" Given its general release in January 1931, City Lights proved to be a popular and financial success — eventually grossing over $ 5 million.

On January 28, 1931, King Victor Emanuel finally declared Clipperton to be a French possession.

Claude Piron ( 26 February 1931 – 22 January 2008 ) was a psychologist and a translator for the United Nations ( from Chinese, English, Russian and Spanish into French ) from 1956 to 1961.

The film opened in January 1931 and was a hit.

Alexander then held staff appointments as ( from January 1931 ) GSO2 in the Directorate of Military Training at the War Office and ( 1932-4 ) GSO1 at HQ Northern Command, York, before being made in October 1934 a temporary brigadier and given command of the Nowshera Brigade, on the Northwest Frontier in India.

The Patterson-Gimlin film ( also referred to as simply the Patterson film ) is a famous short motion picture of an unidentified subject the film makers purported to be a " Bigfoot ", that was supposedly filmed on October 20, 1967, by Roger Patterson ( February 14, 1926 – January 15, 1972 ) and Robert Gimlin ( October 18, 1931 ) on the Klamath River outside of Orleans, California.

On 16 January 1931 Mineichirō Adachi was appointed President, and Gustavo Guerro Vice-President.

On January 7, 1931, Summerall ’ s successor, General Douglas MacArthur, confidentially reopened work on a new design, involving the Washington Commission of Fine Arts.

Stig ' Stikkan ' Erik Leopold Anderson ( nee Andersson ) ( 25 January 1931 – 12 September 1997 ) was born in Hova, Sweden, and is best known as the manager of the pop group ABBA.

She had earlier appeared on the October 26, 1931 cover along-side her husband and on the January 3, 1937 cover with her husband as " Man and Wife of the Year )" Both husband and wife were on good terms with Time Magazine senior editor and co-founder Henry Luce, who frequently tried to rally money and support from the American public for the Republic of China.

His calculations are as of January 1, 1931.

With the Labor Party split between Scullin's supporters and Langites, and with a very popular leader ( Lyons had a genial manner and the common touch ), the UAP won the subsequent parliamentary elections in December 1931 in a massive landslide which saw the two wings of the Labor Party cut down to 18 seats between them, and Lyons became Prime Minister in January 1932.

* January 15 – Nathan Söderblom, Swedish archbishop, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( d. 1931 )

* January 6 – Khalil Gibran, Lebanese poet, painter, and novelist ( d. 1931 )

* January 8 – James Milton Carroll, Baptist pastor, leader, historian, and author ( d. 1931 )

* January 29 – Kitasato Shibasaburō, Japanese physician and bacteriologist ( d. 1931 )

* In " Via the Time Accelerator " by F. J. Bridge ( a pseudonym of Francis J. Brueckel ), from the January 1931 issue of Amazing Stories, a time traveler in 1930 wonders if he should travel to the future, and then he sees himself returning from the future, which reassures him about the success of his voyage.

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 ).

And it worked: When Lawrence applied 2, 000 volts of electricity to his makeshift cyclotron on January 2, 1931, he got 80, 000-electron volt protons spinning around ( at about 1 % the speed of light ).

Baptized on January 1, 1922, she gave up her assistantship with Husserl to teach at the Dominican nuns ' schools school in Speyer from 1923 to 1931.

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.

Mao's attempts to purge the Red Army of those who might potentially oppose him led Mao to accuse Chen Yi, the commander and political commissar of the Jiangxi Military Region, as a counterrevolutionary, provoking a violent reaction against Mao's persecutions that became known as the " Futian Incident " in January 1931.

In September 1930 he became a member of the Reichstag and in January 1931 NSDAP Gauleiter in north Westphalia.

Lyons served as acting Treasurer from August 1930 to January 1931 while Scullin was in Britain for the Imperial Conference.

When Scullin returned in January 1931, he reappointed Theodore ( as it had become clear Theodore would not be charged with corruption ) to the Cabinet as Treasurer, which Lyons took as a rejection of his own policies.

