History Events on March 31
![1958 Canadian federal election](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMarch_31%2Ffilter10Qq7rPGgxmWYEtmMivf.jpg?generation=1608817633082077&alt=media)
In the Canadian federal election, the Progressive Conservatives, led by John Diefenbaker, win the largest percentage of seats in Canadian history, with 208 seats of 265.
#1958_Canadian_federal_election
![Malolos](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMarch_31%2Ffilter1Zqx1jguTWNy0LdPpnjm.jpg?generation=1608817633565852&alt=media)
Malolos, capital of the First Philippine Republic, is captured by American forces.
#Malolos
![2018 Armenian revolution](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMarch_31%2Ffilter2SMG0P569RFKF3yKgL7d.jpg?generation=1608817633964940&alt=media)
Start of the 2018 Armenian revolution
#2018_Armenian_revolution
![United States](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMarch_31%2Ffilter2ZZt7qApovG7FLZNgI1O.png?generation=1608817634830871&alt=media)
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.
#United_States
![1931 Nicaragua earthquake](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMarch_31%2Ffilter6BpygJEgZdfjZNGvwPiy.jpg?generation=1608817635266013&alt=media)
An earthquake in Nicaragua destroys Managua; killing 2,000.
#1931_Nicaragua_earthquake
![Civilian Conservation Corps](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMarch_31%2Ffilter73De5y0gc03NN1TFpDyU.jpg?generation=1608817635684947&alt=media)
The Civilian Conservation Corps is established with the mission of relieving rampant unemployment in the United States.
#Civilian_Conservation_Corps
![TAROM Flight 371](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMarch_31%2Ffilter8uEJiSkd0zCJRvqdcY6i.jpg?generation=1608817636204244&alt=media)
TAROM Flight 371, an Airbus A310-300, crashes near Balotesti, Romania, killing all 60 people on board.
#TAROM_Flight_371
![Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMarch_31%2FfilterBmXMJQcbtt4M9Ne218X9.png?generation=1608817636983560&alt=media)
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
![President of the United States](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMarch_31%2FfilterClw7R0aarrz8QauSZ2l3.png?generation=1608817637753815&alt=media)
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
![Olímpio Mourão Filho](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMarch_31%2FfilterDb6lxjd1fQFc5pVkySMc.jpg?generation=1608817638160951&alt=media)
Brazilian General Olímpio Mourão Filho orders his troops to move towards Rio de Janeiro, beginning the coup d'état.
#Olímpio_Mourão_Filho
![Daylight saving time](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMarch_31%2FfilterF3R5ya7QjktpFR988HZk.png?generation=1608817638973149&alt=media)
Daylight saving time goes into effect in the United States for the first time.
#Daylight_saving_time
![National Collegiate Athletic Association](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMarch_31%2FfilterJNs7pjeUbYj8904N1t0w.png?generation=1608817639740859&alt=media)
The Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States (later the National Collegiate Athletic Association) is established to set rules for college sports in the United States.
#National_Collegiate_Athletic_Association
![Isabella I of Castile](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMarch_31%2FfilterKUvdD7Rovi8M0BHM8CNO.jpg?generation=1608817640148642&alt=media)
Queen Isabella of Castile issues the Alhambra Decree, ordering her 150,000 Jewish and Muslim subjects to convert to Christianity or face expulsion.
#Isabella_I_of_Castile
![San Cristóbal, Táchira](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMarch_31%2FfilterLBcCaDl2WLYDmusxkP4D.jpg?generation=1608817640566731&alt=media)
The city of San Cristóbal, Táchira is founded.
#San_Cristóbal,_Táchira
![Eiffel Tower](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMarch_31%2FfilterMmRgQojozWPWZloEPA4V.jpg?generation=1608817640961267&alt=media)
The Eiffel Tower is officially opened.
#Eiffel_Tower
![Chios massacre](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMarch_31%2FfilterMrTxjUpaWfU5AuVWT5cq.jpg?generation=1608817641360473&alt=media)
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.
#Chios_massacre
![Nazi Germany](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMarch_31%2FfilterPQHjOAaGtQAIwVQFNgw7.png?generation=1608817641733209&alt=media)
World War II: A defecting German pilot delivers a Messerschmitt Me 262A-1, the world's first operational jet-powered fighter aircraft, to the Americans, the first to fall into Allied hands.
#Nazi_Germany
![1931 Transcontinental & Western Air Fokker F-10 crash](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMarch_31%2FfilterPiIGuAJFXSKxpt7qlFOV.jpg?generation=1608817642150836&alt=media)
A Transcontinental & Western Air airliner crashes near Bazaar, Kansas, killing eight, including University of Notre Dame head football coach Knute Rockne.
