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What happend on 31. March in History
In our data base we found 371 events happened on 31. March:
• 250: Constantius Chlorus, Roman Emperor (d. 306) [category: Births]
• 307: After divorcing his wife Minervina, Constantine marries Fausta, the daughter of the retired Roman Emperor Maximian. [category: Events]
• 1074: Regency Yorimichi Fujiwara of Japan (b. 992) [category: Deaths]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1340: Ivan I of Russia (b. 1288) [category: Deaths]
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• 1360: Philippa of Lancaster, Queen of Portugal (d. 1415) [category: Births]
• 1425: Bianca Maria Visconti, Duchess of Milan (d. 1468) [category: Births]
• 1492: Queen Isabella of Castille issues the Alhambra decree, ordering her 150,000 Jewish subjects to convert to Christianity or face expulsion. [category: Events]
• 1499: Pope Pius IV (d. 1565) [category: Births]
• 1504: Guru Angad Dev, second Sikh guru (d. 1552) [category: Births]
• 1519: King Henry II of France (d. 1559) [category: Births]
• 1536: Ashikaga Yoshiteru, Japanese shogun (d. 1565) [category: Births]
• 1547: Francis I of France (b. 1494) [category: Deaths]
• 1567: Philipp I of Hesse (b. 1504) [category: Deaths]
• 1576: Louise Juliana of Nassau, Regent of Bohemia (d. 1644) [category: Births]
• 1596: René Descartes, French philosopher, mathematician and writer (d. 1650) [category: Births]
• 1621: Andrew Marvell, English poet (d. 1678) [category: Births]
• 1621: King Philip III of Spain (b. 1578) [category: Deaths]
• 1631: John Donne, English writer and prelate (b. 1572) [category: Deaths]
• 1651: Karl II, Elector Palatine (d. 1685) [category: Births]
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• 1671: Anne Hyde, Duchess of York (b. 1637) [category: Deaths]
• 1675: Pope Benedict XIV (d. 1758) [category: Births]
• 1685: Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer (d. 1750) [category: Births]
• 1703: Johann Christoph Bach, German composer (b. 1642) [category: Deaths]
• 1717: A sermon on "The Nature of the Kingdom of Christ" by Benjamin Hoadly, the Bishop of Bangor, provokes the Bangorian Controversy. [category: Events]
• 1718: Infanta Mariana Victoria of Spain (d. 1781) [category: Births]
• 1723: King Frederick V of Denmark (d. 1766) [category: Births]
• 1723: Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, British-American governor (b. 1661) [category: Deaths]
• 1727: Sir Isaac Newton, English mathematician and physicist (b. 1643) [category: Deaths]
• 1730: Étienne Bézout, French mathematician (d. 1783) [category: Births]
• 1732: Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer (d. 1809) [category: Births]
• 1741: Pieter Burmann the Elder, Dutch classical scholar (b. 1668) [category: Deaths]
• 1747: Johann Abraham Peter Schulz, German musician and composer (d. 1800) [category: Births]
• 1774: American Revolutionary War: The Kingdom of Great Britain orders the port of Boston, Massachusetts closed pursuant to the Boston Port Act. [category: Events]
• 1777: Charles Cagniard de la Tour, French physicist (d. 1859) [category: Births]
• 1778: Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Dutch zoologist (d. 1858) [category: Births]
• 1783: Nikita Ivanovich Panin, Russian statesman (b. 1718) [category: Deaths]
• 1794: Thomas McKean Thompson McKennan, American politician and 2nd United States Secretary of the Interior (d. 1852) [category: Births]
• 1797: Olaudah Equiano, Nigerian slave (b.1745) [category: Deaths]
• 1809: Edward FitzGerald, English poet (d. 1883) [category: Births]
• 1809: Otto Lindblad, Swedish composer (d. 1864) [category: Births]
• 1819: Prince Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, German statesman (d. 1901) [category: Births]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1823: Mary Boykin Chesnut, American author (d. 1886) [category: Births]
• 1837: John Constable, English painter (b. 1776) [category: Deaths]
• 1847: Hermann de Pourtalès, Swiss sailor (d. 1904) [category: Births]
• 1847: Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev, Russian mathematician (d. 1878) [category: Births]
• 1850: John C. Calhoun, American politician and political theorist, 7th Vice President of the United States (b. 1782) [category: Deaths]
• 1854: Commodore Matthew Perry signs the Treaty of Kanagawa with the Japanese government, opening the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to American trade. [category: Events]
