** August 31 ( Eastern Orthodox liturgics )

** Zoram: the Apostate Nephites religious ( see Alma 31 )

** Panama ( July 31, 1973, renegotiated and expanded for ( January 1, 2009 )

** registered in other countries: 31

** Bentenjima, Wakkanai, Hokkaidō – 45 ° 31 ' 35 ″ N, 141 ° 55 ' 09 ″ E

** January 31 ( Eastern Orthodox liturgics )

** May 31 ( Eastern Orthodox liturgics )

** March 31 ( Eastern Orthodox liturgics )

** October 31 ( Eastern Orthodox liturgics )

** 31 July 1945 – 8 June 1946: Hans Neureuther, Non-party

** Episode 31 " How To Die For Nothing " ( Writer )

** Episode 31 " The Kidder " ( Writer )

** Type U 19, Type U 23, Type U 27, Type U 31, Type U 43, Type U 51, Type U 57, Type U 63, Type U 66, Type Mittel U

** Futurama: The series ' protagonist, Fry, is accidentally cryogenically frozen on December 31, 1999.

** The Family Guy episode " Da Boom " is set on December 31, 1999.

** Major League Soccer kicks off in front of an overflow crowd of 31, 683 packed in Spartan Stadium, to witness the historic first game.

** Joseph Kittinger parachutes from a balloon over New Mexico at an aititude of about 102, 800 feet ( 31, 333 meters ).

** The Soviet Union executes 31 people for alleged Trotskyism.

** Sniper Charles Whitman kills 13 people and wounds 31 from atop the University of Texas at Austin Main Building tower, after earlier killing his wife and mother.

** An earthquake in the city of Tuscania, Italy kills 31.

** The King's Cross fire on the London Underground kills 31.

** the area of a square with side 31. 6 m.

** December 31, 870 – Englefield

** December 31 – at the battle of Harenc, the crusaders defeat the troops from Aleppo trying to come to the relief of besieged Antioch.

** Weight: 14. 2 kg ( 31. 3 lb )

** Fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster ( Drosophila embryogenesis )

** Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq refuses to allow UNSCOM inspectors to use its own aircraft to fly into Iraq, and begins military operations in the demilitarized zone between Iraq and Kuwait, and the northern Iraqi no-fly zones.

** George Edward MacKenzie Skues, British inventor of nymph fly fishing ( b. 1858 )

** Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappear after taking off from New Guinea during Earhart's attempt to become the first woman to fly around the world.

** Six armed passengers hijack a Romanian passenger plane and force it to fly to Vienna.

** Gaby Kennard becomes the first Australian woman to fly non-stop around the world.

** Wiley Post becomes the first person to fly solo around the world, traveling in 7 days 18 hours 45 minutes.

** Elm Farm Ollie becomes the first cow to fly in an airplane, and also the first cow to be milked in an airplane.

** Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright fly the first motor-driven airplane

** Probotor ( voiced by Frank Welker )-An alien fly who was Rasslor's manager.

** Round-the-world tickets, enabling travelers to fly over the world for a relatively low price.

** The Monkees fly in to London at the start of their concerts at the Empire Pool, Wembley.

** The character of Young Lucius is a much more important figure in the adaptation than in the play ; he is present throughout Act 1, he retrieves the murder weapon after the death of Mutius ; it is his knife which Titus uses to kill the fly ; he aids in the capture of Chiron and Demetrius ; he is present throughout the final scene.

** A fishing fly that simulates the appearance of a land insect is referred to as a terrestrial fly.

** Allied aircraft begin a bombing campaign against Pantelleria, the first of 5, 285 sorties they will fly against the island before it is invaded on June 11.

** Allied aircraft begin a final period of heavy bombing of Pantelleria during the ten days prior to the scheduled invasion of the island, during which they will fly 3, 647 sorties.

** Six U. S. Army Air Forces B-24 Liberators take off from Attu to fly the 1, 300 miles ( 2, 093 km ) round-trip to attack the Japanese base at Paramushiro, in what would have been the first Allied air raid against the Kurile Islands ; however, they are diverted en route to join B-25 Mitchells in attacking a convoy of Japanese transports, suffering one aircraft damaged before returning to Attu.

** Allied transport aircraft carrying paratroopers from North Africa to Sicily again fly low in darkness over Allied ships and ground forces, and again come under friendly fire.

** U. S. Navy aircraft from the carriers,, and fly six strikes totalling 275 sorties against Marcus Island, destroying several Japanese Mitsubishi G4M ( Allied reporting name " Betty ") bombers on the ground in exchange for the loss of four American aircraft.

** The British escort carriers Attacker, Battler, Hunter, and Stalker fly off 26 Supermarine Seafires to operate from Paestum airfield in the Salerno beachhead, then withdraw to Palermo, Sicily, to refuel.

** Task Force 38 aircraft fly 1, 164 sorties in strikes on Formosa, the Pescadores, and the Sakishima Gunto, sinking five tankers and five other merchant ships and destroying two Japanese aircraft in the air and 104 on the ground.

** Task Force 38 aircraft conduct an early morning night strike against Formosa, sinking a large tanker in exchange for the loss of three U. S. aircraft, then fly 682 sorties during daylight hours to strike and conduct photographic reconnaissance missions against Okinawa, the Sakishima Gunto, Ie Shima, and Amami O Shima, destroying 28 Japanese aircraft, all on the ground.

** Northwest Airlines Flight 6231, a Boeing 727-251 chartered to fly to Buffalo, New York, to pick up the Baltimore Colts National Football League team, stalls and crashes near Haverstraw, New York, after icing disables its pitot tube, causing its flight crew to receive incorrect airspeed readings.

** a batted ball is caught in flight ( fly out ); or