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.
- 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.
- 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 23, 1931 – Bhagat Singh, Shivaram Rajguru and Sukhdev Thapar are hanged for murder during the Indian struggle for independence.
- April 14, 1931 – Spanish Cortes depose King Alfonso XIII and proclaims the 2nd Spanish Republic.
- May 1, 1931 – The Empire State Building is dedicated in New York City.
- May 14, 1931 – Ådalen shootings: five people are killed in Ådalen, Sweden, as soldiers open fire on an unarmed trade union demonstration.
- July 16, 1931 – Emperor Haile Selassie I signs the first constitution of Ethiopia.
- August 24, 1931 – France and the Soviet Union sign a neutrality/no attack treaty.
- September 18, 1931 – The Mukden Incident gives Japan the pretext to invade and occupy Manchuria.
- September 30, 1931 – Start of “Die Voortrekkers” youth movement for Afrikaners in Bloemfontein, South Africa.
- October 1, 1931 – The George Washington Bridge linking New Jersey and New York opens.
- 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.
- December 9, 1931 – The Constituent Cortes approves the constitution which establishes the Second Spanish Republic.
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