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31 Mar 1084
Anti-pope Clemens crowns German King Hendrik IV as Holy Roman Emperor
31 Mar 1146
Bernard of Clairvaux preaches his famous sermon in a field at Vzelay urging the necessity of a Second Crusade. Louis VII is present and joins the Crusade.
31 Mar 1492
Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand of Aragon issue the Alhambra Decree which expels Jews from their Kingdoms of Castile and Aragon
31 Mar 1521
The first Mass in the Philippines is generally believed to have been held on the Island of Limasawa but may also have taken place on Masao in Butuan
31 Mar 1644
Pope Urbanus VIII and Duke of Parma sign Peace of Ferrara
31 Mar 1667
France & England sign anti-Dutch military accord
31 Mar 1683
Emperor Leopold I of Poland signs covenant against Turkey
31 Mar 1717
A sermon on The Nature of the Kingdom of Christ by Benjamin Hoadly the Bishop of Bangor provokes the Bangorian Controversy
31 Mar 1736
Bellevue Hospital founded in a New York City almshouse - 1st public hospital in the US
31 Mar 1808
French created Kingdom of Westphalia orders Jews to adopt family names
31 Mar 1822
Massacre of the population of the Greek island of Chios by soldiers of the Ottoman Empire following a rebellion attempt (later depicted by artist Eugne Delacroix)
31 Mar 1841
1st performance of Robert Schumanns 1st Symphony in B
31 Mar 1849
Colonel John W Geary arrives as 1st postmaster of San Francisco
31 Mar 1850
US population hits 23191876 (Black population 3638808 (15.7%))
31 Mar 1854
Treaty of Kanagawa Commodore Perry forces Japan to opens ports to US
31 Mar 1861
Confederacy takes over mint at New Orleans (US Civil War)
31 Mar 1862
Civil War action at Island 10 on Mississippi River
31 Mar 1863
Battle of Grand Gulf Mississippi and Dinwiddie Court House Virginia
31 Mar 1865
Battle of Boydton Virginia (White Oaks Roads Dinwiddie C H)
31 Mar 1865
General Pickett moves to 5 Forks abandoning the defense of Petersburg
31 Mar 1866
The Spanish navy bombards the harbor of Valparaso Chile
31 Mar 1868
Chinese Embassy arrives aboard steamship China
31 Mar 1870
Thomas Mundy Peterson of Perth Amboy New Jersey is the first African American to vote in the US (in a local election on towns charter)
31 Mar 1877
British High Commissioner Sir Bartle Frere arrives in Capetown
31 Mar 1877
The family with samurai antecedents who responded to the Saigo army in ita Nakatsu rebels.
31 Mar 1880
1st town to claim to be completely illuminated by electric lighting (Wabash Indiana)
31 Mar 1883
1st performance of Caesar Francks Le Chasseur Maudit
31 Mar 1885
Great Britain declares Bechuanaland a protectorate
31 Mar 1900
At Surprise of Sannas Post in the Second Boer War 150 troops under Brigadier General Robert Broadwood are killed
31 Mar 1903
Richard Pearse flies a monoplane several hundred yards in New Zealand
31 Mar 1905
67th Grand National Frank Mason victorious aboard Kirkland first Welsh-trained horse to win the event
31 Mar 1906
GB Shaws German version of Caesar & Cleopatra premieres in Berlin
31 Mar 1906
Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States is founded to set rules in amateur sports becomes the National Collegiate Athletic Association in 1910
31 Mar 1907
Romanian Army puts down Moldavian farmers revolt
31 Mar 1909
National Baseball Commission rules players who jump contracts to be suspended for 5 years players joining outlaw organizations suspended for 3 years
31 Mar 1909
Gustav Mahler conducts NY Philharmonic for his 1st time
31 Mar 1909
In a diplomatic note to Austria Serbia recognizes the Bosnian annexation and promises to maintain friendly relations with Austria
31 Mar 1916
