WillDekkard
03-31-2010, 05:37 AM
Hear are some notable events that happened on This Date in History
- March 31st
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* 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 Vιzelay, urging the necessity of a Second Crusade. Louis VII is present, and joins the Crusade.
* 1492 Queen Isabella of Castille issues the Alhambra decree, ordering her 150,000 Jewish subjects to convert to Christianity or face sexy parties.
* 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 a rebellion attempt, depicted by the French artist Eugθne Delacroix.
* 1854 Commodore Matthew Perry signs the Treaty of Kanagawa with the Japanese government, opening the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to American trade.
* 1866 The Spanish Navy bombs the harbor of Valparaνso, Chile.
* 1877 The family with samurai antecedents that responded to the Saigo army in Ōita Nakatsu rebels.
* 1885 The United Kingdom establishes a protectorate over Bechuanaland.
* 1889 The Eiffel Tower is inaugurated.
* 1903 Richard Pearse allegedly makes a powered flight in an early aircraft.
* 1906 The Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States (later National Collegiate Athletic Association) is established to set rules for amateur sports in the United States.
* 1909 Serbia accepts Austrian control over Bosnia-Herzegovina.
* 1909 Construction begins on the RMS Titanic.
* 1910 Six North Staffordshire Pottery towns federate to form modern Stoke-on-Trent
* 1912 Construction is completed on the RMS Titanic.
* 1913 Construction of the RMS Titanic is regretted
* 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.
* 1918 Daylight saving time goes into effect in the United States for the first time.
* 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.
* 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.
* 1942 Holocaust in Ivano-Frankivsk (then called Stanislawow), western Ukraine. German Gestapo organize the first deportation of 5,000 Jews from Stanislawow ghetto to Belzec death camp. It is one of the largest transports to Belzec in the first phase of the camp.
* 1946 The first election is held in Greece after World War II.
* 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.
* 1957 Elections to the Territorial Assembly of the French colony Upper Volta are held. After the elections PDU and MDV form a government.
* 1959 The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, crosses the border into India and is granted political asylum.
* 1964 The Dictatorship in Brazil, under the aegis of general Castello Branco, begins.
* 1965 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.
* 1968 President Lyndon B. Johnson announces he will not run for re-election.
* 1970 Explorer 1 re-enters the Earth's atmosphere (after 12 years in orbit).
* 1970 Nine terrorists from the Japanese Red Army hijack Japan Airlines Flight 351 at Tokyo International Airport, wielding samurai swords and carrying a bomb.
* 1979 The last British soldier leaves the Maltese Islands. Malta declares its Freedom Day (Jum il-Helsien).
* 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, takes place in Madison Square Garden in New York
* 1986 A Mexicana Boeing 727 en route to Puerto Vallarta erupts in flames and crashes in the mountains northwest of Mexico City, killing 166.
* 1986 Six metropolitan county councils are abolished in England.
* 1990 200,000 protestors take to the streets of London to protest against the newly introduced Poll Tax.
* 1991 The Islamic Constitutional Movement, or Hadas, is established in Kuwait.
* 1991 Georgian independence referendum, 1991: nearly 99 percent of the voters support the country's independence from the Soviet Union.
* 1992 The USS Missouri (BB-63), 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.
* 1995 In Corpus Christi, Texas, Latin superstar Selena Quintanilla Perez is shot and killed by Yolanda Saldivar, the president of her own fan club.
* 1998 Netscape releases the code base of its browser under an open-source license agreement; the project is given the code name Mozilla and would eventually be spun off into the non-profit Mozilla Foundation.
* 2004 In Fallujah, Iraq, 4 American private military contractors working for Blackwater USA, are killed and their bodies mutilated after being ambushed.
* 2007 In Sydney, Australia, 2.2 million people take part in the first Earth Hour.
* 2008 Aloha Airlines, a bankrupt airline, permanently ends passenger service
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- March 31st
c/p from Wikipedia
* 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 Vιzelay, urging the necessity of a Second Crusade. Louis VII is present, and joins the Crusade.
* 1492 Queen Isabella of Castille issues the Alhambra decree, ordering her 150,000 Jewish subjects to convert to Christianity or face sexy parties.
* 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 a rebellion attempt, depicted by the French artist Eugθne Delacroix.
* 1854 Commodore Matthew Perry signs the Treaty of Kanagawa with the Japanese government, opening the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to American trade.
* 1866 The Spanish Navy bombs the harbor of Valparaνso, Chile.
* 1877 The family with samurai antecedents that responded to the Saigo army in Ōita Nakatsu rebels.
* 1885 The United Kingdom establishes a protectorate over Bechuanaland.
* 1889 The Eiffel Tower is inaugurated.
* 1903 Richard Pearse allegedly makes a powered flight in an early aircraft.
* 1906 The Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States (later National Collegiate Athletic Association) is established to set rules for amateur sports in the United States.
* 1909 Serbia accepts Austrian control over Bosnia-Herzegovina.
* 1909 Construction begins on the RMS Titanic.
* 1910 Six North Staffordshire Pottery towns federate to form modern Stoke-on-Trent
* 1912 Construction is completed on the RMS Titanic.
* 1913 Construction of the RMS Titanic is regretted
* 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.
* 1918 Daylight saving time goes into effect in the United States for the first time.
* 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.
* 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.
* 1942 Holocaust in Ivano-Frankivsk (then called Stanislawow), western Ukraine. German Gestapo organize the first deportation of 5,000 Jews from Stanislawow ghetto to Belzec death camp. It is one of the largest transports to Belzec in the first phase of the camp.
* 1946 The first election is held in Greece after World War II.
* 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.
* 1957 Elections to the Territorial Assembly of the French colony Upper Volta are held. After the elections PDU and MDV form a government.
* 1959 The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, crosses the border into India and is granted political asylum.
* 1964 The Dictatorship in Brazil, under the aegis of general Castello Branco, begins.
* 1965 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.
* 1968 President Lyndon B. Johnson announces he will not run for re-election.
* 1970 Explorer 1 re-enters the Earth's atmosphere (after 12 years in orbit).
* 1970 Nine terrorists from the Japanese Red Army hijack Japan Airlines Flight 351 at Tokyo International Airport, wielding samurai swords and carrying a bomb.
* 1979 The last British soldier leaves the Maltese Islands. Malta declares its Freedom Day (Jum il-Helsien).
* 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, takes place in Madison Square Garden in New York
* 1986 A Mexicana Boeing 727 en route to Puerto Vallarta erupts in flames and crashes in the mountains northwest of Mexico City, killing 166.
* 1986 Six metropolitan county councils are abolished in England.
* 1990 200,000 protestors take to the streets of London to protest against the newly introduced Poll Tax.
* 1991 The Islamic Constitutional Movement, or Hadas, is established in Kuwait.
* 1991 Georgian independence referendum, 1991: nearly 99 percent of the voters support the country's independence from the Soviet Union.
* 1992 The USS Missouri (BB-63), 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.
* 1995 In Corpus Christi, Texas, Latin superstar Selena Quintanilla Perez is shot and killed by Yolanda Saldivar, the president of her own fan club.
* 1998 Netscape releases the code base of its browser under an open-source license agreement; the project is given the code name Mozilla and would eventually be spun off into the non-profit Mozilla Foundation.
* 2004 In Fallujah, Iraq, 4 American private military contractors working for Blackwater USA, are killed and their bodies mutilated after being ambushed.
* 2007 In Sydney, Australia, 2.2 million people take part in the first Earth Hour.
* 2008 Aloha Airlines, a bankrupt airline, permanently ends passenger service
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