1931
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| Centuries: | 19th century – 20th century – 21st century |
| Decades: | 1900s 1910s 1920s – 1930s – 1940s 1950s 1960s |
| Years: | 1928 1929 1930 – 1931 – 1932 1933 1934 |
| 1931 by topic |
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1931 (MCMXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday in the Gregorian calendar.
Events
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- January 27 – Pierre Laval forms a government in France
- February 16 – Pehr Evind Svinhufvud is elected president of Finland
- March 31 – An earthquake destroys Managua, Nicaragua, killing 2,000 people
- April 25 – The automobile manufacturer Porsche is founded by Ferdinand Porsche in Stuttgart
- May 1 – Construction of the Empire State Building is completed in New York City
- June 3 – Salvador Dalí's The Persistence of Memory is put on display for the first time
- July 9 – Irish racing driver Kaye Don breaks the world water speed record at Lake Garda, Italy[1]
- July 20 – A violent tornado strikes the city of Lublin, Poland.
- August – Warner Brothers releases the first Merrie Melodies cartoon
- September- The 1931 Belize hurricane strikes Belize (then British Honduras), killing over 2,500 people
- September 22 – The United Kingdom abandons the gold standard
- October 5 – American aviators Clyde Edward Pangborn and Hugh Herndon, Jr. complete the first non-stop flight across the Pacific Ocean. They travel from Misawa, Japan to East Wenatchee, Washington in 41½ hours.[2]
- November 7 – The Chinese Soviet Republic is proclaimed by Mao Zedong
- December 10 – Niceto Alcalá-Zamora is elected president of the Spanish Republic
Births
January
- January 2 – Toshiki Kaifu, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2022)
- January 13 – Charles Nelson Reilly, American actor (d. 2007)
- January 16 – Johannes Rau, President of Germany (d. 2006)
- January 22 – Sam Cooke, American singer (d. 1964)
February
- February 1 – Iajuddin Ahmed, former President of Bangladesh (d. 2012)
- February 1 – Boris Yeltsin, President of Russia (d. 2007)
March
April
- April 4 - Adeline Magloire Chancy, Haitian educator, feminist, and politician
- April 7 – Ted Kotcheff, Canadian-Bulgarian film director
May
- May 19 – David Wilkerson, American pastor, evangelist and author (d. 2011)
- May 27 – Faten Hamama, Egyptian producer and actress (d. 2015)
June
July
August
September
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- September 12 – Sir Ian Holm, English actor
- September 12 – George Jones, American singer (d. 2013)
- September 29 – Anita Ekberg, Swedish actress (d. 2015)
October
- October 19 – John le Carré, English novelist (d. 2020)
- October 19 – Rubens de Falco, Brazilian actor (d. 2008)
- October 20 – Mickey Mantle, American baseball player (d. 1995)
November
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- November 3 – Monica Vitti, Italian actress (d. 2022)
- November 15 – Mwai Kibaki, President of Kenya (d. 2022)
December
Deaths
- January 23 – Anna Pavlova, Russian ballerina (b. 1881)
- February 11 – Charles Algernon Parsons, British inventor (b. 1854)
- February 26 – Otto Wallach, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1847)
- March 7 – Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Finnish painter (b. 1865)
- April 8 – Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)
- April 26 – George Herbert Mead, American philosopher, sociologist and psychologist (b. 1863)
- May 9 – Albert Abraham Michelson, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
- June 2 – Joseph W. Farnham, American screenwriter (b. 1884)
- July 12 – Nathan Söderblom, Swedish archbishop, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1866)
- August 26 – Hamaguchi Osachi, 27th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1870)
- September 12 – Joseph Le Brix, French aviator and naval officer (b. 1899)
- October 21 – Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian author and dramatist (b. 1862)
- November 13 – Ivan Fichev, Bulgarian general, minister of defense, military historian, and academician (b. 1860)
- December 9 – Antonio Salandra, Italian statesman, 21st Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1853)
- December 27 – José Figueroa Alcorta, 16th President of Argentina (b. 1860)
Nobel Prizes
- Nobel Prize in Physics – not awarded
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry won by Carl Bosch, German chemist and engineer, and Friedrich Bergius, German chemist
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine won by Otto Heinrich Warburg, German chemist, (1883 – 1970)
- Nobel Prize in Literature won by Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Swedish poet
- Nobel Peace Prize won by Jane Addams, American activist, and Nicholas Murray Butler, American philosopher, diplomat, and educator
Movies released
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- January 30 – City Lights starring Charlie Chaplin
- February 9 – Cimarron starring Richard Dix and Irene Dunne
- February 14 – The original movie version of Dracula with Bela Lugosi is released in the United States
- December 26 – A Free Soul, winning Best Actor for Lionel Barrymore
- November 21 – Frankenstein starring Boris Karloff, the top-grossing movie of the year
- December 12 – Private Lives starring Norma Shearer
- December 26 – Mata Hari starring Greta Garbo
1931 Media
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February 10: New Delhi becomes India's capital
February 21: Ford Trimotor hijacked
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May 1: Empire State Building is completed.
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September 18 History Museum in Shenyang
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Robert Duvall at Tribeca Film Festival 2010
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Photo of Caterina Valente from the television program Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall.
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James Earl Jones
Photo of singer Sam Cooke.
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Screenshot dal film Accadde al commissariato (1954)
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Official portrait of Boris Yeltsin (Борис Николаевич Ельцин).