1931

Years: 1928 1929 1930 - 1931 - 1932 1933 1934
Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s - 1930s - 1940s 1950s 1960s
Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century 1931 in art 1931 in aviation 1931 in film 1931 in literature 1931 in music 1931 in science 1931 in sports 1931 in television 1931 in Canada List of state leaders in 1931 List of religious leaders in 1931 List of international organization leaders in 1931

Table of contents

1 Events:
2 Births

2.1 January
2.2 February-April
2.3 May-October
2.4 November-December

3 Deaths:
4 Nobel Prizes:

Events:

Elijah Muhammad meets W.D. Fard, in Detroit
January 6 - Thomas Edison submits his last patent application.
January 22 - Sir Isaac Isaacs sworn in as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia
February 10 - New Delhi becomes the capital of India
February 20 - California gets the go-ahead by the United States Congress to build the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.
March 1 - Henry Pu Yi, former Emperor of China, is proclaimed King of the puppet state of Manchukuo by Japan.
March 3 - "The Star-Spangled Banner" is adopted as the United States National anthem.
March 17 - Nevada legalizes gambling
March 25 - The Scottsboro Boys are arrested in Alabama and charged with rape.
March 31 - An earthquake destroys Managua, Nicaragua killing 2,000.
April 14 - 2nd Spanish Republic proclaimed in Spain
June 23 - Wiley Post and Harold Gatty take off from Roosevelt Field, Long Island in an attempt to accomplish the first round-the-world flight in a single-engine plane. [1]
July 1 - Official opening of Milan Central Station
September 18 - Mukden Incident. After that, Japan occupied Manchuria.
Deuterium discovered by Harold Clayton Urey.
Construction of the Empire State Building is completed in New York City.
The Castellemmarese War ends with the assassination of Joe "The Boss" Masseria, briefly leaving Salvatore Maranzano as capo di tutti capi, "boss of all bosses" and undisputed ruler of the American mafia. Maranzano is himself assassinated less than 6 months later, leading to the establishment of the Five Families

Births

Deaths:

January 23 - Anna Pavlova, ballerina
February 11 - Charles Algernon Parsons, British inventor of the steam turbine
February 16 - Wilhelm von Gloeden, photographer
March 11 - F.W. Murnau, director
March 31 - Knute Rockne, American football coach
April 10 - Khalil Gibran Lebanese poet and painter
May 14 - David Belasco, writer
July 4 - Buddie Petit, jazz musician (b. ca. 1890)
August 6 - Bix Beiderbecke, jazz trumpeter (b. 1903)
August 27 - Frank Harris, author and editor
October 13 - Ernst Didring, swedish writer
October 18 - Thomas Edison, inventor
December 2 - Vincent d'Indy, composer and teacher
Wilhelm von Gloeden, photographer
Joseph Tabrar, one of the most famous songwriters of British Music Hall.

Nobel Prizes:

Physics - not awarded
Chemistry - Carl Bosch, Friedrich Bergius
Medicine - Otto Heinrich Warburg
Literature - Erik Axel Karlfeldt
Peace - Jane Addams Nicholas Murray Butler