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October 5, 1931 (Monday) Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon Jr. completed the first nonstop flight across the Pacific Ocean, making a controlled crash landing of their plane, Miss Veedol, near Wenatchee, Washington 41 hours after taking off from Misawa, Japan.
1931 was a common year ... October 5 – American aviators Clyde Edward Pangborn and Hugh Herndon, Jr., ... Turkish free-style wrestler (d. 2022)
October 17 – American gangster Al Capone is sentenced to 11 years in prison for tax evasion in Chicago. October 24 – The George Washington Bridge across the Hudson River is dedicated; it opens to traffic the following day.
The National Government of August–October 1931, also known as the First National Government, was the first of a series of national governments formed during the Great Depression in the United Kingdom.
OfficeNamePartyDatesNational Labour24 August 1931 – 5 November 1931National Labour25 August 1931Conservative25 August 1931Conservative3 September 1931- Background and History
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Having failed to replace the government with a totalitarian military dictatorship in the abortive coup d'état of the March Incident of March 1931, Lt. Col. Kingoro Hashimoto of the Sakurakai and his ultra-nationalist civilian supporters, including Shūmei Ōkawa, resolved to try again in October 1931. Soon after the Japanese invasion of Manchuria by ...
The October Incident, also known as the "Imperial Colors Incident", thus ended in apparent failure and resulted in the dissolution of the Sakurakai. However, the lightness of the punishments only encouraged more attempted military intervention in the government, cumulating with the February 26 Incidentof 1936.
Beasley, W.G. (2000). The Rise of Modern Japan, 3rd Edition: Political, Economic, and Social Change since 1850. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 0-312-23373-6.Kiernan, Ben (2007). Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-10098-3.The 1931 United Kingdom general election was held on Tuesday, 27 October 1931. It saw a landslide election victory for the National Government, a three-party coalition which had been formed two months previously after the collapse of the second Labour government. [1]
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