Timeline July 1931

Events in July 1931 6

• 1866 – 1931 Nathan Söderblom (1866-1931) Died 12 July 1931, aged 65 Swedish Lutheran Archbishop of Uppsala and a leader of the ecumenical movement. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1930. He also pioneered the academic study of religion.
• 1931 Post and Gatty fly around the world The Winnie Mae circles the globe in under nine days The pilot Wiley Post and the navigator Harold Gatty flew the Lockheed Vega Winnie Mae around the world from Roosevelt Field, New York. They took eight days, 15 hours and 51 minutes, a new record. Post made the first solo round-the-world flight two years later.
• 1931 China floods Yangtze and Huai rivers flood after months of extreme rain Very heavy rainfall and snowmelt caused the Yangtze, Huai and Yellow rivers to flood huge areas of central China. The city of Wuhan was inundated and Nanjing was badly affected. Estimates of the death toll from drowning, famine and disease range from several hundred thousand to millions, which makes it one of the deadliest natural disasters on record.
• 1931 Wimbledon 1931 Men: Sidney Wood · Women: Cilly Aussem Sidney Wood won by walkover — only default final in Wimbledon history.
• 1931 – 2018 Tab Hunter (1931-2018) American actor and singer, a teen idol of the 1950s who later wrote openly about his life.
• 1931 Tab Hunter born in New York Tab Hunter is born in New York.