• 1855: Alfred E. Hunt, American entrepreneur (d. 1899) [category: Births]
• 1855: Charlotte Brontë, English author (b. 1816) [category: Deaths]
• 1866: The Spanish Navy bombs the harbor of Valparaíso, Chile. [category: Events]
• 1871: Arthur Griffith, Irish politician (d. 1922) [category: Births]
• 1872: Alexandra Kollontai, Russian statesman (d. 1952) [category: Births]
• 1872: Sergei Diaghilev, Russian ballet impresario, founder of the Ballets Russes (d. 1929) [category: Births]
• 1876: Borisav Stanković, Serbian writer (d. 1927) [category: Births]
• 1877: Antoine Augustin Cournot, French mathematician (b. 1801) [category: Deaths]
• 1877: The family with samurai antecedents that responded to the Saigō army in Ōita Nakatsu, rebels. [category: Events]
• 1878: Jack Johnson, American boxer (d. 1946) [category: Births]
• 1880: Henryk Wieniawski, Polish composer (b. 1835) [category: Deaths]
• 1884: Adriaan van Maanen, Dutch-American astronomer (d. 1946) [category: Births]
• 1885: Pascin, Bulgarian painter (d. 1930) [category: Births]
• 1885: Franz Wilhelm Abt, German composer (b. 1819) [category: Deaths]
• 1885: The United Kingdom establishes a protectorate over Bechuanaland. [category: Events]
• 1889: The Eiffel Tower is officially opened. [category: Events]
• 1890: William Lawrence Bragg, English physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1971) [category: Births]
• 1891: Victor Varconi, Hungarian actor (d. 1976) [category: Births]
• 1893: Clemens Krauss, Austrian conductor (d. 1954) [category: Births]
• 1895: Vardis Fisher, American author (d. 1968) [category: Births]
• 1900: Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (d. 1974) [category: Births]
• 1903: John Harron, American actor (d. 1939) [category: Births]
• 1903: Richard Pearse allegedly makes a powered flight in an early aircraft. [category: Events]
• 1906: Shin'ichiro Tomonaga, Japanese physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1979) [category: Births]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1907: Eddie Quillan, American actor (d. 1990) [category: Births]
• 1908: Red Norvo, American jazz vibraphonist (d. 1999) [category: Births]
• 1909: Construction of the ill fated RMS Titanic begins. [category: Events]
• 1909: Serbia accepts Austrian control over Bosnia and Herzegovina. [category: Events]
• 1910: Six North Staffordshire Pottery towns federate to form modern Stoke-on-Trent. [category: Events]
• 1911: Elisabeth Grümmer, German soprano (d. 1986) [category: Births]
• 1912: William Lederer, American writer (d. 2009) [category: Births]
• 1913: Etta Baker, American guitarist and singer (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1913: J. P. Morgan, American financier (b. 1837) [category: Deaths]
• 1914: Octavio Paz, Mexican diplomat and writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1998) [category: Births]
• 1915: Albert Hourani, English historian (d. 1993) [category: Births]
• 1915: Shoichi Yokoi, Japanese sergeant (d. 1997) [category: Births]
• 1915: Wyndham Halswelle, Scottish athlete (b. 1882) [category: Deaths]
• 1916: John H. Wood, Jr., American jurist (d. 1979) [category: Births]
• 1916: Lucille Bliss, American voice actress [category: Births]
• 1917: Emil Adolf von Behring, German physician, Nobel laureate (b. 1854) [category: Deaths]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1918: Daylight saving time goes into effect in the United States for the first time. [category: Events]
• 1918: Massacre of ethnic Azerbaijanis is committed by allied armed groups of Armenian Revolutionary Federation and Bolsheviks. Nearly 12,000 Azerbaijani Muslims are killed. [category: Events]
• 1919: Frank Akins, American football player (d. 1993) [category: Births]
• 1920: Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire [category: Births]
• 1921: Peggy Rea, American actress (d. 2011) [category: Births]
• 1921: The Royal Australian Air Force is formed. [category: Events]
• 1922: Richard Kiley, American actor (d. 1999) [category: Births]
• 1924: Charles Guggenheim, American director and producer (d. 2002) [category: Births]
• 1924: Leo Buscaglia, American author (d. 1998) [category: Births]
• 1924: George Charles Haité, English designer, painter and illustrator (b.1855) [category: Deaths]
• 1925: Jean Coutu, French-Canadian actor (d. 1999) [category: Births]
