On this day in History - Mar. 31

• 0250 - Constantius Chlorus was born (d. 0306). Roman Emperor.
• 0307 - After divorcing his wife Minerva, Constantine marries Fausta, the daughter of the retired Roman Emperor Maximian.
• 1074 - Eleanor of Aquitaine dies (b. 1121). Queen of France and England.
• 1084 - Anti-pope Clement III crowned German emperor Henry IV.
• 1128 - Num diploma desta data, o nome de D. Afonso Henriques aparece à frente de Fernão Peres de Trava, pela primeira vez, demonstrando a tentativa de pacificação entre D. Teresa, Fernão Peres de Trava e a nobreza portucalense revoltada.
• 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.
• 1204 - Eleanor of Aquitaine dies (b. 1121). Queen of France and England.
• 1340 - Ivan I of Russia dies (b. 1288). Prince of Moscow.
• 1360 - Philippa of Lancaster was born (d. 1415). Queen of Portugal.
• 1371 - É assinado o Tratado de Alcoutim entre D. Fernando e Henrique II de Castela, pelo qual se põe fim à guerra começada em 1369. D. Fernando abdicava das suas pretensões à coroa de Castela, obtendo em troca um alargamento do território de Portugal e o acordo para o seu casamento com a Infanta Dona Leonor, filha mais velha do rei de Castela.
• 1425 - Bianca Maria Visconti was born (d. 1468). Duchess of Milan.
• 1492 - Queen Isabella of Castille orders her 150,000 Jewish subjects to convert to Christianity or face expulsion.
• 1499 - Pope Pius IV was born (d. 1565).
• 1504 - Guru Angad Dev was born (d. 1552). Second Guru of the Sikhs.
• 1519 - King Henry II of France was born (d. 1559).
• 1521 - The first Roman Catholic mass in the Philippines was celebrated on the island of Limasawa.
• 1536 - Ashikaga Yoshiteru was born (d. 1565). Ashikaga shogun.
• 1547 - Francis I of France dies (b. 1494).
• 1567 - Philipp I of Hesse dies (b. 1504).
• 1576 - Louise Juliana of Nassau was born (d. 1644). Regent of Bohemia
• 1596 - René Descartes was born in La Haye (d. 11 Feb 1650). French mathematician and philosopher. ("I think, therefore I am")
• 1621 - Philip III of Spain (Philip II of Portugal) dies (b. 1578)./ Morte de Filipe II de Portugal, (Filipe III de Catela) nascido em 1578, sucedendo-lhe Filipe III com 16 anos.
• 1621 - Andrew Marvell was born (d. 1678). English poet.
• 1631 - John Donne dies (b. 1572). English writer and prelate.
• 1651 - Karl II, Elector Palatine was born (d. 1685).
• 1667 - Assinatura do tratado de aliança entre D. Afonso VI e Luís XIV (França), contra Carlos II de Espanha.
• 1671 - Anne Hyde dies (b. 1637). Queen of James II of England.
• 1675 - Pope Benedict XIV was born (d. 1758).
• 1693 - John Harrisson was born (d. 1776). English horologist and inventer /Nasceu o inventor inglês John Harrison, responsável pelo cronómetro .
• 1703 - Portugal, Inglaterra e Holanda assinaram um tratado de aliança ofensiva e defensiva.
• 1703 - Johann Christoph Bach dies (b. 1642). German composer.
• 1711 - Ireland's last trial for witchcraft was at Magee Island.
• 1717 - A sermon on "The Nature of the Kingdom of Christ" by Benjamin Hoadly, the Bishop of Bangor, provoked the Bangorian Controversy.
• 1718 - Marianne Victoria of Borbón was born (d. 1781). Queen regent of Portugal.
• 1723 - King Frederick V of Denmark was born (d. 1766).
• 1723 - Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon dies (b. 1661). British Governor of New York and New Jersey
• 1727 - Sir Isaac Newton dies (b. 1643). English mathematician and physicist.
• 1730 - Étienne Bézout was born (d. 1783). French mathematician.
• 1732 - Joseph Haydn was born in Rohrau (d. 31 May 1809 in Vienna). Austrian composer.
