03-31-2005, 06:03 AM
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March 31st
1596 ~ Birthday of René Descartes, Mathematician.
1621 ~ Birthday of Andrew Marvell, English poet.
1732 ~ Birthday of Joseph Haydn, Composer.
1837 ~ Death of John Constable, Painter.
1855 ~ Death of Charlotte Brontë, Author.
1889 ~ The Eiffel Tower was inaugurated.
1918 ~ Daylight Savings Time went into effect in the United States for the first time.
1959 ~ The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, crossed the border into India and was granted political asylum.
1970 ~ Eight terrorists from the Japanese Red Army hijacked a Japan Airlines Boeing 727 at Tokyo International Airport, wielding samurai swords and carrying a bomb.
1991 ~ The Warsaw Pact came to an end.
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