March 31: What Happened on This Day in History (High_school Level)?

(Page last edited 10/12/2017)

1. 1774 - American Revolutionary War: The Kingdom of Great Britain orders the port of Boston, Massachusetts closed pursuant to the Boston Port Act.
2. 1889 - The Eiffel Tower is officially opened.
3. 1903 - Richard Pearse allegedly makes a powered flight in an early aircraft.
4. 1918 - Daylight saving time goes into effect in the United States for the first time.
5. 1951 - Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau.
6. 1959 - The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, crosses the border into India and is granted political asylum.
7. 1966 - The Soviet Union launches Luna 10 which later becomes the first space probe to enter orbit around the Moon.
8. 1970 - Explorer 1 re-enters the Earth's atmosphere after 12 years in orbit.
9. 1992 - The USS Missouri, the last active United States Navy battleship, is decommissioned in Long Beach, California.
10. 1994 - The journal Nature reports the finding in Ethiopia of the first complete Australopithecus afarensis skull.
11. Famous Birthdays: René Descartes (French philosopher and mathematician), Johann Sebastian Bach (German organist and composer), Charles Cagniard de la Tour (French physicist and engineer), William Lawrence Bragg (Australian-English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate), Carlo Rubbia (Italian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate)

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