About March 31
March 31, 2024 is the 91st day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 275 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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Aries is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Aquamarine is the modern birthstone for this month. Jade is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 304 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On March 31
- 1774 –American Revolutionary War: The Kingdom of Great Britain orders the port of Boston, Massachusetts closed pursuant to the Boston Port Act.
- 1866 –The Spanish Navy bombs the harbor of Valparaíso, Chile.
- 1889 –The Eiffel Tower is officially opened.
- 1918 –Massacre of ethnic Azerbaijanis is committed by allied armed groups of Armenian Revolutionary Federation and Bolsheviks. Nearly 12,000 Azerbaijani Muslims are killed.
- 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.
- 1931 –An earthquake destroys Managua, Nicaragua, killing 2,000.
- 1931 –TWA Flight 599 crashes near Bazaar, Kansas killing 8 including Knute Rockne, head football coach at the University of Notre Dame
- 1942 –World War II: Japanese forces invade Christmas Island, then a British possession.
- 1949 –The Dominion of Newfoundland joins the Canadian Confederation and becomes the 10th Province of Canada.
- 1957 –Elections to the Territorial Assembly of the French colony Upper Volta are held. After the elections PDU and MDV form a government.
- 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.
- 1966 –The Soviet Union launches Luna 10 which later becomes the first space probe to enter orbit around the Moon.
- 1970 –Explorer 1 re-enters the Earth’s atmosphere after 12 years in orbit.
- 1970 –Nine terrorists from the Japanese Red Army hijack Japan Airlines Flight 351 at Tokyo International Airport, wielding samurai swords and carrying a bomb.
- 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.
- 1985 –The first WrestleMania, the biggest wrestling event from the WWE (then the WWF), takes place in Madison Square Garden in New York.
- 1986 –Six metropolitan county councils are abolished in England.
- 1990 –200,000 protestors take to the streets of London to protest against the newly introduced Poll Tax.
- 1994 –Human evolution: The journal Nature reports the finding in Ethiopia of the first complete Australopithecus afarensis skull.
- 2004 –Iraq War in Anbar Province - In Fallujah, Iraq, 4 American private military contractors working for Blackwater USA, are killed after being ambushed.
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