what were the news headlines in 1931?

Answer 1

January-February
January 4 - Elly Beinhorn begins her flight to Africa
January 6 - Thomas Edison submits his last patent application.
January 22 - Sir Isaac Isaacs sworn in as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia
January 25 - Mohandas Gandhi released again
January 27 - Pierre Laval forms a government in France
February 3 - Napier earthquake - much of the New Zealand city of Napier is destroyed in an earthquake measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale
February 10 - New Delhi becomes the capital of India
February 16 - Pehr Evind Svinhufvud elected president of Finland
February 20 - California gets the go-ahead by the U.S. Congress to build the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.
February 21 - Peruvian revolutionaries hijack a Ford Trimotor aeroplane and demand that the pilot drop propaganda leaflets over Lima
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March-April
March 1 - USS Arizona (BB-39) placed back in full commission after a refit
March 3 - The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the United States National anthem.
March 4 - British viceroy of India and Mohandas Gandhi negotiate
March 7 - New House of Representatives opened in Helsinki, Finland
March 11 - Ready for Labour and Defence of the USSR programme, abbreviated as GTO, is introduced in the Soviet Union
March 17 - Nevada legalizes gambling
March 25 - The Scottsboro Boys are arrested in Alabama and charged with rape.
March 27 - British writer Arnold Bennet dies in Paris when he drinks local water to prove it safe to drink - but is poisoned
March 31 - An earthquake destroys Managua, Nicaragua killing 2,000.
April 6 - Portuguese government declares martial law in Madeira and in the Azores because of an attempted military takeover in Funchal
April 9 - Execution of Argentinean anarchist Severino Digiovanni
April 14 - 2nd Spanish Republic proclaimed in Spain
April 18 - An incorporation of Cheverly, Maryland is made.
April 22 - Austria, Britain, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Sweden and USA recognize the Spanish Republic
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May-August
May 1 - Construction of the Empire State Building is completed in New York City
May 4 - Kemal Atatürk re-elected president of Turkey
May 13 - Paul Doumer elected president of France
June 12 - Charlie Parker equals J.T. Hearne's record for the earliest date to reach 100 wickets.
June 14 - Yacht St Philiebert sinks in river Loire in France - over 500 drown
June 23 - Wiley Post and Harold Gatty take off from Roosevelt Field, Long Island in an attempt to accomplish the first round-the-world flight in a single-engine plane. [1]
July 1 - Official opening of Milan Central Station
July 16 - Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia signs the first constitution of Ethiopia
Huang He floods kill between 850,000 and 4,000,000 people - the most deadly historic natural disaster.
August 24 - Labour Government of Ramsay MacDonald resigns in Britain - replaced by National Government of people drawn from all parties also under MacDonald.
August 31 - Yangtze River floods - 23 million made homeless
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September-December
September 5 - John Thomson, soccer player, dies in an accident during a Celtic - Rangers match
September 15 - The Invergordon Mutiny: Strikes in Royal Navy due to decreased salaries
September 18 - Mukden Incident. After that, Japan uses it to occupy Manchuria.
September 18 - Geli Raubal is found shot dead in Hitler's apartment
November 7 - Chinese People's Republic proclaimed by Mao Tse Tung.
November 8 - French gendarmes launch a large scale raid against Corsican bandits
November 8 - Panama Canal closed for couple of weeks due to damage caused by a number of earthquakes
December 10 - Niceto Alcalá-Zamora elected president of Spanish republic
December 11 - The British Parliament enacts the Statute of Westminster, which establishes a status of legislative equality between the self-governing dominions of the Commonwealth of Australia, the Dominion of Canada, the Irish Free State, Newfoundland, the Dominion of New Zealand, and the Union of South Africa.
December 13 - Wakatsuki Reijiro resigned as Prime Minister of Japan.
December 26 - Phi Iota Alpha, the oldest existing Latino fraternity is founded.