The proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic was much celebrated in the city on 14 April 1931.

Between 1883 and 1931 Malta had a railway line that connected the capital city of Valletta to the army barracks at Mtarfa / Mdina and a number of towns and villages.

The yellow and blue jerseys, the same colors found on Philadelphia's city flag, are based on those worn by the Philadelphia Eagles in the team's inaugural season, and were the same colors used by the former Frankford Yellow Jackets franchise prior to their suspension of operations in 1931.

On 14 October 1931, Pretoria achieved official city status.

By 1931, the city had 195, 000 inhabitants, making it the fifth largest city in Poland with varied industries, such as Elektrit, a factory that produced radio receivers.

In 1921, Nice then became the eleventh most populous town of France, then in 1931, the eighth, before being ranked sixth in 1946 ; thereafter the city reached its current demographic level thanks to the arrival of sixty thousand people including French citizens from Algeria.

Novello was born in Cardiff, Wales, to David Davies ( c. 1852 — 1931 ), a rent collector for the city council, and his wife, Clara Novello Davies, an internationally-known singing teacher and choral conductor.

In 1931, 40, 000 Jews lived in the city, nearly half the city's inhabitants.

He was also a poet of Paris, and later in his career he published two books about the city, D ' après Paris ( 1931 ) and Le piéton de Paris ( 1939 ).

All of today's lower city was annexed by Nizhny Novgorod in 1929 – 1931.

In 1931, shortly after the Mukden Incident Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist Government ordered the museum to make preparations to evacuate its most valuable pieces out of the city to prevent them from falling into the hands of the Imperial Japanese Army.

The 1931 Polish Census reported the German population in the city was 117, 200 ; according to the German historian Hugo Rasmus, only about 10, 000 Germans remained by 1939.

In 1931, the Spanish Second Republic gave the castle to the city of Palma, along with the forest surrounding it.

Originally named Fulford in 1926 after Captain William H. Fulford of the United States Coast Guard, the city was incorporated in 1927 as Fulford, but was renamed North Miami Beach in 1931.

It was developed gradually from 1921 to 1925, and incorporated as a city in 1931.

The city fell into deep hard times, and was called a " depressed industrial desert " by Harper's Magazine in 1931, as the Great Depression deepened.

New Baltimore incorporated as a village in 1867 and as a city in 1931.

In 1931, a station located on the Upper 96 Ranch, four miles east of Fort McPherson in Lincoln County, was donated to the city.

Linwood was incorporated as a city on April 27, 1931, replacing Linwood borough.

Linwood was incorporated as a city in 1931, although the community encompassing the area traces its existence to colonial times.

In 1931 Bexley became a city and the police department had grown to six officers.

Grandview Heights became a separate village in 1906, and a city in 1931.

Aalto also entered several architectural competitions for prestigious state public buildings, both in Finland and abroad, including the two competitions for the Finnish Parliamentary building in 1923 and 1924, the extension to the University of Helsinki in 1931, and the building to house the League of Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1926-27.

Andrew R. Cobb also designed University of King's College buildings including the main building and chapel, 1928 ; dormitory, 1931.

She and Lang co-wrote all of his movies from 1921 through 1933, including 1922's Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler ( Dr. Mabuse the Gambler ), which ran for over four hours in two parts in the original version and was the first in the Dr. Mabuse trilogy, 1924's five-hour Die Nibelungen, the famous 1927 film Metropolis, and the 1931 classic, M, his first " talking " picture.

* 1931 – TWA Flight 599 crashes near Bazaar, Kansas killing 8 including Knute Rockne, head football coach at the University of Notre Dame

* The Quadrangle, a group of five museums in Springfield, Massachusetts, including the United States ' first planetarium ( 1931 ,) and the Dr. Seuss National Memorial Sculpture Garden.

Eight of the top party leaders, including Tim Buck, were arrested and convicted under Section 98 in 1931.

The Chinese Communist Party followed the Soviet Union in including the right of secession in its 1931 constitution in order to entice ethnic nationalities and Tibet into joining.

In his lifetime, Shoghi Effendi translated into English many of the writings of the Báb, Bahá ' u ' lláh and ` Abdu ' l-Bahá, including the Hidden Words in 1929, the Kitáb-i-Íqán in 1931, Gleanings in 1935 and Epistle to the Son of the Wolf in 1941.

Prior to World War II, 12-cylinder engines were found in many luxury models, including cars from: Packard 1916 to 1923, Daimler 1926 to 1937, Hispano-Suiza 1931, Cadillac 1931, Auburn 1932, Franklin 1932, Lincoln 1932, Rolls-Royce 1936, and Pierce-Arrow also 1936.

France The total includes 1, 186, 000 killed or missing in action and died of wounds The figure for total military dead of 1, 397, 800 is from a study published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in 1931 The total includes 71, 100 French Colonial Forces, 4, 600 foreign nationals, and 28, 600 war-related military deaths occurring from 11 / 11 / 18 to 6 / 1 / 1919 The UK War Office in 1922 estimated French losses as 1, 385, 300 dead and missing, including 58, 000 colonial soldiers The U. S. War Department in 1924 estimated 1, 357, 800 killed and died The names of the soldiers who died for France during World War I are listed on-line by the French government.