• 1741 - Pieter Burmann the Elder dies (b. 1668). Dutch classical scholar
• 1742 - P. D. Q. Bach was born (d. 1807). Fictitious composer.
• 1745 - Jews were expelled from Prague.
• 1774 - American Revolutionary War: The Kingdom of Great Britain orders the port of Boston, Massachusetts closed in the Boston Port Act.
• 1777 - Charles Cagniard de la Tour was born (d. 1859). French physicist.
• 1778 - Coenraad Jacob Temminck was born (d. 1858). Dutch zoologist.
• 1783 - Nikita Ivanovich Panin dies (b. 1718). Russian statesman.
• 1791 - Mozart aceita a encomenda anónima de um Requiem, enquanto última a composição da Flauta Mágica.
• 1794 - Thomas McKean Thompson McKennan was born (d. 1852). American politician.
• 1806 - Benito Juarez was born (d. 1872). Mexican statesman.
• 1809 - Edward FitzGerald was born (d. 1883). English poet.
• 1809 - Nikolai Gogol was born (d. 1852). Russian writer.
• 1811 - Robert Wilhelm Bunsen was born (d. 1899). German chemist, inventor: Bunsen burner.
• 1819 - Prince Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst was born (d. 1901). Chancellor of Germany
• 1821 - É extinta a Inquisição em Portugal, por uma sessão das Cortes Gerais, Extraordinárias e Constituintes da Nação Portuguesa. Tinha sido instituída por meio da bula "Cum ad nihit magis", de 23 de Maio de 1536.
• 1822 - The population of the Greek island of Chios is massacred by the Turks following a rebellion attempt, depicted by the French artist Eugène Delacroix.
• 1829 - Pius VIII was elected pope.
• 1837 - John Constable dies (b. 1776). English painter.
• 1839 - Las fuerzas gubernamentales del general y político argentino Juan Manuel de Rosas masacran a los sublevados del barón de Astrada, quien perece en la lucha.
• 1847 - Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev was born (d. 1878). Russian mathematician.
• 1850 - John C. Calhoun dies (b. 182). 7th Vice President of the United States
• 1854 - Commodore Matthew Perry signs the Treaty of Kanagawa with the Japanese government, opening the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to American trade.
• 1855 - Alfred E. Hunt was born (d. 1899). American metallurgist and industrialist best known for founding the company that would eventually become, the world's largest producer and distributor of aluminum.
• 1855 - Charlotte Brontë dies (b. 1816). English author.
• 1860 - Afonso Celso was born in Ouro Preto (MG) (d. 11 Jul 1938). Brazilian poet and politician.
• 1864 - Manuel Murillo Toro is elected President of Colombia.
• 1866 - Spanish Navy bombs the harbour of Valparaíso, Chile .
• 1870 - Thomas Peterson Mundy of New Jersey becomes the first black man to cast a ballot after the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution gives blacks the right to vote.
• 1871 - Arthur Griffith was born (d. 1922). President of Ireland.
• 1872 - Alexandra Kollontai was born (d. 1952). Russian ambassador to Norway.
• 1872 - Serge Diaghilev was born (d. 1929). Russian ballet impresario (Ballets Russes)
• 1876 - Borisav "Bora" Stanković was born (d. 1927). Serbian writer.
• 1877 - The family with samurai antecedents who responded to the Saigo army in Ōita Nakatsu rebels.
• 1877 - Antoine Augustin Cournot dies (b. 1801). French mathematician.
• 1878 - La Asamblea Nacional de Ecuador promulga una Nueva Constitución bajo la presidencia de Ignacio Veintimilla.
• 1878 - Jack Johnson was born (d. 1946). African-American boxer.
• 1879 - Se establece por decreto en Venezuela el bolívar como moneda nacional.
• 1880 - Henryk Wieniawski dies (b. 1835). Polish composer .
• 1881 - Sigmund Freud received his MD degree from the University of Vienna. During his career as a medical student, Freud discovered that cocaine could be used as an analgesic.
• 1884 - Adriaan van Maanen was born (d. 1946). Dutch-American astronomer.
• 1885 - The United Kingdom establishes a protectorate over Bechuanaland.
