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Events on the 31st of March in history

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31 Mar 0307 After divorcing his wife Minervina, Constantine marries Fausta, the daughter of the retired Roman Emperor Maximian.
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31 Mar 0627 Battle of the Trench: Muhammad undergoes a 14-day siege at Medina (Saudi Arabia) by Meccan forces under Abu Sufyan.
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31 Mar 1084 Anti-pope Clemens crowns German emperor Hendrik IV
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31 Mar 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.
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31 Mar 1492 Queen Isabella of Castille issues the Alhambra Decree, ordering her 150,000 Jewish and Muslim subjects to convert to Christianity or face expulsion.
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31 Mar 1492 Queen Isabella of Castilia & Ferdinand of Aragon expels Jews
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31 Mar 1504 France & Spain signs ceasefire
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31 Mar 1521 Magelhaes takes possession of Homohon, Archipelago of St Lazarus
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31 Mar 1547 Henry II succeeds Francois I as King of France
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31 Mar 1547 Henry II succeeds Fran
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31 Mar 1561 The city of San Cristóbal, Táchira is founded.
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31 Mar 1644 Pope Urbanus VIII & duke of Parma signs Peace of Ferrara
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31 Mar 1651 Great earthquake at Cuzco Peru
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31 Mar 1657 English Humble Petition offers Lord Protector Cromwell the crown
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31 Mar 1667 France / England signs anti-Dutch military accord
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31 Mar 1683 Emperor Leopold I/Poland signs covenant against Turkey
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31 Mar 1717 A sermon on "The Nature of the Kingdom of Christ" by Benjamin Hoadly, the Bishop of Bangor, provokes the Bangorian Controversy.
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31 Mar 1745 Jews are expelled from Prague
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31 Mar 1774 American Revolutionary War: The Kingdom of Great Britain orders the port of Boston, Massachusetts closed pursuant to the Boston Port Act.
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31 Mar 1796 Johann Wolfgang von Goethes "Egmont, " premieres in Weimar
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31 Mar 1808 French created Kingdom of Westphalia orders Jews to adopt family names
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31 Mar 1814 Forces allied against Napoleon capture Paris France
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31 Mar 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.
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31 Mar 1831 Mainzer Rijnvaart Convention ends
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31 Mar 1831 Qu
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31 Mar 1841 1st performance of Robert Schumann's 1st Symphony in B
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31 Mar 1849 Colonel John W Geary arrives as 1st postmaster of San Francisco
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31 Mar 1850 US population hits 23,191,876 (Black population: 3,638,808 (15.7%))
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31 Mar 1854 Commodore Matthew Perry signs the Convention of Kanagawa with the Japanese government, opening the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to American trade.
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31 Mar 1854 Treaty of Kanagawa: Commodore Perry forces Japan to opens ports to foreign trade
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31 Mar 1861 Confederacy takes over mint at New Orleans
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31 Mar 1862 Civil War action at Island #10 on the Mississippi River
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31 Mar 1863 Battle of Grand Gulf MS and Dinwiddie Court House, Virginia
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31 Mar 1865 Battle of Boydton, Virginia (White Oaks Roads, Dinwiddie Court House)
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31 Mar 1865 General Pickette moves to 5 Forks, abandoning the defense of Peterburg
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31 Mar 1866 The Spanish Navy bombs the harbor of Valparaíso, Chile.
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31 Mar 1868 Chinese Embassy arrives aboard steamship China
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31 Mar 1870 1st black to vote in US (Thomas P Mundy of Perth Amboy NJ)
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31 Mar 1870 Thomas P Mundy became 1st black to vote in US (Perth Amboy NJ)
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31 Mar 1877 British high director / Governor sir Bartle Frere arrives in Cape Town
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31 Mar 1877 The family with samurai antecedents that responded to the Saigō army in Ōita Nakatsu, rebels.
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31 Mar 1877 Test Cricket debut of Fred "Demon" Spofforth, Australia vs England MCG
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31 Mar 1878 Jack Johnson is 1st black to hold a heavyweight boxing title
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31 Mar 1880 1st town completely illuminated by electric lighting (Wabash IN)
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31 Mar 1883 1st performance of C
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31 Mar 1883 Utrecht begins water pipe system
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31 Mar 1885 The United Kingdom establishes the Bechuanaland Protectorate.
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31 Mar 1885 Great Britain declares Bechuanaland a protectorate
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31 Mar 1889 The Eiffel Tower is officially opened.
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31 Mar 1889 300 meter Eiffel Tower officially opens (commemorates French Revolution)
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31 Mar 1896 Whitcomb Judson, Chicago IL, patents a hookless fastening (zipper)
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31 Mar 1899 Malolos, capital of the First Philippine Republic, was captured by American forces.
