15 January – Eleven Italian seaplanes led by Italo Balbo land at Botafogo Bay after a 6,000 mile flight from Italy that began on 17 December. The pilots are greeted by President Getúlio Vargas.[1]
^"Air Fleet Roars into Rio; 6,000 Mile Flight Ends". Chicago Daily Tribune. 16 January 1931. p. 12.
^Kimberly Jones-de-Oliveira, "The Politics of Culture or the Culture of Politics: Afro-Brazilian Mobilization, 1920–1968," Journal of Third World Studies, v. 20, part I (2003)