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 91st day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 275 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 18, 2024 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,530,720 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 ‘enneacontahenagon’ 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 304 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 4,118 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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March 31 Historical Events
- 1774 –American Revolutionary War: The Kingdom of Great Britain orders the port of Boston, Massachusetts closed pursuant to the Boston Port Act.
- 1866 –The Spanish Navy bombs the harbor of Valparaíso, Chile.
- 1889 –The Eiffel Tower is officially opened.
- 1918 –Massacre of ethnic Azerbaijanis is committed by allied armed groups of Armenian Revolutionary Federation and Bolsheviks. Nearly 12,000 Azerbaijani Muslims are killed.
- 1933 –The Civilian Conservation Corps is established with the mission of relieving rampant unemployment.
- 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.
- 1991 –Georgian independence referendum, 1991: nearly 99 percent of the voters support the country’s independence from the Soviet Union.
- 1991 –The Islamic Constitutional Movement, or Hadas, is established in Kuwait.
- 1992 –The USS Missouri, the last active United States Navy battleship, is decommissioned in Long Beach, California.
Who were born on March 31?
- 1732 –Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer (d. 1809)
- 1809 –Otto Lindblad, Swedish composer (d. 1864)
- 1890 –William Lawrence Bragg, English physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1971)
- 1911 –Elisabeth Grümmer, German soprano (d. 1986)
- 1915 –Albert Hourani, English historian (d. 1993)
- 1929 –Bertram Fields, American lawyer
- 1931 –Miller Barber, American golfer
- 1936 –Bob Pulford, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1947 –Kristian Blak, Danish musician and recording executive
- 1975 –Emma Atkins, English actress
Who died on March 31?
- 1074 –Regency Yorimichi Fujiwara of Japan (b. 992)
- 1631 –John Donne, English writer and prelate (b. 1572)
- 1855 –Charlotte Brontë, English author (b. 1816)
- 1980 –Jesse Owens, American athlete (b. 1913)
- 1983 –Christina Stead, Australian writer (b. 1902)
- 1998 –Bella Abzug, American politician (b. 1920)
- 2003 –H.S.M. Coxeter, English-born geometer (b. 1907)
- 2005 –Terri Schiavo, American figure in right-to-die case (b. 1963)
- 2006 –Angela Devi, American adult model (b. 1975)
- 2008 –Jules Dassin, American film director (b. 1911)
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