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31 Mar 1900 Brigadier-General Broadwoods troops fall into guerrilla hands
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31 Mar 1903 Richard Pearse allegedly makes a powered flight in an early aircraft.
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31 Mar 1903 Richard Pearse flies monoplane several hundred yards (New Zealand)
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31 Mar 1905 German emperor Wilhelm II visits Tanger
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31 Mar 1906 GB Shaws German version of "Caesar & Cleopatra" premieres in Berlin
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31 Mar 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.
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31 Mar 1906 George Bernard Shaw's German version of "Caesar & Cleopatra" premieres in Berlin
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31 Mar 1907 Romanian Army puts down Moldavian farmers' revolt
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31 Mar 1909 Construction of the ill fated RMS Titanic begins.
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31 Mar 1909 Serbia accepts Austrian control over Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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31 Mar 1909 Baseball rules players who jump contracts are suspended for 5 years
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31 Mar 1909 Gustav Mahler conducts New York Philharmonic for his 1st time
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31 Mar 1910 Six North Staffordshire Pottery towns federate to form modern Stoke-on-Trent.
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31 Mar 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.
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31 Mar 1916 Dutch government ends all military engagements
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31 Mar 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.
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31 Mar 1917 US purchases Danish West Indies for $25M & renames them Virgin Islands
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31 Mar 1918 Daylight saving time goes into effect in the United States for the first time.
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31 Mar 1918 Massacre of ethnic Azerbaijanis is committed by allied armed groups of Armenian Revolutionary Federation and Bolsheviks. Nearly 12,000 Azerbaijani Muslims are killed.
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31 Mar 1918 1st daylight savings time in US goes into effect
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31 Mar 1919 Strike against Ruhrgebied government of Scheidemann
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31 Mar 1920 British parliament accept Irish "Home Rule"-law
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31 Mar 1921 The Royal Australian Air Force is formed.
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31 Mar 1921 Albert Einstein lectures in New York on his new theory of relativity
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31 Mar 1921 British coal miners goes on strike
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31 Mar 1922 KFI-AM in Los Angeles CA begins radio transmissions
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31 Mar 1922 Prince Hendrik opens trade fair building in Amsterdam
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31 Mar 1923 1st dance marathon-NYC-Alma Cummings sets record of 27 hours
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31 Mar 1923 French soldiers fire on workers at Krupp factory in Essen; 13 die
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31 Mar 1923 Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators (NHL) sweep Edmonton Eskimos (WCHL) in 2 games
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31 Mar 1924 Croydon Airport: 1st British mig aircraft Imperial established
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31 Mar 1924 Croydon Airport; 1st British air company merger - Imperial Airways Ltd established
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31 Mar 1924 London public transport strike ends
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31 Mar 1925 WOWO-AM, Ft Wayne Indiana begins radio transmission (500 watts)
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31 Mar 1926 German Special Court of Justice for state security disbands
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31 Mar 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.
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31 Mar 1931 TWA Flight 599 crashes near Bazaar, Kansas, killing eight, including University of Notre Dame head football coach Knute Rockne.
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31 Mar 1931 An earthquake destroys Managua, Nicaragua, killing 2,000.
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31 Mar 1932 150 wild swans die in Niagara waterfall
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31 Mar 1932 Ford publicly unveils its V-8 engine
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31 Mar 1933 1st newspaper published on pine pulp paper, "Soperton News" (Ga)
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31 Mar 1933 The Civilian Conservation Corps is established with the mission of relieving rampant unemployment in the United States.
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31 Mar 1933 Congress authorizes Civilian Conservation Corps
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31 Mar 1933 German Republic gives power to Hitler
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31 Mar 1934 Netherlands Indies BC Ltd begain radio transmission (Indonesia)
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31 Mar 1935 Fusahige Suzuki runs world record marathon (2: 7: 9)
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31 Mar 1939 Britain & France agree to support Poland if invaded by Germany
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31 Mar 1940 Karelo-Finnish SSR becomes 12th Soviet republic (until 1956)
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31 Mar 1941 Germany begins a counter offensive in Africa
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31 Mar 1941 Ground broken for Union Square Garage, San Francisco
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31 Mar 1942 World War II: Japanese forces invade Christmas Island, then a British possession.
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31 Mar 1943 Rodgers & Hammerstein musical "Oklahoma!" opens on Broadway
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31 Mar 1943 US errantly bombs Rotterdam, kills 326
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31 Mar 1944 Hungary orders all Jews to wear yellow stars
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31 Mar 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.
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31 Mar 1945 3rd Algerian division crosses the Rhine
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31 Mar 1945 Sicherheitsdienst murders 10 political prisoners in Zutphen
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31 Mar 1945 Tennessee Williams' "Glass Menagerie" premieres in New York NY
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31 Mar 1945 US artillery lands on Keise Shima/begins firing on Okinawa
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31 Mar 1946 Belgian government of Acker, forms
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31 Mar 1948 Congress passes Marshall Aid Act to rehabilitate war-torn Europe
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31 Mar 1949 The Dominion of Newfoundland joins the Canadian Confederation and becomes the 10th Province of Canada.
