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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 capi 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.
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 murders and is sentenced to death.
Unknown - The Irgun is founded.

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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 ''capi 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]].
 * 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.