• 1926: John Fowles, English author (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1926: Rocco Petrone, American engineer (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1927: Bud MacPherson, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1988) [category: Births]
• 1927: César Chávez, American labor activist (d. 1993) [category: Births]
• 1927: William Daniels, American actor [category: Births]
• 1928: Gordie Howe, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1928: Lefty Frizzell, American singer and songwriter (d. 1975) [category: Births]
• 1929: Bertram Fields, American lawyer [category: Births]
• 1929: Liz Claiborne, Belgian-American fashion designer (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1929: Pablo de Escandón, Mexican polo player (b. 1856) [category: Deaths]
• 1930: Ludwig Schüler, German politician (b. 1836) [category: Deaths]
• 1930: The Motion Pictures 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. [category: Events]
• 1931: Miller Barber, American golfer [category: Births]
• 1931: Knute Rockne, American football coach (b. 1888) [category: Deaths]
• 1931: An earthquake destroys Managua, Nicaragua, killing 2,000. [category: Events]
• 1931: TWA Flight 599 crashes near Bazaar, Kansas killing 8 including Knute Rockne, head football coach at the University of Notre Dame [category: Events]
• 1932: John Jakes, American writer [category: Births]
• 1932: Nagisa Oshima, Japanese film director (d. 2013) [category: Births]
• 1933: Anita Carter, American singer (Carter Family and The Carter Sisters) (d. 1999) [category: Births]
• 1933: Nichita Stănescu, Romanian poet (d. 1983) [category: Births]
• 1933: The Civilian Conservation Corps is established with the mission of relieving rampant unemployment in the United States. [category: Events]
• 1934: Carlo Rubbia, Italian physicist, Nobel Laureate [category: Births]
• 1934: John D. Loudermilk, American singer and songwriter [category: Births]
• 1934: Richard Chamberlain, American actor [category: Births]
• 1934: Shirley Jones, American singer and actress (The Partridge Family) [category: Births]
• 1935: Herb Alpert, American trumpeter and band leader [category: Births]
• 1935: Judith Rossner, American author [category: Births]
• 1935: Concordia Selander, Swedish actress (b. 1861) [category: Deaths]
• 1935: Georges V. Matchabelli, Georgian prince and diplomat (b. 1885) [category: Deaths]
• 1936: Bob Pulford, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1936: Dokumamushi Sandayu, Japanese actor [category: Births]
• 1936: Marge Piercy, American writer [category: Births]
• 1937: Willem Duyn, Dutch musician (Mouth & MacNeal) (d. 2004) [category: Births]
• 1938: Arthur B. Rubinstein, American composer [category: Births]
• 1938: Bill Hicke, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1938: David Steel, Scottish politician [category: Births]
• 1938: Joel Godard, American television announcer [category: Births]
• 1938: Michiko Nomura, Japanese voice actor [category: Births]
• 1938: Sheila Dikshit, Indian statesman [category: Births]
• 1939: Israel Horovitz, American playwright and screenwriter [category: Births]
• 1939: Karl-Heinz Schnellinger, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1939: Volker Schlöndorff, German director [category: Births]
• 1939: Zviad Gamsakhurdia, Georgian politician (d. 1993) [category: Births]
• 1940: Barney Frank, American politician [category: Births]
• 1940: Patrick Leahy, American politician [category: Births]
• 1941: Franco Bonvicini, Italian comic book artist (d. 1995) [category: Births]
• 1942: Michael Savage, American radio host and political commentator [category: Births]
• 1942: Ulla Hoffmann, Swedish politician [category: Births]
• 1942: World War II: Japanese forces invade Christmas Island, then a British possession. [category: Events]
• 1943: Christopher Walken, American actor [category: Births]
• 1944: Mick Ralphs, English guitarist (Mott the Hoople and Bad Company) [category: Births]
• 1944: Pascal Danel, French singer and songwriter [category: Births]
• 1944: Mineichi Koga, Japanese admiral (b. 1885) [category: Deaths]
• 1945: Edwin Catmull, American computer scientist [category: Births]
• 1945: Gabe Kaplan, American actor and comedian [category: Births]
• 1945: Myfanwy Talog, Welsh actress (d. 1995) [category: Births]
• 1945: Valerie Curtin, American actress, writer, and producer [category: Births]
• 1945: Anne Frank, German Holocaust victim and author (b. 1929) [category: Deaths]
