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May 7 – "Siege of West 91st Street": 18-year-old serial murderer Francis "Two Gun" Crowley surrenders after a 2-hour gun battle with New York City Police Department witnessed by 15,000 bystanders. May 20 – Lake of the Ozarks completed.
1931 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1931st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the ...
1931 – Japanese invasion of Manchuria, start of World War II in the Pacific. 1931 – The Whitney Museum of American Art opens to the public in New York City. 1931 - “The Star-Spangled Banner” becomes official U.S. national anthem; 1931 - Hoover vetoes Veteran Bonus; 1931 - Pearl Buck publishes The Good Earth making heroes of the Chinese ...
Year: 2,294 banks went down with nearly $1.7 billion in deposits. 28,285 businesses failed for a daily rate of 133 failures in 1931. Unemployment rises to 16%. Unemployment rises to 16%. US nominal GDP falls to $77 billion, and growth is −8.5%.
The best-selling books of every year in the United States were as follows: [15] 1930: Cimarron by Edna Ferber; 1931: The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck; 1932: The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck; 1933: Anthony Adverse by Hervey Allen; 1934: Anthony Adverse by Hervey Allen; 1935: Green Light by Lloyd C. Douglas; 1936: Gone with the Wind by Margaret ...
1931 in the United States by state or territory (51 C) * 1931 events in the United States by month (9 C) / 1931 disestablishments in the United States (28 C, 6 P)
The year 1931 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. Astronomy. French astronomer Bernard Lyot invents the coronagraph.
11 August – A run on the pound leads to a political and economic crisis in Britain. (See European banking crisis of 1931) 24 August – Labour Government of Ramsay MacDonald resigns and is replaced by a National Government of people drawn from all parties also under MacDonald, as suggested by King George V earlier in the year. [14]