The case of the Scottsboro Boys arose in Scottsboro in 1931, when nine black youths, ranging in age from twelve to twenty, were accused of raping two white women, Victoria Price and Ruby Bates, one of whom would later recant.

" The award came after receiving 46 nominations over a period of nine years beginning in 1923, 13 of which were submitted in 1931, the year he won the prize.

Louise actually gave birth to nine children — Bernadette, Jean ( born and died 1845 ), Toinette ( 1846 – 1892 ), Jean-Marie ( 1848 – 1851 ), Jean-Marie ( 1851 – 1919 ), Justin ( 1855 – 1865 ), Pierre ( 1859 – 1931 ), Jean ( born and died 1864 ), and a baby girl named Louise who died soon after her birth ( 1866 ).

( Moore's move to NSU prompted his former staff to quip NSU stood for " Norton Spares Used ") The Norton racing legend began in the Thirties: Of the nine Isle of Man Senior TTs ( 500 cc ) between 1931 and 1939, Norton won seven.

In 1931, after nine years of lobbying for repairs and preservation by local citizens, a formal operating license between Old Fort Niagara Association and the U. S. War Department established rights to preserve and operate the fort.

The Scottsboro Boys were nine black teenage boys accused of rape in Alabama in 1931.

At nine on Thursday morning April 9, 1931 the five defendants in Wednesday's earlier trial were all found guilty.

Boyd was born in 1931, one of nine siblings, as William Millar.

Without any family background in music ( the only real interest was his mother's slight interest in playing the piano ), Wilson began piano lessons in 1931 ( at the age of nine ), continuing them until 1938.

In addition to his talent as a pitcher, Ferrell was also one of the best-hitting pitchers in major league history, setting records for pitchers for most home runs in a season with nine, in 1931, and 37 for a career – his total of 38 homers ( 37 as a pitcher, 1 as an outfielder ) were ten more than Rick had in over five times as many at bats.

During the 1931 season Foster struck out ten men in a game on nine different occasions and posted a seasonal high of sixteen strikeouts in Vandergrift, Pennsylvania, on August 6.

Harrisburg has won nine Eastern League titles and is the first team in league history to win four titles in a row: 1927, 1928, 1931, 1987, 1993, and 1996-99.

Arena Gardens also hosted the Memorial Cup finals nine times from 1919 to 1931.

Construction took nine years, from 1922 to 1931 and cost the equivalent of.

Negri and Mdivani were married on May 14, 1927 ( less than nine months after Valentino's death ), and were divorced on April 2, 1931.

These 13 is a collection of short stories written by William Faulkner, and dedicated to his first daughter Alabama, who died nine days after her birth on January 11, 1931, and to his wife Estelle.

He continued to play for the club for the next nine years during which time he won the Argentine Primera División three times, in 1931, 1934 and 1935, as well as coming runner up in 1933, when he was the top goalscorer in the league and of South America scoring 34 goals.

After the coup d ' etat of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia in January 1929, the counties were abolished and replaced with nine Banates ( Slovene: Banovina ). April 1941, German troops march into Maribor Following the reorganization implemeted by the Yugoslav constitution of 1931, Slovene Styria was incorporated in the newly established Drava Banovina, which was more or less identical with Slovenia, with Ljubljana as its capital city.

The League was particularly active in organizing support for the " Scottsboro Boys ", nine black men sentenced to death in 1931 for crimes they had not committed.

Before the Second World War, Polish Radio operated one national channel – broadcast from 1931 from one of Europe's most powerful longwave transmitters, situated at Raszyn just outside Warsaw and destroyed in 1939 by the invading German Army – and nine regional stations:

The primary advance of the 1931 engine was that the crankshaft was drilled for oil passage to each of its nine large main bearings.

The party's most widely reported work in the South was its defense, through the ILD, of the " Scottsboro Boys ", nine black men arrested in 1931 after a fight with some white men also riding the rails, then convicted and sentenced to death for raping two white women later found on the same train.

During that first nine year stint with the Vols, Neyland had five undefeated seasons, all within a six year period ( 1927, 1928, 1929, 1931, and 1932 ).

The Cabinet was unable to reach an agreement on this controversial issue, with nine members opposing the reduction in the dole and eleven supporting it, and on 24 August 1931 the government formally resigned.

Resorts for naturalists were established at a rapid pace along the northern coast of Germany during the 1920s, and by 1931, Berlin itself had 40 naturalists ' societies and clubs.

Elected to the House of Commons in 1924 for the depressed northern industrial constituency of Stockton-on-Tees, Macmillan lost his seat in 1929 in the face of high regional unemployment, but returned in 1931.

The Mukden Incident, also known as the Manchurian Incident, was a staged event engineered by Japanese military personnel as a pretext for invading the northern part of China, known as Manchuria, in 1931.

