February 27 » Second Boer War: In South Africa, British military leaders receive an unconditional notice of surrender from Boer General Piet Cronjé at the Battle of Paardeberg.
March 18 » AFC Ajax Amsterdam, The Netherlands's biggest and most successful football club, was founded.
June 18 » Empress Dowager Cixi of China orders all foreigners killed, including foreign diplomats and their families.
July 2 » Jean Sibelius' Finlandia receives its première performance in Helsinki with the Helsinki Philharmonic Society conducted by Robert Kajanus.
July 9 » The Governor of Shanxi province in North China orders the execution of 45 foreign Christian missionaries and local church members, including children.
October 19 » Max Planck discovers Planck's law of black-body radiation.
Day of marriage September 2, 1931
The temperature on September 2, 1931 was between 9.4 °C and 19.9 °C and averaged 15.7 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (2%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
February 3 » The Hawke's Bay earthquake, New Zealand's worst natural disaster, kills 258.
February 20 » The U.S. Congress approves the construction of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge by the state of California.
April 14 » The Spanish Cortes deposes King Alfonso XIII and proclaims the Second Spanish Republic.
May 7 » The stand-off between criminal Francis Crowley and 300 members of the New York Police Department takes place in his fifth-floor apartment on West 91st Street, New York City.
May 29 » Michele Schirru, a citizen of the United States, is executed by Italian military firing squad for intent to kill Benito Mussolini.
June 23 » Wiley Post and Harold Gatty take off from Roosevelt Field, Long Island in an attempt to circumnavigate the world in a single-engine plane.
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