1931 facts for kids

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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1900s 1910s 1920s – 1930s – 1940s 1950s 1960s
Years:	1928 1929 1930 – 1931 – 1932 1933 1934

1931 (MCMXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar.

Contents

Events
Births
Deaths
Nobel Prizes
Movies released
Images for kids
See also

Events

Bundesarchiv Bild 183-2005-1017-525, Dr. Ferdinand Porsche

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 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
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.
November 7 – The Chinese Soviet Republic is proclaimed by Mao Zedong
December 10 – Niceto Alcalá-Zamora is elected president of the Spanish Republic

Births

Mwai Kibaki, October 2003

Mwai Kibaki in 2003

January 4 – Adi Lady Lala Mara, Fijian chieftainess and former First Lady; widow of long-time former Prime Minister and President, Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara (d. 2004).
January 5 – Alvin Ailey, choreographer
January 5 – Alfred Brendel, Austrian pianist
January 5 – Robert Duvall, actor and director
January 6 – E. L. Doctorow, writer
January 8 – Bill Graham, rock music entrepreneur (d. 1991)
January 10 – Viktor Liebermann, violinist (d. 1999)
January 10 – Peter Barnes, playwright and screenwriter (d. 2004)
January 13 – Charles Nelson Reilly, actor
January 14 – Caterina Valente, singer, actress
January 16 – Johannes Rau, President of Germany
January 17 – James Earl Jones, actor
January 19 – Tippi Hedren, actress
January 19 – Robert MacNeil, journalist
January 22 – Sam Cooke, singer (d. 1964)
January 27 – Mordecai Richler, writer (d. 2001)
January 30 – Allan W. Eckert, historian, naturalist and writer
January 31 – Ernie Banks, Baseball Hall of Famer
May 19 – David Wilkerson, American pastor, evangelist and author (d. 2011)
November 15 – Mwai Kibaki, president of Kenya

Deaths

Anna Pavlova as the Dying Swan

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

Norma Shearer portrait

Norma Shearer

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

Images for kids

See also

In Spanish: 1931 para niños

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