1931 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1931?
- January 6, 1931 – Thomas Edison submits his last patent application.
- January 7, 1931 – Guy Menzies flies the first solo non-stop trans-Tasman flight (from Australia to New Zealand) in 11 hours and 45 minutes, crash-landing on New Zealand’s west coast.
- February 13, 1931 – New Delhi becomes the capital of India.
- February 17, 1931 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Sheep in Chinese astrology.
- March 11, 1931 – Ready for Labour and Defence of the USSR, abbreviated as GTO, is introduced in the Soviet Union.
- March 15, 1931 – SS Viking explodes off Newfoundland, killing 27 of the 147 on board.
- March 25, 1931 – The Scottsboro Boys are arrested in Alabama and charged with rape.
- May 29, 1931 – Born October 19, 1899 in Sardinia, Michele “Mike” Schirru, Anarchist against Fascism, U.S. Citizen is executed by Italian military firing squad for intent to kill Benito Mussolini. The U.S. Government did nothing to help Schirru.
- June 23, 1931 – Wiley Post and Harold Gatty take off from Roosevelt Field, Long Island in an attempt to circumnavigate the world in a single-engine plane.
- July 1, 1931 – United Airlines begins service (as Boeing Air Transport).
- July 31, 1931 – New York City experimental television station W2XAO (now known as WCBS) begins broadcasts.
- August 24, 1931 – France and the Soviet Union sign a neutrality/no attack treaty.
- August 28, 1931 – France and Soviet Union sign a treaty of non-aggression.
- September 18, 1931 – The Mukden Incident gives Japan the pretext to invade and occupy Manchuria.
- September 30, 1931 – Start of “Die Voortrekkers” youth movement for Afrikaners in Bloemfontein, South Africa.
- October 17, 1931 – Al Capone convicted of income tax evasion.
- October 21, 1931 – The Sakurakai, a secret society in the Imperial Japanese Army, launches an abortive coup d'état attempt.
- October 24, 1931 – The George Washington Bridge opens to public traffic.
- December 9, 1931 – The Constituent Cortes approves the constitution which establishes the Second Spanish Republic.
- December 11, 1931 – The British Parliament enacts the Statute of Westminster 1931, establishing legislative equality between the self-governing dominions of the Commonwealth of Australia, the Dominion of Canada, the Irish Free State, Dominion of Newfoundland, the Dominion of New Zealand, and the Union of South Africa.
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