31 March
Notable Births
Reed Baker-Whiting
b. 2005
American soccer player (born 2005)
Samson Baidoo
b. 2004
Austrian footballer (born 2004)
Japhet Tanganga
b. 1999
English footballer (born 1999)
Brooke Scullion
b. 1999
Irish singer (born 1999)
Jens Odgaard
b. 1999
Danish footballer (born 1999)
Denys Strekalin
b. 1999
Ukrainian-French pair skater (born 1999)
Adam Chrzanowski
b. 1999
Polish professional footballer (born 1999)
Ballou Tabla
b. 1999
Canadian soccer player
Elžbieta Kropa
b. 1999
Lithuanian figure skater
Edon Zhegrova
b. 1999
Footballer (born 1999)
Sander Raieste
b. 1999
Estonian basketball player
Jonas Røndbjerg
b. 1999
Danish ice hockey player (born 1999)
Maren Lutz
b. 1999
German canoeist
Jakob Chychrun
b. 1998
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1998)
Liza Koshy
b. 1996
American actress (born 1996)
Tom Barrasso
b. 1965
American ice hockey player (born 1965)
Gordie Howe
b. 1928
Canadian ice hockey player (1928–2016)
Cesar Chavez
b. 1927
American civil rights activist (1927–1993)
Richard Kiley
b. 1922
American actor (1922–1999)
Johann Sebastian Bach
b. 1685
German composer (1685–1750)
Notable Deaths
Sian Barbara Allen
d. 2025
American television actress (1946–2025)
Betty Webb (code breaker)
d. 2025
English code breaker (1923–2025)
Barbara Rush
d. 2024
American actress (1927–2024)
Shirley Burkovich
d. 2022
American baseball player (1933–2022)
Patrick Demarchelier
d. 2022
French photographer (1943–2022)
Moana Jackson
d. 2022
New Zealand Māori lawyer (1945–2022)
Ken Reitz
d. 2021
American baseball player (1951–2021)
Muhammad Wakkas
d. 2021
Bangladeshi politician (1952–2021)
Nipsey Hussle
d. 2019
American rapper (1985–2019)
Nick Newton
d. 2018
Gilbert Baker (artist)
d. 2017
American artist and activist (1951–2017)
James Rosenquist
d. 2017
American painter (1933–2017)
Ronnie Corbett
d. 2016
Scottish comedian and actor (1930–2016)
Hans-Dietrich Genscher
d. 2016
German politician (1927–2016)
Zaha Hadid
d. 2016
Iraqi and British architect (1950–2016)
Imre Kertész
d. 2016
Hungarian author (1929–2016)
Denise Robertson
d. 2016
British writer and broadcaster (1932–2016)
Carlos Gaviria Díaz
d. 2015
Colombian lawyer, professor and politician (1937–2015)
Gonzalo Anes
d. 2014
Roger Somville
d. 2014
Belgian painter
On This Day in History
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2023
A historic tornado outbreak occurs in the American Midwest and South.
Tornado outbreak of March 31 – April 1, 2023
2018
Start of the 2018 Armenian revolution.
2018 Armenian Revolution
2016
NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Roscosmos cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko return to Earth after a yearlong mission at the International Space Station.
NASA
2005
The dwarf planet Makemake is discovered by a team led by astronomer Michael E. Brown at the Palomar Observatory.
Dwarf planet
2004
Iraq War in Anbar Province: In Fallujah, Iraq, four American private military contractors working for Blackwater USA, are killed after being ambushed.
Anbar campaign (2003–2011)
1998
Netscape releases Mozilla source code under an open source license.
Netscape
1995
Selena is murdered by her fan club president Yolanda Saldívar at a Days Inn in Corpus Christi, Texas.
Selena
1995
TAROM Flight 371, an Airbus A310-300, crashes near Balotesti, Romania, killing all 60 people on board.
TAROM Flight 371
1993
The Macao Basic Law is adopted by the Eighth National People's Congress of China to take effect December 20, 1999. Resumption by China of the Exercise of Sovereignty over Macao
Macao Basic Law
1992
The USS Missouri, the last active United States Navy battleship, is decommissioned in Long Beach, California.
USS Missouri (BB-63)
1992
The Treaty of Federation is signed in Moscow.
Treaty of Federation
1991
Georgian independence referendum: Nearly 99 percent of the voters support the country's independence from the Soviet Union.
1991 Georgian independence referendum
1991
The Warsaw Pact formally disbands.
Warsaw Pact
1990
Approximately 200,000 protesters take to the streets of London to protest against the newly introduced Poll Tax.
Poll tax riots
1986
Mexicana de Aviación Flight 940 crashes into the Sierra Madre Oriental mountain range near the Mexican town of Maravatío, killing 167.
Mexicana de Aviación Flight 940
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.
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad
1970
Explorer 1 re-enters the Earth's atmosphere after 12 years in orbit.
Explorer 1
1968
American President Lyndon B. Johnson speaks to the nation of "Steps to Limit the War in Vietnam" in a television address. At the conclusion of his speech, he announces: "I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your President."
President of the United States
1966
The Soviet Union launches Luna 10 which later becomes the first space probe to enter orbit around the Moon.
Soviet Union
1966
The Labour Party under Harold Wilson wins the 1966 United Kingdom general election.
Labour Party (UK)