Editing 1931

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== Events ==
* April 1 - The Second Encirclement Campaign against the [[Communist Party of China]] is launched by the [[Kuomintang]] government, to destroy the Communist forces in Jiangxi Province.
* April 15 - End of the Castellammarese War. [[Salvatore Maranzano]] becomes ''capo de tutti capi'' of the [[American Mafia]].
* September 3 - The 1931 Yugoslav Constitution is adopted by the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, ending the 6 January Dictatorship of King [[Alexander I of Yugoslavia|Alexander I]].
* September 10 - Salvatore Maranzano is assassinated at his office in New York City by a [[Jewish Mob]] hit squad hired by [[Charles Luciano]]. Luciano subsequently abolishes the ''capo de tutti capi'' title and establishes the Commission as the governing body of the [[American Mafia]].
* September 16 - End of the [[Pacification of Libya]]. 
* September 18 - The Mukden Incident: [[Imperial Japan]] stages a bomb blast close to a railway line owned by Japan's South Manchuria Railway near Mukden, blaming the incident on Chinese dissidents as a pretext for invading Manchuria.
* October 17 - [[Al Capone]] is sentenced to 11 years in prison for tax evasion in Chicago.
* November 7 - [[Mao Zedong]] proclaims the formation of the Chinese Soviet Republic.
* December 12 - Serial killer [[Harry Powers]] is found guilty of four [[murder]]s and is sentenced to death.
* Unknown - The [[Irgun]] is founded.

== Births ==
=== Villain births ===
* January 24 - [[Roy Bryant]]
* January 27 - [[Ronald "Buster" Edwards]]
* March 6 - [[Chun Doo-hwan]]
* March 9 - [[León Febres Cordero]]
* May 13 - [[Jim Jones]]
* August 20-  [[Don King]]
* September 26 - [[Kenneth Parnell]]
* December 11 - [[Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh]]
* December 12 - [[Gilbert Paul Jordan]]

=== Victim births ===
*Janruary 22 - Sam Cooke

== Deaths ==
=== Villain deaths ===
* March 10 - [[Alfred Rouse]]
* April 15 - [[Giuseppe Masseria]]
* July 2 - [[Peter Kürten]]
* September 10 - [[Salvatore Maranzano]]

=== Victim deaths ===
* January 12 - Raymond Gunn
* September 16 - Omar Muktar