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March 31

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on March 31. From 1900 until now. March 31 is under the sign of Aries. Famous birthdays on this day include Ewan McGregor (1971), Christopher Walken (1943) and Angus Young (1955). Several movies were released around March 31 over the years, such as 12 Angry Men in 1957 directed by Sidney Lumet and Monsieur Verdoux in 1947 directed by Charles Chaplin.
But much more happened on March 31 over the years: find out below

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Saint Cornelia
CTsar Ch�vez Day - official holiday in five states and many cities across the U.S.
Freedom Day in Malta.
Saint Amos
Saint Benjamin
Blessed Hendrik Werner
Saint Balbina of Rome
New Jersey - Thomas Mundy Peterson Day.
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Events

2019 A plant explosion in the Jiangsu province of China kills seven and injures five others. The explosion is the second deadliest in the month after the 2019 Xiangshui chemical plant explosion. (Reuters)
2018 Terrorism in the United Kingdom: Police in London announce the arrest on March 29 of a 19-year-old man suspected of the commission, preparation, or instigation of acts of terrorism. (Time 107.5fm)
2017 War in North-West Pakistan: A bomb targets a mosque in the city of Parachinar near the border with Afghanistan killing at least 22 people and wounding dozens more. (Reuters)
2016 Israeli–Palestinian conflict (2015–present): Israeli security forces arrest 16 Palestinian suspects on the West Bank. (Jerusalem Post)
2015 Landslides in India's Jammu and Kashmir state kill at least six people and leave sixteen others missing. (BBC)
2014 Korean maritime border incidents:: North and South Korea exchange artillery fire across sea boundaries. (AFP via Yahoo News)
2013 Terrorism in Pakistan:: A bomb kills two people and injures six others, including Adnan Wazir, a former Member of Parliament of the Awami National Party, in Bannu, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. (AFP via Channel NewsAsia)
2012 2012 insurgency in northern Mali: Tuareg rebels attack the northern Malian town of Gao, a day after taking the provincial capital Kidal. (Al Jazeera)
2011 Arab Spring:
2010 Algerian authorities arrest an Israeli spy found with a false Spanish passport under the 35-year-old pseudonym Alberto Vagilo. This was initially reported by some sources as the abduction of a Spanish citizen by an al-Qaeda-linked group. (Press TV)
2009 Likud Party Chairman Benjamin Netanyahu is inaugurated as Prime Minister of Israel. (Xinhua via Reuters)
2008 One of Mexico's most prolific serial killers, Juana Barraza, nicknamed the ''Mataviejitas'' (Little Old Lady Killer), receives multiple life sentences for the murders of at least 11 women. (BBC News)
2007 First day of 177th Annual General Conference
2006 In Ukraine, after days of vote tallying, Viktor Yanukovych's Party of Regions wins a plurality in the 2006 parliamentary election. Central Election Commission of Ukraine
2005 The last day to apply for the Sales Tax Amnesty Program from the California State Board of Equalization was March 31, 2005.
2004 Four American private military contractors working for Blackwater USA are killed, and their bodies mutilated, after being ambushed in Fallujah, Iraq.
2003 In Japan, farm minister Tadamori Oshima resigns.
2002 Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Israeli troops exchange gunfire with guards of Yasir Arafat in Ramallah. A suicide bomber identified as Shadi Tubasi, a resident of the refugee camp Jenin, kills 14 and wounds more than 40 in Haifa. Later, a suicide bomber wounds four members of an intensive-care unit, one critically, in a paramedics' dispatch station in Efrat. In the past 18 months, according to the Associated Press, 1262 people have been killed on the Palestinian side and on 401 on the Israeli
2001 Animated television series ''Invader Zim'' premieres.
1998 Tampa Bay Devil Rays' first game; they host Detroit Tigers.
1997 Daytime to Remember a series showing old soaps premieres on ABC-TV
1996 Getting Away With Murder closes at Broadhurst NYC after 17 performances
1995 Federal judge orders injunction to end US baseball strike.
1994 James Farentino pleads no contest to stalking ex-girl Tina Sinatra
1992 The USS Missouri, the last active United States Navy battleship, is decommissioned in Long Beach, California.
1991 Danny Bonaduce attacks a transvestite prostitute in Phoenix, Arizona
1990 Carol & Company starring Carol Burnette premieres on NBC-TV
1989 Donald Trump purchases Eastern Airlines' Northeast Shuttle.
1988 Pulitzer prize awarded to Toni Morrison for Beloved
