1931 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1931?
- January 6, 1931 – Thomas Edison submits his last patent application.
- January 21, 1931 – Sir Isaac Isaacs is sworn in as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia.
- 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 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.
- 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 1, 1931 – The Empire State Building is dedicated in New York City.
- 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 16, 1931 – Emperor Haile Selassie I signs the first constitution of Ethiopia.
- 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.
- 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.
- November 7, 1931 – The Chinese Soviet Republic is proclaimed on the anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution.
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