Dutch government ends all military engagements
31 Mar 1917
US purchases Danish West Indies for 25M & renames them Virgin Islands
31 Mar 1918
1st daylight savings time in US goes into effect
31 Mar 1919
Strike against Ruhrgebied government of Scheidemann
31 Mar 1920
British parliament accepts Irish Home Rule law
31 Mar 1922
KFI-AM in Los Angeles CA begins radio transmissions
31 Mar 1922
Prince Hendrik opens trade fair building in Amsterdam
31 Mar 1923
First dance marathon in New York City Alma Cummings sets record of 27 hours with 6 different partners
31 Mar 1923
French soldiers fire on workers at Krupp factory in Essen 13 die
31 Mar 1923
Stanley Cup Final Denman Arena Vancouver BC Ottawa Senators (NHL) edge Edmonton Eskimos (WCHL) 1-0 for a 2-0 series sweep
31 Mar 1924
Croydon Airport London Imperial Airways established
31 Mar 1925
WOWO-AM Ft Wayne Indiana begins radio transmission (500 watts)
31 Mar 1926
German Special Court of Justice for state security disbands
31 Mar 1930
The Motion Pictures Production Code is instituted imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex crime religion and violence in film for the next 38 years
31 Mar 1931
Brilliant Notre Dame football coach Knute Rockne (43) is killed with 7 others when light plane crashes on trip from Kansas City to Los Angeles record 105-12-5 .881 remains best ever
31 Mar 1933
1st newspaper published on pine pulp paper Soperton News (Ga)
31 Mar 1933
Congress authorizes Civilian Conservation Corps
31 Mar 1934
Netherlands Indies BC Ltd begins radio transmission (Indonesia)
31 Mar 1939
Britain & France agree to support Poland if invaded by Germany
31 Mar 1940
Karelo-Finnish SSR becomes 12th Soviet republic (until 1956)
31 Mar 1941
Ground broken for Union Square Garage San Francisco
31 Mar 1943
Rodgers & Hammersteins Oklahoma premieres in NYC
31 Mar 1945
Sicherheitsdienst murders 10 political prisoners in Zutphen
31 Mar 1945
US artillery lands on Keise Shimabegins firing on Okinawa
31 Mar 1946
Belgian government of Spaak resigns - shortest ever Belgian government
31 Mar 1946
First election is held in Greece after World War II
31 Mar 1948
US Congress passes Marshall Aid Act to rehabilitate war-torn Europe
31 Mar 1953
US Department of Health Education & Welfare established
31 Mar 1953
UN Security Council nominates Dag Hammarskjld for Secretary-General
31 Mar 1955
US Assay Office in Seattle Washington closes Chase National (3rd largest bank) & Bank of the Manhattan Company (15th largest bank) merge to form Chase Manhattan
31 Mar 1955
West Indies cricket all-rounder Collie Smith scores 104 in his Test debut in a 9 wicket 1st Test defeat to Australia in Kingston Jamaica
31 Mar 1958
USSR suspends nuclear weapons tests & urges US & Britain to do same
31 Mar 1961
Aklilou Habtewold becomes 1st premier of Ethiopia
31 Mar 1961
8th National Film Awards (India) Anuradha wins the Golden Lotus
31 Mar 1962
116th Grand National Fred Winter aboard 281 shot Kilmore wins by 10 lengths from Wyndburgh
31 Mar 1964
President Jango Goulart of Brazil chased out of office by military
31 Mar 1965
Iberia Airlines Convair 440 crashes into the sea on approach to Tangier killing 47 of 51 occupants
31 Mar 1968
Pirate Radio Station Pegaus (NZ) begins transmitting
31 Mar 1968
US President Lyndon B. Johnson authorizes a troop surge in Vietnam bringing the total number of US soldiers to a peak of 549500
31 Mar 1970
Federal bankruptcy court allows Seattle Pilots to be sold to Milwaukee
31 Mar 1970
Explorer 1 re-enters the Earths atmosphere after 12 years in orbit
31 Mar 1970
Following an Orange Order parade intense riots erupt on the Springfield Road in Belfast violence lasts for three days and the British Army use CS gas for the first time in large quantities
