Events Date 1931 December | History by KabAstro

Bradman Scores 219

Dec 7 After scoring 226 in 1st Test in Brisbane, Don Bradman belts 219 for NSW against the visiting South Africa at the Sydney Cricket Ground

Dec 8 Coaxial cable patented
Dec 9 Baseball cuts squad from 25 to 23 players & NL continues to prohibit uniform numbers
Dec 9 Benn W Levy's "Springtime for Henry" premieres in NYC
Dec 9 Japanese army attacks Chinese province of Jehol
Dec 9 Spain becomes a republic

Nobel to 1st American Woman Nobel

Dec 10 Jane Addams named co-recipient of Nobel Peace Prize; 1st American woman Nobel laureate [1]

Social Worker and Nobel Laureate Jane Addams

Azaña Spanish PM

Dec 10 Manuel Azaña becomes Prime Minister of Spain with Niceto Zamora as President

President of the Spanish Republic Manuel Azaña

Dec 11 Japan leaves the Gold Standard
Dec 11 Statute of Westminster gives complete legislative independence to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Ireland (Free State), and Newfoundland (not then part of Canada)
Dec 12 Japanese government of Imukai forms
Dec 13 National Football League Championship: Green Bay Packers (12-2-0) win 3rd straight first past the post title
Dec 14 1st assembly of Anton Musserts NSB in Utrecht
Dec 16 German SPD begins Iron Front against fascism

Indian Statistical Institute

Dec 17 First meeting of the Indian Statistical Institute organized by Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis in Calcutta

Scientist and Statistician Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis

Dec 19 United Australia Party led by Joseph Lyons defeats the incumbent first-term Australian Labor Party led by Prime Minister James Scullin in a federal election

Diego Rivera Retrospective

Dec 22 Retrospective show of Mexican artist Diego Rivera opens at The Museum of Modern Art in New York

Dec 25 Albert Lonergan scores 137 SA v Qld at Adelaide before 5,697
Dec 25 Fleetwood-Smith takes 5-69 Victoria v Tas at Hobart
Dec 25 NY's Metropolitan Opera broadcasts an entire opera over radio

"Of Thee I Sing"

Dec 26 George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind's musical political satire "Of Thee I Sing" opens at the Music Box Theatre, NYC; runs for 441 performances, and becomes first musical to win Pulitzer Prize for Drama

Lin-Sen Succeeds Chiang Kai-shek

Dec 28 Lin-Sen succeeds Chiang Kai-shek as President of Nanjing-China

Chinese Military and Political Leader Chiang Kai-shek

Dec 29 Identification of heavy water publicly announced, HC Urey
Dec 29 Victoria score 7 for 435 in second innings to beat NSW
Dec 31 City of Paris accepts donation of the writings gathered by feminist publisher Marguerite Durand and establishes a library (Bibliothèque Marguerite Durand) for the collection