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NEWS - MEMORIES - CULTURE From 1931
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Construction is
completed on the 102-story Empire State Building in New York City
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Spain becomes a republic
with the overthrow of King Alfonso XIII
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British parliament enacts
the Statute
of Westminster, legalizing dominion equality with Britain.
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Mukden Incident begins
Japanese occupation of
Manchuria
- The planned capital
of New Delhi
opens in
India
- Gangster
Al Capone
sentenced to 11 years in prison for tax evasion (freed in
1939;
dies
in 1947)
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Scottsboro trial begins,
exposing depth of Southern racism.
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“The Star Spangled Banner”
officially becomes national anthem. Background:
Francis Scott Key
Average income $1,858.00
New house $6,796.00
New Car - $640.00
loaf of bread .08
gallon of gas .10
gallon of milk .50
gold per ounce $20.00
silver per ounce .38
SPORTS
World Series
St. Louis Cardinals d. Philadelphia A's (4-3)
Stanley Cup
Montreal d. Chicago (3-2)
Wimbledon Women: Cilly Aussem d. H. Kranwinkel (6-2 7-5) Men: Sidney Wood d. F. Shields (walkover)
Kentucky Derby Champion
Twenty Grand
NCAA Football Champions
USC (10-1-0)
ENTERTAINMENT Events
- There are nearly 30,000 television sets in the United States;
9,000 of them are in
New
York City alone.
- Double features emerge as a way for the unemployed to occupy
time.
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Georgia O'Keeffe paints Cow Skull.
Pulitzer Prizes Fiction:Years of Grace, Margaret Ayer Barnes Drama:Alison's House, Susan Glaspell Oscars
awarded in 1931 Academy Award, Best Picture:Cimarron (RKO Radio)
SCIENCE
- General Motors's
Frigidaire makes refrigerators safe for household use.
- Karl Jansky begins the science of
radio
astronomy as he observes interference in the form of hissing
sounds coming from beyond the earth's atmosphere.
- Harold
Urey discovers heavy water, water that contains
deuterium,
a rare
hydrogen isotope.
- An electron
microscope
is developed by
Vladimir
Zworykin and
James
Hillier.
