1931 (MCMXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1931st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 931st year of the 2nd millennium, the 31st year of the 20th century, and the 2nd year of the 1930s decade.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1931 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1931
MCMXXXI
Ab urbe condita2684
Armenian calendar1380
ԹՎ ՌՅՁ
Assyrian calendar6681
Baháʼí calendar87–88
Balinese saka calendar1852–1853
Bengali calendar1338
Berber calendar2881
British Regnal year21 Geo. 5 – 22 Geo. 5
Buddhist calendar2475
Burmese calendar1293
Byzantine calendar7439–7440
Chinese calendar庚午年 (Metal Horse)
4628 or 4421
    — to —
辛未年 (Metal Goat)
4629 or 4422
Coptic calendar1647–1648
Discordian calendar3097
Ethiopian calendar1923–1924
Hebrew calendar5691–5692
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1987–1988
 - Shaka Samvat1852–1853
 - Kali Yuga5031–5032
Holocene calendar11931
Igbo calendar931–932
Iranian calendar1309–1310
Islamic calendar1349–1350
Japanese calendarShōwa 6
(昭和6年)
Javanese calendar1861–1862
Juche calendar20
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4264
Minguo calendarROC 20
民國20年
Nanakshahi calendar463
Thai solar calendar2473–2474
Tibetan calendar阳金马年
(male Iron-Horse)
2057 or 1676 or 904
    — to —
阴金羊年
(female Iron-Goat)
2058 or 1677 or 905

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February 10: New Delhi becomes India's capital
 
February 21: Ford Trimotor hijacked
  • February 4 – Soviet leader Joseph Stalin gives a speech calling for rapid industrialization, arguing that only strong industrialized countries will win wars, while "weak" nations are "beaten". Stalin states: "We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or they will crush us." The first five-year plan in the Soviet Union is intensified, for the industrialization and collectivization of agriculture.
  • February 10 – Official inauguration ceremonies for New Delhi as the capital of India begin.[3]
  • February 16Pehr Evind Svinhufvud is elected president of Finland.
  • February 21Peruvian revolutionaries hijack a Ford Trimotor aeroplane, and demand that the pilot drop propaganda leaflets over Lima.

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May 1: Empire State Building is completed.

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  • June 5
    • German Chancellor Heinrich Brüning visits London, where he warns the British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald that the collapse of the Austrian banking system, caused by the bankruptcy of the Creditanstalt, has left the entire German banking system on the verge of collapse.
    • Anti-Chinese rioting occurs in Pyongyang. Approximately 127 Chinese people are killed, 393 wounded, and a considerable number of properties are destroyed by Korean residents.[4]
  • June 14Saint-Philibert disaster: The overloaded pleasure craft Saint-Philibert, carrying trippers home to Nantes from the Île de Noirmoutier, sinks at the mouth of the River Loire in France; over 450 drown.
  • June 19
  • June 23July 1Wiley Post and Harold Gatty accomplish the first round-the-world flight in a single-engine plane, flying eastabout from Roosevelt Field, New York, in 8 days, 15 hours, 51 minutes.[5]

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September 18: The Mukden Incident: Incident Museum in Shenyang

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Births edit

Births
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Robert Duvall
 
Caterina Valente
 
James Earl Jones
 
Sam Cooke

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Boris Yeltsin
 
Dries van Agt
 
Isabel Perón
 
James Dean

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Mikhail Gorbachev
 
Chun Doo-hwan
 
León Febres Cordero
 
Rupert Murdoch
 
William Shatner
 
Leonard Nimoy

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Willie Mays
 
Faten Hamama
 
Carroll Baker

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Raúl Castro
 
João Gilberto
 
Marla Gibbs
 
Fernando Henrique Cardoso
 
Olympia Dukakis

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Leslie Caron
 
Seyni Kountché

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Don King
 
Barbara Eden

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Javier Solís
 
Silvia Pinal
 
Larry Hagman

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Desmond Tutu
 
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

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Mwai Kibaki
 
Adolfo Pérez Esquivel

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Rita Moreno

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Anna Pavlova
 
Otto Wallach
 
F. W. Murnau
 
Joe Masseria

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Patriarch Damian I of Jerusalem
 
Hamaguchi Osachi

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Archduke Leopold Salvator of Austria
 
Omar al-Mukhtar

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Thomas Edison

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