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'''1931''' was a [[year]].

==Events==
[[The Master]] operated as a [[gangster]] in [[Chicago]]. His plan was unwittingly defeated by the [[Fourth Doctor]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Duke of Dominoes (short story)|The Duke of Dominoes]]'')

[[Monarch (Four to Doomsday)|Monarch]]'s [[Monarch's ship|ship]] began to receive [[radio]] signals from [[Earth]] in this year. ([[TV]]: ''[[Four to Doomsday (TV story)|Four to Doomsday]]'')

It was one of the years visited by the [[First Doctor]], [[Steven Taylor]] and [[Sara Kingdom]] at [[Christmas]] as they unknowingly followed [[Robert (The Little Drummer Boy)|Robert]]'s distress signal. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Little Drummer Boy (short story)|The Little Drummer Boy]]'')

The [[Eleventh Doctor]], [[Alice Obiefune]] and [[John Jones]] visited the [[Dockery Plantation]] in the [[Mississippi Delta]] to attend a performance of [[Robert Johnson]]. There the Doctor interacted with the [[Talent Scout]] for the first time. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[What He Wants... (comic story)|What He Wants...]]'')

[[Japan]] [[invasion of Manchuria|invaded]] the region of [[Manchuria]] in [[China]], on the pretence that the Chinese attacked first. The occupation was complete by [[1932|the following year]], and sparked tensions between the two nations that eventually led to [[Pacific War|war]] in [[1937]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Shadow of Weng-Chiang (novel)|The Shadow of Weng-Chiang]]'')

==Births and deaths==
In [[June]], [[Spinning Jenny]], the [[loa]] of [[industry]] was born. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Spinning Jenny (novel)|Spinning Jenny]]'')

[[Thomas Brockless|Thomas Campbell Brockless]], the father of [[Tommy Brockless]], [[death|died]] of a [[heart attack]] at the age of fifty-seven in June. ([[TV]]: ''[[To the Last Man (TV story)|To the Last Man]]'')

On [[26 December]], [[Tom Wake]]'s mother died. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Hopes and Fears of All the Years (short story)|The Hopes and Fears of All the Years]]'')

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