EST. DECEMBER 1994 • 30+ YEARS ONLINE

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TODAY IN HISTORY

March 31

Tuesday, March 31, 2026

Day 89 of 2026 | Week 14 | 270 days until Christmas 🎅

HISTORIC EVENTS

1
2023

A historic tornado outbreak occurs in the American Midwest and South.

2
2018

Start of the 2018 Armenian revolution.

3
2016

NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Roscosmos cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko return to Earth after a yearlong mission at the International Space Station.

4
2005

The dwarf planet Makemake is discovered by a team led by astronomer Michael E. Brown at the Palomar Observatory.

5
2004

Iraq War in Anbar Province: In Fallujah, Iraq, four American private military contractors working for Blackwater USA, are killed after being ambushed.

6
1998

Netscape releases Mozilla source code under an open source license.

7
1995

Selena is murdered by her fan club president Yolanda Saldívar at a Days Inn in Corpus Christi, Texas.

8
1995

TAROM Flight 371, an Airbus A310-300, crashes near Balotesti, Romania, killing all 60 people on board.

9
1993

The Macao Basic Law is adopted by the Eighth National People's Congress of China to take effect December 20, 1999. Resumption by China of the Exercise of Sovereignty over Macao

10
1992

The USS Missouri, the last active United States Navy battleship, is decommissioned in Long Beach, California.

FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS

1990 Nobel Prize laureate

born in Mexico City

1965 Jean-Christophe Lafaille

French mountaineer best known for his solo self-rescue on Annapurna with a broken arm

1965 Patty Fendick

American tennis player (Australian Open doubles 1991)

1965 Tom Barrasso

American NHL goaltender (Calder Memorial Trophy

1964 Dave Wyman

American NFL linebacker

1964 David Diaz-Infante

American football guard (Super Bowl XXXII

1964 Erik Turner

American rock guitarist (Warrant - "Cherry Pie")

1963 Paul Mercurio

Australian actor

1963 Stephen Tataw

Cameroonian soccer right-back (63 caps; captain Cameroon national team FIFA World Cup 1990

1962 John Taylor

American NFL wide receiver (3-time Super Bowl winner

1961 Ron Brown

American athlete (Olympic gold 4 x 100m 1984)

1960 Anne Howard

American actress (Nicole Love-Another World)

1960 Mark Tuinei

American NFL offensive tackle (3-time Super Bowl winner

1959 Ali McMordie

Northern Irish bassist (Stiff Little Fingers)

1958 Pat McGlynn

Scottish pop guitarist (Bay City Rollers)

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