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31 March, 2007

In Sydney, Australia 2.2 million people take part in the first Earth Hour.

31 March, 2004

In Fallujah, Iraq, 4 American private military contractors working for Blackwater USA, are killed and their bodies mutilated after being ambushed.

31 March, 2002

331 Earthquake in Taiwan, which measured 7.1 and killed at least four people.

31 March, 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.

31 March, 1995

In Corpus Christi, Texas, Latin superstar Selena Quintanilla Perez is shot and killed by Yolanda Saldivar, the president of her own fan club.

31 March, 1994

The journal Nature reports the finding in Ethiopia of the first complete Australopithecus afarensis skull (see Human evolution).

31 March, 1992

USS Missouri (BB-63), the last active US Navy Battleship, is decommissioned in Long Beach, California.

31 March, 1991

The Establishment of Islamic Constitutional Movement - Hadas in Kuwait.

31 March, 1991

Georgian independence referendum, 1991: nearly 99 per cent of the voters support the countrys independence from the Soviet Union.

31 March, 1990

200,000 protestors took to the streets of London to show their displeasure at the newly introduced Poll Tax.

31 March, 1986

A Mexicana Boeing 727 en route to Puerto Vallarta erupts in flames and crashes in the mountains northwest of Mexico City, killing 166.

31 March, 1986

Six metropolitan county councils are abolished in England.

31 March, 1980

The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railroad operate final train after ordered to be liquidated due to bankruptcy and debt owed to creditors.

31 March, 1979

The last British soldier leaves the Maltese Islands. Malta declares its Freedom Day (Jum il-Helsien).

31 March, 1970

Explorer 1 re-enters the Earths atmosphere (after 12 years in orbit).

31 March, 1970

Eight terrorists from the Japanese Red Army hijacked Japan Airlines Flight 351 at Tokyo International Airport, wielding samurai swords and carrying a bomb.

31 March, 1968

President Lyndon B. Johnson announces he will not run for re-election.

31 March, 1966

The Soviet Union launches Luna 10 which later becomes the first spaceprobe to enter orbit around the Moon.

31 March, 1965

Iberia Airlines Convair 440, crashed into the sea on approach to Tangier killing 47 of 51 occupants.

31 March, 1964

The Dictatorship in Brazil, under the aegis of general Castello Branco, begins.

31 March, 1959

The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, crosses the border into India and is granted political asylum.

31 March, 1957

Elections to the Territorial Assembly of the French colony Upper Volta. After the elections PDU and MDV form a government.

31 March, 1951

The first commercial US made computer, UNIVAC I, was delivered to the United States Census Bureau.

31 March, 1949

The Dominion of Newfoundland joins Confederation and becomes the 10th Province of Canada.

31 March, 1946

The first election is held in Greece after World War II.

31 March, 1944

Japanese Navy Marshal Mineichi Koga dies in the performance of job in the Navy Second Incident.

31 March, 1942

In World War II, Japanese forces invade Christmas Island, then a British possession.

31 March, 1942

Holocaust in Ivano-Frankivsk (then called Stanislawow), western Ukraine. German Gestapo organise the first deportation of 5.000 Jews from Stanislawow ghetto to Belzec death camp. It was one of the biggest transports to Belzec in the first phase of the camp.

31 March, 1933

The Civilian Conservation Corps is established with the mission to relieve rampant unemployment.

31 March, 1931

An earthquake destroys Managua, Nicaragua, killing 2,000.

31 March, 1930

The Motion Pictures Production Code is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in motion pictures for the next thirty eight years.

31 March, 1918

Daylight saving time goes into effect in the United States for the first time.

31 March, 1917

The United States takes possession of the Danish West Indies after paying $25 million to Denmark, and renames the territory the U.S. Virgin Islands.

31 March, 1909

Serbia accepts Austrian control over Bosnia-Herzegovina.

31 March, 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.

31 March, 1903

Richard Pearse apparently made the worlds first powered flight, after flying a few hundred metres he crashed into a hedge.

31 March, 1889

The Eiffel Tower is inaugurated.

31 March, 1885

The United Kingdom establishes a protectorate over Bechuanaland.

31 March, 1877

The family with samurai antecedents who responded to the Saigo army in Oita Nakatsu rebels.

31 March, 1866

The Spanish Navy bombs the harbour of Valparaíso, Chile.

31 March, 1854

Commodore Matthew Perry signs the Treaty of Kanagawa with the Japanese government, opening the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to American trade.

31 March, 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 Eugène Delacroix.

31 March, 1774

American Revolutionary War: The Kingdom of Great Britain orders the port of Boston, Massachusetts closed in the Boston Port Act.

31 March, 1717

A sermon on "The Nature of the Kingdom of Christ" by Benjamin Hoadly, the Bishop of Bangor, provoked the Bangorian Controversy.

31 March, 1492

Queen Isabella of Castille orders her 150,000 Jewish subjects to convert to Christianity or face expulsion.

31 March, 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.

31 March, 307

After divorcing his wife Minervina, Constantine marries Fausta, the daughter of the retired Roman Emperor Maximian.

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