* On March 31, 1931, Notre Dame Coach Knute Rockne was killed on Transcontinental & Western Air Flight 599 from Kansas City to Los Angeles when the Fokker Trimotor broke up in a storm over Bazaar, Kansas.

He started the Bendix Aviation Corporation in 1929, and founded the Transcontinental Bendix Air Race in 1931.

The Home Office removed gunpowder from its list of Permitted Explosives ; and shortly afterwards, on 31 December 1931, the former Curtis & Harvey's Glynneath gunpowder factory at Pontneddfechan, in Wales, closed down, and it was demolished by fire in 1932.

* Jørgen Olrik & Hans Ræder, published 1931, title: Saxonis Gesta Danorum

* Jørgen Olrik & H Ræder, Saxonis Gesta Danorum, Levin & Munkesgaard, Copenhagen, 1931

1931: The Indian Redcross society established MCH Bureau in association with the Lady Chelmsford League & Victories memorial Scholarship Fund & Co-ordinated the MCH work throughout the country.

* In the Marx Brothers ' 1931 comedy Monkey Business, Harpo joins a live Punch & Judy show ( performed by an uncredited Al Flosso, a famous American Punchman ) while trying to avoid capture by the crew members of the ship he has stowed away on.

In the 1920s John Fothergill ( 1876 – 1957 ) was the innkeeper of the Spread Eagle in Thame, Berkshire, and published his autobiography: An Innkeeper's Diary ( London: Chatto & Windus, 1931 ).

The stadium, which was located at 16th & Bryant St. across from the Stempel's Bakery, had been the home of the Pacific Coast League ( PCL ) San Francisco Seals, a minor league affiliate of the Boston Red Sox, from 1931 to 1957.

* April 19 – Javier Solis, Mexican ranchera & bolero singer ( b. 1931 )

* EG & G, an American defense contractor, founded in 1931 and defunct as a name since 2009

In 1931, the D & RGW acquired the Denver and Salt Lake Western Railroad ( a company in name only ), a subsidiary of the Denver and Salt Lake Railroad ( D & SL ) which had acquired the rights to build a connection between the two railroads.

* Brooke, Rupert, Letters From America with a Preface by Henry James ( London: Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd, 1931 ; repr.

In 1931 Columbia merged with the Gramophone Company to form Electric & Musical Industries Ltd ( EMI ).

New York: Rand McNally & Company, 1931.

* Excelsior Motor Manufacturing & Supply Company ( Chicago, IL ), a U. S. motorcycle manufacturer operating in Chicago from 1907 to 1931

The CA & S was placed in receivership on August 5, 1931, and incremental abandonment occurred over subsequent years.

While functioning as a narrator of The Blue Coal Radio Revue, the character was recycled by Street & Smith in October 1931, to oddly serve as the storyteller of Love Story Hour.

In 1931, the Glen Alden Coal Co., successor to the L & W-B, erected a third breaker.

He was granted two U. S. patents in 1931 ( 1, 798, 289 & 1, 814, 535 ) for a coin selecting device and a braking mechanism.

: Homonyms are not: Adelomya Mulsant & Verreaux, 1866 ( Aves ), Adelomyia Bonaparte, 1854 ( Aves ), Adelomys Gervais, 1853 ( Mammalia ), Adolomys Shevyreva, 1989 ( Mammalia ), Adulomya Kuroda, 1931 ( Bivalvia ).

In 1931 the SP & S line to Bend was connected via Klamath Falls, Oregon to Bieber, California, providing a shortcut to connect with the Western Pacific Railroad in Northern California.

When the Gramophone Company merged with the Columbia Graphophone Company ( including Columbia's subsidiary label Parlophone ) in 1931, the new Anglo-American group was incorporated as Electric & Musical Industries Ltd. At this point RCA had a majority shareholding in the new company, giving RCA chair David Sarnoff a seat on the EMI board.

