 million are unemployed in Germany.
• January 26: The British submarine HMS M2 sinks with all 60 hands.
• January 28: Japan occupies Shanghai.
• January 30: Brave New World, a novel by Aldous Huxley, is first published.
• January 31: Japanese warships arrive in Nanking.

February

• February 4: The 1932 Winter Olympics open in Lake Placid, New York.
• February 4: Japan occupies Harbin, China.
• February 11: Pope Pius XI meets Benito Mussolini in Vatican City.
• February 13: On the little slips of paper he kept for his notes, Fort recorded his advancing illness: "I have been half dead - so weak couldn't go out walking, or felt weak walking a little, before today. Sat for the first time & read, today." 
• February 19: Fort recorded his advancing illness: "Without being definitely ill I can't take walks. Can't smoke half as much - have cut down meals one half - am sleeping poorly, have cut down on beer. On 'Wild Talents' I can do only 4, 5, or 6 pages a day."
• February 20: On the little slips of paper he kept for his notes, Fort wrote: "Finished 'W.T.' today. I can't write more than mornings, but I don't see that my writing abilities are affected."
• February 20: Fort writes another note: "Me and my ailments? Annie just came to me & said: 'Did you hear that?' 'No' 'Not the loud crash?' Later while at dinner 2 more packages of sugar fell - 'supplies' sugar."
• February 22: The first Purple Heart was awarded.
• February 23: A clearly discernable figure of Christ is seen in the variegations of the marble of the sanctuary wall of St. Bartholomew's Church, New York. (Books1027) 
• February 23: On the little slips of paper he kept for his notes, Fort recorded his failing health: "Going to Loew's last night, I could not keep up, or nearly  up, to Annie's pace." 
• February 25: Adolf Hitler obtains German citizenship by naturalization, opening the opportunity for him to run in the 1932 election for Reichspräsident.
• February 26: On a little slip of paper Fort writes his last note: "New difficulty, in shaving-gaunt places in my face." 

March

• March 1: Charles Lindbergh, Jr., the infant son of Anne Morrow Lindbergh and Charles Lindbergh, is kidnapped from the family home near Hopewell, New Jersey.
• March 7: Four people are killed when police fire upon 3,000 unemployed autoworkers marching outside the Ford River Rouge Plant in Dearborn, Michigan.
• March 18: Peace negotiations between China and Japan begin.
• March 19: The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens.
• March 20: The Graf Zeppelin begins a regular route to South America.
• March 25: Tarzan the Ape Man opens, with Olympic gold medal swimmer Johnny Weissmuller in the title role (Weismuller will star in a total of 12 Tarzan films).