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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 3, 1931 – The Hawke’s Bay earthquake, New Zealand’s worst natural disaster, kills 258.
• February 17, 1931 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Sheep in Chinese astrology.
• February 20, 1931 – The Congress of the United States approves the construction of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge by the state of California.
• March 5, 1931 – The British Viceroy of India, Governor-General Edward Frederick Lindley Wood and Mohandas Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi) sign an agreement envisaging the release of political prisoners and allowing salt to be freely used by the poorest members of the population.
• March 14, 1931 – Alam Ara, India’s first talking film, is released.
• April 14, 1931 – First edition of The Highway Code published in Great Britain.
• August 24, 1931 – Resignation of the United Kingdom’s Second Labour Government. Formation of the UK National Government.
• October 24, 1931 – The George Washington Bridge opens to public traffic.
• December 11, 1931 – Statute of Westminster 1931: The British Parliament establishes legislative equality between the UK and the Dominions of the Commonwealth—Australia, Canada, Newfoundland, New Zealand, South Africa, and Ireland.

Who Were Born On 1931?

• January 7, 1931 – Mirja Hietamies, Finnish skier (d. 2013)
• January 22, 1931 – Galina Zybina, Russian shot putter and javelin thrower
• February 1, 1931 – Boris Yeltsin, Russian politician, 1st President of Russia (d. 2007)
• February 17, 1931 – Jiřina Jirásková, Czech actress and singer (d. 2013)
• May 1, 1931 – Naim Attallah, Palestinian author and publisher
• June 7, 1931 – Virginia McKenna, English actress and author
• October 15, 1931 – Pauline Perry, Baroness Perry of Southwark, English academic and politician
• November 3, 1931 – Yon Hyong-muk, North Korean soldier and politician, 7th Premier of North Korea (d. 2005)
• November 26, 1931 – Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Argentinian painter, sculptor, and activist, Nobel Prize laureate
• December 9, 1931 – Paddi Edwards, English-American actress (d. 1999)