• 1885 - Pascin was born (d. 1930). Bulgarian painter, The "Prince of Montparnasse".
• 1885 - Franz Wilhelm Abt dies (b. 1819). German composer.
• 1889 - The Eiffel Tower built for the Paris World's Fair is opened to public.
• 1890 - William Lawrence Bragg was born (d. 1971). English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1891 - Victor Varconi was born (d. 19876). Hungarian film actor.
• 1893 - Clemens Krauss was born (d. 1954). Austrian conductor.
• 1900 - Richard Alexander Walter Windsor was born. Duke of Gloucester.
• 1903 - Richard Pearse reportedly flies a heavier-than-air machine in powered flight near Pleasant Point, South Canterbury, New Zealand; some claim 1902
• 1906 - The Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States (later National Collegiate Athletic Association) is established to set rules for amateur sports in the United States.
• 1906 - Sin-Itiro Tomonaga ws born (d. 1979). Japanese physicist, Nobel laureate.
• 1907 - Eddie Quillan was born (d. 1990). American actor.
• 1908 - Red Norvo was born (d. 1999). American jazz vibraphonist.
• 1908 – Eugénio Salvador was born (d. 1992). Portuguese actor / Nascimento, em Lisboa, do grande actor português, Eugénio Salvador (m. 1992). [Aqui D'El Rei! (1992) (TV) . A Maluquinha de Arroios (1970) Bonança & C.a (1969) Passagem de Nível (1965) Aqui Há Fantasmas (1964) Parque das Ilusões, O (1963) Pupilas do Senhor Reitor, As (1961) Vidas Sem Rumo (1956) Comissário de Polícia, O (1953) Duas Causas (1953) Três da Vida Airada, Os (1952) Um Marido Solteiro (1952); Eram Duzentos Irmãos (1952); Madragoa (1952); Sonhar É Fácil (1951); Sol e Toiros (1949) ; Fado, História d'uma Cantadeira (1948); Cais do Sodré (1946) ;Maria Papoila (1937/I) Lisboa (1930)].
• 1909 - Serbia accepts Austrian control over Bosnia-Herzegovina.
• 1911 - Elisabeth Grümmer was born (d. 1986). Alsatian soprano.
• 1912 - Hermann Höcherl was born (d. 1989). German politician.
• 1912 - Karl May dies (b. 1842). Author.
• 1913 - John Pierpont Morgan dies (b. 1837). American financier and banker.
• 1914 - Octavio Paz was born (d. 1998). Mexican writer Nobel laureate and diplomat.
• 1915 - Albert Hourani was born (d. 1993). English historian.
• 1915 - Shoichi Yokoi was born (d. 1997). Japanese military man.
• 1915 - Wyndham Halswelle dies (b. 1882). British runner.
• 1915 - Sixto (Doroteo) Palavecino was born in Barrancas, Salavina. Argentine musician.
• 1916 - John H. Wood, Jr. was born (d. 1979). American federal judge.
• 1916 - Lucille Bliss was born. American voice actress.
• 1917 - Emil Adolf von Behring dies (b. 1854). German physician, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1901.
• 1917 - The United States takes possession of the U.S. Virgin Islands after paying $25 million to Denmark.
• 1918 - Daylight Savings Time goes into effect in the United States for the first time.
• 1919 - Frank Akins was born (d. 1993). American football player.
• 1922 - Richard Kiley was born (d. 1999). American actor and singer.
• 1924 - Leo Buscaglia was born (d. 1998). American author.
• 1924 - Charles Guggenheim was born (d. 2002). American film director/producer.
• 1925 - Jean Coutu was born (d. 1999). French Canadian actor.
• 1926 - John Fowles was born (d. 2005). English author.
• 1927 - Borisav "Bora" Stanković dies (b. 1875). Serbian writer.
• 1927 - César Chávez was born (d. 1993). American labor activist.
• 1927 - William Daniels was born. American actor.
• 1928 - Gordie Howe was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1928 - Lefty Frizzell was born (d. 1975). American singer and songwriter.
• 1929 - Bertram Fields was born. American lawyer.
• 1929 - Lucille Bliss was born. American voice actress.
• 1929 - Liz Claiborne was born. Belgian fashion designer.