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31 Mar 1949 Newfoundland becomes Canada's 10th province
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31 Mar 1951 Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau.
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31 Mar 1951 US tanks exceed 38
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31 Mar 1953 Department of Health, Education & Welfare established
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31 Mar 1953 UN Security Council nominates Dag Hammarskj
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31 Mar 1954 US Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs CO, established
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31 Mar 1954 USSR offers to join NATO
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31 Mar 1955 Chase National (3rd largest bank) & Bank of the Manhattan Company (15th largest bank) merge to form Chase Manhattan
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31 Mar 1955 Collie Smith scores 104 on cricket debut West Indies vs Australia, Kingston
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31 Mar 1955 US Assay Office in Seattle WA closes
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31 Mar 1957 Elections to the Territorial Assembly of the French colony Upper Volta are held. After the elections PDU and MDV form a government.
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31 Mar 1958 USSR suspends nuclear weapons tests, and urges US and Britain to do same
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31 Mar 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.
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31 Mar 1958 US Navy forms atomic sub division
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31 Mar 1959 The 14th Dalai Lama, crosses the border into India and is granted political asylum.
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31 Mar 1959 Dalai Lama fled China & was granted political asylum in India
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31 Mar 1960 Gore Vidal's "Best Man" premieres in New York NY
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31 Mar 1961 Aklilou Habtewold becomes 1st premier of Ethiopia
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31 Mar 1963 Los Angeles ends streetcar service after 90 years
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31 Mar 1964 A coup d'état in Brazil establishes a military government, under the aegis of general Castelo Branco.
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31 Mar 1964 President Jango Goulart of Brazil chased out of office by military
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31 Mar 1965 US ordered the 1st combat troops to Vietnam
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31 Mar 1966 The Soviet Union launches Luna 10 which later becomes the first space probe to enter orbit around the Moon.
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31 Mar 1966 25,000 anti war demonstrators march in New York NY
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31 Mar 1966 Labour Party wins British parliamentary election
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31 Mar 1966 USSR launches Luna 10, 1st lunar orbiter
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31 Mar 1967 1st time Jimi Hendrix burns his guitar (London)
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31 Mar 1967 Jimi Hendrix begins his tradition of burning his guitar
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31 Mar 1968 LBJ announces he will not seek re-election
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31 Mar 1968 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Palm Beach County Golf Open
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31 Mar 1968 Pirate Radio Station Pegaus (New Zealand) begins transmitting
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31 Mar 1968 Seattle's American League club is named Pilots
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31 Mar 1969 George Harrison & Patti Boyd are fined
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31 Mar 1970 Explorer 1 re-enters the Earth's atmosphere after 12 years in orbit.
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31 Mar 1970 Federal bankruptcy court allows Seattle Pilots to be sold to Milwaukee
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31 Mar 1971 South Africa national debt hits 5.45 billion
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31 Mar 1971 William L Calley Jr sentenced to life for My Lai Massacre
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31 Mar 1972 Official Beatles Fan Club closes down
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31 Mar 1973 Flyers score 8 goals in 1 period vs Islanders, on 60 shots
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31 Mar 1973 Ken Norton defeats Muhammad Ali in a 12 round split decision
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31 Mar 1975 37th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Kentucky 92-55; this is John Wooden's final game & UCLA's 10th NCAA championship in 12 years
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31 Mar 1976 Cleveland Cavaliers clinch their 1st ever NBA playoff berth
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31 Mar 1976 New Jersey Court rules Karen Anne Quinlan may be disconnected from respirator
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31 Mar 1977 Michael Cristofer's "Shadow Box" premieres in New York NY
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31 Mar 1978 Wings release "London Town" album
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31 Mar 1978 Red Rum wins 3rd consecutive Grand National & retires
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31 Mar 1978 USSR launches Kosmos 1000 navigational satellite
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31 Mar 1978 Wings release "London Town" album
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31 Mar 1979 The last British soldier leaves the Maltese Islands. Malta declares its Freedom Day (Jum il-Helsien).
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31 Mar 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.
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31 Mar 1980 Larry Holmes TKOs Leroy Jones in 8 for (WBC) heavyweight boxing title
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31 Mar 1980 Mike Weaver KOs John Tate in 15 for (WBA) heavyweight boxing title
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31 Mar 1980 President Jimmy Carter deregulates banking industry
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31 Mar 1981 53rd Academy Awards - "Ordinary People, " R De Niro and Sissy Spacek win
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31 Mar 1981 1st Golden Raspberry Awards: Can't Stop the Music wins
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31 Mar 1982 Arkas tanker at Montz LA, spills 1.47 million gallons of oil
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31 Mar 1982 Rock group Doobie Brothers split up
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31 Mar 1983 Earthquake in Colombia kills some 5,000 people
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31 Mar 1983 Marsha Norman's "'night, Mother" premieres in New York NY
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31 Mar 1984 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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31 Mar 1985 The first WrestleMania, the biggest wrestling event from the WWE (then the WWF), takes place in Madison Square Garden in New York.
