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Months in 1931: January February April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Results 1 - 25 of 25

3rd - "Star Spangled Banner" officially becomes US national anthem
3rd - Cab Calloway records "Minnie Moocher" (Jazz's 1st million seller)
4th - Bradman bowled by Herman Griffith for a duck as W I win the Test
4th - West Indies beat Australia for the 1st time, by 30 runs at SCG
5th - Gandhi & British viceroy Lord Irwin sign pact
10th - British Labour party removes fascist sir Oswald Mosley
11th - Ready for Labour and Defence of the USSR, abbreviated as GTO, is introduced in the Soviet Union.
14th - 1st theater built for rear movie projection (NYC)
16th - Genootschap Onze Taal (Our Language) organizes (Neth)
17th - Stalin throws Krupskaya Lenin out of Central Committee
18th - 1st electric shavers go on sale in US (Schick)
18th - Juan Bautista Aznar becomes premier of Spain
19th - Nevada legalizes gambling
20th - Bishop Schreiber warns against national-socialism in Berlin
21st - KRO-broadcast studio initiated in Hilversum Holland
21st - US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson
21st - US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Roger Turner
23rd - Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev embrace the gallows during the Indian struggle for independence. Their request to be shot by a firing squad is refused.
25th - Hal Kemp & his Orch record Whistles, with Skinnay Ennis
25th - Scottsboro Boys (accused of raping a white woman) arrested in Alabama
26th - Iraq & Trans-Jordan sign peace treaty
26th - Leo Bentley bowls 3 consecutive perfect games in Lorain, Ohio
26th - New Delhi replaces Calcutta as capital of British-Indies
27th - Charlie Chaplin receives France's distinguished Legion of Honor
27th - John McGraw says night baseball will not catch on

Famous Birthdays

Results 1 - 65 of 65

2nd - Duane E Graveline, Newport Vt, astronaut
2nd - Mikhail S Gorbachev, Privolnoye USSR, Soviet sec-gen (1985-91)
2nd - Tom Wolfe, Richmond Va, journalist/author (Right Stuff)
3rd - Henk Knol, Dutch 2nd chamber member (PvdA)
3rd - Piet [van] Bambergen, Dutch cabaretier (Mounties, Sherlock Jones)
4th - Gennady Rozhdestvensky, composer
4th - Han Jansen, Dutch painter
4th - Wally Bruner, American journalist and television host (d. 1997)
4th - Bob Johnson, American ice hockey coach (d. 1991)
4th - Alice Rivlin, American economist
5th - Anthony Headges, composer
5th - Barry Tuckwell, Melbourne Aust, hornist (London Symph Orch 1955-68)
5th - Fred Othon Aristidès, French comics artist
6th - Carmen Delavallade, US dancer/singer/actress (Aida)
6th - David Haddon Whitaker, British publisher (Whitaker's Almanack)
6th - John Smith, LA Calif, actor (Cimarron City, Laramie, 7 Angry Men)
6th - Willie Mays, Hall of Fame baseball centerfielder (Giants, NY Mets)
6th - Hal Needham, American stuntman
7th - C W Stubblefield, music promoter
7th - Cornelis T "Cor" van de Molen, director Social Businesses of Press
7th - Donald Barthelme, US, writer (Snow White)
8th - John McPhee, author (Back to ----)
8th - Neil Adcock, cricketer (South African pace bowler, 104 wkts 1953-62)
8th - Neil Postman, American cultural critic (d. 2003)
9th - Taina Elg, Helsinki Finland, actress (Hercules in NY, Les Girls)
9th - Thore Skogman, Swedish entertainer (d. 2007)
10th - Georges Dor, Quebec author, playwright, singer and songwriter (d. 2001)
11th - Peter Walters, CEO (Midland Bank)
11th - Rupert Murdoch, Australia, publisher (NY Post)/CEO (FOX-TV)
12th - Geoffrey de Bellaigue, director (Royal Collection)
12th - William "Buckwheat" Thomas, actor (Little Rascals)
12th - Herbert Kelleher, Southwest Airlines co-founder
13th - Marc Dessauvage, Flemish architect
13th - Rosalind Elias, Lowell Mass, mezzo-soprano (Grimgerde-Die Walkuere)
13th - Wolfgang Kohlhaase, Berlin, actor/director/writer (Solo Sunday)
14th - Bob Goalby, golfer (British Open-1968, Canadian Open-1968, NZ-1970)
14th - Phil Phillips [Baptiste], rock vocalist (Sea Of Love)
16th - Betty Johnson, Guilford County NC, singer (Jack Paar Show, I Dreamed)
16th - Don Richard Carpenter, novelist
17th - Eunice Gayson, London England, actress (Dr No, From Russia With Love)
17th - David Peakall, British scientist (d. 2001)
18th - Howard Coble, (Rep-R-NC, 1985- )
20th - Antonio Tauriello, composer
20th - David Montgomery, chairman (British Forestry Commission)
20th - Hal Linden, [Harold Lipshitz], actor (Barney Miller, Blacke's Magic)
20th - John Rae, British educator (Conscience & Politics)
21st - Ivan William Hannaford, sociologist
22nd - Igor Hajek, translator/writer
22nd - Leslie Thomas, author
22nd - William Shatner, Montreal Canada, actor (Star Trek, T J Hooker)
23rd - Norman F Lent, (Rep-R-NY, 1971- )
24th - Thelma Kalama, US, 4 X 100m relay swimmer (Olympic-gold-1948)
25th - Paul Motian, American jazz drummer and composer
26th - Leonard Nimoy, Boston, actor (Spock-Star Trek, Mission Impossible)
27th - Burt Collins, trumpeter
27th - R P Bauman, CEO (British Aerospace)
27th - Yoriaki Matsudaira, composer
29th - Evelyn de Rothschild, English banker/multi-millionaire
29th - James Weatherhead, moderator (General Assembly of Church of Scotland)
29th - Lord Tebbit, British CH
29th - Sylvia Law, British town planner
30th - Aleksey Vasilyevich Sorokin, Russian cosmonaut
30th - Harold Burrage, US singer/pianist (Hi Yo Silver)
30th - Sandor Szokolay, composer
31st - Miller Barber, Shreveport LA, PGA golfer (1968 Byron Nelson Classic)

Famous Deaths

Results 1 - 11 of 11

5th - Fr. Arthur Tooth SSC, Anglican Clergyman prosecuted and imprisoned for ritualist activities (b. 1839)
7th - Akseli V Gallen-Kallela, Finnish painter/illustrator, dies at 65
7th - Theo van Doesburg, [Christian Kupper], painter/architect, dies at 47
8th - Clara Kathleen Rogers, composer, dies at 87
9th - Ida B Wells-Barnett, famous black, dies in Chicago at 78
11th - F.W. Murnau, German film director (b. 1888)
20th - Hermann Müller, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1876)
22nd - Ban Johnson, founder of baseball's American League, dies at 67
23rd - Bhagat Singh, Rajguru, Sukhdev Indian freedom fighters
27th - Arnold Bennett, novelist, dies
31st - Knute Rockne, football player/coach, dies in a plane crash at 43