Warner Bros. released a large number of color films from 1929 to 1931, including The Show of Shows ( 1929 ), Sally ( 1929 ), Bright Lights ( 1930 ), Golden Dawn ( 1930 ), Hold Everything ( 1930 ), Song of the Flame ( 1930 ), Song of the West ( 1930 ), The Life of the Party ( 1930 ), Sweet Kitty Bellairs ( 1930 ), Under A Texas Moon ( 1930 ), Bride of the Regiment ( 1930 ), Viennese Nights ( 1931 ), Woman Hungry ( 1931 ), Kiss Me Again ( 1931 ), Fifty Million Frenchmen ( 1931 ), and Manhattan Parade ( 1932 ).

He married Matilda Elizabeth Griswold and had three daughters and three sons, including: Frederick Frelinghuysen, George Griswold Frelinghuysen ( 1851-1936 ), Theodore Frelinghuysen (?- 1931 ), Matilda Griswold Frelinghuysen who married Henry Winthrop Gray, a daughter who married Charles L. McCauley, and Lucy Frelinghuysen.

By the mid 1930s, more than a dozen different climbing routes had been established on Grand Teton including the northeast ridge in 1931 by Glenn Exum.

Zhou " acknowledged " his mistakes in compromising with Li in January 1931 and offered to resign from the Politburo, but was retained while other senior CCP leaders, including Li Lisan and Qu Qiubai, were removed.

She was briefly paired with March, and they made four films together, including Dorothy Arzner's Honor Among Lovers ( 1931 ).

Shearer won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in The Divorcee, and a series of highly successful pre-Code films followed, including Let Us Be Gay ( 1930 ), Strangers May Kiss ( 1931 ), A Free Soul ( 1931 ), Private Lives ( 1931 ) and Riptide ( 1934 ).

Alfons Maria Jakob ( 2 July 1884, Aschaffenburg / Bavaria – 17 October 1931, Hamburg ) was a German neurologist with important contributions on neuropathology.

By 1931, the National Socialist German Workers ' Party was starting to gain influence and control in German politics.

* Walter Benz ( b. 1931 ), German mathematician known for his work on geometric planes

The German physicist Ernst Ruska and the electrical engineer Max Knoll constructed the prototype electron microscope in 1931, capable of four-hundred-power magnification ; the apparatus was a practical application of the principles of electron microscopy.

* 1893 – Lillian Leitzel, German acrobat and strongwoman ( d. 1931 )

* 1931 – Viktor Schwanneke, German director and actor ( b. 1880 )

* 1931 – Johannes Rau, German politician ( d. 2006 )

Moreover, the pact erased the legal distinction between war and peace since the signatories, having renounced the use of war began to wage wars without declaring them as evidenced by the U. S. intervention in Central America, the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931, the Italian invasion of Abyssinia in 1935, the Soviet invasion of Finland in 1939, and the German and Soviet Union invasions of Poland.

An amateur photographer and Olympic sailor, he was an early supporter of Nazism among German industrialists, joining the SS in 1931, and never disavowing his allegiance to Hitler.

* 1876 – Hermann Müller, German politician, 12th Chancellor of Germany ( d. 1931 )

* 1931 – Janosch, German artist and author

* 1931 – Hanno Drechsler, German politician ( d. 2003 )

Jerzy Lanc, a teacher and Polish national who had moved to Masuria in 1931 to establish a Polish school in Piassutten ( Piasutno ), died in his home of carbon monoxide poisoning, most likely murdered by local German nationalists.

Details of the case were not released to the press, but the evidence against Nurmi was believed be the sworn statements from German race promoters that Nurmi had received $ 250 – 500 per race when running in Germany in autumn 1931.

* 1931 – Hans-Ulrich Wehler, German historian

Georg Wilhelm Pabst produced a German film version in 1931 called Die 3-Groschen-Oper, and the French version of his film was again rendered as L ' Opéra de quat ' sous.

Murnau, German film director ( d. 1931 )

* March 27 – Otto Wallach, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1931 )

* September 18 – Wilhelm von Gloeden, German photographer ( d. 1931 )

The Austrian and German experiences, as well as British budgetary and political difficulties, were among the factors that destroyed confidence in sterling, which occurred in mid-July 1931.

Turandot quickly spread to other venues: Rome ( Teatro Costanzi, April 29, four days after the Milan premiere ), Buenos Aires ( Teatro Colón, June 23 ), Dresden ( September 6, in German ), Venice ( La Fenice, September 9 ), Vienna ( October 14 ; Mafalda Salvatini in the title role ), Berlin ( November 8 ), New York ( Metropolitan Opera, November 16 ), Brussels ( La Monnaie, 17 December, in French ), Naples ( Teatro San Carlo, January 17, 1927 ), Parma ( February 12 ), Turin ( March 17 ), London ( Covent Garden, June 7 ), San Francisco ( September 19 ), Bologna ( October 1927 ), Paris ( March 29, 1928 ), Australia 1928, Moscow ( Bolshoi Theatre, 1931 ).

A German Oriental Society and University of Pennsylvania team led by Oscar Reuther excavated at Ctesiphon in 1928 – 29 and 1931 – 32, mainly at Qasr bint al-Qadi on the western part of the site.

Lorre caused an international sensation with his portrayal of a serial killer who preys on little girls in the German film M ( 1931 ).