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unusual facts about March 31



1739 in art

March 31 - Magnus Berg, Norwegian painter, woodcarver, sculptor and non-fiction writer (born 1666)

National Digital Newspaper Program

On March 31, 2004, Bruce Cole, the directory of the NEH, and James Billington, the Librarian of Congress, signed an agreement creating the National Digital Newspaper Program.


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2007 Renault Clio Cup United Kingdom season

The 2007 Elf Renault Clio Cup United Kingdom season began at Brands Hatch on March 31 and finished after 12 races over 10 events at Thruxton on October 14.

Adriaan Gilles Camper

Adriaan Gilles Camper (March 31, 1759 – February 5, 1820) was a 19th-century Dutch mathematics and physics professor at the University of Franeker who took to politics and became a statesman in his later years.

Anita Carter

Ina Anita Carter (March 31, 1933 – July 29, 1999), the youngest daughter of Ezra and Mother Maybelle Carter, was a versatile American singer who experimented with several different types of music and played upright bass with her sisters Helen Carter and June Carter Cash as The Carter Sisters.

Antisemitism in 21st-century Italy

March 31, 2002 - Modena - Antisemitic graffiti and swastikas were found on the synagogue in Modena.

Augustin Kambale

He was married in a religious ceremony to his wife, Josephine, in 1990, but didn't marry her in a civil ceremony until March 31, 2007, in Kiwanja, near Rutshuru.

Bay Colony Railroad

The Bay Colony railroad was chartered on March 31, 1977, with the intent of taking over freight service on former New Haven lines from Conrail, which was planning to abandon service.

Bazaar, Kansas

On March 31, 1931, Trans World Airlines TWA Flight 599 crashed a few miles southwest of Bazaar, killing all onboard including University of Notre Dame coach Knute Rockne.

Boštjan Žitnik

Boštjan Žitnik (born March 31, 1971 in Ljubljana) is a Yugoslav-born, Slovenian slalom canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s.

Candi Devine

She sued her long-term boyfriend, former wrestler Tom Burton, in a telecast of Divorce Court before Judge Lynn Toler that was originally aired on March 31, 2009.

Combat Missions

Scott Helvenston, one of the contestants from the Delta team went on to work for Blackwater USA in Iraq after the show and was killed in action on March 31, 2004.

Crabb Revival

The band then participated on Daywind's Live at Oak Tree series, releasing their second CD/DVD on March 31, 2009.

David W. Márquez

On March 31, 2005, Governor Frank Murkowski appointed Márquez as Attorney General for the State of Alaska.

Diego López de Cogolludo

A native of Alcalá de Henares in Spain, he took the habit of St. Francis at the convent of San Diego, on March 31, 1629, and emigrated to Yucatán, where he became successively lector in theology, guardian, and finally provincial of his order.

Eric Berntson

Berntson also appeared on the 1991 tape that showed current Conservative MP Tom Lukiwski making homophobic slurs and current Saskatchewan premier Brad Wall mocking Roy Romanow in a Ukrainian accent which was revealed to the public on March 31, 2008.

Excise Tax Reduction Act of 1954

The United States Excise Tax Reduction Act of 1954 actually temporarily extended the 1951 excise tax increases (through March 31, 1955), but also reduced excise tax rates on, among other things, telephones, admissions, and jewelry.

Fokker F.10

On March 31, 1931, TWA Flight 599 crashed near Bazaar, Kansas after a wing separated in flight, killing all eight on board, including football coach Knute Rockne.

Fractale

The 11-episode Fractale anime TV series produced by A-1 Pictures in cooperation with Ordet, aired in Japan between January 13 and March 31, 2011 on Fuji TV's Noitamina programming block.

Franz Völker

Franz Völker (March 31, 1899, Neu-Isenburg, Grand Duchy of Hesse - December 4, 1965, Darmstadt, Hesse) was a dramatic tenor who enjoyed a major European career.

Hat Yai

On March 31, 2012, a car bomb exploded in the Lee Gardens Plaza Hotel, killing at least 5 and injuring hundreds.

Hisayasu Nagata

He resigned on March 31, 2006 in reaction to the fallout from using a fake e-mail to suggest that LDP politicians had accepted funds and bribes from former Livedoor CEO Takafumi Horie.

Japanese oiler Irō

On March 31, 1944 the ship was attacked and sunk in Palau Harbor by United States Navy aircraft carrier aircraft from the Fast Carrier Task Force during Operation Desecrate One.

Jociel Ferreira da Silva

Jociel Ferreira da Silva, shortly Ciel (born March 31, 1982) is a Brazilian football player who plays for Al Shabab Al Arabi Club in the United Arab Emirates.

John C. Conner

He was reelected to the Forty-second Congress and served from March 31, 1870, to March 3, 1873.

John Samuel Rowell

In Rowell v. Lindsay, 113 US 97 (1885), JS and his brother Ira filed with the court to restrain the infringement of reissued letters patent No. 2,909, dated March 31, 1868, one of only 5 or 6 patent cases ever heard by the court.

Josef Ochs

Josef Ochs (March 31, 1905 in Schmitten – November 12, 1987) was a German Police officer and SS-Obersturmführer.

