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

Historical Events

Results 101 - 200 of 267

May 23rd - Whipsnade Zoo opens in Whipsnade Beds England
May 24th - 1st air-conditioned train installed-B&O Railroad
May 27th - 1st full scale wind tunnel for testing airplanes, Langley Field Va
May 27th - Piccard & Knipfer make 1st flight into stratosphere, by balloon
May 30th - Phillies Chuck Klein homers off Ben Cantwell (Braves) in both ends DH
May 31st - 7.1 magnitude Earthquake destroys Quetta in modern-day Pakistan: 40,000 dead.
Jun 1st - Rozenburg soccer team forms in Rozenburg
Jun 5th - Jules Renkin becomes premier of Belgium
Jun 6th - "There Ought To Be A Moonlight Saving Time" by Guy Lombardo hits #1
Jun 6th - Yanks turn triple-play but lose 7-5 to Indians
Jun 8th - Duke & Duchess of Kent wed
Jun 8th - Suriname Work Committee under Louis Doedel forms in Paramaribo
Jun 9th - 1st rocket-powered aircraft design patented (R Goddard)
Jun 9th - 1st showing of a Donald Duck cartoon
Jun 10th - Norway occupies East-Greenland
Jun 12th - Al Capone is indicted on 5,000 counts of prohibition & perjury
Jun 13th - 63rd Belmont: Charley Kurtsinger aboard Twenty Grand wins in 2:29.6
Jun 14th - French "St Philbert" overturns off St Nazaire France, drowns 450
Jun 14th - Reinhard Heydrichs 1st meeting with Himmler
Jun 15th - Eddie Collins & Harry Heilmann, retire from baseball
Jun 15th - Poland & USSR sign friendship & trade treaty
Jun 16th - Austrian govt of Ender falls
Jun 19th - 1st photoelectric cell installed commercially West Haven Ct
Jun 20th - Karl Buresch becomes chancellor of Austrian
Jun 22nd - RVU, Radio-Volks-University, forms
Jun 23rd - Wiley Post & Harold Catty took off for flight around world
Jun 24th - USSR & Afghanistan sign neutrality treaty
Jun 27th - 3rd Ryder Cup: US wins, 9-3 at Scioto Country Club (Columbus, Ohio, US)
Jun 29th - 109°F (43°C), Monticello, Florida (state record)
Jun 29th - Pope Pius XI encyclical on Nun abbiamo bisogno Mussolini
Jul 1st - Cleveland Municipal Stadium is completed
Jul 1st - Ice vending machines introduced in LA 25 lbs, 15 cents
Jul 1st - Phillies Chuck Klein hits for cycle vs Chicago Cubs
Jul 1st - Trans African Railway in use (Benguela, Angola-Jadotville, Congo)
Jul 3rd - 51st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Sid Wood Jr beats F X Shields (walkover)
Jul 3rd - Max Schmeling TKOs Young Stribling in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
Jul 4th - 1st fireworks are held at Cleveland Stadium
Jul 4th - 1st trailside museum opens in Cleveland Metroparks
Jul 6th - 35th US Golf Open: Billy Burke shoots a 292 at Inverness Club Ohio
Jul 11th - NY Giants beat Phillies 23-8
Jul 12th - 45,715 fans in 35,000 seat Sportsman Park St Louis, help cause many ground ruled doubles, 11 in 1st game & 21 in 2nd game for 32
Jul 18th - 1st air-conditioned ship (Mariposa) launched
Jul 21st - Reno race track, becomes 1st in US to use daily double wagering
Jul 23rd - Ashmore & Cartier Is in Indian Ocean transferred to Australia
Jul 23rd - France announces they can't afford to send a team to 1932 LA olympics
Jul 24th - George Gunn gets 183 & son of a gunn George Vernon 100* same innings
Jul 24th - Paavo Nurmi runs world record 2 mile (8:59.6)
Jul 24th - A fire at a home for the elderly in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania kills 48 people.
Jul 27th - Chilean president Carlos Ibáñez forced out
Jul 27th - Grasshoppers in Iowa, Nebr & SD destroyed thousands of acres of crops
Jul 28th - Congress makes "Star-Spangled Banner" our 2nd national anthem