• 1945: Frank Findlay, New Zealand politician (b. 1884) [category: Deaths]
• 1945: Hans Fischer, German chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1881) [category: Deaths]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1946: Gonzalo Márquez, Venezuelan baseball player (d. 1984) [category: Births]
• 1947: César Gaviria Trujillo, Colombian politician [category: Births]
• 1947: Kristian Blak, Danish musician and recorder executive (Yggdrasil) [category: Births]
• 1948: Al Gore, American politician, 45th Vice President of the United States and Nobel laureate [category: Births]
• 1948: David Eisenhower, American author and professor [category: Births]
• 1948: Gary Doer, Canadian politician and diplomat [category: Births]
• 1948: Gustaaf Van Cauter, Belgian cyclist [category: Births]
• 1948: Rhea Perlman, American actress [category: Births]
• 1949: Gilles Gilbert, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1949: The Dominion of Newfoundland joins the Canadian Confederation and becomes the 10th Province of Canada. [category: Events]
• 1950: András Adorján, Hungarian chess player [category: Births]
• 1950: Ed Marinaro, American football player and actor [category: Births]
• 1951: Frankie Sabath, Puerto Rican singer and actor [category: Births]
• 1951: Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau. [category: Events]
• 1952: Dermot Morgan, Irish actor and comedian (d. 1998) [category: Births]
• 1952: Wallace H. White, Jr., American politician (b. 1877) [category: Deaths]
• 1954: Laima Vaikule, Latvian actress, singer, director, and choreographer [category: Births]
• 1955: Angus Young, Scottish-Australian guitarist (AC/DC and Marcus Hook Roll Band) [category: Births]
• 1955: Robert Vance, New Zealand cricketer [category: Births]
• 1956: Ralph DePalma, Italian race car driver (b. 1884) [category: Deaths]
• 1957: Alan Duncan, British politician [category: Births]
• 1957: Kyle Secor, American actor [category: Births]
• 1957: Marc McClure, American actor [category: Births]
• 1957: Elections to the Territorial Assembly of the French colony Upper Volta are held. After the elections PDU and MDV form a government. [category: Events]
• 1958: Sylvester Groth, German actor and tenor [category: Births]
• 1958: Tony Cox, American actor [category: Births]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1959: Ali McMordie, Irish bassist (Stiff Little Fingers and Friction Groove) [category: Births]
• 1959: Markus Hediger, Swiss poet and translator [category: Births]
• 1959: The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, crosses the border into India and is granted political asylum. [category: Events]
• 1960: Michelle Nicastro, American actress and singer (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1961: Gary Winick, American director and producer (d. 2011) [category: Births]
• 1961: Suzanne Westenhoefer, American comedian [category: Births]
• 1962: John Taylor, American football player [category: Births]
• 1963: Paul Mercurio, Australian actor and dancer [category: Births]
• 1964: Brad Slaight, American actor, comedian, and writer [category: Births]
• 1964: Fez Marie Whatley, American radio host and comedian [category: Births]
• 1964: Paul Wong Koon-Chung, Hong Kong musician (Beyond) [category: Births]
• 1964: A coup d'état in Brazil establishes a military government, under the aegis of general Castello Branco. [category: Events]
• 1965: Jean-Christophe Lafaille, French mountaineer (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1965: Steven T. Seagle, American comic-book writer [category: Births]
• 1965: Tom Barrasso, American ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1965: An Iberia Airlines Convair 440 crashes into the sea on approach to Tangier, killing 47 of 51 occupants. [category: Events]
• 1966: Nick Firestone, American race car driver [category: Births]
• 1966: Roger Black, English athlete [category: Births]
• 1966: The Soviet Union launches Luna 10 which later becomes the first space probe to enter orbit around the Moon. [category: Events]
• 1968: J.R. Reid, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1968: Naoya Ogawa, Japanese wrestler [category: Births]
• 1968: Grover Lowdermilk, American baseball player (b. 1885) [category: Deaths]
• 1969: Nyamko Sabuni, Swedish politician [category: Births]
• 1969: Samantha Brown, American television host [category: Births]
