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==December 5, 1931 (Saturday)== |
==December 5, 1931 (Saturday)== |
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*The [[Mahatma Gandhi]] left England to head back to India. "I return with a clear conscience", Gandhi said. "I have explored and exhausted every approach to peace."<ref>{{cite news |date=December 5, 1931 |title=His Conscience Clear, Gandhi Sails for Home | work=[[Brooklyn Daily Eagle]] |page=1 }}</ref> That evening in Paris, Gandhi gave a speech at the [[Magic-City]] dance hall and took questions from the audience of 2,000 people.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.caravanmagazine.in/reporting-and-essays/when-paris-met-mahatma |title=When Paris Met The Mahatma |last=Kamdar |first=Mira |date=December 1, 2011 |website=[[The Caravan]] |access-date=May 22, 2015 }}</ref> |
*The [[Mahatma Gandhi]] left England to head back to India. "I return with a clear conscience", Gandhi said. "I have explored and exhausted every approach to peace."<ref>{{cite news |date=December 5, 1931 |title=His Conscience Clear, Gandhi Sails for Home | work=[[Brooklyn Daily Eagle]] |page=1 }}</ref> That evening in Paris, Gandhi gave a speech at the [[Magic-City]] dance hall and took questions from the audience of 2,000 people.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.caravanmagazine.in/reporting-and-essays/when-paris-met-mahatma |title=When Paris Met The Mahatma |last=Kamdar |first=Mira |date=December 1, 2011 |website=[[The Caravan]] |access-date=May 22, 2015 }}</ref> |
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*The [[Montreal AAA Winged Wheelers]] defeated the [[Saskatchewan Roughriders|Regina Roughriders]] |
*The [[Montreal AAA Winged Wheelers]] defeated the [[Saskatchewan Roughriders|Regina Roughriders]] 22–0 to win the [[19th Grey Cup|Grey Cup]] of Canadian football. |
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*The [[Cathedral of Christ the Saviour]] in Moscow was demolished. The [[Palace of the Soviets]] was intended to be built in its place but never completed. At the end of the 20th century, after the fall of Communism, the cathedral would be rebuilt in the same spot and with the same architectural plans, and opened in 2000.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.chroniknet.de/daly_de.0.html?datum=5.12.1931&year=1931&month=12&day=5 |title=Tageseinträge für 5. Dezember 1931 |website=chroniknet |access-date=May 22, 2015 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://io9.com/5981106/the-strange-history-of-the-moscow-cathedral-that-couldnt-be-destroyed |title=The Strange History of the Moscow Cathedral That Couldn't Be Destroyed |last=Miklós |first=Vincze |date=February 4, 2013 |website=[[io9]] |access-date=May 22, 2015 }}</ref> |
*The [[Cathedral of Christ the Saviour]] in Moscow was demolished. The [[Palace of the Soviets]] was intended to be built in its place but never completed. At the end of the 20th century, after the fall of Communism, the cathedral would be rebuilt in the same spot and with the same architectural plans, and opened in 2000.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.chroniknet.de/daly_de.0.html?datum=5.12.1931&year=1931&month=12&day=5 |title=Tageseinträge für 5. Dezember 1931 |website=chroniknet |access-date=May 22, 2015 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://io9.com/5981106/the-strange-history-of-the-moscow-cathedral-that-couldnt-be-destroyed |title=The Strange History of the Moscow Cathedral That Couldn't Be Destroyed |last=Miklós |first=Vincze |date=February 4, 2013 |website=[[io9]] |access-date=May 22, 2015 }}</ref> |
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*'''Died:''' [[Vachel Lindsay]], 52, well-known American poet, killed himself by drinking a bottle of [[potassium hydroxide]] or [[lye]]. |
*'''Died:''' [[Vachel Lindsay]], 52, well-known American poet, killed himself by drinking a bottle of [[potassium hydroxide]] or [[lye]]. |
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==December 12, 1931 (Saturday)== |
==December 12, 1931 (Saturday)== |
