December 1931 calendar

Events

• 01 Dec 1931 Ottawa branch of Royal Mint begins operation as Royal Canadian Mint
• 03 Dec 1931 Alka Seltzer goes on sale
• 04 Dec 1931 Frankenstein opens at Mayfair
• 05 Dec 1931 CFL Grey Cup: Mtl AAA beats Regina, 22-0 at Montreal
• 08 Dec 1931 Coaxial cable patented.
• 09 Dec 1931 Baseball cuts squad from 25 to 23 players and NL continues to prohibit uniform numbers
• 10 Dec 1931 Jane Addams (1st US woman) named co-recipient of Nobel Peace Prize
• 11 Dec 1931 Brit Statute of Westminster gives complete legislative independence to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Ireland, Newfndlnd
• 12 Dec 1931 Japanese Government of Imukai forms.
• 16 Dec 1931 German SPD begins Eiserne Front against fascism.
• 19 Dec 1931 Joseph A Lyons (Conservative) becomes premier of Australia.
• 23 Dec 1931 Tyrone Power Sr, American actor (Big Trial, Test of Donald Norton), dies at age 62.
• 25 Dec 1931 Albert Lonergan scores 137 South Africa versus Queensland at Adelaide before 5,697.
• 26 Dec 1931 Pulitzer Prize-winning musical play Of Thee I Sing opens on Broadway
• 28 Dec 1931 Lin-Sen succeeds Chiang Kai-shek as President of Nanjing-China.
• 29 Dec 1931 Victoria scores 7 for 435 in second innings to beat New South Wales.
• 31 Dec 1931 The Huang He floods kill between 850,000 and 4,000,000 people (the deadliest historic natural disaster).

Famous Birthday

• Bhagwan Shree Osho Rajneesh
• Simone Garnier
• Rita Moreno

  Stage Actress.

• Guy Debord

  French writer and film director.

• Christian Metz

  French film semiotician and theorist who is concerned with the nature of cinematic language and how films produce meanings.

• Gillian Helfgott

  Australian astrologer practicing in Sydney.

• Roger Piantoni

  France sport Champion.

• Igor Barrère

  French medical doctor, journalist and television personality.

• François-Henri de Virieu
• Jean Fournet-Fayard

  French pharmacist and administrative manager of St. Lipha, involved in the Furiani-Bastia case.

• René-Lucien Picandet
• Jaye P Morgan

  American singer.

• Jean-Claude Abrioux
• Lionel Blair

  British actor, choreographer, tap dancer and television presenter.

• Mauricio Kagel

  Argentinean conductor, music teacher, theatre director, film historian and experimental composer.

• Cliff Hagan

  American basketball player: forward with the Hawks.

• Michel Bernard

  French Field and Track champion, the winner of the 5,000 m. race at Rome, and the 1,500 m. race at Tokyo, 1964.

• Ed Meese
• Bobby Osborne

  American musician, a bluegrass singer and mandolin player.

• Henry Cuesta

  American musician, a clarinet player known primarily for his work on the Lawrence Welk Show.

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Famous Deaths

• Peter Christian Lutkin

  Composer, dies at 73.

• Walter Courvoisier

  Composer, dies at 56.

• Tyrone Power Sr

  Actor (Big Trial, Test of Donald Norton), dies at 62.

• Vincent d'Indy

  French composer (Born 1851).

• Gustave le Bon

  French psychologist (Born 1840).

• Gustave J Waffelaert

  Flemish theologist/bishop of Bruges, dies at age 82.

• John T "Legs" Diamond

  American gangster, is murdered at age 35.

• Wilson Bentley

  American scientist (Born 1865).

• Max Elskamp

  One of the outstanding Belgian Symbolist poets, whose material was the everyday life and folklore of his native city.

• Vachel Lindsay

  American poet and educator (d. 1931).

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