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Replica of Richard Pearse's aeroplane on display at the South Canterbury Museum in Timaru
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Eiffel Tower
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Eiffel Tower
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Eiffel Tower
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João Goulart
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Matthew C. Perry
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Cartoon of the riot during Schoenberg's concert
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USS Missouri
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Bernard of Clairvaux
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| Freedom Day in Malta | stub |
| 1492 – The Catholic Monarchs of Spain issued the Alhambra Decree, ordering all Jews to convert to Christianity or be expelled from the country. | refimprove section |
| 1717 – A sermon on The Nature of the Kingdom of Christ by Benjamin Hoadly, the Bishop of Bangor, ignited the Bangorian Controversy, a theological argument within the Church of England about whether the church should have any disciplinary authority. | unreferenced section |
| 1778 – English explorer James Cook landed on Vancouver Island and claimed it for Great Britain. | refimprove sections |
| 1889 – The Eiffel Tower in Paris, France, was inaugurated. | Too much uncited |
| 1903 – New Zealand inventor Richard Pearse reportedly flew in one of the first powered flying machines for a distance of several hundred metres, about nine months before the Wright brothers flew their Wright Flyer. | unreferenced section, refimprove section |
| 1917 – The Danish West Indies became the U.S. Virgin Islands after the United States paid Denmark Template:Nowrap for the Caribbean islands. | lots of CN tags |
| 1931 – A TWA Fokker trimotor crashed in Chase County, Kansas, U.S., and killed eight people, including football coach Knute Rockne, stimulating advances in aircraft design and development. | refimprove |
| 1951 – The first [[UNIVAC I|Template:Nowrap]], the first commercial computer made in the United States, was delivered to the United States Census Bureau. | refimprove section |
| 1970 – Nine Japanese communists armed with samurai swords and pipe bombs hijacked [[Japan Airlines Flight 351|Japan Airlines Template:Nowrap]] en route from Tokyo to Fukuoka. | uncited section |
| Edward FitzGerald |b|1809| | lede too short |
| Liz Claiborne |b|1929| | Birthday not cited |
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- 1146 – French abbot Bernard of Clairvaux preached a sermon to a crowd at a council in Vézelay, with King [[Louis VII of France|Template:Nowrap]] in attendance, urging the necessity of a Second Crusade.
- 1521 – Ferdinand Magellan and members of his crew participated in the first Catholic Mass in the Philippines.
- 1761 – Lisbon experienced its second major earthquake in six years, with effects felt as far north as Scotland.
- 1800 – After fighting through the night, the French Navy ship of the line Guillaume Tell surrendered to a British squadron in the Malta Channel.
- 1899 – Philippine–American War: Malolos, capital of the First Philippine Republic, was captured by American forces.
- 1901 – A magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck the Black Sea, the most powerful ever recorded in the area.
- 1910 – Six English towns amalgamated to form a single county borough called Stoke-on-Trent, the first union of its type.
- 1913 – Arnold Schoenberg conducted the Vienna Concert Society in a concert of expressionist music that so shocked the audience that they began to riot.
- 1921 – The Australian Air Force was formed, replacing the short-lived Australian Air Corps and separating it from the Army.
- 1930 – To avoid government censorship, Hollywood movie studios instituted their own set of industry censorship guidelines, popularly known as the Hays Code.
- 1942 – Second World War: Because of a mutiny by Indian soldiers against their British officers, Japanese troops captured Christmas Island without any resistance.
- 1992 – Template:USS, the last active United States Navy battleship, was decommissioned in Long Beach, California.
- 1995 – American singer-songwriter Selena, known as the "queen of Tejano music", was murdered by the president of her fan club, Yolanda Saldívar, in Corpus Christi, Texas, deeply affecting the Latino community.
- 2018 – Nikol Pashinyan began his protest walk, starting in the city of Gyumri, opening the 2018 Armenian revolution.
- 2023 – A tornado causes the collapse of a venue hosting a sold-out concert in Belvidere, Illinois, United States, resulting in one death and 48 injuries.
- Born/died: | Anne Hyde |d|1671| Pope Benedict XIV |b|1675| Panoutsos Notaras |b.or|1740; 1752| Pieter Burman the Elder |d|1741| Franz Abt |d|1885| Gordie Howe |b|1928| Al Gore |b|1948| Frank Perdue |d|2005| Mary Greyeyes |d|2011|
March 31: Cesar Chavez Day in various U.S. states (1927); International Transgender Day of Visibility Template:Main page image/OTD
- 1854 – U.S. Navy Commodore Matthew C. Perry (Japanese depiction pictured) and the Tokugawa shogunate signed the Convention of Kanagawa, forcing the opening of Japanese ports to American trade.
- 1959 – After a two-week escape journey from Tibet, the 14th Dalai Lama reached the Tawang Monastery in Arunachal Pradesh in India.
- 1964 – The Brazilian Armed Forces overthrew President João Goulart, establishing a military dictatorship that lasted 21 years.
- 2004 – The Old National Library Building in Singapore was closed to make way for a tunnel, despite widespread protests.