Kashiwa, like much of northern Chiba Prefecture, saw the development of numerous military installations in the 1930s, notably after the Mukden Incident in 1931.

* The North Bank Depot in Portland was the northern terminal for the OER from 1912 to 1931.

* Enrique Creel ( 1854 – 1931 ), a wealthy businessman and landowner, an influential member of the powerful Creel-Terrazas Family that dominated the northern state of Chihuahua, of which he was governor from 1904 until the fall of the Díaz regime in 1911.

A new block of northern light roof type construction was added in 1931 for housing the textile machinery and equipment which was obtained through the kind offices of Sir Ness Wadia.

In 1931 Western Pacific opened a main line north from the Feather River Canyon to the Great Northern Railway in northern California.

He was promoted to organize Communist guerrilla movements in northern China from a headquarters in Tianjin in 1928, but he was arrested and imprisoned by Kuomintang police in 1931.

( 4 ) In northern Italy: see Kelly, 232-34 and 236-38 ; Whitaker, 143 ; and Cyrille Lambot, ed., < cite > North Italian Services of the Eleventh Century ,</ cite > Henry Bradshaw Society 67 ( London, 1931 for 1928 ), 5, 6, 16.

In July 1931, Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh visited the airport during their northern surveying tour.

Franco Cesana was an Italian Jew born on September 20, 1931 in the northern city of Mantova, shortly before Benito Mussolini came to power.

Combat experience in the Manchurian Incident of 1931 and subsequent actions in Manchuria and northern China reaffirmed the Japanese army of the utility of machine guns to provide covering fire for advancing infantry.

In 1931, the route's northern terminus was moved to downtown Toledo along its current route.

He was born on 29 November 1931 in Nquthu, northern Natal to Jaconia Mdlalose, a general dealer and Tabitha Mthembu, a tutor.

* February 21 – John Charles, Welsh footballer ( b. 1931 )

Lewis gave his radio speech responding to the 1961 census, which showed a decrease in the number of Welsh speakers from 36 % in 1931 to 26 %, out of a population of about 2. 5 million.

* A. J. Cook ( trade unionist ) ( 1883 – 1931 ), Welsh trade unionist

His New York stage debut in 1931 immediately led to film offers and Laughton's first Hollywood film was The Old Dark House ( 1932 ) with Boris Karloff, in which he played a bluff Yorkshire businessman marooned during a storm with other travelers in a creepy remote Welsh manor.

The Liverpool-born novelist James Hanley ( 1897 – 1985 ) lived in Wales from 1931 until 1963 and was buried there, but only a few of his many works have Welsh subject matters.

Tony Conran ( born 1931 ) is an important figure in this so-called second flowering as critic, poet, and translator of Welsh poetry.

A fourth college, Swansea ( now Swansea University ), was added in 1920 and in 1931 the Welsh National School of Medicine was incorporated.

William John Charles, CBE ( 27 December 1931 – 21 February 2004 ), commonly known as John Charles, was a Welsh international footballer best remembered for spells with Leeds United and Juventus.

The club developed a home of its own in 1931 at The Avenue in Sunbury, the first game was played on 5 December against London Welsh ; the result was an honourable 8 – 8 draw.

The percentage of Welsh speakers was: 96 ( 1891 ): 94 ( 1931 ): 78 ( 1971 ).

Cilgerran is also an electoral ward of Pembrokeshire ( including Manordeifi community ); its population was 1931 in 2001, with 53 % Welsh speakers.

* 1931 London Welsh

In the 1920s most Welsh victories were against France, then the weakest team in the Five Nations Championship ; but in 1931 France were excluded from the tournament over accusations of professionalism at club level and were not readmitted until after the 1939 tournament, just before international rugby was suspended because of the Second World War.

Sir John Theodore Houghton CBE FLSW FRS ( born 1931 ) is a Welsh scientist who was the co-chair of the Nobel Peace Prize winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's ( IPCC ) scientific assessment working group.

Hanley lived a large part of his writing life, from 1931 until 1963, in Wales, and wrote a number of works with a Welsh setting and subject matter.

* Bryn Jones ( footballer born 1931 ), Welsh footballer

Vernon Hartshorn ( 1872 – 13 March 1931 ) was a Welsh trades unionist and Labour Party politician who served as a Member of Parliament ( MP ) from 1918 until his death.

Robert Henderson ( 30 March 1865-28 January 1931 ) was a Welsh cricketer, a right-hand batsman and right-arm slow bowler.

In 1921 it became a full medical school with the name of the Welsh National School of Medicine, and in 1931 it became an independent institution of the University of Wales.

However Pontypool won back-to-back Welsh Club Championships in seasons 1931 / 32 and then 1932 / 33.