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*Mahatma Gandhi met with [[Benito Mussolini]] in Rome. The two talked for half an hour through an interpreter.<ref>{{cite news |last=Darrah |first=David |date=December 13, 1931 |title=Pope Declines to See Gandhi in his Loin Cloth | work=[[Chicago Daily Tribune]]|page=13 }}</ref> |
*Mahatma Gandhi met with [[Benito Mussolini]] in Rome. The two talked for half an hour through an interpreter.<ref>{{cite news |last=Darrah |first=David |date=December 13, 1931 |title=Pope Declines to See Gandhi in his Loin Cloth | work=[[Chicago Daily Tribune]]|page=13 }}</ref> |
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*[[Army Black Knights football|Army]] defeated [[Navy Midshipmen football|Navy]] |
*[[Army Black Knights football|Army]] defeated [[Navy Midshipmen football|Navy]] 17–7 in the [[Army–Navy Game]] at [[Yankee Stadium (1923)|Yankee Stadium]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Pegler |first=Westbrook |date=December 13, 1931 |title=Service Teams Raise $400,000 for Jobless | work=[[Chicago Daily Tribune]]|page=Part 2, p. 1 }}</ref> |
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==December 13, 1931 (Sunday)== |
==December 13, 1931 (Sunday)== |
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==December 21, 1931 (Monday)== |
==December 21, 1931 (Monday)== |
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[[File:Joseph Aloysius Lyons (cropped).jpg|150px|thumb|New Australian Prime Minister Joe Lyons]] |
[[File:Joseph Aloysius Lyons (cropped).jpg|150px|thumb|New Australian Prime Minister Joe Lyons]] |
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*[[Joseph Lyons]] became the new [[ |
*[[Joseph Lyons]] became the new [[Prime Minister of Australia]] as [[James Scullin]] resigned in the wake of the election results.<ref>{{cite news |date=December 22, 1931 |title=Man Who Ousted Australia Labor is Made Premier | work=[[Chicago Daily Tribune]]|page=7 }}</ref> |
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*Japanese forces in Manchuria launched a new offensive, the [[Jinzhou Operation]]. |
*Japanese forces in Manchuria launched a new offensive, the [[Jinzhou Operation]]. |
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==December 25, 1931 (Friday)== |
==December 25, 1931 (Friday)== |
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*The first [[Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts|Metropolitan Opera network radio broadcast]] took place when the [[Engelbert Humperdinck (composer)|Engelbert Humperdinck]] opera ''[[Hansel and Gretel (opera)|Hansel and Gretel]]'' aired on NBC.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.oldradio.org/2014/12/december-25-1931-hansel-and-gretel.html |title=December 25, 1931: Hansel and Gretel Opera Broadcast on NBC |date=December 25, 2014 |website=OldRadio.org |access-date=May 22, 2015 }}</ref> |
*The first [[Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts|Metropolitan Opera network radio broadcast]] took place when the [[Engelbert Humperdinck (composer)|Engelbert Humperdinck]] opera ''[[Hansel and Gretel (opera)|Hansel and Gretel]]'' aired on NBC.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.oldradio.org/2014/12/december-25-1931-hansel-and-gretel.html |title=December 25, 1931: Hansel and Gretel Opera Broadcast on NBC |date=December 25, 2014 |website=OldRadio.org |access-date=May 22, 2015 }}</ref> |
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*The film ''[[Hell Divers]]'', starring [[Wallace Beery]] and [[Clark Gable]], premiered at [[TCL Chinese Theatre|Grauman's Chinese Theatre]] in [[Hollywood]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.graumanschinese.org/1931.html |title=1931 |website=Grauman's Chinese |access-date=May 22, 2015 }}</ref> |
*The film ''[[Hell Divers]]'', starring [[Wallace Beery]] and [[Clark Gable]], premiered at [[TCL Chinese Theatre|Grauman's Chinese Theatre]] in [[Hollywood, Los Angeles|Hollywood]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.graumanschinese.org/1931.html |title=1931 |website=Grauman's Chinese |access-date=May 22, 2015 }}</ref> |
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==December 26, 1931 (Saturday)== |
==December 26, 1931 (Saturday)== |
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The following events occurred in December 1931: