Timeline Thursday 12 February 1931

Events on Thursday 12 February 1931 2

• 1931 Dracula premieres Bela Lugosi's Count opens Universal's horror cycle Tod Browning's film adaptation of Dracula, starring Bela Lugosi, premiered at the Roxy Theatre in New York. It was a major commercial success. It began Universal Pictures' series of classic monster films.
• 1931 Vatican Radio begins broadcasting Pope Pius XI makes the first papal radio address Vatican Radio was built by Guglielmo Marconi and inaugurated by Pope Pius XI, who gave the first radio broadcast by a pope. It let the Holy See speak directly to Catholics around the world. The station grew into a major international broadcaster in many languages.