Hattie W. Caraway became the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate in 1932. That same year, the Winter Olympics opened in Lake Placid, New York and Charles Lindbergh Jr. was kidnapped from his family home in New Jersey. Several other notable events occurred as well, including the opening of the longest subway line in Manhattan at the time, Amelia Earhart's transatlantic flight, and Babe Ruth's famous called home run in the 1932 World Series.

3. • Hattie W. Caraway becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate.
• The 1932 Winter Olympics open in Lake Placid, New York.
• The first Purple Heart was awarded
• The IND Eighth Avenue Line, at this time the world's longest subway line (31 miles
(50 km)), begins operation in Manhattan.
• Charles Lindbergh, Jr., the infant son of Anne Morrow Lindbergh and Charles
Lindbergh, is kidnapped from the family home near Hopewell, New Jersey.
• Amelia Earhart flies from the United States to County Londonderry, Northern
Ireland in 14 hours 54 minutes.
• Babe Ruth makes his famous called shot in the fifth inning of game 3 of the 1932
World Series.
• In Washington, D.C., the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known
as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens.