Today is Sunday, March 31st, the 91st day of 2024. There are 275 days left this year.
Today's history highlights:
On March 31, 1931, Notre Dame football coach Knute Rockne, 43, was killed in a TWA plane crash in Bazaar, Kansas.
This date:
In 1492, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain issued a decree expelling all Jews from Spain, except for those who wished to convert to Christianity.
In 1814, Paris was occupied by the combined armies of Russia, Prussia, and Austria. With the surrender of the French capital, Emperor Napoleon was forced to abdicate.
In 1917, the United States formally occupied the Virgin Islands from Denmark.
In 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson surprised his audience at the end of a nationally televised address on Vietnam when he declared, “I do not seek or accept the next appointment as president of my party.''
In 1991, the Warsaw Pact military alliance ended.
In 1993, 28-year-old actor Brandon Lee was accidentally shot and killed by a bullet lodged in his prop gun while filming a movie in Wilmington, North Carolina.
In 1995, the baseball players agreed to end a 232-day strike after a judge granted a preliminary injunction against the club's owners.
In 2004, four American civilian contractors were killed in Fallujah, Iraq. A frenzied crowd dragged out the burned and mutilated bodies and hung two of them from the bridge.
In 2005, 41-year-old Terry Schiavo (SHY'-voh) died in a Pinellas Park, Fla., hospice 13 days after his feeding tube was removed in a bitter fight for the right to die.
In 2009, Benjamin Netanyahu became Israel's new prime minister after the Knesset recognized the government.
In 2018, amid tight security, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai and her family returned to their homeland of Pakistan for the first time since she was shot in the head in 2012 for her work as an advocate for young women's education. I returned to
In 2019, rapper Nipsey Hussle was shot and killed outside the clothing store he founded to help rebuild a troubled South Los Angeles neighborhood. He was 33 years old.
In 2020, Britain's Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan officially retired from their duties as members of the royal family.
In 2021, the Pentagon wiped out a Trump-era policy that largely banned transgender military service.
In 2022, scientists announced that they had finally deciphered the complete genetic blueprint for human life.
Birthdays today: Actor William Daniels is 97 years old, actor Richard Chamberlain is 90 years old, actor Shirley Jones is 90 years old, musician Herb Alpert is 89 years old, Sen. Patrick Leahy (Vermont) is 84 years old, former U.S. Representative Bernie・Frank Democrat (Massachusetts), 84 years old. Actor Christopher Walken is 81 years old. Comedian Gabe Kaplan is 80 years old. Senator Angus King I Main is 80 years old. Rock musician Mick Ralphs (Bad Company, Mott the Hoople) is 80 years old. Former Vice President Al Gore is 80 years old. 77. Author David Eisenhower is 76 years old. Actor Rhea Perlman is 76 years old. Actor Ed Marinaro is 74 years old. Rock musician Angus Young (AC/DC), 69 years old. Actor Mark McClure is 67 years old. Actor William McNamara is 59 years old. Alternative country musician Bob Crawford. (Avett Brothers) is 53 years old. Actor Ewan McGregor is 53 years old. Actor Erica Tazel is 49 years old. Actor Judy Shekoni is 46 years old. Rapper Tony Yayo is 46 years old. Actor Kate Micucci is 44 years old. Actor Brian Tyree Henry is 42 years old. Actor Melissa Ordway is 41 years old. Musician and producer Jack Antonoff (fan, Taylor Swift) is 40 years old, and actor Jessica Szohr is 39 years old.