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31 Mar 1985 15th Easter Seal Telethon raises $27,400,000
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31 Mar 1985 4th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Old Dominion beats Georgia 70-65
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31 Mar 1985 El Salvador's President Duartes Christian-Democrats win election
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31 Mar 1985 Wrestlemania I at Madison Square Garden New York, Hogan & Mr T beat Piper & Orndorf
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31 Mar 1986 Six metropolitan county councils are abolished in England.
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31 Mar 1986 167 die when Mexicana Airlines Boeing 727 crashes
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31 Mar 1986 48th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Louisville beats Duke 72-69
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31 Mar 1986 English Hampton Court palace destroyed by fire, 1 dead
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31 Mar 1987 49th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Indiana beats Syracuse 74-73
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31 Mar 1988 Pulitzer prize awarded to Toni Morrison for "Beloved"
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31 Mar 1988 Last East Limburg coal mine closes in Gent Belgium
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31 Mar 1988 New York Islanders celebrate Denis Potvin night
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31 Mar 1989 Donald Trump purchases Eastern's Northeast Shuttle
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31 Mar 1990 "Carol & Company" starring Carol Burnette premieres on NBC-TV
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31 Mar 1990 Approximately 200,000 protestors take to the streets of London to protest against the newly introduced Poll Tax.
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31 Mar 1990 Dionisio Castro cycles world record 20 km (57:18.4)
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31 Mar 1990 Riots began in London over the new poll tax laws
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31 Mar 1991 Danny Bonaduce attacks a transvestite prostitute in Phoenix, Arizona
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31 Mar 1991 Georgian SSR votes on whether to remain in the Soviet Union
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31 Mar 1991 Musical "Will Rogers Follies, " premieres in New York City
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31 Mar 1991 Georgian independence referendum, 1991: Nearly 99 percent of the voters support the country's independence from the Soviet Union.
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31 Mar 1991 10th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Tennessee beats Virginia 70-67
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31 Mar 1991 Albania offers 1st multi-party election in 50 years
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31 Mar 1991 Musical "Will Rogers Follies" premieres in New York NY
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31 Mar 1991 Soviet Republic of Georgia endorsed independence; Warsaw Pact dissolves
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31 Mar 1991 St Louis Blues Brett Hull scores his 86th goal
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31 Mar 1992 The USS Missouri, the last active United States Navy battleship, is decommissioned in Long Beach, California.
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31 Mar 1992 Delhi beat Tamil Nadu on 1st innings to win cricket Ranji Trophy
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31 Mar 1992 UN Security Council voted to ban flights & arms sales to Libya
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31 Mar 1994 James Farentino pleads no contest to stalking ex-girl Tina Sinatra
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31 Mar 1994 The journal Nature reports the finding in Ethiopia of the first complete Australopithecus afarensis skull.
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31 Mar 1994 Walkway from Cleveland's Tower City to Jacobs Field officially opens
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31 Mar 1995 1st game at Coors Stadium Colorado (replacement Rockies beat Yankees 4-1)
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31 Mar 1995 Bombay beat Punjab on 1st innings to win cricket Ranji Trophy
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31 Mar 1995 Federal judge orders injunction to end baseball strike
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31 Mar 1996 "Getting Away With Murder" closes at Broadhurst NYC after 17 performances
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31 Mar 1996 "Midsummer Night's Dream" opens at Lunt-Fontanne NYC for 66 performances
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31 Mar 1996 1st Opening Day in history in March takes place in Seattle
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31 Mar 1996 25th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Patty Sheehan
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31 Mar 1996 Karnataka defeat Tamil Nadu on 1st innings to win Ranji Trophy
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31 Mar 1996 Radio Canada International's final shortwave broadcast
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31 Mar 1996 Space Shuttle STS 76 (Atlantis 16), lands
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31 Mar 1996 Wrestlemania XII: Shawn Michaels beats Brett Hart for WWF title
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31 Mar 1997 "Daytime to Remember" a series showing old soaps premieres on ABC-TV
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31 Mar 1997 59th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Arizona beats Kentucky 84-79 (OT)
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31 Mar 1997 Pioneer 10, ends its mission
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31 Mar 1998 Tampa Bay Devil Rays 1st game they host Detroit Tigers
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31 Mar 2004 Iraq War in Anbar Province: In Fallujah, Iraq, four American private military contractors working for Blackwater USA, are killed after being ambushed.
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