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| c. 1931 |
| | | Sectarian hostilities increase in Kashmir, with the Muslim majority resenting the favours shown by the British to the Sikh and Hindu elite | |
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| 1931 |
| | | President Hoover switches on the lights to inaugurate the world's new tallest skyscraper, the Empire State Building in New York | |
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| 1931 |
| | | The gold standard is abandoned throughout the world after massive capital outflows cause the United Kingdom to pull out of the system | |
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| 1931 |
| | | The US poet Ogden Nash has an immediate success with his first volume of poems, Hard Lines | |
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| 1931 |
| | | The Star-Spangled Banner is made the official US national anthem | |
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| 1931 |
| | | Geoffrey De Havilland designs the Tiger Moth, on which nearly all British pilots were trained during World War II | |
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| 1931 |
| | | A dance company, brought together by Ninette de Valois as the Vic-Wells Ballet, begins performing at Sadler's Wells | |
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| 1931 |
| | | Irgun, a new Jewish paramilitary group, is set up by Haganah commanders frustrated by the older organization's policies | |
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| 1931 |
| | | Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels makes Der Führer a compulsory term for Hitler in the Nazi party | |
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| 1931 |
| | | The Irish government classifies the Irish Republican Army as an illegal organization | |
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