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Notable anniversaries in history for today: March 31
- 100th: 1924 - Birth of Harry Cubitt; 4th Lord Ashcombe ("Mad Harry"), English landowner.
- 100th: 1924 - Birth of Leo Buscaglia in Los Angeles, California, USA; "Dr Hug", psychologist (Love).
- 100th: 1924 - London public transport strike ends.
- 90th: 1934 - Birth of Grigori Grigoyevich in Nelyubov, Russia; cosmonaut (Vostok 1 backup).
- 90th: 1934 - Birth of John D Loudermilk; rock drummer/vocalist ("Language of Love", "Norman").
- 90th: 1934 - Birth of Wim H Sinnige; Dutch alderman of finance (social democratic).
- 90th: 1934 - Franz Ehrle, German jesuit/head of Vatican library, dies at age 88.
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Rod Allen [B Rodney Bainbridge]; rock bassist/vocalist (Fortunes).
- 80th: 1944 - Hungary orders all Jews to wear yellow stars.
- 80th: 1944 - Mineichi Koga, Admiral of Japanese fleet, dies.
- 70th: 1954 - Birth of Tony Brock in England; rock drummer (Babys - "Missing You").
- 70th: 1954 - US Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado, is established.
- 70th: 1954 - USSR offers to join NATO.
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Dave Wyman; NFL linebacker (Denver Broncos).
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of David Diaz-Infante; NFL guard (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32).
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Erik Turner in Omaha, Nebraska, USA; rock guitarist (Warrant - "Cherry Pie").
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Isabelle Ferrari in Italy, Italy's Miss Teenager.
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Rod Jones; NFL cornerback (Cincinnati Bengals).
- 60th: 1964 - President Jango Goulart of Brazil chased out of office by military.
- 50th: 1974 - Andrea Checci, actress (Two Women, Assassin, Black Sunday), dies at age 57.
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of Anthony Hicks; NFL linebacker (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31).
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of Carol Ann Plante; actress (Sara Henderson - Harry and the Hendersons).
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of James Burgess; linebacker (San Diego Chargers).
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of Jason Odom; tackle (Tampa Bay Buccaneers).
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of Nina Georgala; Miss Greece-Universe (1996).
- 40th: 1984 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
- 30th: 1994 - Léon J Ramirez Reine [Degrelle], Belgian/Spanish Nazi (Rex), dies at age 87.
- 30th: 1994 - Walkway from Cleveland's Tower City to Jacobs Field officially opens.
- 30th: 1994 - The journal Nature reports the finding in Ethiopia of the first complete Australopithecus afarensis skull.
- 30th: 1994 - Panamanian-flagged supertanker Seki collides with the UAE tanker Baynunah, leaking 18.5 million litres of crude oil into the Arabian Sea 16km off the UAE port of Fujairah.
- 25th: 1999 - Warner Bros. releases the film The Matrix to theaters.
- 20th: 2004 - Four American private military contractors working for Blackwater USA are killed, and their bodies mutilated, after being ambushed in Fallujah, Iraq.
- 15th: 2009 - A boat carrying about 250 African migrants sinks off the coast of Libya in stormy seas and high winds. 23 are rescued.
- 15th: 2009 - Death of Raúl Alfonsín, 49th President of Argentina (born 1927).
- 15th: 2009 - In Moscow, Russia, six volunteer "astronauts" are locked inside a mock spacecraft, to see if they can stand the simulated conditions of a manned flight to Mars, which would take over 100 days. Those who last more than 100 days experiencing the same isolation and claustrophobia as astronauts will earn a US$20,000 reward.
- 10th: 2014 - The United Nations International Court of Justice rules that Japan's Antarctic whaling program is not scientific but commercial and forbids grants of further permits.
- 5th: 2019 - The Republic of China (Taiwan) scrambles its fighter aircraft after two Chinese jets crossed a maritime border between the two nations.
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