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Events from History on March 31

1084 : Anti-pope Clemens crowns German emperor Hendrik IV
1492 : Queen Isabella of Castilia & Ferdinand of Aragon expels Jews
1504 : France & Spain signs ceasefire
1521 : Magelhaes takes possession of Homohon, Archipelago of St Lazarus
1547 : Henry II succeeds Fran‡ois I as king of France
1644 : Pope Urbanus VIII & duke of Parma signs Peace of Ferrara
1651 : Great earthquake at Cuzco Peru
1657 : English Humble Petition offers Lord Protector Cromwell the crown
1667 : France/England signs anti-Dutch military accord
1683 : Emperor Leopold I/Poland signs covenant against Turkey
1745 : Jews are expelled from Prague
1796 : Johann Wolfgang von Goethes "Egmont," premieres in Weimar
1808 : French created Kingdom of Westphalia orders Jews to adopt family names
1814 : Forces allied against Napoleon capture Paris
1831 : Mainzer Rijnvaart Convention ends
1831 : Qu‚bec & Montr‚al incorporated
1841 : 1st performance of Robert Schumann's 1st Symphony in B
1849 : Col John W Geary arrives as 1st postmaster of SF
1850 : US population hits 23,191,876 (Black population: 3,638,808 (15.7%))
1854 : Treaty of Kanagawa: Commodore Perry forces Japan to opens ports to US
1861 : Confederacy takes over mint at New Orleans
1862 : Civil War action at Island #10 on Mississippi River
1863 : Battle of Grand Gulf MS & Dinwiddie Court House VA
1865 : Battle of Boydton, VA (White Oaks Roads, Dinwiddie C H)
1865 : Gen Pickette moves to 5 Forks, abandoning the defense of Peterburg
1868 : Chinese Embassy arrives aboard steamship China
1870 : 1st black to vote in US (Thomas P Mundy of Perth Amboy NJ)
1877 : British high director/governor sir Bartle Frere arrives in Capetown
1877 : Test Cricket debut of Fred "Demon" Spofforth, Aust v Eng MCG
1880 : 1st town completely illuminated by electric lighting (Wabash, IN)
1883 : 1st performance of C‚sar Franck's "Le Chasseur Maudit"
1883 : Utrecht begins water pipe system
1885 : Great Britain declares Bechuanaland a protectorate
1889 : 300m Eiffel Tower officially opens (commemorates French Revolution)
1896 : Whitcomb Judson, Chicago, patents a hookless fastening (zipper)
1900 : Brig-General Broadwoods troops fall into guerrilla hands
1903 : Richard Pearse flies monoplane several hundred yards (NZ)
1905 : German emperor Wilhelm II visits Tanger
1906 : GB Shaws German version of "Caesar & Cleopatra," premieres in Berlin"
1907 : Romanian Army puts down Moldavian farmers' revolt
1909 : Baseball rules players who jump contracts are suspended for 5 years
1909 : Gustav Mahler conducts NY Philharmonic for his 1st time
1916 : & #1661 Granule
1916 : Dutch govt ends all milt engagements
1917 : US purchases Danish West Indies for $25M & renames them Virgin Islands
1918 : 1st daylight savings time in US goes into effect
1919 : Strike against Ruhrgebied government of Scheidemann
1920 : British parliament accept Irish "Home Rule"-law
1921 : Albert Einstein lectures in NY on his new theory of relativity
1921 : British coal miners goes on strike
1922 : KFI-AM in Los Angeles CA begins radio transmissions
1922 : Prince Hendrik opens trade fair building in Amsterdam
1923 : 1st dance marathon-NYC-Alma Cummings sets record of 27 hrs
1923 : French soldiers fire on workers at Krupp factory in Essen; 13 die
1924 : Croydon Airport: 1st British mig aircraft Imperial established
1924 : London public transport strike ends
1925 : WOWO-AM, Ft Wayne Indiana begins radio transmission (500 watts)
1926 : German Special Court of Justice for state security disbands
1932 : 150 wild swans die in Niagara waterfall
1932 : Ford publicly unveils its V-8 engine
1933 : 1st newspaper published on pine pulp paper, "Soperton News" (Ga)
1933 : Congress authorizes Civilian Conservation Corps
1933 : German Republic gives power to Hitler
1934 : Netherlands Indies BC Ltd begins radio transmission (Indonesia)
1935 : Fusahige Suzuki runs world record marathon (2:27:49)
1939 : Britain & France agree to support Poland if invaded by Germany
1940 : Karelo-Finnish SSR becomes 12th Soviet republic (until 1956)
1941 : Germany begins a counter offensive in Africa
1941 : Ground broken for Union Square Garage, SF
1943 : US errantly bombs Rotterdam, kills 326
1944 : Hungary orders all Jews to wear yellow stars
1945 : 3rd Algerian division crosses the Rhine
1945 : Sicherheitsdienst murders 10 political prisoners in Zutphen
1945 : Tennessee Williams' "Glass Menagerie," premieres in NYC
1945 : US artillery lands on Keise Shima/begins firing on Okinawa
1946 : Belgian govt of Acker, forms
1948 : Congress passes Marshall Aid Act to rehabilitate war-torn Europe
1949 : Newfoundland becomes Canada's 10th province
1951 : US tanks exceed 38ø of latitude in Korea
1953 : Department of Health, Education & Welfare established
1953 : UN Security Council nominates Dag Hammarskj”ld secretary-general
1954 : US Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs Colo, established
1954 : USSR offers to join NATO
1955 : Chase National (3rd largest bank) & Bank of the Manhattan Company
