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 90th 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, 484,272 hours 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.
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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.
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March 31 Historical Events
- 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.
- 1822 –The massacre of the population of the Greek island of Chios by soldiers of the Ottoman Empire following an attempted rebellion, depicted by the French artist Eugène Delacroix.
- 1866 –The Spanish Navy bombs the harbor of Valparaíso, Chile.
- 1921 –The Royal Australian Air Force is formed.
- 1933 –The Civilian Conservation Corps is established with the mission of relieving rampant unemployment.
- 1949 –The Dominion of Newfoundland joins the Canadian Confederation and becomes the 10th Province of Canada.
- 1964 –A coup d'état in Brazil establishes a military government, under the aegis of general Castello Branco.
- 1966 –The Soviet Union launches Luna 10 which later becomes the first space probe to enter orbit around the Moon.
- 1986 –A Mexicana Boeing 727 en route to Puerto Vallarta erupts in flames and crashes in the mountains northwest of Mexico City, killing 166.
- 1992 –The USS Missouri, the last active United States Navy battleship, is decommissioned in Long Beach, California.
Who were born on March 31?
- 1912 –William Lederer, American writer (d. 2009)
- 1935 –Herb Alpert, American trumpeter and band leader
- 1952 –Dermot Morgan, Irish actor and comedian (d. 1998)
- 1971 –Pavel Bure, Russian ice hockey player
- 1972 –Hristos Polihroniou, Greek hammer thrower
- 1975 –Prodromos Dreliozis, Greek basketball player
- 1978 –Tony Yayo, American rapper
- 1981 –Ryan Bingham, American singer/songwriter
- 1984 –Alberto Junior Rodríguez, Peruvian footballer
- 1984 –David Clarkson, Canadian ice hockey player
Who died on March 31?
- 1727 –Sir Isaac Newton, English mathematician and physicist (b. 1643)
- 1837 –John Constable, English painter (b. 1776)
- 1855 –Charlotte Brontë, English author (b. 1816)
- 1924 –George Charles Haité, English designer, painter and illustrator (b.1855)
- 1931 –Knute Rockne, American football coach (b. 1888)
- 1956 –Ralph DePalma, Italian-born race car driver (b. 1884)
- 1988 –William McMahon, 20th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1908)
- 2001 –David Rocastle, English footballer (b. 1967)
- 2007 –Paul Watzlawick, Austrian-born theoreticist (b. 1921)
- 2010 –Shirley Mills, American actress (b. 1926)
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