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.
- 1717 –A sermon on “The Nature of the Kingdom of Christ” by Benjamin Hoadly, the Bishop of Bangor, provokes the Bangorian Controversy.
- 1774 –American Revolutionary War: The Kingdom of Great Britain orders the port of Boston, Massachusetts closed pursuant to the Boston Port Act.
- 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.
- 1854 –Commodore Matthew Perry signs the Treaty of Kanagawa with the Japanese government, opening the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to American trade.
- 1885 –The United Kingdom establishes a protectorate over Bechuanaland.
- 1909 –Serbia accepts Austrian control over Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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