31 Mar 1971
William Calley sentenced to life for Mi Lai Massacre
31 Mar 1973
Philadelphia Flyers score an NHL record tying 8 goals from an astounding 60 shots in the 2nd period of a 10-2 win over New York Islanders
31 Mar 1973
127th Grand National Brian Fletcher wins aboard 91 co-favourite Red Rum recovers from 15 lengths behind at final fence first of Red Rums record 3 GN victories
31 Mar 1973
Boston Bruins defenceman Bobby Orr scores his 3rd career hat trick in a 7-3 loss at Toronto to become the first player in NHL history to score 100 points for 4 straight seasons
31 Mar 1973
American tennis star Billie Jean King ends Australian Margaret Courts 57-match winning streak 6-7 7-6 6-3 in semi finals of the WTA event in Indianapolis IN
31 Mar 1974
American golfer Lee Trevino goes bogey-free for the full 4 rounds as he wins the Greater New Orleans Open by 8 strokes from Bobby Cole and Ben Crenshaw
31 Mar 1975
37th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship UCLA beats Kentucky 92-55 10th title under coach John Wooden who had announced his retirement 2 days earlier
31 Mar 1976
Cleveland Cavaliers beat Jazz 110-101 in New Orleans to clinch clubs first ever NBA playoff berth
31 Mar 1976
NJ Court rules Karen Anne Quinlan may be disconnected from respirator
31 Mar 1977
Michael Cristofers Shadow Box premieres in NYC
31 Mar 1978
USSR launches Kosmos 1000 navigational satellite
31 Mar 1979
Montreal Canadiens beat visiting Pittsburgh Penguins 5-3 to become just the 2nd team in NHL history to win 50 (or more) games for 4 straight years
31 Mar 1979
The last British soldier leaves the Maltese Islands. Malta declares its Freedom Day (Jum il-Helsien).
31 Mar 1979
133rd Grand National Maurice Barnes victorious aboard Rubstic first Scottish-trained horse to win the event
31 Mar 1979
24th Eurovision Song Contest Gali Atari and Milk and Honey for Israel wins singing Hallelujah in Jerusalem
31 Mar 1980
The Chicago Rock Island and Pacific railroad operates its final train after being ordered to liquidate its assets due to bankruptcy and debt owed to creditors.
31 Mar 1981
1st Golden Raspberry Awards Cant Stop the Music wins
31 Mar 1982
Arkas tanker at Montz La spills 1.47 million gallons of oil
31 Mar 1982
NBA and Players Association reach a 4-year agreement that includes a 53% revenue-sharing plan in return for minimum & maximum payrolls first of its kind in team sports
31 Mar 1983
Popayn Earthquake (5.5 Mw Depth) in Colombia kills 267 people injuring some 7500
31 Mar 1983
Marsha Normans night Mother premieres in NYC
31 Mar 1984
138th Grand National Neale Doughty wins aboard 131 Hallo Dandy 23 complete the course breaking record for most finishers
31 Mar 1984
Mike Bossy becomes first player in NHL history to record 7 straight 50 goal seasons scores 50th and 51st of the year in a 3-1 New York Islanders win at Washington
31 Mar 1985
4th NCAA Womens Basketball Championship Old Dominion beats Georgia 70-65
31 Mar 1985
El Salvadors President Jos Napolen Duarte Christian Democratic Party wins election
31 Mar 1985
Wrestlemania I Madison Square Garden NYC Hulk Hogan & Mr T beat Roddy Piper & Paul Orndorf
31 Mar 1985
PGA Tournament Players Championship TPC at Sawgrass Calvin Peete shoots final round 66 to win by 3 strokes from D. A. Weibring Peete only player to break par in all 4 rounds
31 Mar 1986
167 die when Mexicana Airlines Boeing 727 crashes
31 Mar 1986
48th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship Louisville beats Duke 72-69
31 Mar 1986
English Hampton Court palace badly damaged by fire 1 dead
31 Mar 1986
Six metropolitan county councils are abolished in England.
