Editing 1931 (section)

===June===
{{Main|June 1931}}
* June–November – [[1931 China flood]]: the [[Yangtze]] and [[Huai River]]s flood in a populous region, leaving an estimated 422,000 dead (150,000 drowned) with many more dying of consequential starvation and disease in the aftermath.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Nature of Disaster in China The 1931 Yangzi River Flood|first=Chris|last=Courtney|year=2018|publisher=Cambridge University Press|doi=10.1017/9781108278362|isbn=9781108278362|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/nature-of-disaster-in-china/1483BBD53BA764B54EE882EF699B1299}}</ref>
* [[June 5]]
**German Chancellor [[Heinrich Brüning]] visits London, where he warns British Prime Minister [[Ramsay MacDonald]] that the collapse of the Austrian banking system, caused by the bankruptcy of the ''Creditanstalt'', has left the entire German banking system on the verge of collapse.
**Anti-Chinese rioting occurs in [[Pyongyang]]. Approximately 127 Chinese people are killed, 393 wounded, and a considerable number of properties are destroyed by Korean residents.<ref name="Wanpaoshan">{{cite book|last1=Em|first1=Henry|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DxAd2Aw_jP0C|title=The Great Enterprise: Sovereignty and Historiography in Modern Korea, Part 2|date=2013|publisher=Duke University Press|isbn=978-0822353720|location=Durham|page=125|access-date=21 August 2017}}</ref>
* [[June 14]] – [[Saint-Philibert disaster]]: The overloaded pleasure craft ''Saint-Philibert'', carrying trippers home to Nantes from the Île de Noirmoutier, sinks at the mouth of the River [[Loire]] in France; over 450 drown.
* [[June 19]]
** In an attempt to stop the banking crisis in Central Europe from causing a worldwide financial meltdown, U.S. President [[Herbert Hoover]] issues the [[Hoover Moratorium]].
** The [[Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War (1929)|Geneva Convention (1929)]] relative to the treatment of [[prisoners of war]] enters into force.
* [[June 23]]–[[July 1]] – [[Wiley Post]] and [[Harold Gatty]] accomplish the first round-the-world flight in a single-engine plane, flying eastabout from [[Roosevelt Field (airport)|Roosevelt Field]], New York, in 8 days, 15 hours, 51 minutes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Explorers_Record_Setters_and_Daredevils/Wiley_Post/EX27.htm|publisher=centennialofflight.gov|title=Wiley Post|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121008043851/http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Explorers_Record_Setters_and_Daredevils/Wiley_Post/EX27.htm |archive-date=October 8, 2012}}</ref>