1931

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Template:C20YearInTopicX Year 1931 (MCMXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1931 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.

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Contents  (full)

1 Events of 1931

-  Jan. ^. Feb. ^. March ^. April

-  May ^. June ^. July  ^.  Aug.

-  Sept. ^. Oct. ^. Nov. ^.  Dec.

-  Undated ^. Ongoing

2 Births

3 Deaths

4 Nobel prizes

5 Ship events

6 See also -  Notes -  External links

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[edit] Events of 1931

[edit] January-February

• January 4 - Elly Beinhorn begins her flight to Africa.
• January 6 - Thomas Edison submits his last patent application.
• January 22 - Sir Isaac Isaacs sworn in as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia.
• January 25 - Mohandas Gandhi released again.
• January 27 - Pierre Laval forms a government in France.
• February 3 - Napier earthquake - much of the New Zealand city of Napier is destroyed in an earthquake measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale.
• February 10 - New Delhi becomes the capital of India.

• February 14 - The original film version of Dracula with Bela Lugosi is released.
• February 16 - Pehr Evind Svinhufvud elected president of Finland.

• February 20 - California gets the go-ahead by the U.S. Congress to build the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.
• February 21 - Peruvian revolutionaries hijack a Ford Trimotor aeroplane and demand that the pilot drop propaganda leaflets over Lima.

[edit] March-April

• March 1 - USS Arizona placed back in full commission after a refit.
• March 3 - The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the United States National anthem.
• March 4 - British viceroy of India and Mohandas Gandhi negotiate.
• March 7 - New House of Representatives opened in Helsinki, Finland.
• March 11 - Ready for Labour and Defence of the USSR programme, abbreviated as GTO, is introduced in the Soviet Union.
• March 17 - Nevada legalizes gambling.
• March 23 - Revolt for Independent India leaders Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev are hanged by the British Government.
• March 25 - The Scottsboro Boys are arrested in Alabama and charged with rape.
• March 27 - British writer Arnold Bennett dies in Paris when he drinks local water to prove it safe to drink - but is poisoned.
• March 31 - An earthquake destroys Managua, Nicaragua killing 2000 people.
• April 6 - Portuguese government declares martial law in Madeira and in the Azores because of an attempted military takeover in Funchal.
• April 9 - Execution of Argentinian anarchist Severino Digiovanni.
• April 14 - 2nd Spanish Republic proclaimed in Spain.
• April 15 - The Castellemmarese War ends with the assassination of Joe "The Boss" Masseria, briefly leaving Salvatore Maranzano as capo di tutti i capi, "boss of all bosses" and undisputed ruler of the American mafia. Maranzano is himself assassinated less than 6 months later, leading to the establishment of the Five Families.
• April 18 - An incorporation of Cheverly, Maryland is made.
• April 22 - Austria, Britain, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Sweden and USA recognize the Spanish Republic.

[edit] May-June

• May 1 - Construction of the Empire State Building is completed in New York City.
• May 4 - Kemal Atatürk re-elected president of Turkey.
• May 13 - Paul Doumer elected president of France.
• June 12 - Charlie Parker equals J.T. Hearne's record for the earliest date to reach 100 wickets.
• June 14 - Yacht St Philiebert sinks in river Loire in France - over 500 drown
• June 23 - Wiley Post and Harold Gatty take off from Roosevelt Field, Long Island in an attempt to accomplish the first round-the-world flight in a single-engine plane. [1]

[edit] July-August

• July - John Haven Emerson of Cambridge, Massachusetts perfects the Emerson iron lung just in time for the growing polio epidemic
• July 1 - Official opening of Milan Central Station
• July 16 - Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia signs the first constitution of Ethiopia
• Huang He floods kill between 850,000 and 4,000,000 people - the most deadly historic natural disaster.
• August 24 - Labour Government of Ramsay MacDonald resigns in Britain - replaced by National Government of people drawn from all parties also under MacDonald.
• August 31 - Yangtze River floods - 23 million made homeless

[edit] September-October

• September 5 - John Thomson, soccer player, dies in an accident during a Celtic - Rangers match
• September 10 - The worst hurricane in Belize history kills an estimated 1,500 people.
• September 15 - The Invergordon Mutiny: Strikes in Royal Navy due to decreased salaries
• September 18 - Mukden Incident. After that, Japan uses it to occupy Manchuria.
• September 18 - Geli Raubal is found shot dead in Hitler's apartment
• October - The Caltech Department of Physics Faculty and graduate students meet with Albert Einstein as a guest.

[edit] November-December

• November 6 - Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba arrives in America for the first time.
• November 7 - Chinese Soviet Republic proclaimed by Mao Tse Tung.
• November 8
  • French police launch a large scale raid against Corsican bandits.
  • Panama Canal is closed for couple of weeks due to damage caused by a number of earthquakes.
• December 10 - Niceto Alcalá-Zamora elected president of Spanish republic.
• December 11 - The British Parliament enacts the Statute of Westminster, which establishes a status of legislative equality between the self-governing dominions of the Commonwealth of Australia, the Dominion of Canada, the Irish Free State, Newfoundland, the Dominion of New Zealand, and the Union of South Africa.
• December 12 - Eta Chapter of Kappa Delta Phi was founded at The University of Maine at Machias
• December 13 - Wakatsuki Reijiro resigned as Prime Minister of Japan.
• December 26 - Phi Iota Alpha, the oldest existing Latino fraternity is founded.

[edit] Undated

• Deuterium discovered by Harold Clayton Urey.
• Ust-Abakanskoye becomes Abakan.
• National Committee for Modification of the Volstead Act formed to work for repeal of prohibition in United States.
• Radio Vaticana first broadcast.
• The Persistence of Memory is put on display for the first time in Paris at the Galerie Pierre Colle.

[edit] Ongoing

• Rise of the NAZI party.

[edit] Births

1931 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1931 MCMXXXI
Ab urbe condita	2684
Armenian calendar	1380 ԹՎ ՌՅՁ
Bahá'í calendar	87 – 88
Buddhist calendar	2475
Coptic calendar	1647 – 1648
Ethiopian calendar	1923 – 1924
Hebrew calendar	5691 – 5692
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1986 – 1987
- Shaka Samvat	1853 – 1854
- Kali Yuga	5032 – 5033
Holocene calendar	11931
Iranian calendar	1309 – 1310
Islamic calendar	1349 – 1350
Japanese calendar	Shōwa 6 (昭和 6年)
- Imperial Year	Kōki 2591 (皇紀2591年)
Julian calendar	1976
Korean calendar	4264
Thai solar calendar	2474
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[edit] January-February

• January 5
  • Alvin Ailey, American choreographer (d. 1989)
  • Alfred Brendel, Austrian pianist
  • Robert Duvall, American actor and director
• January 6 - E. L. Doctorow, American author
• January 8 - Bill Graham, German concert promoter (d. 1991)
• January 10 - Peter Barnes, English playwright and screenwriter (d. 2004)
• January 12 - Roland Alphonso, Jamaican musician (d. 1998)
• January 13 - Charles Nelson Reilly, American actor (d. 2007)
• January 14 - Caterina Valente, French singer and actress
• January 16 - Johannes Rau, President of Germany (d. 2006)
• January 17 - James Earl Jones, American actor
• January 19 - Robert MacNeil, Canadian journalist
• January 20 - David Lee, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• January 22 - Sam Cooke, American singer (d. 1964)
• January 26 - Alfred Lynch, English actor (d. 2003)
• January 27 - Mordecai Richler, Canadian author (d. 2001)
• January 30 - Allan W. Eckert, American historian, naturalist, and author
• January 31 - Ernie Banks, baseball player
• February 1 - Boris Yeltsin, President of Russia (d. 2007)
• February 2
  • Dries van Agt, Dutch politician
  • Les Dawson, British comedian (d. 1993)
• February 6 - Rip Torn, American actor and director
• February 8 - James Dean, American actor (d. 1955)
• February 10 - Thomas Bernhard, Dutch author (d. 1989)
• February 11 - Larry Merchant, American author and boxing commentator
• February 13 - Geoff Edwards, American actor and game show host
• February 16
  • George E. Sangmeister, American politician (d. 2007)
  • Ken Takakura, Japanese actor
• February 18 - Johnny Hart, American cartoonist (d. 2007)
• February 18 - Toni Morrison, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate
• February 18 - Bob St. Clair, American football player
• February 24 - Brian Close, British cricketer
• February 26 - Ally McLeod, Scottish football manager
• February 28 - Dean Smith, American basketball coach

[edit] March-April

• March 2
  • Mikhail Gorbachev, President of the Soviet Union, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
• March 4
  • Wally Bruner, American journalist and television host (d. 1997)
  • William Henry Keeler, American Roman Catholic Archbishop and Cardinal
  • Alice Rivlin, American economist
• March 11 - Rupert Murdoch, Australian-born publisher
• March 22
  • Burton Richter, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
  • William Shatner, Canadian actor
• March 26 - Leonard Nimoy, American actor and director
• March 29
  • Aleksei Gubarev, cosmonaut
  • Norman Tebbit, British politician
• April 1 - Rolf Hochhuth, German writer
• April 6 - Suchitra Sen (Roma Dasgupta), the legendary Bengali Actress, is born in Pabna (now in Bangladesh).
• April 11 - Johnny Sheffield, American actor
• April 27 - Igor Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist
• April 29
  • Frank Auerbach, German-born painter
  • Lonnie Donegan, Scottish musician (d. 2002)

[edit] May-June

• May 6 - Willie Mays, baseball player
• May 7 -