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 3, 1931 – The Hawke’s Bay earthquake, New Zealand’s worst natural disaster, kills 258.
- February 17, 1931 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Sheep in Chinese astrology.
- March 3, 1931 – The United States adopts The Star-Spangled Banner as its national anthem.
- March 11, 1931 – Ready for Labour and Defence of the USSR, abbreviated as GTO, is introduced in the Soviet Union.
- March 14, 1931 – Alam Ara, India’s first talkie film, is released.
- March 15, 1931 – SS Viking explodes off Newfoundland, killing 27 of the 147 on board.
- March 19, 1931 – Gambling is legalized in Nevada.
- March 23, 1931 – Bhagat Singh, Shivaram Rajguru and Sukhdev Thapar are hanged for murder during the Indian struggle for independence.
- May 14, 1931 – Ådalen shootings: five people are killed in Ådalen, Sweden, as soldiers open fire on an unarmed trade union demonstration.
- 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 24, 1931 – A fire at a home for the elderly in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania kills 48 people.
- July 31, 1931 – New York City experimental television station W2XAO (now known as WCBS) begins broadcasts.
- August 24, 1931 – Resignation of the United Kingdom’s Second Labour Government. Formation of the UK National Government.
- 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.
- October 1, 1931 – The George Washington Bridge linking New Jersey and New York opens.
- October 17, 1931 – Al Capone convicted of income tax evasion.
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