• 1969: Steve Smith, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1970: Damon Herriman, American actor [category: Births]
• 1970: Patrick Lachman, American singer and guitarist (Damageplan and Halford) [category: Births]
• 1970: Explorer 1 re-enters the Earth's atmosphere after 12 years in orbit. [category: Events]
• 1970: Nine terrorists from the Japanese Red Army hijack Japan Airlines Flight 351 at Tokyo International Airport, wielding samurai swords and carrying a bomb. [category: Events]
• 1971: Craig McCracken, American animator [category: Births]
• 1971: Demetris Assiotis, Greek-Cypriot footballer [category: Births]
• 1971: Ewan McGregor, Scottish actor [category: Births]
• 1971: Pavel Bure, Russian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1972: Alejandro Amenábar, Spanish director [category: Births]
• 1972: Andrew Bowen, American actor [category: Births]
• 1972: Evan Williams, American businessman, co-founded Twitter [category: Births]
• 1972: Hristos Polihroniou, Greek hammer thrower [category: Births]
• 1972: Luca Gentili, Italian footballer [category: Births]
• 1972: Ze Frank, American comedian and composer [category: Births]
• 1972: Meena Kumari, Indian actress (b. 1932) [category: Deaths]
• 1973: Erwin B. Evangelista,Filipino Combat Pilot [category: Births]
• 1974: Adrian Holmes, British actor [category: Births]
• 1974: Benjamin Eicher, Swiss director [category: Births]
• 1974: Stefan Olsdal, Swedish bassist (Placebo) [category: Births]
• 1975: Adam Green, American director [category: Births]
• 1975: Emma Atkins, English actress [category: Births]
• 1975: Prodromos Dreliozis, Greek basketball player [category: Births]
• 1975: Percy Alliss, English golfer (b. 1897) [category: Deaths]
• 1976: Ashton Moore, American porn actress [category: Births]
• 1976: Josh Saviano, American actor [category: Births]
• 1976: Rich Clementi, American mixed martial artist [category: Births]
• 1976: Paul Strand, American photographer and filmmaker (b. 1890) [category: Deaths]
• 1977: Garth Tander, Australian race car driver [category: Births]
• 1977: Toshiya, Japanese musician (Dir en grey) [category: Births]
• 1978: Daniel Mays, British actor [category: Births]
• 1978: Jérôme Rothen, French footballer [category: Births]
• 1978: Stephen Clemence, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1978: Tony Yayo, American rapper (G-Unit) [category: Births]
• 1978: Charles Best, Canadian medical scientist (b. 1899) [category: Deaths]
• 1979: Josh Kinney, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1979: The last British soldier leaves the Maltese Islands. Malta declares its Freedom Day (Jum il-Helsien). [category: Events]
• 1980: Chien-Ming Wang, Taiwanese baseball player [category: Births]
• 1980: Dean Clark, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1980: Kate Micucci, American actress, comedian, and singer-songwriter (Garfunkel and Oates) [category: Births]
• 1980: Maaya Sakamoto, Japanese voice actress and singer [category: Births]
• 1980: Michael Ryder, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1980: Trenyce, American singer [category: Births]
• 1980: Jesse Owens, American athlete (b. 1913) [category: Deaths]
• 1980: Vladimír Holan, Czech poet (b. 1905) [category: Deaths]
• 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. [category: Events]
• 1981: Gerard McCarthy, British actor [category: Births]
• 1981: Maarten van der Weijden, Dutch swimmer [category: Births]
• 1981: Pa Dembo Tourray, Gambian footballer [category: Births]
• 1981: Ryan Bingham, American singer-songwriter [category: Births]
• 1981: Enid Bagnold, British playwright (b. 1889) [category: Deaths]
• 1982: Audrey Kawasaki, American painter [category: Births]
• 1982: Lennon Murphy, American singer-songwriter [category: Births]
• 1982: Ryland Blackinton, American guitarist (Cobra Starship and This Is Ivy League) [category: Births]
• 1982: Tal Ben Haim, Israeli footballer [category: Births]
• 1983: Anthony Lewis, English actor [category: Births]
• 1983: Herbert Meinhard Mühlpfordt, German historian (d. 1982) [category: Births]
• 1983: Melissa Ordway, American actress and model [category: Births]
• 1983: Paddy McCarthy, Irish footballer [category: Births]
• 1983: Vlasios Maras, Greek gymnast [category: Births]
• 1983: Christina Stead, Australian writer (b. 1902) [category: Deaths]
• 1984: Alberto Junior Rodríguez, Peruvian footballer [category: Births]
• 1984: Dario Bova, Italian footballer [category: Births]
