About March 31

March 31, 2020 is the 91st day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 275 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.

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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 318 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On March 31

  • 307 –
    After divorcing his wife Minervina, Constantine marries Fausta, the daughter of the retired Roman Emperor Maximian.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1866 –
    The Spanish Navy bombs the harbor of Valparaíso, Chile.
  • 1877 –
    The family with samurai antecedents that responded to the Saigō army in Ōita Nakatsu, rebels.
  • 1889 –
    The Eiffel Tower is officially opened.
  • 1909 –
    Serbia accepts Austrian control over Bosnia and Herzegovina.
  • 1921 –
    The Royal Australian Air Force is formed.
  • 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
  • 1949 –
    The Dominion of Newfoundland joins the Canadian Confederation and becomes the 10th Province of Canada.
  • 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.
  • 1964 –
    A coup d'état in Brazil establishes a military government, under the aegis of general Castello Branco.
  • 1970 –
    Explorer 1 re-enters the Earth’s atmosphere after 12 years in orbit.
  • 1990 –
    200,000 protestors take to the streets of London to protest against the newly introduced Poll Tax.
  • 1991 –
    Georgian independence referendum, 1991: nearly 99 percent of the voters support the country’s independence from the Soviet Union.
  • 1991 –
    The Islamic Constitutional Movement, or Hadas, is established in Kuwait.
  • 1992 –
    The USS Missouri, the last active United States Navy battleship, is decommissioned in Long Beach, California.
  • 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.

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