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1931

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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.

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Events

January

February

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February 10: New Delhi becomes India's capital
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February 21: Ford Trimotor hijacked
  • February 4 – Soviet leader Joseph Stalin gives a speech calling for rapid industrialization, arguing that only strong industrialized countries will win wars, while "weak" nations are "beaten". Stalin states: "We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or they will crush us." The first five-year plan in the Soviet Union is intensified, for the industrialization and collectivization of agriculture.
  • February 10 – Official inauguration ceremonies for New Delhi as the capital of India begin.[4]
  • February 16Pehr Evind Svinhufvud is elected president of Finland.
  • February 21Peruvian revolutionaries hijack a Ford Trimotor aeroplane, and demand that the pilot drop propaganda leaflets over Lima.

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May 1: Empire State Building is completed.

June

  • June–November – 1931 China flood: the Yangtze and Huai Rivers flood in a populous region, leaving an estimated 422,000 dead (150,000 drowned) with many more dying of consequential starvation and disease in the aftermath.[5]
  • June 5
    • German Chancellor Heinrich Brüning visits London, where he warns British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald that the collapse of the Austrian banking system, caused by the bankruptcy of the Creditanstalt, has left the entire German banking system on the verge of collapse.
    • Anti-Chinese rioting occurs in Pyongyang. Approximately 127 Chinese people are killed, 393 wounded, and a considerable number of properties are destroyed by Korean residents.[6]
  • June 14Saint-Philibert disaster: The overloaded pleasure craft Saint-Philibert, carrying trippers home to Nantes from the Île de Noirmoutier, sinks at the mouth of the River Loire in France; over 450 drown.
  • June 19
  • June 23July 1Wiley Post and Harold Gatty accomplish the first round-the-world flight in a single-engine plane, flying eastabout from Roosevelt Field, New York, in 8 days, 15 hours, 51 minutes.[7]

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September 18: The Mukden Incident: Incident Museum in Shenyang

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Births

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Robert Duvall
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Caterina Valente
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James Earl Jones
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Sam Cooke

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Boris Yeltsin
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Dries van Agt
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Isabel Perón
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James Dean

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Mikhail Gorbachev
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Chun Doo-hwan
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León Febres Cordero
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Rupert Murdoch
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William Shatner
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Leonard Nimoy

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Willie Mays
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Magda el-Sabahi
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Faten Hamama
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Carroll Baker

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Raúl Castro
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João Gilberto
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Marla Gibbs
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Fernando Henrique Cardoso
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Olympia Dukakis

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Leslie Caron
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Seyni Kountché

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Don King
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Barbara Eden

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Javier Solís
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Silvia Pinal
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Larry Hagman

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Desmond Tutu
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A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

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Mwai Kibaki
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Adolfo Pérez Esquivel

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Rita Moreno
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Deaths

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Louise, Princess Royal
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Anna Pavlova
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Otto Wallach
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F. W. Murnau
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Joe Masseria

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Patriarch Damian I of Jerusalem
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Hamaguchi Osachi

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Archduke Leopold Salvator of Austria
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Omar al-Mukhtar

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Thomas Edison

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