1986 English Hampton Court palace destroyed by fire, 1 dead
1985 15th Easter Seal Telethon raises US$27,400,000.
1984 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
1983 Earthquake in Colombia kills some 5,000 people
1982 Rock group Doobie Brothers split up.
1981 53rd Academy Awards - Ordinary People, R De Niro and Sissy Spacek win
1980 Jesse Owens, American athlete (Olympics-gold-1936), dies in Tucson, Arizona at age 66 (born 1913).
1979 The last British soldier leaves the Maltese Islands. Malta declares its Freedom Day (Jum il-Helsien).
1978 Wings release London Town album
1976 Cleveland Cavaliers clinch their first ever NBA playoff berth.
1973 Ken Norton defeats Muhammad Ali in a 12-round split decision.
1972 Official Beatles Fan Club closes down.
1971 William Calley sentenced to life for Mi Lai Massacre
1970 Federal bankruptcy court allows Seattle Pilots to be sold to Milwaukee.
1968 LBJ announces he will not seek re-election
1967 1st time Jimi Hendrix burns his guitar (London)
1966 USSR launches Luna 10, 1st lunar orbiter
1965 US orders the first combat troops to Vietnam.
1964 President Jango Goulart of Brazil chased out of office by military.
1963 LA ends streetcar service after 90 years
1961 Aklilou Habtewold becomes first premier of Ethiopia.
1959 Dalai Lama fled China and was granted political asylum in India
1958 The Grand Canyon Diorama attraction opens in Disneyland, part of the Santa Fe and Disneyland Railroad. At 306 feet long, it is the world's longest seamless hand-woven canvas.
1957 Elections to the Territorial Assembly of the French colony Upper Volta are held. After the elections PDU and MDV form a government.
1955 US Assay Office in Seattle, Washington, USA closes.
1954 US Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado, is established.
1953 US Department of Health, Education and Welfare established.
1951 US tanks cross 38 degrees of latitude in Korea.
1949 The Dominion of Newfoundland joins the Canadian Confederation and becomes the 10th Province of Canada.
1948 US Congress passes Marshall Aid Act to rehabilitate war-torn Europe.
1947 The leaders of the Kurdish People's Republic of Mahabad, the second Kurdish state in the history of Iran, are hanged at the Chuwarchira Square in Mahabad after that country had been overrun by the Iranian army.
1946 Belgian government of Acker forms.
1945 US artillery lands on Keise Shima; begins firing on Okinawa.
1944 Hungary orders all Jews to wear yellow stars.
1943 US errantly bombs Rotterdam, kills 326.
1941 Germany begins a counter offensive in Africa
1940 Karelo-Finnish SSR becomes 12th Soviet republic (lasts until 1956).
1939 Britain and France agree to support Poland if invaded by Germany
1935 Fusahige Suzuki runs world record marathon (2:07:09).
1934 Netherlands Indies BC Ltd begins radio transmission (Indonesia)
1933 German Republic gives power to Hitler
1932 Ford publicly unveils its V-8 engine.
1931 TWA Flight 599 crashes near Bazaar, Kansas killing 8 including Knute Rockne, head football coach at the University of Notre Dame
1930 The Motion Pictures Production Code is instituted in the United States, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in motion pictures for the next 40 years.
1926 German Special Court of Justice for state security disbands.
1925 WOWO-AM, Ft Wayne Indiana begins radio transmission (500 watts)
1924 Croydon Airport: 1st British mig aircraft Imperial established
1923 Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators (NHL) sweep Edmonton Eskimos (WCHL) in two games.
1922 KFI-AM in Los Angeles CA begins radio transmissions
1921 British coal miners goes on strike.
1920 British parliament accept Irish "Home Rule"-law.
1919 Strike against Ruhrgebied government of Scheidemann.
1918 Massacre of ethnic Azerbaijanis is committed by allied armed groups of Armenian Revolutionary Federation and Bolsheviks. Nearly 12,000 Azerbaijani Muslims are killed.
1917 US purchases Danish West Indies for $25M and renames them Virgin Islands
1916 Dutch government ends all military engagements.
1910 Six North Staffordshire Pottery towns federate to form modern Stoke-on-Trent.
1909 Gustav Mahler conducts New York Philharmonic for his first time.
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.
1905 German emperor Wilhelm II visits Tanger.
1904 British expedition to Tibet ampndash Battle of Guru: British troops under Colonel Francis Younghusband defeat ill-equipped Tibetan troops.
1903 Richard Pearse allegedly makes a powered flight in an early aircraft.
1900 In France, the length of a legal workday for women and children is limited to 11 hours.
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