Timeline August 1931

Events in August 1931 5

• 1903 – 1931 Bix Beiderbecke (1903-1931) Died 6 August 1931, aged 28 American jazz cornetist and composer. His lyrical tone made him one of the most influential soloists of the 1920s. He died in New York after years of heavy drinking.
• 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 US Championships 1931 Men: Ellsworth Vines · Women: Helen Moody
• 1931 UK National Government formed Ramsay MacDonald forms a coalition amid the financial crisis The Labour cabinet split over spending cuts, and Ramsay MacDonald formed an all-party National Government with Conservatives and Liberals. Labour expelled him from the party. The National Government won a landslide at the general election in October.
• 1931 – 2020 Regis Philbin (1931-2020) Died 24 July 2020, aged 88 Regis Philbin was an American television host best known for Live! with Regis and Kelly and for hosting Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. He died of natural causes on 24 July 2020.