31 Mar 1987
49th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship Indiana beats Syracuse 74-73
31 Mar 1988
Last East Limburg coal mine closes in Gent Belgium
31 Mar 1988
Pulitzer prize awarded to Toni Morrison for Beloved
31 Mar 1990
Carol & Company starring Carol Burnett premieres on NBC-TV
31 Mar 1990
Dionisio Castro cycles world record 20km (5718.4)
31 Mar 1990
Major riots occur in London and other British towns in protest against the new Community Charge poll tax laws
31 Mar 1990
20-year old Quebec Nordiques center Joe Sakic scores a goal in a 3-2 loss to Hartford to become the youngest player in NHL history to score 100 points in a season
31 Mar 1991
10th NCAA Womens Basketball Championship Tennessee beats Virginia 70-67 first overtime win in the NCAAs 10-year history
31 Mar 1991
Albania offers 1st multi-party election in 50 years
31 Mar 1991
Danny Bonaduce attacks a transvestite prostitute in Phoenix Arizona
31 Mar 1991
Georgian SSR votes on whether to remain in the Soviet Union
31 Mar 1991
Musical Will Rogers Follies premieres in NYC
31 Mar 1991
Soviet Rep of Georgia endorsed independence Warsaw Pact dissolves
31 Mar 1991
The Establishment of Islamic Constitutional Movement - Hadas in Kuwait.
31 Mar 1991
PGA Players Championship TPC at Sawgrass Australian Steve Elkington birdies final hole to win by 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Fuzzy Zoeller
31 Mar 1991
Nabisco Dinah Shore Womens Golf Mission Hills CC Amy Alcott breaks her own scoring record to win her 3rd DS by 8 strokes over Dottie Pepper her 5th major title and 29th & final LPGA Tour win
31 Mar 1992
Ranji Trophy Cricket Final Feroz Shah Kotla Delhi Delhi (Ajay Sharma 175 in 532) beats Tamil Nadu (449) on 1st innings
31 Mar 1992
UN Security Council voted to ban flights & arms sales to Libya
31 Mar 1992
Phoenix coach Cotton Fitzsimmons guides the Suns to a 128-111 home win over Portland to become the 6th coach in NBA history to record 800 career wins
31 Mar 1994
James Farentino pleads no contest to stalking ex-girl Tina Sinatra
31 Mar 1994
Walkway from Clevelands Tower City to Jacobs Field officially opens
31 Mar 1994
The Journal Nature reports the finding in Ethiopia of the first complete Australopithecus afarensis skull
31 Mar 1994
Chicago White Sox assigns former NBA superstar Michael Jordan to the Birmingham Barons of Class AA Southern League returns to NBA after one season
31 Mar 1995
Second time in tennis history world 1 and 2 ranked players play in the same Davis Cup team Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi score victories in US quarter-final win against Italy in Palermo
31 Mar 1995
Ranji Trophy Cricket Final Wankhede Stadium Bombay Bombay (Sanjay Manjrekar 224 in 6690) beats Punjab (Vikram Rathour 177 in 372) on 1st innings
31 Mar 1995
Federal judge Sonia Sotomayor of US District Court in NYC issues an injunction against Major League Baseball owners in move that effectively ends 232-day strike
31 Mar 1996
Getting Away With Murder closes at Broadhurst NYC after 17 performances
31 Mar 1996
A Midsummer Nights Dream opens at Lunt-Fontanne NYC for 66 performances
31 Mar 1996
15th NCAA Womens Basketball Championship Tennessee beats Georgia 83-65
31 Mar 1996
First time in MLB history the regular season opens in March with Seattle Mariners beating Chicago White Sox 3-2 in 12 innings at the Kingdome Seattle
31 Mar 1996
Ranji Trophy Cricket Final MA Chidambaram Stadium Madras Karnataka (Vijay Bharadwaj 146 of 8620) beats Tamil Nadu (370) on 1st innings
31 Mar 1996
Radio Canada Internationals final shortwave broadcast
31 Mar 1996
Wrestlemania XII - Shawn Michaels beats Brett Hart for WWF title
31 Mar 1996
PGA Players Championship TPC at Sawgrass Fred Couples shoots a final round 64 to win his 2nd PC title 4 strokes ahead of runners-up Colin Montgomerie and Tommy Tolles
31 Mar 1996
Nabisco Dinah Shore Womens Golf Mission Hills CC Patty Sheehan wIns by 1 stroke ahead of runners-up Meg Mallon Kelly Robbins and Annika Srenstam
31 Mar 1683
Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I and King John III Sobieski of Poland sign a covenant against Turkey beginning of the Holy League
31 Mar 1955
Merger of Chase National Bank (3rd largest bank) and Bank of the Manhattan Company (15th largest bank) forms Chase Manhattan
31 Mar 1975
37th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship UCLA beats Kentucky 92-85 10th title under coach John Wooden who had announced his retirement 2 days earlier
31 Mar 1985
4th NCAA Womens Basketball Championship Old Dominion beats Georgia 70-65 Monarchs Tracy Claxton MOP
31 Mar 1986
48th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship Louisville beats Duke 72-69 first tournament to use a shot clock (initially set at 45 seconds)
31 Mar 1987
49th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship Indiana beats Syracuse 74-73 Hoosiers guard Keith Smart hits game-winner in final seconds intercepts full court pass at the last second
31 Mar 1996
15th NCAA Womens Basketball Championship Tennessee beats Georgia 83-65 3 Volunteers in All-Tournament team Michelle Marciniak Chamique Holdsclaw Tiffani Johnson
31 Mar 1996
WrestleMania XII Arrowhead Pond of Anaheim CA - Shawn Michaels beats Bret Hart for WWF Heavyweight title
31 Mar 1870
Thomas Mundy Peterson of Perth Amboy New Jersey is the first African American to vote in the US under provisions of the 15th Amendment to the Constitution in a local election on towns charter [1]
31 Mar 1917
The Danish West Indies are officially ceded to the US for 25 million and renamed the Virgin Islands
31 Mar 1982
American rock group The Doobie Brothers split up
31 Mar 1909
Gustav Mahler conducts New York Philharmonic for his 1st time
31 Mar 1943
Rodgers & Hammersteins musical Oklahoma opens at the St. James Theatre NYC runs for 2212 performances
31 Mar 1994
Actor James Farentino pleads no contest to stalking ex-girlfriend Tina Sinatra
31 Mar 1883
1st performance of Caesar Francks symphonic poem for orchestra Le Chasseur Maudit (The Accursed Huntsman) at the Salle rard in Paris
31 Mar 1923
Occupying French soldiers fire on workers when surrounded at Krupp auto factory in Essen Germany 6 die dozens wounded
31 Mar 1949
RCA Victor of Camden New Jersey introduces the 45 RPM record player and the 7-inch single a vinyl disc more durable than the 78 RPM shellac initial releases include Eddy Arnolds Texarkana Baby Spade Cooleys Spanish Fandango Arthur Crudups Crudups After Hours and Saul Meisels A Klein Melamedl
31 Mar 1960
First Nations people first granted the right to vote in Canada without giving up their Indian status in repeal of part of Canada Elections Act [1]
31 Mar 1960
Gore Vidals play Best Man premieres in NYC (Melvyn Douglas - Tony for Best Actor)
31 Mar 1986
Mexicana Airlines Boeing 727 crashes killing 167
31 Mar 1997
Daytime to Remember a series showing old soaps premieres on ABC-TV
31 Mar 1998
Expansion clubs Tampa Bay and Arizona both suffer bad losses in their MLB debuts Devil Rays lose 11-6 to the Detroit Tigers and the Diamondbacks fall 9-2 to Colorado Rockies
31 Mar 1998
Milwaukee becomes first team since the inception of the American League in 1901 to switch MLB leagues Brewers lose first NL game 2-1 to the Braves in Atlanta
31 Mar 2002
Kraft Nabisco Championship Womens Golf Mission Hills CC Defending champion Annika Srenstam of Sweden shoots a final round 68 to win 1 stroke ahead of compatriot Liselotte Neumann
31 Mar 2004
Australian swimmer Lisbeth Lenton breaks Inge de Bruijns 4-year old 100m freestyle womens world record in 53.66s at the Australian Olympic trials in Sydney
31 Mar 2004
In Fallujah Iraq 4 American private military contractors working for Blackwater USA are killed and their bodies mutilated after being ambushed
31 Mar 2004
With a 12-1 defeat of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in Tokyo NY Yankees starter Kevin Brown becomes only the 2nd pitcher in MLB history to have beaten all 30 teams
31 Mar 2007
In Sydney Australia 2.2 million people take part in the first Earth Hour.
