1931

Events:

   * 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 17 - Nevada legalizes gambling
   * March 25 - The Scottsboro Boys are arrested in Alabama and charged with
     rape.
   * April 14 - 2nd Spanish Republic proclaimed in Spain
   * March 3 - "The Star-Spangled Banner" is adopted as the United States
     National anthem.
   * March 31 - An earthquake destroys Managua Nicaragua killing 2,000.
   * July 1 - Official opening of Milan Central Station
   * Deuterium discovered by Harold Clayton Urey.
   * Construction of the Empire State Building is completed in New York
     City.

Art, Culture & Fashion

   * 1931 in film
        o Cimarron
        o Frankenstein, starring Boris Karloff
   * 1931 in television
        o May 1 - The first wedding is broadcast on television, on New
          York's W2XCR.
        o July 21 - CBS's New York station begins broadcasting the first
          regular seven days a week television schedule in the U. S.. The
          first broadcast included Mayor James J. Walker, Kate Smith, and
          George Gershwin.
        o October 30 - NBC installs a television transmitter on top of the
          Empire State Building
        o December 22 - NBC begins broadcasting from the Empire State
          Building transmitter
        o Canada's first television station, VE9EC, begins broadcasting in
          Montreal

Births:

   * January 5 - Alvin Ailey, choreographer
   * January 5 - Alfred Brendel, pianist
   * January 5 - Robert Duvall, actor and director
   * January 6 - E.L. Doctorow, author
   * January 8 - Bill Graham, rock music entrepreneut (+ 1991)
   * January 10 - Viktor Liebermann, violinist (+ 1999)
   * 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 (+ 1964)
   * January 27 - Mordecai Richler, author (+ 2001)
   * January 30 - Allan W. Eckert, historian, naturalist and author
   * January 31 - Ernie Banks, Baseball Hall of Famer
   * February 1 - Boris Yeltsin, Russian president 1991-1999
   * February 2 - Dries van Agt, Dutch politician
   * February 6 - Rip Torn, actor, director
   * February 8 - James Dean, actor (+ 1955)
   * February 10 - Thomas Bernhard, author (+ 1989)
   * February 11 - Larry Merchant, author/boxing commentator.
   * February 18 - Toni Morrison, writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in
     literature 1993
   * February 18 - Bob St. Clair, American football star
   * February 18 - Johnny Hart, cartoonist
   * March 2 - Mikhail Gorbachev
   * March 2 - Tom Wolfe, author
   * March 11 - Rupert Murdoch, publisher, entrepreneur
   * March 22 - William Shatner, (actor)
   * March 26 - Leonard Nimoy, actor, director
   * March 29 - Aleksei Gubarev, cosmonaut
   * April 1 - Rolf Hochhuth, writer
   * April 29 - Frank Auerbach, painter
   * April 29 - Lonnie Donegan, musician (+ 2002)
   * May 6 - Willie Mays, Baseball Hall of Famer
   * May 7 - Teresa Brewer, singer
   * May 13 - Jim Jones, cult leader (+ 1978)
   * May 14 - Alvin Lucier, composer
   * May 15 - Ken Venturi, golfer
   * May 18 - Robert Morse, actor
   * May 20 - Ken Boyer, baseball player (+ 1981)
   * May 25 - Georgi Grechko, cosmonaut
   * June 7 - Malcolm Morley, painter
   * July 1 - Leslie Caron, French actress
   * August 12 - William Goldman, author
   * August 31 - Jean Bˇliveau, Canadian ice hockey player
   * September 23 - Gerald Stairs Merrithew, educator, statesman
   * November 21 - Malcolm Williamson, composer (+ 2003)
   * November 23 - Dervla Murphy, traveler, author
   * December 24 - Mauricio Kagel, composer

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
   * August 6 - Bix Beiderbecke, jazz trumpeter
   * August 27 - Frank Harris, author and editor,
   * October 13 - Ernst Didring, swedish writer,
   * October 18 - Thomas Edison, Inventor.
   * 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

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