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
- 1492 –Queen Isabella of Castille issues the Alhambra decree, ordering her 150,000 Jewish subjects to convert to Christianity or face expulsion.
- 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.
- 1877 –The family with samurai antecedents that responded to the Saigō army in Ōita Nakatsu, rebels.
- 1885 –The United Kingdom establishes a protectorate over Bechuanaland.
- 1889 –The Eiffel Tower is officially opened.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1931 –TWA Flight 599 crashes near Bazaar, Kansas killing 8 including Knute Rockne, head football coach at the University of Notre Dame
- 1933 –The Civilian Conservation Corps is established with the mission of relieving rampant unemployment.
- 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.
- 1951 –Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau.
- 1964 –A coup d'état in Brazil establishes a military government, under the aegis of general Castello Branco.
- 1965 –An Iberia Airlines Convair 440 crashes into the sea on approach to Tangier, killing 47 of 51 occupants.
- 1966 –The Soviet Union launches Luna 10 which later becomes the first space probe to enter orbit around the Moon.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1994 –Human evolution: The journal Nature reports the finding in Ethiopia of the first complete Australopithecus afarensis skull.
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