• 1930 - The Motion Pictures Production Code is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in motion pictures for the next forty years .
• 1931 - An earthquake destroys Managua Nicaragua, killing 2,000.
• 1931 - Miller Barber was born. American golfer
• 1931 - Knute Rockne dies (b. 1888). American football coach.
• 1932 - Nagisa Oshima was born in Kyoto, Japan. Director, Writer, Editor, Actor, Director [ (TV) Kyoto, My Mother's Place (1991); Max mon amour (1986); Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983) ; Ai no borei (1978) aka Empire of Passion (USA); Ai no corrida (1976) aka Bullfight of Love (Japan: literal English title).. aka Empire of the Senses; The Battle of Tsushima (1975) ; Natsu no imoto (1972)... aka Dear Summer Sister; Shonen (1969)... aka Boy (USA);Nihon shunka-kô (1967)... aka A Treatise on Japanese Bawdy Songs; Ai to kibo no machi (1959)... aka A Street of Love and Hope (literal English title) and many others.].
• 1933 - The Civilian Conservation Corps is established with the mission to relieve rampant unemployment.
• 1933 - El presidente de Uruguay, Gabriel Terra, da un golpe de Estado y disuelve el Parlamento.
• 1933 - Nichita Stănescu was born (d. 1983). Romanian poet.
• 1934 - Richard Chamberlain was born. American actor (Dr. Kildare)
• 1934 - John D. Loudermilk was born. American singer and songwriter
• 1934 - Shirley Jones was born. American singer and actress .
• 1934 - Carlo Rubbia was born. Italian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1935 - Judith Rossner was born. American author.
• 1935 - Herb Alpert was born. American trumpeter an band leader.
• 1935 – Ruth Escobar was born. Brazilian actress, journalist and politician.
• 1936 - Bob Pulford was born. Canadian hockey player
• 1936 - Marge Piercy was born. American writer
• 1936 - Dokumamushi Sandayu was born. Japanese actor
• 1938 - Sheila Dikshit was born. Chief Minister of Delhi.
• 1938 - David Steel was born. Scottish politician.
• 1938 - Michiko Nomura was born. Japanese voice actor
• 1938 - Bill Hicke was born (d. 2005). Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1939 - Zviad Gamsakhurdia was born (d. 1993). Scientist and writer, first President of the Republic of Georgia.
• 1939 - Volker Schlöndorff was born. German film director .
• 1940 - Patrick Leahy was born. United States Senator from Vermont.
• 1940 - Barney Frank was born. U.S. Representative from Massachusetts
• 1941 - Cox v. New Hampshire : The Supreme Court unanimously upheld the convictions of Jehovah's Witnesses for engaging in a public parade without a license.
• 1942 - In World War II, Japanese forces invade Christmas Island, then a British possession.
• 1942 - Holocaust in Ivano-Frankivsk (then called Stanislawow), western Ukraine. German Gestapo organise the first deportation of 5.000 Jews from Stanislawow ghetto to Belzec death camp. It was one of the biggest transports to Belzec in the first phase of the camp.
• 1942 - Michael Savage was born. American talk radio host and commentator
• 1942 - Ulla Hoffmann was born. Swedish politician.
• 1943 - Christopher Walken was born. American actor.
• 1944 - Japanese Navy Marshal Mineichi Koga dies in the performance of job in the Navy Second Incident.
• 1944 - Mick Ralphs was born. English guitarist (Mott the Hoople, Bad Company)
• 1944 - Pascal Danel was born. French singer and songwriter
• 1945 - Valerie Curtin was born. American actress, writer, and producer.
• 1945 - Gabe Kaplan was born. American actor and comedian.
• 1945 - Anne Frank dies (b. 1929). German-born diarist whose world-famous diary was published after WW II.
• 1945 - Hans Fischer dies in Munich (b. 27 Jul 1881). German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate in 1930.
• 1946 - The first election is held in Greece after World War II.
• 1946 - Gonzalo Márquez was born (d. 1984). Venezuelan Major League Baseball player.
• 1947 - Cesar Gaviria Trujillo was born. President of Colombia.