Jul 28th - White Sox score 11 in 8th to beat Yankees 14-12
Aug 2nd - Spanish Catalonia agrees (99+%) for autonomous status
Aug 5th - Det Tiger Tommy Bridges perfect game is broken up with 2 outs in 9th
Aug 8th - Wash Senator Bob Burke no-hits Boston Red Sox, 5-0
Aug 12th - Yangtzee River floods after heavy rain crumbles dikes in China
Aug 13th - Cin Red Tony Cuccinello goes 6 for 6
Aug 15th - Ernest Lassy completes longest canoe journey without port (6,102 mi)
Aug 15th - Roy Wilkins joined NAACP as asst secretary
Aug 15th - Spakenburg soccer team forms
Aug 18th - Lou Gehrig hitless in Detroit, his 1,000th consecutively played game
Aug 19th - Lefty Grove wins AL record tying 16th consecutive game
Aug 20th - 45th US Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats Eileen Whitingstall (64 61)
Aug 21st - Babe Ruth hits his 600th HR, off George Blaeholder of Browns
Aug 23rd - 45th US Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats Eileen B Whitingstall (64 61)
Aug 23rd - Count Gyula Károlyi becomes premier of Hungary
Aug 23rd - Phila A's Lefty Grove, loses 1-0 (Browns) after winning 16 straight
Aug 24th - France & USSR sign neutrality/no attack treaty
Sep 1st - Gehrig hits his 3rd grand slam in 4 days & his 6th HR in consec games
Sep 10th - Lord Cecil of British Govt says War was never so improbable
Sep 11th - Salvatore Maranzano is murdered by Charles Luciano's hitmen.
Sep 12th - 51st US Mens Tennis: H E Vines beats George M Lott Jr (79 63 97 75)
Sep 13th - Capt G H Stainworth flies world speed record (655 kph)
Sep 13th - Right-radical coup of Dr Pfrimer fails in Austria
Sep 15th - British naval fleet mutinies at Invergordon over pay cuts
Sep 15th - Phila A's clinch pennant, beating Cleveland
Sep 16th - Blimp is moored to Empire State Building (NYC)
Sep 16th - St Louis Cards repeat as NL champions with a 6-3 win over Phillies
Sep 17th - 1st LP record demonstrated (RCA Victor, NYC), venture failed
Sep 17th - Operetta "Victoria & Her Husband," premieres in London
Sep 17th - Red Sox Earl Webb sets record with 65 en route to 67 doubles
Sep 18th - Japan takes Manchuria, renames it Manchukuo
Sep 19th - 14th PGA Championship: Tom Creavy at Wannamoisett CC Rumford RI
Sep 19th - Japanese troops conquer Mukden, South Manchuria
Sep 19th - Lefty Grove wins his 30th game of season over White Sox, 2-1
Sep 20th - Lou Gehrig's 4 RBIs break his old RBI mark of 175 en route to 184
Sep 21st - Britain abandons gold standard/pound devalues 20%
Sep 24th - Round-robin playoff among NYC's 3 major league teams, to raise money for unemployed, concludes with Brooklyn losing to both Giants & Yanks
Sep 26th - Earl Claus von Stauffenberg marries Freiin Nina von Lerchenfeld
Sep 27th - Lou Gehrig completes his 6th straight season, playing in every game (.3486) Jim Bottomley (.3481)
Sep 27th - Closest NL batting race ends Chick Hafey (.3488) beats Bill Terry's
Sep 28th - Peking (200,000 demonstrators demand declaration of war on Japan)
Sep 30th - Start of "Die Voortrekkers" youth movement for Afrikaners in Bloemfontein, South Africa.
Oct 1st - Spanish Cortes accept general female suffrage
Oct 1st - World Series is a rematch as A's seek 3rd straight title vs Cards
Oct 1st - The second (and current) Waldorf-Astoria Hotel is opened in New York.
Oct 2nd - Pope Pius XI encyclical On economic crisis
Oct 4th - Dick Tracy comic strip by Chester Gould debuts
Oct 4th - Juan Esteban Montero becomes president of Chile
Oct 5th - 1st nonstop transpacific flight, Japan to Wash (Herndon & Pangborn)

