1931 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1931?
- 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.
- January 21, 1931 – Sir Isaac Isaacs is sworn in as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia.
- 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 5, 1931 – The British Viceroy of India, Governor-General Edward Frederick Lindley Wood and Mohandas Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi) sign an agreement envisaging the release of political prisoners and allowing salt to be freely used by the poorest members of the population.
- 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 25, 1931 – The Scottsboro Boys are arrested in Alabama and charged with rape.
- April 14, 1931 – First edition of the Highway Code published in Great Britain.
- May 1, 1931 – The Empire State Building is dedicated in New York City.
- 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).
- August 24, 1931 – Resignation of the United Kingdom’s Second Labour Government. Formation of the UK National Government.
- 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.
- 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.
- November 7, 1931 – The Chinese Soviet Republic is proclaimed on the anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution.
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