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 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 23, 1931 – Bhagat Singh, Shivaram Rajguru and Sukhdev Thapar are hanged for murder during the Indian struggle for independence.
- March 31, 1931 – An earthquake destroys Managua, Nicaragua, killing 2,000.
- April 14, 1931 – Spanish Cortes depose King Alfonso XIII and proclaims the 2nd Spanish Republic.
- 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 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 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 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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