Famous Birthdays

Results 101 - 200 of 663

Feb 15th - [Patricia] Claire Bloom, London, actress (Charly, Look Back in Anger)
Feb 15th - Geoff Edwards, American television game show host
Feb 16th - A Kolleritsch, writer
Feb 16th - Gamini Goonesena, cricket leg-spinner (all-rounder for Ceylon, Notts)
Feb 16th - George E Sangmeister, (Rep-D-Illinois)
Feb 16th - Ken Takakura, [Goichi Oda], Kita Japan, actor (Story of Antarctic)
Feb 18th - Dieter Schonbach, composer
Feb 18th - Johnny Hart, cartoonist
Feb 18th - Maxwell Thurman, US General
Feb 18th - Swraj Paul, Indian/British industrial/multi-millionaire (Caparo)
Feb 18th - Toni Morrison, Ohio, novelist (Tar Baby, Beloved, Song of Solomon)
Feb 18th - Bob St. Clair, American football player
Feb 21st - Larry Hagman, TV actor (I Dream of Jeannie, Dallas)
Feb 23rd - Tom Wesselman, US sculptor (Great American Nudes)
Feb 23rd - Tom Wesselmann, American collage artist (d. 2004)
Feb 24th - Brian Close, cricketer (played for England between 1949 & 1976)
Feb 24th - Inge Bernstein, British judge
Feb 24th - Lev Vasilyevich Vorobyov, Russia, cosmonaut
Feb 24th - Maezumi Hakuyu Taizan Koun, teacher Rinzai/Soto lines of Zen Buddhism
Feb 24th - Marta Marzotto, Italy, countess
Feb 24th - Dominic Chianese, American actor
Feb 25th - Edward Kellett-Bowman, British MEP
Feb 25th - J R Stephenson, Lt-col/secretary (MCC)
Feb 26th - Francisco Kroepfl, composer
Feb 26th - Robert D Novak, Joliet Ill, news reporter (CNN-Evans & Novak)
Feb 26th - Ally MacLeod, Scottish footballer and manager (d. 2004)
Feb 27th - Andrew Sloan, Chief Constable (Strathcourt)
Feb 28th - Gavin MacLeod, Mt Kisco NY, actor (Murray-Mary Tyler Moore, Love Boat)
Feb 28th - Gustav Thoni, Italy, skiier (World Cup-1971, 72, 73, 75)
Feb 28th - Jack Thieuloy, writer
Mar 2nd - Duane E Graveline, Newport Vt, astronaut
Mar 2nd - Mikhail S Gorbachev, Privolnoye USSR, Soviet sec-gen (1985-91)
Mar 2nd - Tom Wolfe, Richmond Va, journalist/author (Right Stuff)
Mar 3rd - Henk Knol, Dutch 2nd chamber member (PvdA)
Mar 3rd - Piet [van] Bambergen, Dutch cabaretier (Mounties, Sherlock Jones)
Mar 4th - Gennady Rozhdestvensky, composer
Mar 4th - Han Jansen, Dutch painter
Mar 4th - Wally Bruner, American journalist and television host (d. 1997)
Mar 4th - Bob Johnson, American ice hockey coach (d. 1991)
Mar 4th - Alice Rivlin, American economist
Mar 5th - Anthony Headges, composer
Mar 5th - Barry Tuckwell, Melbourne Aust, hornist (London Symph Orch 1955-68)
Mar 5th - Fred Othon Aristidès, French comics artist
Mar 6th - Carmen Delavallade, US dancer/singer/actress (Aida)
Mar 6th - David Haddon Whitaker, British publisher (Whitaker's Almanack)
Mar 6th - John Smith, LA Calif, actor (Cimarron City, Laramie, 7 Angry Men)
Mar 6th - Willie Mays, Hall of Fame baseball centerfielder (Giants, NY Mets)
Mar 6th - Hal Needham, American stuntman
Mar 7th - C W Stubblefield, music promoter
Mar 7th - Cornelis T "Cor" van de Molen, director Social Businesses of Press
Mar 7th - Donald Barthelme, US, writer (Snow White)
Mar 8th - John McPhee, author (Back to ----)
Mar 8th - Neil Adcock, cricketer (South African pace bowler, 104 wkts 1953-62)
Mar 8th - Neil Postman, American cultural critic (d. 2003)
Mar 9th - Taina Elg, Helsinki Finland, actress (Hercules in NY, Les Girls)
Mar 9th - Thore Skogman, Swedish entertainer (d. 2007)
Mar 10th - Georges Dor, Quebec author, playwright, singer and songwriter (d. 2001)
Mar 11th - Peter Walters, CEO (Midland Bank)
Mar 11th - Rupert Murdoch, Australia, publisher (NY Post)/CEO (FOX-TV)
Mar 12th - Geoffrey de Bellaigue, director (Royal Collection)
Mar 12th - William "Buckwheat" Thomas, actor (Little Rascals)
Mar 12th - Herbert Kelleher, Southwest Airlines co-founder
Mar 13th - Marc Dessauvage, Flemish architect
Mar 13th - Rosalind Elias, Lowell Mass, mezzo-soprano (Grimgerde-Die Walkuere)
Mar 13th - Wolfgang Kohlhaase, Berlin, actor/director/writer (Solo Sunday)
Mar 14th - Bob Goalby, golfer (British Open-1968, Canadian Open-1968, NZ-1970)
Mar 14th - Phil Phillips [Baptiste], rock vocalist (Sea Of Love)
Mar 16th - Betty Johnson, Guilford County NC, singer (Jack Paar Show, I Dreamed)
Mar 16th - Don Richard Carpenter, novelist
Mar 17th - Eunice Gayson, London England, actress (Dr No, From Russia With Love)
Mar 17th - David Peakall, British scientist (d. 2001)
Mar 18th - Howard Coble, (Rep-R-NC, 1985- )
Mar 20th - Antonio Tauriello, composer
Mar 20th - David Montgomery, chairman (British Forestry Commission)
Mar 20th - Hal Linden, [Harold Lipshitz], actor (Barney Miller, Blacke's Magic)
Mar 20th - John Rae, British educator (Conscience & Politics)
Mar 21st - Ivan William Hannaford, sociologist
Mar 22nd - Igor Hajek, translator/writer
Mar 22nd - Leslie Thomas, author
Mar 22nd - William Shatner, Montreal Canada, actor (Star Trek, T J Hooker)
Mar 23rd - Norman F Lent, (Rep-R-NY, 1971- )
Mar 24th - Thelma Kalama, US, 4 X 100m relay swimmer (Olympic-gold-1948)
Mar 25th - Paul Motian, American jazz drummer and composer
Mar 26th - Leonard Nimoy, Boston, actor (Spock-Star Trek, Mission Impossible)
Mar 27th - Burt Collins, trumpeter
Mar 27th - R P Bauman, CEO (British Aerospace)
Mar 27th - Yoriaki Matsudaira, composer
Mar 29th - Evelyn de Rothschild, English banker/multi-millionaire
Mar 29th - James Weatherhead, moderator (General Assembly of Church of Scotland)
Mar 29th - Lord Tebbit, British CH
Mar 29th - Sylvia Law, British town planner
Mar 30th - Aleksey Vasilyevich Sorokin, Russian cosmonaut
Mar 30th - Harold Burrage, US singer/pianist (Hi Yo Silver)
Mar 30th - Sandor Szokolay, composer
Mar 31st - Miller Barber, Shreveport LA, PGA golfer (1968 Byron Nelson Classic)
Apr 1st - George Baker, Bulgaria, actor (Goodbye Mr Chips, Curse of the Fly)
Apr 1st - Rolf Hochhuth, German playwright (Deputy)
Apr 1st - Ita Ever, Estonian actress
Apr 2nd - Imre Olsvai, composer
Apr 3rd - Johnny Nicholss, soccer star

