EST. DECEMBER 1994 • 30+ YEARS ONLINE
yow.com 🐯
Owned continuously since 1994
TODAY IN HISTORY
March 31
Tuesday, March 31, 2026
Day 89 of 2026 | Week 14 | 270 days until Christmas 🎅
HISTORIC EVENTS
A historic tornado outbreak occurs in the American Midwest and South.
Start of the 2018 Armenian revolution.
NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Roscosmos cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko return to Earth after a yearlong mission at the International Space Station.
The dwarf planet Makemake is discovered by a team led by astronomer Michael E. Brown at the Palomar Observatory.
Iraq War in Anbar Province: In Fallujah, Iraq, four American private military contractors working for Blackwater USA, are killed after being ambushed.
Netscape releases Mozilla source code under an open source license.
Selena is murdered by her fan club president Yolanda Saldívar at a Days Inn in Corpus Christi, Texas.
TAROM Flight 371, an Airbus A310-300, crashes near Balotesti, Romania, killing all 60 people on board.
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
The USS Missouri, the last active United States Navy battleship, is decommissioned in Long Beach, California.
FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS
born in Mexico City
French mountaineer best known for his solo self-rescue on Annapurna with a broken arm
American tennis player (Australian Open doubles 1991)
American NHL goaltender (Calder Memorial Trophy
American NFL linebacker
American football guard (Super Bowl XXXII
American rock guitarist (Warrant - "Cherry Pie")
Australian actor
Cameroonian soccer right-back (63 caps; captain Cameroon national team FIFA World Cup 1990
American NFL wide receiver (3-time Super Bowl winner
American athlete (Olympic gold 4 x 100m 1984)
American actress (Nicole Love-Another World)
American NFL offensive tackle (3-time Super Bowl winner
Northern Irish bassist (Stiff Little Fingers)
Scottish pop guitarist (Bay City Rollers)
🎯 yow.com Connection
On March 9, 1994 - just months before yow.com would be registered - the internet was still in its infancy. There were only about 3,000 websites in existence, and most people accessed the web through 14.4kbps dial-up modems. Today, you're visiting a domain that has survived 30+ years of that incredible evolution.
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