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July 1, 1931
On July 1, 1931, united Airlines begins service (as Boeing Air Transport). Virginia McKenna, Virginia McKenna, Virginia McKenna would arrive in the same year.
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Featured · July 1, 1931
United Airlines begins service (as Boeing Air Transport).
United Airlines, Inc. is a major airline in the United States headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. It operates an extensive domestic and international route network across the United States and to destinations on six continents.
Around 1931
The year in brief
1931 (MCMXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1931st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 931st year of the 2nd millennium, the 31st year of the 20th century, and the 2nd year of the 1930s decade.
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On July 1, 1931
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1931 United Airlines begins service (as Boeing Air Transport). Airline of the United States
United Airlines, Inc. is a major airline in the United States headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. It operates an extensive domestic and international route network across the United States and to destinations on six continents.
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1931 Wiley Post and Harold Gatty become the first people to circumnavigate the globe in a single-engined monoplane aircraft. 20th-century American aviator
Wiley Hardeman Post was an American aviator during the interwar period and the first pilot to fly solo around the world. Known for his work in high-altitude flying, he helped develop one of the first pressure suits and discovered the jet stream. On August 15, 1935, he and American humorist Will Rogers were killed when his aircraft crashed on takeoff from a lagoon near Point Barrow in the Territory of Alaska.
Elsewhere that year
Other moments from 1931
- April 14 The Second Spanish Republic is proclaimed and King Alfonso XIII goes into exile. Meanwhile, in Barcelona, Francesc Macià proclaims the Catalan Republic.
- April 17 After negotiations between Catalan and Spanish provisional governments, the Catalan Republic proclaimed in April 14 becomes the Generalitat de Catalunya, the autonomous government of Catalonia within the Spanish Republic.
- August 24 Resignation of the United Kingdom's Second Labour Government. Formation of the UK National Government.
- August 5 Judge and Nazi Party member Werner Best drews the Boxheim Documents, which described a violent takeover of the government by the NSDAP.
- December 11 Statute of Westminster 1931: The British Parliament establishes legislative equality between the UK and the Dominions of the Commonwealth—Australia, Canada, Newfoundland, New Zealand, South Africa, and Ireland.
- December 9 The Constituent Cortes approves a constitution which establishes the Second Spanish Republic.
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