31 Mar 2008
Aloha Airlines a bankrupt airline permanently ends passenger service
31 Mar 2009
Boom Boom Pow single released by The Black Eyed Peas (Grammy Award for Best Music Video 2010 Billboard Song of the Year )
31 Mar 2012
Fiji Floods kill 2 people and force thousands to be evacuated
31 Mar 2013
11 people are killed in flooding at Port Louis Mauritius
31 Mar 2013
14 Boko Haram suspects are killed in a Nigerian Army raid
31 Mar 2013
2 people die from bird flu (type H7N9) in China
31 Mar 1084
Anti-pope Clement crowns German King Hendrik IV as Holy Roman Emperor
31 Mar 1870
Thomas Mundy Peterson of Perth Amboy New Jersey is the first African American to vote in the US under the provisions of the 15th Amendment to the Constitution in a local election on the towns charter [1]
31 Mar 1906
Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States is founded to set rules in amateur sports becomes the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in 1910
31 Mar 1920
British Parliament accepts the Government of Ireland Act known as the Fourth Home Rule Bill
31 Mar 1933
Soperton News publishes 1st newspaper on pine pulp paper in Soperton Georgia
31 Mar 1933
US Congress authorizes Civilian Conservation Corps
31 Mar 1977
Michael Cristofers play Shadow Box premieres in NYC (Tony award for Best Play )
31 Mar 1991
Former Partridge Family star Danny Bonaduce attacks a transvestite prostitute in Phoenix Arizona
31 Mar 2017
Mudslides caused by heavy rains sweep through Mocoa Colombia killing more than 200
31 Mar 2019
Rapper and activist Nipsey Hussle fatally shot outside his clothing store in Los Angeles
31 Mar 1736
Bellevue Hospital is founded in a New York City almshouse becoming the first public hospital in the US
31 Mar 1865
Confederate Army General Pickett moves to fortify Five Forks in Dinwiddie County Virginia abandoning the defense of Petersburg to do so [1]
31 Mar 1918
First daylight saving time in US goes into effect
31 Mar 1973
Philadelphia Flyers score an NHL record tying 8 goals in the 2nd period of a 10-2 win over the visiting New York Islanders at the Spectrum
31 Mar 1991
Albania hold first multi-party election in 50 years
31 Mar 1991
Soviet Republic of Georgia endorses independence Warsaw Pact dissolves
31 Mar 2020
British pensioner Robert Weighton becomes the worlds oldest man at 112 years
31 Mar 2021
Alfred Aho and Jeffrey Ullman win computings Turing Award for their work inventing computer program compilers
31 Mar 2021
US President Joe Biden unveils the American Jobs Plan one of the largest infrastructure plans in US history worth 2 trillion
31 Mar 2022
First truly complete sequence of a human genome published by Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) consortium after breakthroughs in new technology (previously just over 90% coded) [1]
31 Mar 2022
US announces it will release 1 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve for six months to drive down prices [1]
31 Mar 2023
Large storm system crosses the mid US from Mississippi and Alabama to Illinois and Wisconsin unleashing numerous tornadoes and leaving at least 32 dead [1]
31 Mar 2025
SpaceX mission Fram2 launches four people aboard a Falcon 9 rocket becoming the first crewed spaceflight to enter a polar retrograde orbit [1]