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From top to bottom, left to right: The catastrophic 1931 China floods submerge vast regions along the Yangtze, Huai, and Yellow Rivers, killing 1–4 million and becoming one of history’s deadliest natural disasters; the European banking crisis of 1931 begins with the collapse of Creditanstalt, spreading financial turmoil across Austria and Germany and deepening the Great Depression; the Mukden Incident in Manchuria sees a staged explosion by Japanese forces used to justify invasion, setting the stage for the Second Sino-Japanese War; the Hawke's Bay earthquake strikes New Zealand’s North Island, killing 256 and prompting a massive Art Deco rebuilding of Napier; the Ahmed Barzani revolt erupts in northern Iraq as Kurdish forces challenge the government, highlighting ethnic tensions; and the [[Empire State Building]] opens in New York City, becoming the world’s tallest skyscraper and a symbol of modern ambition.

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January

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February

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February 10: New Delhi becomes India's capital
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February 21: Ford Trimotor hijacked

March

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April

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May 1: Empire State Building is completed.
  • June–November – 1931 China flood: the Yangtze and Huai Rivers flood in a populous region, leaving an estimated 422,000 dead (150,000 drowned) with many more dying of consequential starvation and disease in the aftermath.[7]
  • June 5
    • German Chancellor Heinrich Brüning visits London, where he warns British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald that the collapse of the Austrian banking system, caused by the bankruptcy of the Creditanstalt, has left the entire German banking system on the verge of collapse.
    • Anti-Chinese rioting occurs in Pyongyang. Approximately 127 Chinese people are killed, 393 wounded, and a considerable number of properties are destroyed by Korean residents.[8]
  • June 14Saint-Philibert disaster: The overloaded pleasure craft Saint-Philibert, carrying trippers home to Nantes from the Île de Noirmoutier, sinks at the mouth of the River Loire in France; over 450 drown.
  • June 19
  • June 23July 1Wiley Post and Harold Gatty accomplish the first round-the-world flight in a single-engine plane, flying eastabout from Roosevelt Field, New York, in 8 days, 15 hours, 51 minutes.[9]

August

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September

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September 18: The Mukden Incident: Incident Museum in Shenyang

October

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November

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December

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Births

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January

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Robert Duvall
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Caterina Valente
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James Earl Jones
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Sam Cooke

February

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Boris Yeltsin
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Dries van Agt
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Isabel Perón
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James Dean

March

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Mikhail Gorbachev
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Chun Doo-hwan
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León Febres Cordero
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Rupert Murdoch
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William Shatner
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Leonard Nimoy

April

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Magda
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Willie Mays
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Carroll Baker
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Raúl Castro
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João Gilberto
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Marla Gibbs
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Fernando Henrique Cardoso
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Olympia Dukakis
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Leslie Caron
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Seyni Kountché

August

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Don King
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Barbara Eden

September

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Ian Holm
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Barbara Bain
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Larry Hagman

October

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Desmond Tutu
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A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

November

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Mwai Kibaki
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Adolfo Pérez Esquivel

December

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Rita Moreno

Deaths

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January

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Louise, Princess Royal
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Anna Pavlova
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Otto Wallach
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F. W. Murnau
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Joe Masseria

February

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March

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April

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Patriarch Damian I of Jerusalem
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Hamaguchi Osachi

August

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September

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Archduke Leopold Salvator of Austria
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Omar al-Mukhtar

October

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Thomas Edison

November

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December

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Nobel Prizes

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