Historical Events in 1931 (Part 2)

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• Oct 24 George Washington Bridge linking New York City and New Jersey dedicated, opens the next day

• Oct 27 Chuhei Numbu of Japan, sets then long jump record at 26' 2½"
• Oct 29 Lefty Grove, A's pitcher who won 31 games, is named the AL's MVP

• Oct 30 W2XB TV channel 1 in NYC, NY (NBC) begins broadcasting
• Nov 1 Dupont introduces synthetic rubber
• Nov 2 Warren, Dixon and Young's musical "Laugh Parade" premieres in NYC
• Nov 3 First commercially produced synthetic rubber manufactured

• Nov 11 Cornerstones laid for Opera House & Veteran's Building in San Francisco, California

• Nov 12 Maple Leaf Gardens opens in Toronto - Chic Blackhawks beat Leafs, 2-1
• Nov 13 Hattie Caraway (D-AK) appointed first US woman senator
• Nov 14 Ottawa Mint Act is proclaimed in Britain

• Nov 17 Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney opens Whitney Museum of American Art on West Eighth Street. NY, after the Met Museum refuses to accept her collection [1]
• Nov 20 Commercial teletype service begins (AT&T)

• Nov 22 1st performance of Ferde Grofé's "Grand Canyon Suite" given by Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra at Studebaker Theater, Chicago
• Nov 23 Nationally Crisis Committee forms in The Hague

• Nov 30 His Master's Voice and Columbia Records merge into EMI
• Dec 1 Ottawa branch of Royal Mint begins operation as Royal Canadian Mint
• Dec 3 Alka Seltzer goes on sale
• 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

• 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 14 1st assembly of Anton Musserts NSB in Utrecht
• Dec 16 German SPD begins Iron Front against fascism

• 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

• 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

• 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

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