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.
- January 21, 1931 – Sir Isaac Isaacs is sworn in as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia.
- February 3, 1931 – The Hawke’s Bay earthquake, New Zealand’s worst natural disaster, kills 258.
- 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.
- February 20, 1931 – The Congress of the United States approves the construction of the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge by the state of California.
- 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 31, 1931 – TWA Flight 599 crashes near Bazaar, Kansas killing 8 including Knute Rockne, head football coach at the University of Notre Dame
- 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.
- July 16, 1931 – Emperor Haile Selassie I signs the first constitution of Ethiopia.
- 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 11, 1931 – Salvatore Maranzano is murdered by Charles Luciano’s hitmen.
- September 18, 1931 – The Mukden Incident gives Japan the pretext to invade and occupy Manchuria.
- 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.
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