1955 : (15th largest bank) merge to form Chase Manhattan
1955 : US Assay Office in Seattle, Washington closes
1958 : US Navy forms atomic sub division
1958 : USSR suspends nuclear weapons tests, & urges US & Britain to do same
1959 : Dalai Lama fled China & was granted political asylum in India
1960 : Gore Vidal's "Best Man," premieres in NYC
1961 : Aklilou Habtewold becomes 1st premier of Ethiopia
1962 : Asteroid #3179 discovered
1963 : LA ends streetcar service after 90 years
1964 : Pres Jango Goulart of Brazil chased out of office by military
1965 : US ordered the 1st combat troops to Vietnam
1966 : 25,000 anti war demonstrators march in NYC
1966 : Labour Party wins British parliamentary election
1966 : USSR launches Luna 10, 1st lunar orbiter
1967 : 1st time Jimi Hendrix burns his guitar (London)
1968 : LBJ announces he will not seek re-election
1968 : Pirate Radio Station Pegaus (NZ) begins transmitting
1968 : Seattle's AL club is named Pilots
1969 : George Harrison & Patti Boyd are fined œ250 each for illegal drugs
1970 : Federal bankruptcy court allows Seattle Pilots to be sold to Milwaukee
1971 : South Africa national debt hits 5.45 billion
1971 : William Calley sentenced to life for Mi Lai Massacre
1972 : Official Beatles Fan Club, closes down
1973 : Flyers score 8 goals in 1 period vs Islanders, on 60 shots
1973 : Ken Norton defeats Muhammad Ali in a 12 round split decision
1975 : 37th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Kentucky 92-55
1975 : John Wooden's final game, UCLA, wins 10th NCAA championship in 12 yrs
1976 : NJ Court rules Karen Anne Quinlan may be disconnected from respirator
1977 : Michael Cristofer's "Shadow Box," premieres in NYC
1978 : Red Rum wins 3rd consecutive Grand National & retires
1978 : USSR launches Kosmos 1000 navigational satellite
1978 : Wings release "London Town" album
1980 : President Jimmy Carter deregulates banking industry
1981 : 1st Golden Raspberry Awards: Can't Stop the Music wins
1981 : 53rd Academy Awards - "Ordinary People," R De Niro & Sissy Spacek win
1982 : Arkas tanker at Montz La, spills 1.47 million gallons of oil
1982 : Rock group Doobie Brothers split up
1983 : Earthquake in Colombia kills some 5,000 people
1983 : Marsha Norman's "'night, Mother," premieres in NYC
1984 : US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1985 : 15th Easter Seal Telethon raises $27,400,000
1985 : 4th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Old Dominion beats Ga 70-65
1985 : El Salvador's Pres Duartes Christian-Democrats win election
1985 : Wrestlemania I at MSG NY, Hogan & Mr T beat Piper & Orndorf
1986 : 167 die when Mexicana Airlines Boeing 727 crashes
1986 : 48th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Louisville beats Duke 72-69
1986 : English Hampton Court palace destroyed by fire, 1 dead
1987 : 49th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Indiana beats Syracuse 74-73
1988 : Last East Limburg coal mine closes in Gent Belgium
1988 : NY Islanders celebrate Denis Potvin night
1988 : Pulitzer prize awarded to Toni Morrison for "Beloved"
1989 : Donald Trump purchases Eastern's Northeast Shuttle
1990 : "Carol & Company" starring Carol Burnette premieres on NBC-TV
1990 : Dionisio Castro cycles world record 20km (57:18.4)
1990 : Riots began in London over the new poll tax laws
1991 : 10th NCAA Women's Basketball Champion: Tennessee beats Virginia 70-67
1991 : Albania offers 1st multi-party election in 50 years
1991 : Danny Bonaduce attacks a transvestite prostitute in Phoenix Az
1991 : Georgian SSR votes on whether to remain in the Soviet Union
1991 : Musical "Will Rogers Follies," premieres in NYC
1991 : Soviet Rep of Georgia endorsed independence; Warsaw Pact dissolves
1991 : St Louis Blues Brett Hull scores his 86th goal
1992 : UN Security Council voted to ban flights & arms sales to Libya
1994 : James Farentino pleads no contest to stalking ex-girl Tina Sinatra
1994 : Walkway from Cleveland's Tower City to Jacobs Field officially opens
1995 : 1st game at Coors Stadium Colo (replacement Rockies beat Yanks 4-1)
1996 : "Getting Away With Murder" closes at Broadhurst NYC after 17 perfs
1996 : "Midsummer Night's Dream" opens at Lunt-Fontanne NYC for 66 perfs
1996 : 15th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Tenn beats Georgia 83-65
1996 : 1st Opening Day in history in March takes place in Seattle
1996 : Karnataka defeat Tamil Nadu on 1st innings to win Ranji Trophy
1996 : Radio Canada International's final shortwave broadcast
1996 : Space Shuttle STS 76 (Atlantis 16), lands
1996 : Wrestlemania XII - Shawn Michaels beats Brett Hart for WWF title
1997 : "Daytime to Remember" a series showing old soaps premieres on ABC-TV
1997 : 59th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship: Ariz beats Kentucky 84-79 (OT)
1997 : Pioneer 10, ends its mission
1998 : Tampa Bay Devil Rays 1st game they host Detroit Tigers
2002 : 21st NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: at San Antonio

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