• 1947 - En Paraguay, las fuerzas rebeldes contra el Gobierno de Higinio Moriñigo son derrotadas en Piripuco.
• 1948 - Al Gore was born. Vice President of the United States and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
• 1948 - Rhea Perlman was born. American actress
• 1949 - Bethel Enproe Adam was born. Second Angam Baby .
• 1949 - The Dominion of Newfoundland joins Confederation and becomes the 10th Province of Canada/ Terranova ingresa en la Federación Canadiense, y se constituye en la décima provincia de Canadá.
• 1950 - Ed Marinaro was born. American football player and actor.
• 1950 - Andras Adorjan was born. Hungarian chess player,
• 1951 - The first commercial US made computer, UNIVAC I, was delivered to the United States Census Bureau.
• 1952 - Vanessa Del Rio was born. American porn actress.
• 1952 - Wallace H. White, Jr. dies (b. 1877). U.S. Senator from Maine.
• 1953 - Foram descobertos os "Manuscritos do Mar Morto" .
• 1954 - Edwin Armstrong dies (b. 1890). American electrical engineer and inventor.
• 1955 - Angus Young was born. Scottish-born musician (AC/DC).
• 1955 - Robert Vance was born. New Zealand cricketer.
• 1956 - Ralph DePalma dies (b. 1884). Italian-born race car driver.
• 1957 - Elections to the Territorial Assembly of the French colony Upper Volta. After the elections PDU and MDV form a government.
• 1957 - Marc McClure was born. American actor.
• 1957 - Alan Duncan was born. British politician
• 1959 - The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, crosses the border into India and is granted political asylum.
• 1959 - Ali McMordie was born. Irish bassist (Stiff Little Fingers).
• 1963 - Paul Mercurio was born. Australian actor/dancer.
• 1964 - Golpe militar de 1964 no Brasil derruba o presidente João Goulart .
• 1964 - The Dictatorship in Brazil, under the aegis of general Castello Branco, begins.
• 1964 - Paul Wong Koon-Chung was born. Hong Kong musician (Beyond)
• 1965 - Iberia Airlines Convair 440, crashed into the sea on approach to Tangier killing 47 of 51 occupants.
• 1965 - Tom Barrasso was born. American ice hockey player.
• 1965 - Steven T. Seagle was born. American comic-book writer.
• 1966 - The Soviet Union launches Luna 10 which later becomes the first spaceprobe to enter orbit around the Moon.
• 1966 - Roger Black was born. British athlete.
• 1967 - Jimi Hendrix burns his guitar for the first time at London's Astoria Theatre. He is sent to the hospital afterwards for burns on his hands.
• 1968 - President Lyndon Johnson announces he will not run for re-election.
• 1968 - Naoya Ogawa was born. Japanese professional wrestler.
• 1968 - Grover Lowdermilk dies (b. 1885). American baseball player.
• 1969 - Steve Smith was born. American basketball player.
• 1969 - Nyamko Sabuni was born. Swedish politician.
• 1969 - Samantha Brown was born. American television host.
• 1970 - Explorer 1 re-enters the Earth's atmosphere (after 12 years in orbit).
• 1970 - Eight terrorists from the Japanese Red Army hijacked a Japan Airlines Boeing 727 at Tokyo International Airport, wielding samurai swords and carrying a bomb.
• 1971 - Ewan McGregor was born. Scottish actor .
• 1971 - Pavel Bure was born. Russian ice hockey player.
• 1972 - Alejandro Amenábar was born in Santiago. Chilean actor, writer and film director.
• 1972 - Hristos Polihroniou was born. Greek hammer thrower
• 1972 - Meena Kumari, dies (b. 1932). Indian actress.
• 1973 - Bold Forbes was born (d. 2000). Puerto Rican racehorse.
• 1974 - Stefan Olsdal was born. Bassist for Placebo (band)
• 1974 - Benjamin Eicher was born. Swiss film director
• 1976 - The New Jersey Supreme Court sets a precedent, ruling that coma patient Karen Anne Quinlan can be taken off life support so she can "die with dignity."
• 1976 - Ashton Moore was born. American porn actress.
• 1976 - Josh Saviano was born. American actor (The Wonder Years).
• 1976 - Paul Strand dies (b. 1890). American photographer.