• 1984: David Clarkson, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1984: Eddie Johnson, American soccer player [category: Births]
• 1984: Jack Antonoff, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Steel Train and Fun) [category: Births]
• 1984: James Jones, American football player [category: Births]
• 1984: Yanin Vismistananda, Thai actress [category: Births]
• 1984: Ronald Clark O'Bryan, American murderer (b. 1944) [category: Deaths]
• 1985: Jessica Szohr, American actress [category: Births]
• 1985: Stephanie Bendixsen, Australian television personality [category: Births]
• 1985: The first WrestleMania, the biggest wrestling event from the WWE (then the WWF), takes place in Madison Square Garden in New York. [category: Events]
• 1986: Jerry Paris, American actor (b. 1925) [category: Deaths]
• 1986: O'Kelly Isley, Jr., American singer (The Isley Brothers) (b. 1937) [category: Deaths]
• 1986: A Mexicana Boeing 727 en route to Puerto Vallarta erupts in flames and crashes in the mountains northwest of Mexico City, killing 166. [category: Events]
• 1986: Six metropolitan county councils are abolished in England. [category: Events]
• 1987: Eros Pisano, Italian footballer [category: Births]
• 1987: Georg Listing, German bass player (Tokio Hotel) [category: Births]
• 1987: Hugo Ayala, Mexican footballer [category: Births]
• 1987: Humpy Koneru, Indian chess grandmaster [category: Births]
• 1987: Nordin Amrabat, Dutch footballer [category: Births]
• 1988: Hogan Ephraim, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1988: Louis van der Westhuizen, Namibian cricketer [category: Births]
• 1988: William McMahon,Australian politician, 20th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1908) [category: Deaths]
• 1989: Liu Zige, Chinese swimmer [category: Births]
• 1990: Bang Yong Guk, South Korean rapper [category: Births]
• 1990: Kylie Bisutti, American model [category: Births]
• 1990: Sandra Roma, Swedish tennis player [category: Births]
• 1990: 200,000 protestors take to the streets of London to protest against the newly introduced Poll Tax. [category: Events]
• 1991: Rodney Sneijder, Dutch footballer [category: Births]
• 1991: Georgian independence referendum, 1991: nearly 99 percent of the voters support the country's independence from the Soviet Union. [category: Events]
• 1992: The USS Missouri, the last active United States Navy battleship, is decommissioned in Long Beach, California. [category: Events]
• 1993: Brandon Lee, American actor (b. 1965) [category: Deaths]
• 1993: Chichay, Filipino actress (b. 1918) [category: Deaths]
• 1993: Mitchell Parish, American lyricist (b. 1900) [category: Deaths]
• 1994: Thomas Batuello, American actor and musician (The Naked Brothers Band) [category: Births]
• 1994: The journal Nature reports the finding in Ethiopia of the first complete Australopithecus afarensis skull. [category: Events]
• 1995: Selena, Mexican-American singer (b. 1971) [category: Deaths]
• 1995: Selena, an American singer, was murdered by her friend and employee of her boutiques Yolanda Saldívar who was embezzling money from the establishments. The event was named "Black Friday" by Hispanics. [category: Events]
• 1995: TAROM Flight 371 crashed, killing all of the 10 crew and 50 passengers on board. [category: Events]
• 1996: Jeffrey Lee Pierce, American musician (The Gun Club) (b. 1958) [category: Deaths]
• 1998: Bella Abzug, American politician (b. 1920) [category: Deaths]
• 1998: Tim Flock, American race car driver (b. 1924) [category: Deaths]
• 1999: Yuri Knorozov, Russian linguist (b. 1922) [category: Deaths]
• 2001: Clifford Shull, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1915) [category: Deaths]
• 2001: David Rocastle, English footballer (b. 1967) [category: Deaths]
• 2002: Barry Took, British comedian (b. 1928) [category: Deaths]
• 2002: Moturu Udayam, Indian women's activist (b. 1924) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Anne Gwynne, American actress (b. 1918) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: H.S.M. Coxeter, English geometer (b. 1907) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Tommy Seebach, Danish singer (Sir Henry and his Butlers) (b. 1949) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley orders the midnight destruction of Meigs Field Airport [category: Events]
