Historical Events on March 31, Special Events on This Day
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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 | TAROM Flight 371, an Airbus A310-300, crashes near Balotesti, Romania, killing all 60 people on board. |
| 1995 | Selena is murdered by her fan club's president Yolanda Saldívar at a Days Inn in Corpus Christi, Texas after accusations of Saldívar embezzling money from Selena's fan club. |
| 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 | 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. |
| 1985 | The first WrestleMania, the biggest wrestling event from the WWE (then the WWF), takes place in Madison Square Garden in New York City. |
| 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. |
| 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 | The United States takes possession of the Danish West Indies after paying $25 million to Denmark, and renames the territory the United States Virgin Islands. |
| 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 accepts Austrian control over Bosnia and Herzegovina. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 1822 | The massacre of the population of the Greek island of Chios by soldiers of the Ottoman Empire following an attempted rebellion, depicted by the French artist Eugène Delacroix. |
| 1774 | American Revolutionary War: The Kingdom of Great Britain orders the port of Boston, Massachusetts closed pursuant to the Boston Port Act. |
| 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. |
| 1561 | The city of San Cristóbal, Táchira is founded. |
| 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
Here is a random list who born on March 31. For full list please click on the link above.
| Year | Name |
|---|---|
| 1974 | Natali, Russian singer, composer and songwriter |
| 1915 | Albert Hourani, English historian and author (d. 1993) |
| 1932 | John Jakes, American author |
| 1953 | Dennis Kamakahi, American guitarist and composer (d. 2014) |
| 1980 | Kate Micucci, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress |
| 1987 | Humpy Koneru, Indian chess player |
| 1971 | Martin Atkinson, English footballer and referee |
| 1939 | Israel Horovitz, American actor, director, and screenwriter |
| 1936 | Marge Piercy, American poet and novelist |
| 1979 | Jonna Mendes, American skier |
Famous People Deaths On March 31
Here is a list of some famous peope who died on March 31. For full list please click on the link above.
| Date | Name |
|---|---|
| 2013 | Ernie Bridge, Australian singer and politician (b. 1936) |
| 1917 | Emil von Behring, German physiologist and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1854) |
| 2013 | Ahmad Sayyed Javadi, Iranian lawyer and politician, Iranian Minister of Interior (b. 1917) |
| 1931 | Knute Rockne, American football player and coach (b. 1888) |
| 1907 | Galusha A. Grow, American lawyer and politician, 28th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1823) |
| 2003 | Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter, English-Canadian mathematician and academic (b. 1907) |
| 1241 | Pousa, voivode of Transylvania |
| 2015 | Carlos Gaviria Díaz, Colombian lawyer and politician (b. 1937) |
| 1913 | J. P. Morgan, American banker and financier (b. 1837) |
| 2013 | Charles Amarin Brand, French archbishop (b. 1920) |
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