• 1977 - Garth Tander was born. Australian racing driver
• 1977 - Toshiya was born. Japanese musician (Dir en grey).
• 1978 - Tony Yayo was born. American rapper.
• 1978 - Stephen Clemence was born. English footballer.
• 1978 - Jérôme Rothen was born. French footballer
• 1978 - Fernando Horácio Ávalos was born. Argentinian footballer (Nacional Madeira, Portugal)
• 1978 - Charles Best dies (b. 1899). Canadian medical scientist.
• 1979 - The last British soldier leaves the Maltese Islands. Malta declares its Freedom Day (Jum il-Helsien).
• 1979 - In Jerusalem, Israel, Gali Atari & Milk and Honey win the twenth-fourth Eurovision Song Contest for Israel singing "Hallelujah".
• 1979 - Josh Kinney was born. American baseball player.
• 1980 - The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railroad operate final train after ordered to be liquidated due to bankruptcy and debt owed to creditors.
• 1980 - Chien-Ming Wang was born. Taiwanese baseball player.
• 1980 - Maaya Sakamoto was born. Japanese voice actor.
• 1980 - Michael Ryder was born. Canadian ice hockey player
• 1980 - Jesse Owens dies in Phoenix, Arizona (b. 1913). American track-and-field legend.
• 1980 - Vladimír Holan dies (b. 1905). Czech poet.
• 1981 - Maarten van der Weijden was born. Dutch swimmer
• 1981 - Enid Bagnold dies (b. 1889). British author and playwright.
• 1982 - Lennon Murphy was born. American rock singer/songwriter and Suicide Girl
• 1982 - Tal Ben Haim was born. Israeli footballer.
• 1982 - Philippe Mexès was born. French footballer.
• 1983 - Paddy McCarthy was born. Irish footballer.
• 1983 - Vlasios Maras was born. Greek gymnast
• 1984 - El presidente de Honduras, Roberto Suazo Córdova, asume el mando temporal de las Fuerzas Armadas.
• 1984 - James Jones was born. American football player.
• 1984 - Ronald Clark O'Bryan dies executed (b. 1944). American murderer.
• 1985 - The first ever WrestleMania is held in New York City's Madison Square Garden.
• 1985 - Jeanine Deckers dies (b. 1933). Belgian nun and singer.
• 1986 - A Mexicana Boeing 727 enroute to Puerto Vallarta erupts in flames and crashes in the mountains northwest of Mexico City, killing 166 .
• 1986 - Six metropolitan county councils are abolished in England .
• 1986 - Paulo Machado was born in Porto. Portuguese footballer.
• 1986 - O'Kelly Isley, Jr. dies (b. 1937). American singer (The Isley Brothers)
• 1986 - Jerry Paris dies (b. 1925). American actor.
• 1987 - El Papa, Juan Pablo II, llega a Montevideo en su octava visita a Iberoamérica.
• 1987 - Georg Listing was born. German bassist (Tokio Hotel).
• 1988 - Hogan Ephraim was born. English footballer.
• 1988 - William McMahon dies (b. 1908). Twentieth Prime Minister of Australia.
• 1989 - Yaser Arafat es proclamado presidente de Palestina por decisión unánime de los 70 miembros del Comité Central de la OLP.
• 1990 - El político español José María Aznar es elegido presidente del Partido Popular.
• 1990 - 200,000 protestors took to the streets of London to show their displeasure at the newly introduced Poll Tax.
• 1990 - Boxer Julio César Chávez defeats Meldrick Taylor to unify the boxing's world junior welterweight title in a very controversial fight known as "Thunder Meets Lightning".
• 1991 - The Warsaw Pact comes to an end.
• 1991 - British Telecom changes its name into 'BT'.
• 1991 - The Establishment of Islamic Constitutional Movement - Hadas in Kuwait.
• 1991 - Georgian independence referendum, 1991: nearly 99 per cent of the voters support the country's independence from the Soviet Union.
• 1992 - Boris Yeltsin firma en Moscú el Tratado de la Federación con 18 repúblicas rusas.
• 1992 - The television news program Dateline NBC premieres.
