What are the important events that happened on March 31? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

March 31: Facts & Myths About This Day

March 31 is the 90^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 275 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 18, 2025 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 29,056,320 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘enneacontagon’ day.

Aries is the zodiac 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 323 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,483 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

March 31 Historical Events

• 1903 –
  Richard Pearse allegedly makes a powered flight in an early aircraft.
• 1909 –
  Serbia accepts Austrian control over Bosnia and Herzegovina.
• 1931 –
  An earthquake destroys Managua, Nicaragua, killing 2,000.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1986 –
  A Mexicana Boeing 727 en route to Puerto Vallarta erupts in flames and crashes in the mountains northwest of Mexico City, killing 166.
• 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.
• 2004 –
  Iraq War in Anbar Province - In Fallujah, Iraq, 4 American private military contractors working for Blackwater USA, are killed after being ambushed.

Who were born on March 31?

• 1809 –
  Otto Lindblad, Swedish composer (d. 1864)
• 1893 –
  Clemens Krauss, Austrian conductor (d. 1954)
• 1922 –
  Richard Kiley, American actor and singer (d. 1999)
• 1924 –
  Charles Guggenheim, American film director and producer (d. 2002)
• 1941 –
  Franco Bonvicini, also known as Bonvi, Italian comic book artist (Sturmtruppen, Nick Carter) (d. 1995)
• 1944 –
  Mick Ralphs, English guitarist (Mott the Hoople, Bad Company)
• 1958 –
  Tony Cox, American actor
• 1965 –
  Steven T. Seagle, American comic-book writer
• 1971 –
  Pavel Bure, Russian ice hockey player
• 1987 –
  Nordin Amrabat, Dutch footballer

Who died on March 31?

• 1547 –
  Francis I of France (b. 1494)
• 1567 –
  Philipp I of Hesse (b. 1504)
• 1727 –
  Sir Isaac Newton, English mathematician and physicist (b. 1643)
• 1741 –
  Pieter Burmann the Elder, Dutch classical scholar (b. 1668)
• 1880 –
  Henryk Wieniawski, Polish composer (b. 1835)
• 1924 –
  George Charles Haité, English designer, painter and illustrator (b.1855)
• 1945 –
  Frank Findlay, New Zealand politician (b. 1884)
• 1976 –
  Paul Strand, American photographer and filmmaker (b. 1890)
• 1993 –
  Brandon Lee, American actor (b. 1965)
• 2005 –
  Justiniano Montano, Filipino politician (b. 1905)