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1931
(
MCMXXXI
)
was a
common year
starting on Thursday
of the
Gregorian calendar
, the 1931st year of the
Common Era
(CE) and
Anno Domini
(AD) designations, the 931st year of the
2nd millennium
, the 31st year of the
20th century
, and the 2nd year of the
1930s
decade.
Ferdinand Porsche
holding a
steering wheel
- 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 Dali
'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 Alcala-Zamora
is elected president of the
Spanish Republic
Toshiki Kaifu
Johannes Rau
Sam Cooke
Iajuddin Ahmed
Boris Yeltsin
Ian Holm
George Jones
Anita Ekberg
John le Carre
Rubens de Falco
Mickey Mantle
Monica Vitti
Mwai Kibaki
Anna Pavlova
- 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 Soderblom
, 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
–
Jose Figueroa Alcorta
, 16th
President of Argentina
(b.
1860
)
- 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
Norma Shearer
