March 31 - What happened today?

Home What happened today in history? Blamepro's Almanac for March 31
In the headlines today:

1995	Pop singer Selena is assassinated by her fan club founder in Corpus Christi, TX.
1991	The military alliance known as the Warsaw Pact expires.
1986	167 are killed when a Mexicana Airlines Boeing 727 jetliner crashes in the mountains of Mexico.
1968	US president Lyndon B. Johnson declines to seek a second full term.
1949	Newfoundland becomes Canada's tenth province.
1943	Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical, Oklahoma!, makes its Broadway debut.
1938	Trial lawyer Clarence Darrow dies.
1932	The Ford Motor Company introduces its V-8 engine.
1931	Notre Dame football coach Knute Rockne dies in a plane crash.
1921	Coal miners in Britain go on strike.
1917	The US purchases the Virgin Islands from Denmark.
1913	Financier John Pierpoint (J.P.) Morgan dies.
1896	Whitcomb Judson receives a patent on his hookless fastener -- the forerunner of the modern day zipper.
1889	The Eiffel Tower is officially completed.
1876	The first title-guarantee insurance company in the US is organized.
1865	Union troops win the battle at Dinwiddie Courthouse, VA, during the US Civil War.
1854	First treaty signed between the US and Japan.
1850	John C. Calhoun, famous statesman and orator, dies.
1837	John Constable, English artist, dies.