Caltech undergraduates have historically been so apathetic to politics that there has been only one organized student protest in January 1968 outside the Burbank studios of NBC, in response to rumors that NBC was to cancel Star Trek.

Prime Minister Ahmed Shafik was sworn in as Prime Minister on January 29, 2011, in response to the 2011 Egyptian revolution ; he was succeeded on 5 March by Essam Sharaf, in response to continued protests.

In January 2012, SOE announced plans to shut down the server, but based on the " passionate " response of the player base, rescinded the decision and changed Al ' Kabor to a free-to-play subscription model.

n3td3v was banned from the Full disclosure mailing list on January 21 2009. n3td3v is thought to be banned in response to his widespread criticism of what he saw as irresponsible disclosure practices carried out by some security researchers, such as HD Moore.

In January 2010, five pan-democrats resigned from the Legislative Council of Hong Kong to trigger a by-election in response to the lack of progress in the move towards universal suffrage.

In January 1604, King James VI of Scotland and I of England convened the Hampton Court Conference where a new English version was conceived in response to the perceived problems of the earlier translations as detected by the Puritans, a faction within the Church of England.

Later, on January 3, 1891, Baum reverted to the subject in an editorial response to the event:

Shortly afterwards, on January 24, 1922, the Conservative movement publicized the 71-page response written by Ginzberg tackling the halakhic aspects of drinking grape juice instead of wine in light of the historical circumstances.

In the January 2010 version of the ranking, Nintendo scored 1. 9 points, at which, three days later, Nintendo issued a response that addressed primary concerns, highlighting a policy to indicate the materials used in each product, which makes end-of-life recycling of products easier.

The second edition of 3, 000 copies was quickly brought out on 7 January 1860, and incorporated numerous corrections as well as a response to religious objections by the addition of a new epigraph on page ii, a quotation from Charles Kingsley, and the phrase " by the Creator " amended to the closing sentence.

The government would go on to announce in January that UNBSJ would retain its liberal arts program and its association with UNB and the working group reported back to government in May, with its findings and government's response being made public in June.

Louis enlisted in the U. S. Army on January 10, 1942 in response to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

** In a response to Georges Bonnet's speech of January 26, German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, referring to Bonnet's alleged statement of December 6, 1938 accepting Eastern Europe as being in Germany's exclusive sphere of influence, protests that all French security commitments in that region are " now off limits ".

* January 4 – Hosni Mubarak, the president of Egypt, appoints a new government in response to accusations of corruption in the parliamentary elections in late 1995.

* January 7 – The Stimson Doctrine is proclaimed, in response to the Japanese invasion of Manchuria.

In response, on January 31, 1950, President Truman announced a crash program to develop a fusion bomb.

SAS was founded in January 2000 by five ordinary women from around the country, in response to the media portrayal that the Million Mom March spoke for all women with regard to firearms rights.

In January 1964, Nasser called for an Arab League summit in Cairo, with the stated purpose of establishing a unified Arab response against Israel's plans to divert water from the Jordan River to irrigate the Negev Desert.

The creation of this dam was a response to the flood of January 1916.

In response to Palme's remarks in a meeting with the US ambassador to Sweden ahead of the Socialist International Meeting in Helsingor in January 1976, Kissinger asked the US ambassador to "(...) convey my personal appreciation to Palme for his frank presentation (...).

It became autonomous in 1990 ; this was in response to a European directive which aimed at making competition mandatory in public services from the 1 January 1998.

Donnie Darko had its first screening at the Sundance Film Festival on January 19, 2001, and debuted in United States theaters in October 2001 to a tepid response.

This fire tower replaced a series of observation buildings, the original being a flimsy lookout stand built in 1870 on the same site, built in response to a series of devastating fires: April 1869, November 1869, October 1871, August 1872 and January 1874 that swept through the early mining camp.

The name " Stuckism " was coined in January 1999 by Charles Thomson in response to a poem read to him several times by Billy Childish.