Timeline November 1931

Events in November 1931 5

• 1931 – 2014 Mike Nichols (1931-2014) Died 19 November 2014, aged 83 Mike Nichols, the director of films including "The Graduate" and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?", died in New York. He was one of a small number of people to win an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony award. His five-decade career spanned film, theater and television.
• 1931 Chinese Soviet Republic proclaimed Communists declare a rival state at Ruijin with Mao as chairman The First National Soviet Congress, meeting in Ruijin in Jiangxi, founded the Chinese Soviet Republic with Mao Zedong as its chairman. It controlled scattered rural base areas in southern China. Nationalist encirclement campaigns forced it to abandon Jiangxi in 1934 at the start of the Long March.
• 1931 – 2022 Mwai Kibaki (1931-2022) Died 21 April 2022, aged 90 Kenyan politician who served as president from 2002 to 2013.
• 1931 Whitney Museum of American Art opens Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney's museum opens in Greenwich Village The sculptor and patron Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney founded the museum on West Eighth Street in New York after the Metropolitan Museum declined her collection. It was devoted to living American artists. It became one of the leading museums of American art.
• 1931 Frankenstein released Boris Karloff plays the Monster in James Whale's film Universal released James Whale's Frankenstein, with Boris Karloff as the Monster. Jack Pierce's make-up created the flat-headed image of the creature that people still recognise. The film was a hit and led to a string of sequels.