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1931 Calendar

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•  February 17, 1931 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Sheep in Chinese astrology.
•  March 3, 1931 – The United States adopts The Star-Spangled Banner as its national anthem.
•  March 15, 1931 – SS Viking explodes off Newfoundland, killing 27 of the 147 on board.
•  March 23, 1931 – Bhagat Singh, Shivaram Rajguru and Sukhdev Thapar are hanged for murder during the Indian struggle for independence.
•  March 25, 1931 – The Scottsboro Boys are arrested in Alabama and charged with rape.
•  July 1, 1931 – United Airlines begins service (as Boeing Air Transport).
•  August 24, 1931 – Resignation of the United Kingdom’s Second Labour Government. Formation of the UK National Government.
•  October 1, 1931 – The George Washington Bridge linking New Jersey and New York opens.
•  October 21, 1931 – The Sakurakai, a secret society in the Imperial Japanese Army, launches an abortive coup d'état attempt.
•  December 9, 1931 – The Constituent Cortes approves the constitution which establishes the Second Spanish Republic.

•  January 10, 1931 – Peter Barnes, English writer (d. 2004)
•  March 4, 1931 – Bob Johnson, American ice hockey coach (d. 1991)
•  March 24, 1931 – Hanno Drechsler, German politician (d. 2003)
•  May 28, 1931 – Carroll Baker, American actress
•  May 31, 1931 – John Robert Schrieffer, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
•  July 20, 1931 – Tony Marsh, English racing driver
•  September 26, 1931 – Kenneth Parnell, American convicted sex offender (d. 2008)
•  October 6, 1931 – Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh, Russian astronomer (d. 2004)
•  October 7, 1931 – Desmond Tutu, South African archbishop and Nobel Laureate
•  November 13, 1931 – Andrée Lachapelle, French Canadian actress