Famous Deaths

Results 101 - 118 of 118

Nov 17th - John P Lotsy, botanist/geneticist (Resumptio Genetics), dies at 64
Nov 19th - Frederic Cliffe, composer, dies at 74
Nov 19th - Xu Zhimo, Chinese poet (b. 1897)
Nov 23rd - Evert Cornelis, Dutch conductor/pianist, dies
Nov 27th - Lya De Putti, Hungarian actress (b. 1899)
Nov 30th - John Hyatt Brewer, composer, dies at 75
Nov 30th - Marc-Jean-Baptiste Delmas, composer, dies at 46
Dec 2nd - Paul-Marie-Theodore-Vincent D'indy, French count/composer, dies at 80
Dec 5th - Vachel Lindsay, American poet (b. 1879)
Dec 10th - Max Elskamp, Belgian author/poet (Six Chansons), dies at 69
Dec 13th - Gustave le Bon, French psychologist (b. 1840)
Dec 16th - Gustave J Waffelaert, Flemish theologist/bishop of Bruges, dies at 82
Dec 18th - John T "Legs" Diamond, US gangster, murdered at 35
Dec 23rd - Wilson Bentley, American scientist (b. 1865)
Dec 26th - Melvil Dewey, inventor of the Dewey decimal classification (b. 1851)
Dec 27th - Peter Christian Lutkin, composer, dies at 73
Dec 27th - Walter Courvoisier, composer, dies at 56
Dec 30th - Tyrone Power Sr, actor (Big Trial, Test of Donald Norton), dies at 62