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1931 Calendar

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•  February 3, 1931 – The Hawke’s Bay earthquake, New Zealand’s worst natural disaster, kills 258.
•  February 17, 1931 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Sheep in Chinese astrology.
•  March 15, 1931 – SS Viking explodes off Newfoundland, killing 27 of the 147 on board.
•  April 14, 1931 – Spanish Cortes depose King Alfonso XIII and proclaims the 2nd Spanish Republic.
•  May 29, 1931 – Born October 19, 1899 in Sardinia, Michele “Mike” Schirru, Anarchist against Fascism, U.S. Citizen is executed by Italian military firing squad for intent to kill Benito Mussolini. The U.S. Government did nothing to help Schirru.
•  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.
•  August 24, 1931 – Resignation of the United Kingdom’s Second Labour Government. Formation of the UK National Government.
•  August 28, 1931 – France and Soviet Union sign a treaty of non-aggression.
•  September 30, 1931 – Start of “Die Voortrekkers” youth movement for Afrikaners in Bloemfontein, South Africa.
•  December 11, 1931 – The British Parliament enacts the Statute of Westminster 1931, establishing legislative equality between the self-governing dominions of the Commonwealth of Australia, the Dominion of Canada, the Irish Free State, Dominion of Newfoundland, the Dominion of New Zealand, and the Union of South Africa.

•  January 8, 1931 – Bill Graham, German-born American music promoter (d. 1991)
•  March 6, 1931 – Hal Needham, American stuntman
•  April 13, 1931 – Jon Stone, co-creator of Sesame Street (d. 1997)
•  August 31, 1931 – Jean Béliveau, Canadian ice hockey player
•  September 1, 1931 – Cecil Parkinson, British politician
•  September 12, 1931 – Sir Ian Holm, English actor
•  November 21, 1931 – Malcolm Williamson, Australian composer (d. 2003)
•  December 1, 1931 – Jim Nesbitt, singer (d. 2007)
•  December 9, 1931 – William Reynolds, American actor
•  December 17, 1931 – Dave Madden, Canadian-born American actor