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1389Mar 31Everhard Tserclaes, sheriff of Brussels, was murdered.
1578Mar 31Juan de Escobedo, secretary of Spanish land guardian Don Juan, was murdered
1657Mar 31English Humble Petition offered Lord Protector Cromwell the crown.
1745Mar 31Jews were expelled from Prague.
1796Mar 31Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s “Egmont,” premiered in Weimar.
1831Mar 31Quebec and Montreal were incorporated.
1841Mar 311st performance of Robert Schumann’s 1st Symphony in B.
1862Mar 31Skirmishing between Rebels and Union forces took place at Island 10 on the Mississippi River.
1863Mar 31Battle of Grand Gulf, MS & Dinwiddie Court House, VA.
1885Mar 31Madame Blavatsky was hoisted in an invalid chair onto a steamer in the Madras harbor of India and departed for London. In England she wrote “The Secret Doctrine” and had as guests to her salon William Butler Yeats, Annie Besant and the young Mohandas K. Gandhi.
1903Mar 31New Zealand aviator Richard Pearse flew a self-made, bamboo-framed, mono-winged airplane in Waitohi.
1907Mar 31Romanian Army put down a Moldavian farmers’ revolt.
1909Mar 31Gustav Mahler conducted the NY Philharmonic for 1st time.
1916Mar 31General Pershing and his army routed Pancho Villa’s army in Mexico.
1918Mar 31Daylight Savings Time went into effect throughout the U.S. for the first time.
1920Mar 31British parliament accepted Irish “Home Rule” law.
1921Mar 31Great Britain declared a state of emergency because of the thousands of coal miners on strike.
1923Mar 31The first U.S. dance marathon, held in New York City, ended. Alma Cummings (32) set a world record of 27 hours on her feet. 6 younger male partners helped her.
1931Mar 31Knute Rockne (43), football player, coach, died in a plane crash.
1932Mar 31Ford Motor Co. publicly unveiled its V-8 engine.
1939Mar 31Britain and France agreed to support Poland if Germany threatened to invade. Seven French islands were annexed by Japan.
1944Mar 31Hungary ordered all Jews to wear yellow stars.
1945Mar 31The Tennessee Williams play “The Glass Menagerie” premiered on Broadway.
1945Mar 31US artillery landed on Keise Shima and began firing on Okinawa.
1948Mar 31The Soviet Union in Germany began controlling the Western trains headed toward Berlin.
1953Mar 31Department of Health, Education and Welfare was established.
1954Mar 31Moscow offered to join NATO on the condition that the West join the Soviet European security treaty.
1955Mar 31US Assay Office in Seattle, Washington, closed.
1958Mar 31US Navy formed the atomic sub division.
1960Mar 31Joseph Haas (81), German opera composer (Totenmesse), died.
1963Mar 31LA ended streetcar service after 90 years.
1967Mar 31President Lyndon Johnson signed the Consular Treaty, the first bi-lateral pact with the Soviet Union since the Bolshevik Revolution.
1970Mar 31The U.S. forces in Vietnam downed a MIG-21, the first since September 1968.
1975Mar 31The TV show Gunsmoke, which premiered in 1955, aired its last original episode. The show was canceled in September.
1979Mar 31The Arab League suspended Egypt following its treaty with Israel.
1980Mar 31Pres. Carter signed the Depository Institutions Deregulation And Monetary Control Act, which deregulated interest rates.
1982Mar 31In California an avalanche at the Alpine Meadows ski resort killed 7 people. In 2009 Jennifer Woodlief authored “A Wall of White: The True Story of Heroism and Survival in the Face of a Deadly Avalanche.”
1986Mar 31English Hampton Court palace was destroyed by fire and 1 person died.
1987Mar 31Indiana Univ. won the NCAA basketball finals with a last-second, corner shot by Keith Smart.
1988Mar 31The novel “Beloved” by Toni Morrison was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, while the Charlotte (N.C) Observer won the prize for public service for its coverage of the Praise The Lord scandal.
1989Mar 31The FBI announced it would conduct a criminal investigation into the massive oil spill in Alaska’s Prince William Sound.
1990Mar 31Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev warned the defiant Baltic republic of Lithuania to annul its declaration of independence or face “grave consequences.”
1991Mar 31The Warsaw Pact spent the last day of its existence as a military alliance.
1993Mar 31Actor Brandon Lee (28) was killed during the filming of a movie in Wilmington, N.C., by a prop gun that fired part of a dummy bullet instead of a blank.
1994Mar 31The PLO and Israel agreed to resume talks on Palestinian autonomy, more than a month after the Hebron mosque massacre.
1995Mar 31US baseball players agreed to end their 232-day strike after a judge granted a preliminary injunction against club owners.
1997Mar 31In the US men’s NCAA Basketball finals Arizona beat Kentucky 84-79 in overtime.
1998Mar 31Hon-Ming Chen, Taiwanese leader of a spiritual sect in Garland, Texas, was to meet God at 10 AM.
1999Mar 31A federal judge was expected to approve a settlement by black United Parcel Service (UPS) workers for over $8 million for racial discrimination.
2001Mar 31Pres. Blaise Compaore asked for forgiveness for abuses over his 13-year rule as part of Burkina Faso’s 1st “National Pardon Day.”
2002Mar 31Connecticut beat Oklahoma 82-70 to conclude its second unbeaten season with a third women’s national championship.
2003Mar 31US troops between Karbala and Najaf shot and killed 10 Iraqi civilians including women and children, when the driver of a van failed to stop at a checkpoint. The Pentagon reported 7 killed.
2004Mar 31The US Navy closed Naval Station Roosevelt Roads, its last base in Puerto Rico. It was transferred to a special naval agency that will coordinate the closing process. The base had been used for 6 decades to keep watch over the Caribbean.
2005Mar 31A US presidential commission reported that US intelligence agencies were dead wrong in their prewar assessment of Iraq’s nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.
2006Mar 31Military and police forces took control of Bolivia’s major airports, one day after hundreds of striking airline workers blocked runways and disrupted flights to three airports.
2007Mar 31President Bush again came to the defense of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, under criticism for his role in the firing of federal prosecutors, calling him “honorable and honest.”
2008Mar 31The Bush administration proposed the most far-ranging overhaul of the financial regulatory system since the stock market crash of 1929 and the ensuing Great Depression. Alphonso Jackson, the Bush administration’s top housing official, under criminal investigation and intense pressure from Democratic critics, announced he is quitting.
2010Mar 31President Barack Obama announced an expansive new policy that could put oil and natural gas platforms in waters along the southern Atlantic coastline, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and part of Alaska.
2011Mar 31It was reported that the World Trade Organization has ruled that some US government aid to aircraft maker Boeing Co. is illegal. The WTO’s report detailed findings first issued in private to the EU and US in January.
2012Mar 31China’s official Xinhua news agency said authorities have closed 16 websites for spreading rumors of “military vehicles entering Beijing and something wrong going on there. China made a string of arrests and punished two popular microblogs after rumors of a coup linked to a major scandal that brought down a top politician.
2013Mar 31An Alaska State Trooper helicopter crashed overnight during a mission to rescue a stranded snowmobiler. All three onboard were believed killed.
2014Mar 31In Connecticut The Rev. Paul Gotta was arrested on seven sexual assault charges. Police say the assaults took place over the span of a year beginning in January 2012. He was arrested by federal authorities last year on charges including illegally transferring a gun, ammunition and explosive material to a juvenile.
 

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