Zachodniej Białorusi in Przemiany narodowościowe na kresach wschodnich II Rzeczypospolitej 1931 – 1948 ( Nationality relations in 1939-1948 on the territory of so-called Western Belarus ), Toruń, 2004, ISBN 83-7322-861-6

In 1971, the Athletics won the American League's Western Division title, their first first-place finish since 1931, when they played in Philadelphia.

In 1931 a comedy film East Lynne on the Western Front was made in which British soldiers fighting in the First World War stage a burlesqued version of the story.

In Blackford County, passenger service on the Lake Erie and Western Railroad line ( owned by the Nickel Plate Road by that time ) was discontinued in 1931, and the last interurban train ran on January 18, 1941.

Rātana candidates stood in the 1928 and 1931 General Election and in the 1930 by-election in Western Maori following the death of Maui Pomare, but they did not succeed.

At the outbreak of World War II, the Soviet military was not yet at a level of readiness suitable for winning a war: Joseph Stalin had said in 1931 that Soviet industry was " 50 to 100 years behind " the Western powers.

* Western / Ayrshire League Cup winners: 1923 – 24, 1931 – 32, 1938 – 39, 1988 – 89, 1994 – 95, 2009 – 10

: Western Division championships: 27 — 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1919, 1920, 1923, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1936, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1934, 1936, 1951, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1972, 1976, 1989, 1997, 2007, 2009, 2010

After winning both the Los Angeles and Western Opens in 1931, Dudley had his best year in 1933, when he was a quarter-finalist in the PGA Championship and won selection to the Ryder Cup team ( having also played on the 1929 team ).

* 1931 ( 2 ) Los Angeles Open, Western Open

He won the U. S. Open Chess Championship in 1931 at Tulsa ; this event was known as the Western Open at the time.

From mid decade until the arrival of Spain's Second Republic in 1931, the Generation's poets reached the apex of their experimental writings, manifesting a clear awareness of the international vanguard “— isms ” sweeping major Western capitals of the day.

From 1910 to 1931 Herschel Island was subdistrict headquarters for the RCMP in the Western Arctic.

The Light Crust Doughboys is a quintessential American Western swing band from Texas organized in 1931 by the Burrus Mill and Elevator Company in Saginaw, Texas.

He was a repeated contributor to American Speech by 1931 ; his first extended work, Lexical Evidence from Folk Epigraphy in Western North America: A Glossarial Study of the Low Element in the English Vocabulary, was privately published in Paris in 1935 since its description of bathroom graffiti was considered too racy for American publishers.

Several left opposition groups were formed-the Communist League in Western Saigon in May 1931, Left Opposition and Indochinese Communism.

* Norman House, Albany Western Australia's first Toc H house ( 1931 )

A Tibetan Buddhist monk and scholar ; Geshe Kelsang has written twenty books that aim to provide Western Dharma practitioners with essential Buddhist texts ; some are books for beginners such as Transform Your Life and How to Solve Our Human Problems, books about the Mahayana path like Universal Compassion ( Lojong ), and books on Vajrayana ( Tantra ) like Mahamudra Tantra ; ( born 1931, in Tibet ).

Farman Gurban oglu Salmanov ( Azeri: Fərman Salmanov ; ; July 28, 1931, Morul – March 31, 2007, Moscow ) was an Azerbaijani geologist famous for discovering great oil fields in Western Siberia in Tyumen Oblast in 1961.

During his tenure, Universal had great success with All Quiet on the Western Front ( 1930 ), Dracula ( 1931 ), Waterloo Bridge ( 1931 ), Frankenstein ( 1931 ), East of Borneo ( 1931 ), The Mummy ( 1932 ), The Old Dark House ( 1932 ), The Invisible Man ( 1933 ), Imitation of Life ( 1934 ) ( a film which Laemmle Jr. did not personally produce ), and Bride of Frankenstein ( 1935 ).