March 31
Thursday 31, 2005:
2005- Terri Schiavo dies at the age of 41 after national controversy.
Wednesday 31, 2004:
Sandton Square in Johannesburg, South Africa, is renamed Nelson Mandela Square.
Tuesday 31, 1998:
Netscape gives the code base of its browser under an open-source license agreement, thus creating Mozilla Foundation, a not-for-profit corporation to oversee the development of Mozilla.
Friday 31, 1995:
Popular Tex-Mex singer Selena Quintanilla is murdered by her assistant Yolanda Saldivar in a Corpus Christi, Texas motel after a heated discussion where the latter was accused of ripping off the artist's fan club.
Thursday 31, 1994:
The journal Nature reports the finding in Ethiopia of the first complete Australopithecus afarensis skull (see Human evolution).
Wednesday 31, 1993:
Actor Brandon Lee is accidentally killed during the filming of The Crow.
Tuesday 31, 1992:
The television news program Dateline NBC premieres.
Sunday 31, 1991:
The Warsaw Pact comes to an end.
Saturday 31, 1990:
Boxer Julio César Chávez defeats Meldrick Taylor to unify the boxing's world junior welterweight title in a very controversial fight known as "Thunder Meets Lightning".
Monday 31, 1986:
Six metropolitan county councils are abolished in England
Sunday 31, 1985:
The first ever WrestleMania is held in New York City's Madison Square Garden.
Saturday 31, 1979:
The last British soldier leaves the Maltese Islands. Malta is no longer a military base.
Tuesday 31, 1970:
1970- Eight terrorists from the Japanese Red Army hijacked a Japan Airlines Boeing 727 at Tokyo International Airport, wielding samurai swords and carrying a bomb.
Sunday 31, 1968:
President Lyndon Johnson announces he will not run for re-election.
Friday 31, 1967:
Jimi Hendrix burns his guitar for the first time at London's Astoria Theatre. He is sent to the hospital afterwards for burns on his hands.
Thursday 31, 1966:
The Soviet Union launches Luna 10 which later becomes the first spaceprobe to enter orbit around the Moon.
Tuesday 31, 1964:
The Dictatorship in Brazil, under the aegis of general Castello Branco, begins.
Tuesday 31, 1959:
The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, crosses the border into India and is granted political asylum.
Sunday 31, 1957:
Elections to the Territorial Assembly of the French colony Upper Volta. After the elctions PDU and MDV form a government.
Thursday 31, 1949:
Newfoundland and Labrador joins Confederation and becomes the 10th Province of Canada.
Friday 31, 1933:
The Civilian Conservation Corps is established with the mission to relieve rampant unemployment.
Tuesday 31, 1931:
An earthquake destroys Managua Nicaragua, killing 2,000.
Monday 31, 1930:
The Motion Pictures Production Code is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in motion pictures for the next forty years.
Sunday 31, 1918:
Daylight Savings Time goes into effect in the United States for the first time.
Saturday 31, 1917:
The United States takes possession of the U.S. Virgin Islands after paying $25 million to Denmark.
Wednesday 31, 1909:
Serbia accepts Austrian control over Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Saturday 31, 1906:
The Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States (later National Collegiate Athletic Association) is established to set rules for amateur sports in the United States.
Tuesday 31, 1903:
Richard Pearse reportedly flies a heavier-than-air machine in powered flight near Pleasant Point, South Canterbury, New Zealand; some claim 1902
Sunday 31, 1889:
The Eiffel Tower is inaugurated.
Tuesday 31, 1885:
The United Kingdom establishes a protectorate over Bechuanaland.
Saturday 31, 1866:
The Spanish Navy bombs the harbour of Valparaíso, Chile
Friday 31, 1854:
Commodore Matthew Perry signs the Treaty of Kanagawa with the Japanese government, opening the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to American trade.
Thursday 31, 1774:
American Revolutionary War: The Kingdom of Great Britain orders the port of Boston, Massachusetts closed in the Boston Port Act.
Wednesday 31, 1717:
A sermon on "The Nature of the Kingdom of Christ" by Benjamin Hoadly, the Bishop of Bangor, provoked the Bangorian Controversy.
Sunday 31, 307:
After divorcing his wife Minerva, Constantine marries Fausta, the daughter of the retired Roman Emperor Maximian.
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