Today in History for January 1931
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Months in 1931: February March April May June July August September October November December
Historical Events
Results 1 - 16 of 16
3rd - Nels Stewart of Montreal Maroons scores 2 goals in 4 sec (record)
5th - 1st woman to purchase a baseball team Lucille Thomas purchases Topeka franchise in the Western League
6th - Thomas Edison submits his last patent application.
7th - 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.
8th - Phila Quakers set then NHL record of 15 straight loses
10th - Phila Quakers defeat Montreal, ends NHL-record 15-game losing streak
16th - Bradman scores 223 Australia v WI, 297 mins, 26 fours
22nd - French govt of Steeg falls
22nd - VARA begins experimental TV broadcast in Diamantbeurs Amsterdam
22nd - Sir Isaac Isaacs is sworn in as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia.
26th - Hungary-Austria sign peace treaty
26th - Lynn Riggs' "Green Grow the Lilacs," premieres in NYC
28th - Bradman scores 220 NSW v Victoria, 308 mins, 13 fours
30th - Charlie Chaplin's "City Lights" premieres at Los Angeles Theater
31st - NHL's Quebec Bulldogs' Joseph Malone scores a record 7 goals
31st - Philip Barry's "Tomorrow & Tomorrow," premieres in NYC
Famous Birthdays
Results 1 - 66 of 66
1st - Carel Brons, composer
1st - Siddig El Nigoumi, ceramicist
2nd - Toshiki Kaifu, premier of Japan (1989-91)
4th - Adi Lady Lala Mara, First Lady of Fiji (d. 2004)
4th - Sir William Deane, Governor-General of Australia 1996-2001
5th - Alfred Brendel, Wiesenberg Moravia, Austrian pianist
5th - Alvin Ailey, choreographer (American Dance Theater)
5th - Robert Duvall, San Diego Calif, actor (Great Santini, Taxi Driver)
5th - Walter Davis, US, running high jumper (Olympic-gold-1952)
5th - Joan Coxsedge, Australian politician
6th - Gerard van Muiden, Dutch MP (CDA)
6th - Graeme Hole, cricketer (Australian batsman of the fifties)
6th - E. L. Doctorow, American author
7th - Mack Mattingly, (Sen-R-GA, 1981-86)
8th - Bill Graham, Germany, rock promoter (Fillmore)
8th - May Wynn, [Donna Lee Hickey], NYC, actress (Caine Mutiny, Noah's Ark)
9th - Algi[rda]s [Jonas] Budrys, Prussia, sci-fi author (Man of Earth)
9th - Geoffrey Wragg, British(?) reorganizer
10th - Alexander L "Alex" Boraine, S Africa vicar/MP
10th - Ron Galella, celebrity photographer (sued by Jackie O)
10th - Peter Barnes, English writer (d. 2004)
11th - Ed Hall, Roxbury Mass, actor (Dr Bicker-Medical Center)
11th - Betty Churcher, director of the National Gallery of Australia
13th - Charles Nelson Reilly, NYC, actor (Match Game, Ghost & Mrs Muir)
13th - Ian Hendry, English actor (d. 1984)
14th - Juraj Pospisil, composer
14th - Frank Costigan, Australian lawyer
15th - Derek Meddings, special effects technician
15th - Murad Kazhlayev, composer
15th - Thomas Hoving, NYC, news correspondent (20/20)
16th - Vladimir Skutina, writer playwright/journalist
16th - Johannes Rau, German politician (d. 2006)
17th - Frederick Alfred Fox, composer
17th - James Earl Jones, Miss, actor (Darth Vader, Exorcist II, Soul Man)
17th - L Douglas Wilder, (Gov-D-Va)
17th - Don Zimmer, American baseball coach
19th - Robert MacNeil, Montreal, news anchor (NBC Weekend News, 1965-67)
19th - Ron Packard, (Rep-R-CA, 1983- )
20th - Sawako Ariyoshi, Japanese writer (Compound Pollution, Doctor's Wife)
20th - Thomas Roy Garrett, museum curator
20th - Hachidai Nakamura, Japanese songwriter and pianist (d. 1992)
22nd - Galina Zybina, USSR, discus thrower (15 world records between 1952-58)
22nd - Sam Cooke, American singer (d. 1964)
24th - Ib Norholm, composer
25th - Dean Jones, Decatur Ala, actor (Ensign O'Toole, Company, Love Bug)
25th - Harold Lloyd Jr, actor (Frankenstein's Daughter)
25th - Paavo J Haavikko, finnish writer/poet/husband of Marja-Liisa Vartio
25th - Stikkan, Stig Anderson, music entrepreneur
26th - Mary Murphy, Wash DC, actress (A Man Alone, Maggie-Investigators)
27th - John Hopkins, writer
27th - Mordecai Richler, Montreal author, (Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz)
27th - Rudi Maugeri, rocker (Crew Cuts)
27th - Vinson, Lord
28th - Timothy Kitson, former MP
29th - Leslie Bricuse, English/US composer (Stop the world I want to get off)
30th - Gene Hackman, Calif, actor (Bonnie & Clyde, Under Fire, Superman)
30th - Jack Bowman, Chief Constable (Tayside)
30th - Shirley Hazzard, Australian author (Transit of Venus)
30th - Stewart B McKinney, (Rep-R-CT, 1971- )
30th - John Crosbie, Canadian politician
30th - Allan W. Eckert, American historian, naturalist, and author
31st - Bill Watson, cricketer (NSW & Australian opening batsman mid-50s)
31st - Christopher Chataway, British MP/athlete (world record 5k)
31st - Ernie Banks, "Mr Cub" Chicago Cubs, Hall-of-Famer (1st baseman)
31st - Jean Burroughs, educationalist
31st - Nicholas Gordon Lennox, diplomat
Famous Deaths
Results 1 - 11 of 11
1st - Martinus Beijerinck, Dutch microbiologist and botanist (b. 1851)
3rd - Joseph J C Joffre, French marshal, dies at 78
4th - Art Acord, western actor (Set Free, Spurs & Saddles), dies at 40
9th - Claude Anet [Jean Schopfer], French writer (La fille perdue), dies
9th - Wayne Munn, wrestler (b. 1896)
11th - Oscar Fetras, composer, dies at 76
11th - James Milton Carroll, American Baptist pastor, leader, historian, and author (b. 1852)
14th - William Ernst Johnson, British mathematician, dies
21st - Felix Blumenfeld, composer, dies at 67
22nd - Alma Rubens, American actress (b. 1897)
23rd - Anna Pavlova, Russian ballerina (Diaghilew, Dying Swan), dies