Josiah Lamborn

Josiah Lamborn (January 31, 1809 – March 31, 1847) was the Attorney General of Illinois from 1840 to 1843 and was the chief prosecuting attorney in the trial of five defendants accused of murdering Latter Day Saint leaders Joseph Smith, Jr. and Hyrum Smith.

KTNF

When Air America Radio made its debut on March 31, 2004, WMNN, where the group leased airtime, became one of the new network's original affiliates with Al Franken's show, as well as Democracy Radio's Ed Schultz.

LaMarcus Aldridge

On March 31, 2007, in the first quarter against the Los Angeles Clippers, Aldridge was taken to Providence Hospital in Portland for shortness of breath and irregular heartbeat.

Luigi Padovese

Luigi Padovese (March 31, 1947, Milan – June 3, 2010, Iskenderun) was the titular bishop of Monteverde and the vicar apostolic of Anatolia in Turkey.

Makhanalal Chaturvedi National University of Journalism and Communication

It also has campuses in Noida,Meerut Uttar Pradesh (adjoining Delhi) and at Khandwa, Madhya Pradesh supported by a network of 529 study institutes (as on March 31, 2005) throughout India and Nepal.

Michael Owen Jackels

Only Bishop Thomas Tobin of Providence (on March 31) and Bishop Edward Braxton of Belleville, Illinois (on March 15) were appointed after Jackels by Pope John Paul II.

Nigel Olsson

On March 31, 2000, Olsson sang backing vocals alongside Billy Trudel and Ken Stacey as part of John's band when John was promoting the soundtrack to the film The Road to El Dorado by appearing on The Today Show.

Olivia Newton Bundy

Brian Tutunick (born March 31, 1968) is an American musician more famously known as Olivia Newton Bundy and was the bassist and co-founder of the rock group Marilyn Manson until 1990, when he was replaced by Gidget Gein.

Orlando International Airport

On March 31, 1972, a 306th Bombardment Wing B-52D Stratofortress, Air Force Serial Number 56-0625, sustained multiple engine failures and an engine fire shortly after takeoff from McCoy AFB on a routine training mission.

Parental Rights Amendment to the United States Constitution

The Parental Rights Amendment was proposed by Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-MI) on March 31, 2009, and numbered H.J. Res. 42.

Perpetual Education Fund

The Perpetual Education Fund (PEF) is a program of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), first announced by church president Gordon B. Hinckley on March 31, 2001.

Peter Suhrkamp

Peter Suhrkamp (originally Johann Heinrich Suhrkamp; March 28, 1891, Hatten – March 31, 1959, Frankfurt) was a German publisher and founder of the Suhrkamp Verlag.

Ricardo Llorca

Llorca's opera Las horas vacias (The Empty Hours), which premiered on March 31, 2007 in concert version during the XII Semana de Música Sacra in Benidorm, has since been performed in concert at the Berlin Cathedral in September 2007 and at the UN General Assembly as part of the celebrations for the International Year of Languages in 2008.

Robert Hall Smith

Smith retired from the N&W on March 31, 1958, and was succeeded by Stuart T. Saunders.

Samantha Brown

Samantha Elizabeth Brown (born March 31, 1970) is an American television host, notable for her work as the host of several Travel Channel shows including Girl Meets Hawaii, Great Vacation Homes, Great Hotels, Passport to Europe, Passport to Latin America, Great Weekends, Green Getaways, Passport to China, and Samantha Brown's Asia.

Shizunai, Hokkaido

On March 31, 2006, Shizunai was merged with the town of Mitsuishi (from Mitsuishi District) to create the new town of Shinhidaka (in the newly created Hidaka District).

Sirius XM Progress

It launched on March 31, 2004, and the lineup included hosts like Ed Schultz, Randi Rhodes, Al Franken, Marty Kaplan, Janeane Garofalo, Alan Colmes, Lizz Winstead and Chuck D. At the time, both Sirius and XM had centrist/progressive talk channels featuring talent from Air America Radio.

Steve J. Rosen

Floyd Abrams, a leading First Amendment attorney, said the AIPAC case "is the single most dangerous case for free speech and free press" (Washington Post, March 31, 2006) and Alan Dershowitz called it “the worst case of selective prosecution I have seen in 42 years of legal practice” (Jerusalem Post, January 31, 2006).

The Ponzi Scheme

The Ponzi Scheme is the second studio album by the American alternative rock band Firewater, released on March 31, 1998 through Uptown/Universal.

Weitao Yang

Weitao Yang (born in Chaozhou, Guangdong, China, March 31, 1961) is a Philip Handler Professor of Chemistry in Duke University.

Welcome Home Heroes with Whitney Houston

The DVD/video presents Houston performing live at the Naval Air Station in Norfolk, Virginia on March 31, 1991.

Wiley Young Daniel

On March 31, 1995, Daniel was nominated by President Bill Clinton to a seat on the United States District Court for the District of Colorado vacated by Sherman G. Finesilver.

Zee Tamil

SingTel confirmed that Zee Tamil would no longer be available on mio TV's channel 32 from March 31 and was replaced by Jaya TV from April 1, 2011.