Important Historical Events of the year 1931, Year 1931 in History

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List of 1931 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1931

What happened in the year 1931?

Date	Event
January 7, 1931	Guy Menzies flies the first solo non-stop trans-Tasman flight (from Australia to New Zealand) in 11 hours and 45 minutes, crash-landing on New Zealand's west coast.
January 21, 1931	Sir Isaac Isaacs is sworn in as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia.
February 3, 1931	The Hawke's Bay earthquake, New Zealand's worst natural disaster, kills 258.
February 13, 1931	The British Raj completes its transfer from Calcutta to New Delhi.
February 20, 1931	The U.S. Congress approves the construction of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge by the state of California.
February 20, 1931	An anarchist uprising in Encarnación briefly transforms the city into a revolutionary commune.
March 3, 1931	The United States adopts The Star-Spangled Banner as its national anthem.
March 5, 1931	The British Raj: Gandhi–Irwin Pact is signed.
March 7, 1931	The Parliament House of Finland was officially inaugurated in Helsinki, Finland.
March 14, 1931	Alam Ara, India's first talking film, is released.
March 19, 1931	Governor Fred B. Balzar signs a bill legalizing gambling in Nevada.
March 23, 1931	Bhagat Singh, Shivaram Rajguru and Sukhdev Thapar are hanged for the killing of a deputy superintendent of police during the Indian independence movement.
March 25, 1931	The Scottsboro Boys are arrested in Alabama and charged with rape.
March 26, 1931	Swissair is founded as the national airline of Switzerland.
March 26, 1931	Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union is founded in Vietnam.
March 31, 1931	An earthquake in Nicaragua destroys Managua; killing 2,000.
March 31, 1931	A Transcontinental & Western Air airliner crashes near Bazaar, Kansas, killing eight, including University of Notre Dame head football coach Knute Rockne.
April 14, 1931	The Spanish Cortes deposes King Alfonso XIII and proclaims the Second Spanish Republic.
May 1, 1931	The Empire State Building is dedicated in New York City.
May 7, 1931	The stand-off between criminal Francis Crowley and 300 members of the New York Police Department takes place in his fifth-floor apartment on West 91st Street, New York City.
May 14, 1931	Five unarmed civilians are killed in the Ådalen shootings, as the Swedish military is called in to deal with protesting workers.
May 29, 1931	Michele Schirru, a citizen of the United States, is executed by a Royal Italian Army firing squad for intent to kill Benito Mussolini.
June 23, 1931	Wiley Post and Harold Gatty take off from Roosevelt Field, Long Island in an attempt to circumnavigate the world in a single-engine plane.
July 1, 1931	United Airlines begins service (as Boeing Air Transport).
July 1, 1931	Wiley Post and Harold Gatty become the first people to circumnavigate the globe in a single-engined monoplane aircraft.
July 16, 1931	Emperor Haile Selassie signs the first constitution of Ethiopia.
August 24, 1931	Resignation of the United Kingdom's Second Labour Government. Formation of the UK National Government.
September 18, 1931	Imperial Japan instigates the Mukden Incident as a pretext to invade and occupy Manchuria.
October 1, 1931	The George Washington Bridge in the United States is opened, linking New Jersey and New York.
October 1, 1931	Clara Campoamor persuades the Constituent Cortes to enfranchise women in Spain's new constitution.
October 17, 1931	Al Capone is convicted of income tax evasion.
October 21, 1931	A secret society in the Imperial Japanese Army launches an abortive coup d'état attempt.
October 24, 1931	The George Washington Bridge opens to public traffic over the Hudson River.
November 7, 1931	The Chinese Soviet Republic is proclaimed on the anniversary of the October Revolution.
December 9, 1931	The Constituent Cortes approves a constitution which establishes the Second Spanish Republic.
December 11, 1931	Statute of Westminster 1931: The British Parliament establishes legislative equality between the UK and the Dominions of the Commonwealth—Australia, Canada, Newfoundland, New Zealand, South Africa, and Ireland.