The project involved 3, 400 workers, mostly immigrants from Europe, along with hundreds of Mohawk iron workers, many from the Kahnawake reserve near Montreal. Perhaps the most famous popular culture representation of the building is in the 1933 film King Kong, in which the title character, a giant ape, climbs to the top to escape his captors but falls to his death after being attacked by airplanes.

The most famous movie monsters are King Kong and Godzilla, the archetypical detective is Sherlock Holmes and most people's idea of a spy is James Bond.

* Creation ( 1931 film ), a 1931 film that inspired King Kong

In 1933, RKO released Merian C. Cooper's classic " giant monster " film King Kong.

Fay Wray ( born Vina Fay Wray ; September 15, 1907 – August 8, 2004 ) was a Canadian-American actress most noted for playing the female lead in King Kong.

For RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., she starred in the film with which she is most identified, King Kong ( 1933 ).

After the success of King Kong, Wray appeared in many major movie roles and on television, finishing her acting career in 1980.

Faye Wray in the 1933 feature film King Kong ( 1933 film ) | King Kong

Her first film under RKO was The Most Dangerous Game ( 1932 ), co-starring Joel McCrea and shot at night on the same jungle sets that were being used for King Kong during the day, with the leads from both films, Wray and Robert Armstrong, appearing in both movies.

The Most Dangerous Game was followed by Wray's most memorable film, King Kong.

According to Wray, Jean Harlow had been RKO's original choice, but because MGM put Harlow under exclusive contract during the pre-production phase of the film, she became unavailable and Wray was approached by director Merian C. Cooper to play the role of Ann Darrow, the blonde captive of King Kong.

In 2004, Wray was approached by director Peter Jackson to appear in a small cameo for the 2005 remake of King Kong.

She politely declined the cameo, and claimed the original " Kong " to be the true " King ".

The small sign at the edge of the park on Main Street has a silhouette of King Kong on it, remembering her role in the film King Kong.

* King Kong ( 1933 )

: King Kong ( 2005 )

In Hong Kong, Tsang Tsou Choi was known as the King of Kowloon for his calligraphy graffiti over many years, in which he claimed ownership of the area.

It was also the first of two Japanese made films featuring the King Kong character ( or rather, its Toho Studios counterpart ) and also the first time both King Kong and Godzilla appeared on film in color and widescreen.

* 1932 – A bloodless Revolution instigated by the People's Party ends the absolute power of King Prajadhipok of Siam ( now Thailand ).

Although the Liberal Mackenzie King was reluctant to proceed, in part because of opposition to the project in Quebec, in 1932 the two countries inked a treaty.

* November 9 – Mabel King, American actress ( b. 1932 )

* January 5 – King Camp Gillette, American razor inventor ( d. 1932 )

", recorded by Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra in 1933 and released on Vocalion, " Reefer Man " for Cab Calloway in 1932, " Dynamite Rag ", " Meet Me at No Special Place ", recorded by Nat King Cole, " Alhambra Syncopated Waltzes ", " Te-na-na ( From New Orleans )", " Beale Street Mama ", recorded by Bessie Smith and Cab Calloway, and " Palesteena ( Lena from Palesteena )".

# Stanley King, 1932 — 1946

( 1932 ), Rockabye ( 1932 ), Our Betters ( 1933 ), and King Kong ( 1933 ).

Other movies influenced by or making use of Uncle Tom's Cabin include Dimples ( a 1936 Shirley Temple film ), Uncle Tom's Uncle, ( a 1926 Our Gang episode ), its 1932 remake Spanky, the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The King and I ( in which a ballet called " Small House of Uncle Thomas " is performed in traditional Siamese style ), and Gangs of New York ( in which Leonardo DiCaprio and Daniel Day-Lewis's characters attend an imagined wartime adaptation of Uncle Tom's Cabin ).

* John Philip Sousa ( 1854 – 1932 ) " The March King "

Between 1905 and 1932, it was known as the Copa de Su Majestad El Rey Alfonso XIII ( His Majesty King Alfonso XIII's Cup ).

* William Preston Hall ( aka " The Colonel ," " Diamond Billy ," " Horse King of the World ") ( February 29, 1864-June 29, 1932 ) Exotic animal dealer, horse and mule breeder, circus impresario.

* Frederick Augustus III of Saxony ( 1865 – 1932 ), King of Saxony

* William Preston Hall ( aka " the Colonel ," " Diamond Billy ," " Horse King of the World ") ( February 29, 1864-June 29, 1932 ) Circus empresario, dealer in exotic animals, horses, and mules.

Marching Band Composer and writer John Philip Sousa, the March King, died in Reading's Abraham Lincoln Hotel in 1932.