• 1992 - A inflação no Brasil atinge um pico recorde de 84,3% no mês. Nos últimos 12 meses a inflação havia chegado a 4.854%
• 1992 - USS Missouri (BB-63), the last active US Navy Battleship, is decommissioned in Long Beach, California.
• 1993 - O Conselho de Segurança das Nações Unidas aprovam o uso de força militar na Jugoslávia.
• 1993 - Actor Brandon Lee (b. 1965) is accidentally killed during the filming of The Crow.
• 1993 - Mitchell Parish dies (b. 1900). American lyricist.
• 1994 - The journal Nature reports the finding in Ethiopia of the first complete Australopithecus afarensis skull (see Human evolution).
• 1994 - Caden Waidyatilleka was born. American actor
• 1995 - In Corpus Christi, Texas, Latin superstar Selena Quintanilla Perez is shot and killed by Yolanda Saldivar, the president of her own fan club.
• 1995 - Selena dies (b. 1971). American singer.
• 1996 - Valentino Rossi takes part in his first 125cc Motorcycle Grand Prix race, at Shah Alam, Malaysia.
• 1996 - Jeffrey Lee Pierce dies (b. 1958). American singer member of The Gun Club.
• 1998 - Netscape gives the code base of its browser under an open-source license agreement, thus creating Mozilla Foundation, a not-for-profit corporation to oversee the development of Mozilla.
• 1998 - Bella Abzug dies (b. 1920). American politician.
• 1998 - Tim Flock dies (b. 1924). American race car driver.
• 1999 - Yuri Knorosov dies (b. 1922). Russian linguist and epigrapher.
• 2000 - Cuffley v. Mickes : The Ku Klux Klan applied to participate in Missouri's Adopt-A-Highway program, but were denied because of their beliefs. The Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Klan.
• 2001 - President Gordon B. Hinckley, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, announces the formation of the Perpetual Education Fund, an endowment to offer loans to students in developing nations.
• 2001 - Clifford Shull dies (b. 1915). American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• 2002 - 331 Earthquake in Taiwan, which measured 7.1 and killed at least four people.
• 2002 - Barry Took dies (b. 1928). British comedian and writer.
• 2003 - Tommy Seebach dies (b. 1949). Danish singer.
• 2003 - Anne Gwynne dies (b. 1918). American film actress.
• 2003 - H.S.M. Coxeter dies (b. 1907). English-born geometer and author.
• 2003 - Michael Jeter dies. Actor.
• 2003 - Tommy Seebach dies (b. 1949). Danish singer.
• 2004 - Google announces Gmail, the first web-based mail service to offer 1 gigabyte of storage.
• 2004 - In Fallujah, Iraq, 4 American private military contractors working for Blackwater USA, are killed and their bodies mutilated after being ambushed.
• 2004 - Sandton Square in Johannesburg, South Africa, is renamed Nelson Mandela Square.
• 2005 - After 13 days without her feeding tube, Terri Schiavo dies in Florida. Terri Schiavo fell into a coma brought on buy her bulimia and the loss of blood flow to her brain caused it to die - her cerebral cortex was gone and spinal fluid was all that remains. Terri Schiavo's husband, Michael, wanted the feeding tube removed and said that was what she would have wanted. All courts agreed, but Terri Schiavo's parents fought it - and lost
• 2005 - Stanley J. Korsmeyer dies (b. 1951). American oncologist.
• 2005 - Frank Perdue dies (b. 1920). American poultry farmer.
• 2005 - Terri Schiavo dies (b. 1963). American figure in right to die case.
• 2006 - Giordani Rodrigues dies (b. 1965). Brazilian journalist.
• 2006 - Jackie McLean dies (b. 1931 or 1932). American jazz saxophonist.
• 2006 - Angela Devi dies (b. 1975). American adult model.
• 2007 - In Sydney, Australia 2.2 million people take part in the first Earth Hour.
• 2007 - Paul Watzlawick dies (b. 1921). Communications & Constructivism Theorist.
• Brasil: Dia da Integração Nacional
• Freedom Day in Malta
• New Jersey - Thomas Mundy Peterson Day
• Abdas of Susa
• César Chávez Day - official holiday in five states and many cities across the U.S.