Page 10: Historical Events In 1931
Monday, 23 February 2026
Sep 12 51st US Mens Tennis: H E Vines beats George M Lott Jr (79 63 97 75). 


Sep 12 George Jones, Saratoga Tx, singer (Golden Rings, Oh Lonesome Me) 


Sep 13 Barbara Bain, Chic, actress (Cinnamon-Mission Impossible, Space 1999). 


Sep 13 Capt G H Stainworth flies world speed record (655 kph). 


Sep 15 British naval fleet mutinies at Invergordon over pay cuts 


Sep 15 British naval force mutinies at Invergordon over pay. 


Sep 16 Blimp is moored to Empire State Building (NYC) 


Sep 17 1st LP record demonstrated (RCA Victor, NYC), venture failed. 


Sep 17 Anne Bancroft, American film actress is born 


Sep 17 inaugural long playing record demonstrated in New York. 


Sep 18 Japan takes Manchuria, renames it Manchukuo 


Sep 19 14th PGA Championship: Tom Creavy at Wannamoisett CC Rumford RI 


Sep 19 Brook Benton, soul vocalist (Rainy Night in Georgia) 


Sep 20 Lou Gehrig's 4 RBIs break his old RBI mark of 175 en route to 184 


Sep 20 Sam Morris, cricketer (one Test Aust v Eng 1884), dies. 


Sep 21 Britain abandons gold standard/pound devalues 20%. 


Sep 21 Britain goes off the gold standard. 


Sep 21 England goes off the gold standard 


Sep 21 Larry Hagman, Fort Worth Tx, actor (I Dream of Jeannie, JR-Dallas). 


Sep 22 Fay Weldon, British author is born 


Sep 24 Round-robin playoff among NYC's 3 major league teams, to raise money for unemployed, concludes with Brooklyn losing to both Giants and Yanks. 


Sep 26 Donald J Pease, (Rep-D-OH, 1977- ) 


Sep 26 Earl Claus von Stauffenberg marries Freiin Nina von Lerchenfeld 


Sep 27 Lou Gehrig completes his 6th straight season, playing in every game (.3486) Jim Bottomley (.3481). 


Sep 27 Lou Gehrig completes his 6th straight season, playing in every game 


Sep 28 Peking (200000 demonstrators demand declaration of war on Japan). 


Sep 30 Angie Dickinson, [Angeline Brown], Kulm ND, actress (Police Woman) 


Sep 30 Start of "Die Voortrekkers" youth movement for Afrikaners in Bloemfontein, South Africa 


Oct 01 Reginald Hall, endocrinologist. 


Oct 02 Pope Pius XI encyclical On economic crisis. 


Oct 02 Thomas Johnstone Lipton, sportsman/merchant, dies 


Oct 03 Carl August Nielsen, composer, dies at 66. 


Oct 03 Glenn Hall, National Hockey League goaltender. 


Oct 04 " Extra! Extra! Read all about it!" Gumshoe Dick Tracy debuted in The Detroit Mirror. A week later, The New York Daily News and hundreds of others picked up the Chester Gould comic strip. 


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