#1931_Transcontinental_&_Western_Air_Fokker_F-10_crash
![Modernism](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMarch_31%2FfilterSUn6H2iGdijaZyfWF3Ud.jpg?generation=1608817642705114&alt=media)
The Vienna Concert Society rioted during a performance of modernist music by Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, Alexander von Zemlinsky, and Anton von Webern, causing a premature end to the concert due to violence; this concert became known as the Skandalkonzert.
#Modernism
![1991 Georgian independence referendum](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMarch_31%2FfilterSdtYwF2l9Ruhmc0XEhMe.png?generation=1608817643506364&alt=media)
1991 Georgian independence referendum: Nearly 99 percent of the voters support the country's independence from the Soviet Union.
#1991_Georgian_independence_referendum
![Dominion of Newfoundland](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMarch_31%2FfilterSfKqChscyYngoJZhP7Sk.png?generation=1608817643951092&alt=media)
The Dominion of Newfoundland joins the Canadian Confederation and becomes the 10th Province of Canada.
#Dominion_of_Newfoundland
The USS Missouri, the last active United States Navy battleship, is decommissioned in Long Beach, California.
#USS_Missouri_(BB-63)
![Explorer 1](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMarch_31%2FfilterX6spBSRbVoNqMUDpwYqx.jpg?generation=1608817644741654&alt=media)
Explorer 1 re-enters the Earth's atmosphere after 12 years in orbit.
#Explorer_1
![Bernard of Clairvaux](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMarch_31%2FfilterbHTP3YiWgYV7akhOzSDz.jpg?generation=1608817645174288&alt=media)
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.
#Bernard_of_Clairvaux
![1957 Upper Voltan Territorial Assembly election](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMarch_31%2FfiltercKz5966GjrcqdTg8qJWw.png?generation=1608817645657860&alt=media)
Elections to the Territorial Assembly of the French colony Upper Volta are held. After the elections PDU and MDV form a government.
#1957_Upper_Voltan_Territorial_Assembly_election
![American Revolutionary War](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMarch_31%2Ffilterinxr1olhLp7LbvN6o92e.jpg?generation=1608817646094742&alt=media)
American Revolutionary War: The Kingdom of Great Britain orders the port of Boston, Massachusetts closed pursuant to the Boston Port Act.
#American_Revolutionary_War
![Soviet Union](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMarch_31%2FfilterkVl9vTVJQDPB58XzWm7K.png?generation=1608817646548102&alt=media)
The Soviet Union launches Luna 10 which later becomes the first space probe to enter orbit around the Moon.
#Soviet_Union
![WrestleMania](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMarch_31%2FfiltermRmmaWVfMxU7vJvx57Qy.png?generation=1608817646996496&alt=media)
The first WrestleMania, the biggest wrestling event from the WWE (then the WWF), takes place in Madison Square Garden in New York City.
#WrestleMania
![Motion Picture Production Code](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMarch_31%2FfilterrORni9TBK5RnTe2WPOkx.png?generation=1608817647767071&alt=media)
The Motion Picture Production Code is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in film, in the U.S., for the next thirty-eight years.
#Motion_Picture_Production_Code
![United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMarch_31%2FfiltersN3NbFG7ggkDVho9bigV.png?generation=1608817648540924&alt=media)
The United Kingdom establishes the Bechuanaland Protectorate.
#United_Kingdom_of_Great_Britain_and_Ireland
![March Days](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMarch_31%2Ffilterts1dNZg55S9roLzLbxRI.jpg?generation=1608817649017585&alt=media)
Massacre of ethnic Azerbaijanis is committed by allied armed groups of Armenian Revolutionary Federation and Bolsheviks. Nearly 12,000 Azerbaijani Muslims are killed.
#March_Days
![14th Dalai Lama](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMarch_31%2FfilteruvT3vbnpVz1CBCHxT8E6.jpg?generation=1608817649408807&alt=media)
The 14th Dalai Lama, crosses the border into India and is granted political asylum.
#14th_Dalai_Lama
![Sermon](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMarch_31%2Ffilterv1WwJ189DIDbreSzABTk.jpg?generation=1608817649800390&alt=media)
A sermon on "The Nature of the Kingdom of Christ" by Benjamin Hoadly, the Bishop of Bangor, preached in the presence of King George I of Great Britain, provokes the Bangorian Controversy.
#Sermon
![World War II](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMarch_31%2FfilterxKL6c9DxRoz5p4rxMs9z.jpg?generation=1608817650224452&alt=media)
World War II: Japanese forces invade Christmas Island, then a British possession.
#World_War_II
![Royal Australian Air Force](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMarch_31%2FfilterxW6ARaCmBSiTwyZDLdCP.png?generation=1608817650653457&alt=media)
The Royal Australian Air Force is formed.
#Royal_Australian_Air_Force
![Serbia](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FMarch_31%2Ffilterzmz2ZpHqrfCydvYJWDoy.png?generation=1608817651090084&alt=media)
Serbia accepts Austrian control over Bosnia and Herzegovina.
#Serbia