May 1931

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The following events occurred in May 1931:

May 1, 1931 (Friday)

May 2, 1931 (Saturday)

  • A mock air raid was conducted over Toulon, France. Although the military maneuvers were called off after two hours due to bad weather, it sufficiently demonstrated to military experts that the important naval base would have been reduced to ruins by a fleet of 150 bombers had the attack been real.[3]
  • Died: George Fisher Baker, 91, American banker and philanthropist

May 3, 1931 (Sunday)

May 4, 1931 (Monday)

May 5, 1931 (Tuesday)

May 6, 1931 (Wednesday)

May 7, 1931 (Thursday)

May 8, 1931 (Friday)

May 9, 1931 (Saturday)

May 10, 1931 (Sunday)

May 11, 1931 (Monday)

  • The Creditanstalt Bank in Vienna failed,[17] leading to a national currency crisis as investors began pulling their funds from Austrian banks and moving them to other countries.[18][19]
  • Four Roman Catholic convents were burned during the night by anticlerical rioters in Madrid.[20]
  • The Fritz Lang-directed film M premiered in Berlin.[21]

May 12, 1931 (Tuesday)

  • The Civil Guard was called into Madrid to stop the burning of convents.[22]

May 13, 1931 (Wednesday)

May 14, 1931 (Thursday)

May 15, 1931 (Friday)

May 16, 1931 (Saturday)

May 17, 1931 (Sunday)

May 18, 1931 (Monday)

May 19, 1931 (Tuesday)

May 20, 1931 (Wednesday)

May 21, 1931 (Thursday)

May 22, 1931 (Friday)

  • The Spanish provisional government granted equal freedom to all religions.[34]

May 23, 1931 (Saturday)

May 24, 1931 (Sunday)

May 25, 1931 (Monday)

May 26, 1931 (Tuesday)

May 27, 1931 (Wednesday)

  • In Augsburg, Germany, Professor Auguste Piccard and physicist Paul Kipfer took off in an airtight ball attached to a hydrogen balloon in an attempt to be the first to reach the Earth's stratosphere. They attained an altitude of 15,606 m (51,200 ft) and then landed in the Austrian Alps after more than eighteen hours in the air.[41][42][43]
  • Between 2,000 and 3,000 Japanese railway workers went on strike in protest against proposed salary reductions.[44]

May 28, 1931 (Thursday)

May 29, 1931 (Friday)

  • Texas Guinan and her ensemble of entertainers were refused entry into France for failing to get a work permit before departing New York. "Hell! What have I done to be treated like this?" Guinan fumed. "I entertained at the front during the war on a permit signed by President Wilson. Why ain't I good enough to come here and sing now?"[46]
  • Died: Michele Schirru, 31, Italian-born American anarchist (executed by firing squad for plotting to assassinate Mussolini)[47]

May 30, 1931 (Saturday)

May 31, 1931 (Sunday)

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