Federal elections were held in Germany. The Nazi Party lost 2 million votes and 35 seats but remained the largest party in the Reichstag. The Communist Party gained 11 seats to hold exactly 100.[8]
Italy published a far-reaching amnesty decree freeing most prisoners serving terms of less than five years and reducing the sentences of many others serving longer terms. Mussolini called the amnesty "equal in grandiosity to the events of the decennial wherewith it is connected."[9]
Riots broke out at Breslau University when Nazi students staged violent demonstrations in protest against the appointment of a Jewish law professor.[14]
Construction of the Boulder Dam reached a milestone as diverting tunnels on the Arizona side of the Colorado River were filled with water for the first time.[17]
The Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union passed a tough new law subjecting any worker who missed even a single day of work without "an important reason" to dismissal and the loss of all job-related privileges, including housing and government services.[20]
British aviator Amy Johnson completed a flight from England to South Africa in a record 4 days, 6 hours and 55 minutes – 10 hours faster than the old record set by her husband Jim Mollison.[23]
An apparent assassination attempt against French Prime Minister Édouard Herriot was revealed when a bomb exploded on a railway track an hour before his train was due to pass across it.[25]
Adolf Hitler was offered the chancellorship by President Paul von Hindenburg, but Hitler turned it down when he refused to accept Hindenburg's stipulations to run a coalition cabinet and respect the decrees enacted by the previous chancellor.[26]
In Finland, 54 members of the Lapua Movement who participated in the Mäntsälä rebellion were found guilty and given prison sentences of varying lengths.[27] The Lapua Movement was disbanded by order of the government.[24]
British war secretary Lord Hailsham accused the American press of publishing misleading photographs accompanying stories on the National Hunger March rioting of October 30. The photos in question ran in the New York Daily Mirror and actually depicted, Lord Hailsham said, a crowd anxious at news of the king's health during his serious illness in 1928.[29]
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Leon Trotsky arrived in Denmark to give a lecture in Copenhagen on the Russian Revolution. Police surrounded Trotsky at the dock in Esbjerg to provide protection as 300 communists protested against his arrival, denouncing him as a traitor.[30]
The Romanian government said it was unable to secure a non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union due to their disputed claims over the Bessarabia region.[31]
George Bernard Shaw gave a speech before the Fabian Society titled "In Praise of Guy Fawkes", in which he declared that the election of Roosevelt in the United States "will not make the slightest difference to any American" and praised Oswald Mosley as "one of the few people who is writing and thinking about real things, and not about figments and phrases." Shaw laid out his proposal for a dictatorship, saying "you need not be alarmed by the name" because "you have never had anything else than dictators governing you although you did not call them so."[32][33][34]
The famous tourist attraction known as Byron's cave near Porto Venere, Italy collapsed. There were no injuries and the cause of the cave-in was unknown.[35]
Symphonie Concertante for piano and orchestra by the French composer Florent Schmitt, written to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Boston Symphony Orchestra was performed for the first time, in Boston.[13]
80 political prisoners were released in Cuba. Government opponents said the move was made in response to pressure from the United States, but President Gerardo Machado said he was "acting spontaneously without interference either from the United States or any other country."[38] Another 66 were released the following day.[39]
Spain introduced a new law targeting foreign workers, only allowing those who permanently resided in the country for the last five years to work legally.[41]
The Italian ocean liner SS Conte di Savoia set off on its maiden voyage from Genoa to New York City.[41]
The Soviet Union said it would allow citizens to emigrate in exchange for a large fee paid in foreign currency.[1]
^Goldman, Wendy Z. (2002). Women at the Gates: Gender and Industry in Stalin's Russia. Cambridge University Press. p. 254. ISBN978-0-521-78553-2.
^ abHolston, Kim R. (2013). Movie Roadshows: A History and Filmography of Reserved-Seat Limited Showings, 1911–1973. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc. pp. 74–75. ISBN978-0-7864-6062-5.
^"Shaw Plumps for Revolution in Fabian Speech". Chicago Daily Tribune. November 25, 1932. p. 11.
^Finch, Robert Parsifal (2010). A Shaw Anthology. LaPlace Publications. pp. 27, 34. ISBN978-0-9558555-7-3.
^Griffith, Gareth (11 September 2002). Socialism and Superior Brains: The Political Thought of George Bernard Shaw. Routledge. p. 263. ISBN978-1-134-80294-4.