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, 475,512 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 ‘enneacontahenagon’ 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 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
- 1717 –A sermon on “The Nature of the Kingdom of Christ” by Benjamin Hoadly, the Bishop of Bangor, provokes the Bangorian Controversy.
- 1774 –American Revolutionary War: The Kingdom of Great Britain orders the port of Boston, Massachusetts closed pursuant to the Boston Port Act.
- 1889 –The Eiffel Tower is officially opened.
- 1910 –Six North Staffordshire Pottery towns federate to form modern Stoke-on-Trent.
- 1917 –The United States takes possession of the Danish West Indies after paying $25 million to Denmark, and renames the territory the United States Virgin Islands.
- 1931 –TWA Flight 599 crashes near Bazaar, Kansas killing 8 including Knute Rockne, head football coach at the University of Notre Dame
- 1970 –Nine terrorists from the Japanese Red Army hijack Japan Airlines Flight 351 at Tokyo International Airport, wielding samurai swords and carrying a bomb.
- 1990 –200,000 protestors take to the streets of London to protest against the newly introduced Poll Tax.
- 1991 –The Islamic Constitutional Movement, or Hadas, is established in Kuwait.
- 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?
- 1718 –Infanta Mariana Victoria of Spain (d. 1781)
- 1895 –Vardis Fisher, American author (d. 1968)
- 1915 –Albert Hourani, English historian (d. 1993)
- 1940 –Patrick Leahy, American politician
- 1971 –Pavel Bure, Russian ice hockey player
- 1972 –Andrew Bowen, American actor
- 1975 –Adam Green, American film director
- 1980 –Chien-Ming Wang, Taiwanese baseball player
- 1981 –Pa Dembo Tourray, Gambian footballer
- 1989 –Liu Zige, Chinese swimmer
Who died on March 31?
- 1671 –Anne Hyde, wife of James II of England (b. 1637)
- 1945 –Frank Findlay, New Zealand politician (b. 1884)
- 1968 –Grover Lowdermilk, American baseball player (b. 1885)
- 1980 –Vladimír Holan, Czech poet (b. 1905)
- 1995 –Selena, an American singer (b. 1971)
- 2003 –Anne Gwynne, American film actress (b. 1918)
- 2005 –Frank Perdue, American poultry farmer (b. 1920)
- 2006 –Angela Devi, American adult model (b. 1975)
- 2008 –Jules Dassin, American film director (b. 1911)
- 2010 –Shirley Mills, American actress (b. 1926)
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