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1931 Calendar Trivia

The next time you can reuse this calendar will be on year 2026. Both calendars will be exactly the same! This is assuming you are not interested in the dates for Easter and other irregular holidays that are based on a solar cycle.

April 4 (4/4), June 6 (6/6), August 8 (8/8), October 10 (10/10), December 12 (12/12), and the last day of February always fall on the same day of the week in any given year. This is called the ‘Doomsday rule’. Check these dates using the full 12-month calendar below to verify.

1931 Calendar

Historical Events Of 1931

• February 17, 1931 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Sheep in Chinese astrology.
• March 14, 1931 – Alam Ara, India’s first talking film, is released.
• March 23, 1931 – Bhagat Singh, Shivaram Rajguru and Sukhdev Thapar are hanged for the killing of a deputy superintendent of police during the Indian struggle for independence.
• March 31, 1931 – TWA Flight 599 crashes near Bazaar, Kansas, killing eight, including University of Notre Dame head football coach Knute Rockne.
• April 14, 1931 – First edition of The Highway Code published in Great Britain.
• June 23, 1931 – Wiley Post and Harold Gatty take off from Roosevelt Field, Long Island in an attempt to circumnavigate the world in a single-engine plane.
• July 1, 1931 – United Airlines begins service (as Boeing Air Transport).
• July 24, 1931 – A fire at a home for the elderly in Pittsburgh kills 48 people.
• August 24, 1931 – Resignation of the United Kingdom’s Second Labour Government. Formation of the UK National Government.
• October 1, 1931 – Spain adopted women’s suffrage.

Who Were Born On 1931?

• January 5, 1931 – Alvin Ailey, American dancer and choreographer; founded the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (d. 1989)
• February 12, 1931 – Janwillem van de Wetering, Dutch-American author and translator (d. 2008)
• March 23, 1931 – Yevgeny Grishin, Russian speed skater (d. 2005)
• April 1, 1931 – Rolf Hochhuth, German author and playwright
• April 15, 1931 – Kenneth Bloomfield, Irish civil servant
• September 3, 1931 – Dick Motta, American basketball player and coach
• September 9, 1931 – Zoltán Latinovits, Hungarian actor and author (d. 1976)
• November 15, 1931 – John Kerr, American actor, singer, and lawyer (d. 2013)
• December 9, 1931 – William Reynolds, American actor
• December 14, 1931 – Jon Elia, Pakistani philosopher, poet, and scholar (d. 2002)