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What Happened on March 31st This Day in History

Year	Name
2018	Start of the 2018 Armenian revolution.
2004	Iraq War in Anbar Province: In Fallujah, Iraq, four American private military contractors working for Blackwater USA, are killed after being ambushed.
1998	Netscape releases Mozilla source code under an open source license.
1995	Selena is murdered by her fan club president Yolanda Saldívar at a Days Inn in Corpus Christi, Texas.
1995	TAROM Flight 371, an Airbus A310-300, crashes near Balotesti, Romania, killing all 60 people on board.
1993	The Macao Basic Law is adopted by the Eighth National People's Congress of China to take effect December 20, 1999. Resumption by China of the Exercise of Sovereignty over Macao
1992	The USS Missouri, the last active United States Navy battleship, is decommissioned in Long Beach, California.
1992	The Treaty of Federation is signed in Moscow.
1991	Georgian independence referendum: Nearly 99 percent of the voters support the country's independence from the Soviet Union.
1990	Approximately 200,000 protesters take to the streets of London to protest against the newly introduced Poll Tax.
1980	The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad operates its final train after being ordered to liquidate its assets because of bankruptcy and debts owed to creditors.
1970	Explorer 1 re-enters the Earth's atmosphere after 12 years in orbit.
1968	American President Lyndon B. Johnson speaks to the nation of "Steps to Limit the War in Vietnam" in a television address. At the conclusion of his speech, he announces: "I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your President."
1966	The Soviet Union launches Luna 10 which later becomes the first space probe to enter orbit around the Moon.
1964	Brazilian General Olímpio Mourão Filho orders his troops to move towards Rio de Janeiro, beginning the coup d'état and 21 years of military dictatorship.
1959	The 14th Dalai Lama, crosses the border into India and is granted political asylum.
1958	In the Canadian federal election, the Progressive Conservatives, led by John Diefenbaker, win the largest percentage of seats in Canadian history, with 208 seats of 265.
1957	Elections to the Territorial Assembly of the French colony Upper Volta are held. After the elections PDU and MDV form a government.
1951	Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau.
1949	The Dominion of Newfoundland joins the Canadian Confederation and becomes the 10th Province of Canada.
1945	World War II: A defecting German pilot delivers a Messerschmitt Me 262A-1, the world's first operational jet-powered fighter aircraft, to the Americans, the first to fall into Allied hands.
1942	World War II: Japanese forces invade Christmas Island, then a British possession.
1933	The Civilian Conservation Corps is established with the mission of relieving rampant unemployment in the United States.
1931	An earthquake in Nicaragua destroys Managua; killing 2,000.
1931	A Transcontinental & Western Air airliner crashes near Bazaar, Kansas, killing eight, including University of Notre Dame head football coach Knute Rockne.
1930	The Motion Picture Production Code is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in film, in the U.S., for the next thirty-eight years.
1921	The Royal Australian Air Force is formed.
1918	Massacre of ethnic Azerbaijanis is committed by allied armed groups of Armenian Revolutionary Federation and Bolsheviks. Nearly 12,000 Azerbaijani Muslims are killed.
1918	Daylight saving time goes into effect in the United States for the first time.
1917	According to the terms of the Treaty of the Danish West Indies, the islands become American possessions.
1913	The Vienna Concert Society rioted during a performance of modernist music by Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, Alexander von Zemlinsky, and Anton von Webern, causing a premature end to the concert due to violence; this concert became known as the Skandalkonzert.
1909	Serbia formally withdraws its opposition to Austro-Hungarian actions in the Bosnian Crisis.
1906	The Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States (later the National Collegiate Athletic Association) is established to set rules for college sports in the United States.
1901	Rusalka by Antonín Dvořák premieres at the National Opera House in Prague.
1899	Malolos, capital of the First Philippine Republic, is captured by American forces.
1889	The Eiffel Tower is officially opened.
1885	The United Kingdom establishes the Bechuanaland Protectorate.
1854	Commodore Matthew Perry signs the Convention of Kanagawa with the Tokugawa Shogunate, opening the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to American trade.
1774	American Revolution: The Kingdom of Great Britain orders the port of Boston, Massachusetts closed pursuant to the Boston Port Act.
1761	The 1761 Lisbon earthquake strikes off the Iberian Peninsula with an estimated magnitude of 8.5, six years after another quake destroyed the city.
1717	A sermon on "The Nature of the Kingdom of Christ" by Benjamin Hoadly, the Bishop of Bangor, preached in the presence of King George I of Great Britain, provokes the Bangorian Controversy.
1521	Ferdinand Magellan and fifty of his men came ashore to present-day Limasawa to participate in the first Catholic mass in the Philippines.
1492	Queen Isabella of Castile issues the Alhambra Decree, ordering her 150,000 Jewish and Muslim subjects to convert to Christianity or face expulsion.
1146	Bernard of Clairvaux preaches his famous sermon in a field at Vézelay, urging the necessity of a Second Crusade. Louis VII is present, and joins the Crusade.
307	After divorcing his wife Minervina, Constantine marries Fausta, daughter of the retired Roman emperor Maximian.

Famous People Born on March 31

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Year	Name
1947	Don Foster, English academic and politician
1979	Omri Afek, Israeli footballer
1979	Alexis Ferrero, Argentinian footballer
1685	Johann Sebastian Bach (d. 1750)
1935	Judith Rossner, American author (d. 2005)
1987	Nelli Zhiganshina, Russian figure skater
1965	Jean-Christophe Lafaille, French mountaineer (d. 2006)
1972	Alejandro Amenábar, Chilean-Spanish director and screenwriter
1980	Matias Concha, Swedish footballer
1504	Guru Angad, Indian religious leader (d. 1552)

Famous People Deaths On March 31

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Date	Name
2006	Jackie McLean, American saxophonist and composer (b. 1931)
2017	Gilbert Baker, American artist and LGBT rights activist (b. 1951)
1340	Ivan I of Moscow, Russian Grand Duke (b. 1288)
2022	Shirley Burkovich, former American All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) player (b. 1933)
1837	John Constable, English painter and educator (b. 1776)
1751	Frederick, Prince of Wales, Hanoverian-born heir to the British throne (b. 1707)[77]
1491	Bonaventura Tornielli, Italian Roman Catholic priest (b. 1411)
1961	Pyrros Spyromilios, officer of the Greek Navy and director of the Greek Radio Orchestra (b. 1913)
2013	Charles Amarin Brand, French archbishop (b. 1920)
1991	Theofylaktos Papakonstantinou, Greek columnist, political and social analyst and historian (b. 1905)