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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 931st year of the 2nd millennium, the 31st year of the 20th century, and the 2nd year of the 1930s decade.
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 – 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 ...
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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 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]
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