About March 31
March 31, 2025 is the 90th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 275 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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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 323 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On March 31
- 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.
- 1717 –A sermon on “The Nature of the Kingdom of Christ” by Benjamin Hoadly, the Bishop of Bangor, provokes the Bangorian Controversy.
- 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.
- 1885 –The United Kingdom establishes a protectorate over Bechuanaland.
- 1903 –Richard Pearse allegedly makes a powered flight in an early aircraft.
- 1909 –Serbia accepts Austrian control over Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- 1921 –The Royal Australian Air Force is formed.
- 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.
- 1945 –World War II: a defecting German pilot delivers a Messerschmitt Me 262A-1, the world’s first operational jet-powered fighter aircraft, to the Americans, the first to fall into Allied hands.
- 1957 –Elections to the Territorial Assembly of the French colony Upper Volta are held. After the elections PDU and MDV form a government.
- 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.
- 1970 –Explorer 1 re-enters the Earth’s atmosphere after 12 years in orbit.
- 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.
- 1986 –Six metropolitan county councils are abolished in England.
- 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.
- 1994 –Human evolution: The journal Nature reports the finding in Ethiopia of the first complete Australopithecus afarensis skull.
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