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WillDekkard
03-31-2011, 05:38 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 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 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 Saigō 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 and Herzegovina.
* 1910 – Six North Staffordshire Pottery towns federate to form modern Stoke-on-Trent.
* 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 – Massacre of ethnic Azerbaijanis was committed by allied armed groups of Armenian Revolutionary Federation and Bolsheviks. Nearly 12,000 Azerbaijani Muslims were killed.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* 1958 – In the Canadian federal election, 1958, the Progressive Conservatives, led by John Diefenbaker, win the largest percentage of seats in Canadian history, with 208 seats of 265.
* 1959 – The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, crosses the border into India and is granted political asylum.
* 1964 – A coup d'ιtat in Brazil establishes the Brazilian 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.
* 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 (then the WWF), 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, 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.
* 2004 – In Fallujah, Iraq, 4 American private military contractors working for Blackwater USA, are killed after being ambushed.
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