Timeline December 1931

Events in December 1931 9

• 1851 – 1931 Melvil Dewey (1851-1931) Died 26 December 1931, aged 80 American librarian who devised the Dewey Decimal Classification system. He was a founder of the American Library Association. He also set up the first school for training librarians.
• 1851 – 1931 Vincent d'Indy (1851-1931) Died 2 December 1931, aged 80 French composer and teacher, best known for his Symphony on a French Mountain Air. He co-founded the Schola Cantorum de Paris. Through it he influenced a generation of French musicians.
• 1879 – 1931 Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931) Died 5 December 1931, aged 52 American poet, known for performance poems written to be sung or chanted, such as The Congo and General William Booth Enters into Heaven. He helped popularise modern poetry with public audiences. He took his own life in Springfield, Illinois.
• 1931 Second Round Table Conference Gandhi attends London talks on India's constitutional future Gandhi attended the conference as the only representative of the Indian National Congress. The talks broke down, largely over separate electorates for minorities. Gandhi returned to India empty-handed and was arrested soon afterwards.
• 1931 Spanish Constitution adopted Republic's constitution sets up a secular democratic state The Constituent Cortes approved a new constitution for the Second Spanish Republic. It separated church and state, gave women the vote and allowed regional autonomy. Its anticlerical provisions deeply divided Spanish society.
• 1931 – 1990 Osho (1931-1990) Died 19 January 1990, aged 58 Osho, born Chandra Mohan Jain and also known as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, was an Indian spiritual teacher who founded a controversial international movement. His Oregon commune collapsed in 1985 amid criminal charges against its leadership. He died in Pune, India, on 19 January 1990.
• 1931 – present Rita Moreno (born 1931) Puerto Rican actress, singer and dancer, the first Latina to win an Oscar and one of few performers with an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony.
• 1931 Rita Moreno born in Humacao Rita Moreno is born in Humacao.
• 1931 Statute of Westminster British Parliament grants legislative independence to the Dominions The Act made the parliaments of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, the Irish Free State and Newfoundland legally equal to the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Westminster could no longer legislate for a Dominion without its consent. The statute is a founding document of the modern Commonwealth.