1931

1931 is a common year starting on Thursday.

Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century
Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s
Years: 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934

Contents

1 Events

Events

January 4 - Female aviator 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 10 - New Delhi becomes the capital of India
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.
March 1 - Henry Pu Yi, former Emperor of China, is proclaimed King of the puppet state of Manchukuo by Japan.
March 1 - USS Arizona (BB-39) 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 17 - Nevada legalizes gambling
March 25 - The Scottsboro Boys are arrested in Alabama and charged with rape.
March 31 - An earthquake destroys Managua, Nicaragua killing 2,000.

April 1 - Earthquake destroys Managua, Nicaragua - over 2000 dead
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 Argentinean anarchist Severino Digiovanni
April 14 - 2nd Spanish Republic proclaimed in Spain
April 22 - Austria, Britain, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Sweden and USA recognize the Spanish Republic
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]
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

September 5 - John Thomson, soccer player, dies in an accident during a Celtic - Rangers match
September 15 - The Invergordon Mutiny: Strikes in Royal Navy due to decreased salaries
September 18 - Mukden Incident. After that, Japan occupied Manchuria.
September 18 - Geli Raubal is found shot dead in Hitler's apartment
November 8 - French gendarmes launch a large scale raid against Corsican bandits
November 8 - Panama Canal closed for couple of weeks due to damage caused by a number of earthquakes
December 10 - Alcala Zamora elected president of Spanish republic

Deuterium discovered by Harold Clayton Urey.
The Castellemmarese War ends with the assassination of Joe "The Boss" Masseria, briefly leaving Salvatore Maranzano as capo di tutti 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
Ust-Abakanskoye becomes Abakan.