• 2004: Scott Helvenston, American Navy SEAL and Blackwater contractor (b. 1965) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: Iraq War in Anbar Province - In Fallujah, Iraq, 4 American private military contractors working for Blackwater USA, are killed after being ambushed. [category: Events]
• 2005: Frank Perdue, American poultry farmer (b. 1920) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Justiniano Montano, Filipino politician (b. 1905) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Stanley J. Korsmeyer, American oncologist (b. 1951) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Terri Schiavo, American figure in right-to-die case (b. 1963) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Angela Devi, American model (b. 1975) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Jackie McLean, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1931) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Paul Watzlawick, Austrian-American psychologist and philosopher (b. 1921) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Bill Keightley, American basketball equipment manager (b. 1926) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Jules Dassin, American director (b. 1911) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Choor Singh, Singaporean judge (b. 1911) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Jarl Alfredius, Swedish news anchor (b. 1943) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Raúl Alfonsín, Argentine lawyer, politician and statesman, President of Argentina (b. 1927) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Shirley Mills, American actress (b. 1926) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Alan Fitzgerald, Australian author, journalist and satirist (b. 1935) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Bosko Radonjich, Serbian nationalist (b. 1943) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Claudia Heill, Austrian judoka (b. 1982) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Edward Stobart, British entrepreneur (b. 1954) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Gil Clancy, American boxing trainer (b. 1922) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Henry Taub, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1927) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Ishbel MacAskill, Scottish Gaelic singer and activist (b. 1941) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Judith Adams, Australian politician, midwife, nurse, and farmer (b. 1943) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Mel McDaniel, American singer-songwriter (b. 1942) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Oddvar Hansen, Norwegian footballer and coach (b. 1921) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Tom Kelleher, American football official (b. 1926) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Tony Barrell, English writer and broadcaster (b. 1940) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Vassili Kononov, Russian war criminal (b. 1923) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Bernard O. Gruenke, American stained glass artist (b. 1914) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Dale R. Corson, American physicist, author, and educator (b. 1914) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Halbert White, American economist and educator (b. 1950) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Zoran Romich, Croatian-Australian musician (Chocolate Starfish) (b. 1965) [category: Deaths]
• _: Abdas of Susa [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Acathius of Melitene (Eastern Orthodox Church) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Anesius and companions [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Balbina [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Benjamin [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Christian Feast Day [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: César Chávez Day (United States of America) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Freedom Day (Malta) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Geologists Day (in the Soviet Union) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: King Nangklao Memorial Day (Thailand) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: March 31 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Thomas Mundy Peterson Day (New Jersey) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Transfer Day (US Virgin Islands) [category: Holidays and observances]