1931
Events [ ] Alphonse Capone gets arrested for tax evasion and sentenced for 11 years.[1] Filipo Castilano is set to be released from hospital after curing himselfes.[2] Uprisings occour in Belgian Congo .[3]
Rebellions are crushed in Ethiopia .[3]
Freon is developed.[1]
Alka-Seltzer is first marketed as a headache and stomach remedy.[1] Indiana Jones foils a museum heist carried out by Orch Crowloff and Turps in Kafiristan .[4] June: Indiana Jones visits Madagascar , and following the recovery of the Jewel of Heaven sapphire, the Sultan of Madagascar, threatened to remove a lower body part from the archaeologist should he ever return.[5]
Marcus Brody is named director of special acquisitions for the American Museum of Natural History in New York .[6] A cabal of renegade Japanese army officers blow up a portion of the railroad, blaiming on Chinese troops.[7]
Henrik Mellberg , Marwell O'Brien , and Francis Beresford-Hope discover the Key to the Tomb of the Gods outside of Norilsk , Siberia .[8] Jock Lindsey and the Air Pirates receive the year's annual stunt-show honors from the Chicago Aviators & Aviatrices Flying Club .[9] September 19 :[1] Japan invades Manchuria .[3] Revolutions occur in Panama , Peru , Chile , Paraguay and El Salvador .[3]
First solo flight around the world is completed in 8 and a half days.[3]
Actress Greta Garbo plays Mata Hari in a film.[10]
Statute of Westminster changes the British Empire to the British Commonwealth.[1]
Japan and Great Britain abandon the gold standard.[1] Spain 's King Alfonso is overthrown and a new constitution is drawn up.[1] Empire State Building is opened.[1] George Washington Bridge in New York City is opened.[1] Star-Spangled Banner [1] Gandhi attends the 1931 conference but the conflict between Hindu and Muslim goals and the general resistance of the Princely States toward any sort of change makes the effort an ultimately futile exercise.[11] Births [ ] Deaths [ ] Appearances [ ] Sources [ ] Notes and references [ ] External links [ ] 