The King however engineered a compromise, whereby de Valera withdrew his dismissal request, and McNeill, who was due to retire at the end of 1932, would bring forward his retirement date.

Manuel II (; ; 15 November 1889 – 2 July 1932 ) was the last King of Portugal, " the Patriot " () or " the Wretched " (), ascending the throne after the assassination of his father, King Carlos I of Portugal, and his elder brother, Luís Filipe, Prince Royal of Portugal.

His body arrived in Lisbon on 2 August 1932, on board the British cruiser HMS Concord which had made the journey from England and sailed into the Tagus River to deliver the coffin of the former King.

* 1 February 1908 – 2 July 1932: His Most Faithful Majesty The King of Portugal and the Algarves

Also in 1932, Shah Faisal dreamt that he was being addressed by Hudhayfah ibn al-Yaman, who said " O King!

In March 1932, he was appointed ADC to the King, a position he held until October 1933 when he was promoted to major general.

During the Bangkok Period right up till the Siamese Revolution of 1932 King Taksin was, said, not as highly honoured as other Siamese Kings because the leaders in the Chakri Dynasty were still concerned about their own political legitimacy.

After 1932, when the absolute monarchy gave way to the democratic period, King Taksin become more honoured than ever before.

The 350th anniversary of the King James Bible is being celebrated simultaneously with the publishing today of the New Testament, the first part of the New English Bible, undertaken as a new translation of the Scriptures into contemporary English.

To illustrate, the first blessing in the King James Bible reads: `` Blessed are the poor in spirit ; ;

King Muhammad 5, was known to be most sympathetic to the formation of local self-government and made the first firm promise of elections on May Day, 1957.

In January, 1958, the Minister of the Interior announced that an election law was ready to be submitted to the King, the rumors of election dates appeared once again, first for spring of 1958 and later for the summer.

The size of Saud's family was still being debated when the King appeared for his first meeting with Eisenhower.

* 1457 BC – Likely date of the Battle of Megiddo between Thutmose III and a large Canaanite coalition under the King of Kadesh, the first battle to have been recorded in what is accepted as relatively reliable detail.

* 1040 – King Duncan I is killed in battle against his first cousin and rival Macbeth.

Albert married first, to Princess Dorothea ( 1 August 1504-11 April 1547 ), daughter of King Frederick I of Denmark, in 1526.

In the year of his coronation as King of Franks, 768, Charlemagne came to spend Christmas at Aachen for the first time.

The first known mention of the city of Akkad is in an inscription of Enshakushanna of Uruk, where he claims to have defeated Agade — indicating that it was in existence well before the days of Sargon of Akkad, whom the Sumerian King List claims to have built it.

Alboin took as his first wife the Catholic Chlothsind, daughter of the Frankish King Chlothar.

In 1893, King Alexander, aged sixteen, in a first coup d ' état proclaimed himself of full age, dismissed the regents and their government, and took the royal authority into his own hands.

King Alexander tried to reconcile political parties by unveiling a liberal constitution of his own initiative, introducing for the first time in the constitutional history of Serbia the system of two chambers ( skupština and senate ).

* 1200 – King John of England, signee of the first Magna Carta, marries Isabella of Angouleme in Bordeaux Cathedral.

Alfred was the first King of the West Saxons to style himself " King of the Anglo-Saxons ".

He was the youngest son of King Æthelwulf of Wessex, by his first wife, Osburh.

" Alfred singled out in particular the laws that he " found in the days of Ine, my kinsman, or Offa, king of the Mercians, or King Æthelbert of Kent, who first among the English people received baptism.

Afonso I ( 25 June 1109, Guimarães or Viseu – 6 December 1185, Coimbra ), more commonly known as Afonso Henriques (), nicknamed " the Conqueror " (), " the Founder " () or " the Great " () by the Portuguese, and El-Bortukali (" the Portuguese ") and Ibn-Arrik (" son of Henry ", " Henriques ") by the Moors whom he fought, was the first King of Portugal.

o Bolonhês ), King of Portugal ( 5 May 1210 in Coimbra – 16 February 1279 in Alcobaça, Coimbra or Lisbon ) was the first to use the title King of Portugal and the Algarve, from 1249.

Andrew was the second son of King Béla III and his first wife, Agnes of Antioch.

The junior King Béla IV started, with the authorization of Pope Honorius III, to take back the royal domains in his provinces that Andrew had granted to his partisans during the first half of his reign.

) In central Europe, the King of Hungary Ladislaus the Posthumous, started the use of Arabic numerals, which appear for the first time in a royal document of 1456.

* 1025 – Bolesław Chrobry is crowned in Gniezno, becoming the first King of Poland.