1900<\/strong> – The W.E. Roach Company was the first automobile company to put an advertisement in a national magazine. The magazine was the “Saturday Evening Post”.<\/p>\n 1900<\/strong> – In France, the National Assembly passed a law reducing the workday for women and children to 11 hours.<\/p>\n 1901<\/strong> – In Russia, the Czar lashed out at Socialist-Revolutionaries with the arrests of 72 people and the seizing of two printing presses.<\/p>\n 1902<\/strong> – In Tennessee, 22 coal miners were killed by an explosion.<\/p>\n 1904<\/strong> – In India, hundreds of Tibetans were slaughtered by the British.<\/p>\n 1905<\/strong> – Kaiser Wilhelm arrived in Tangier proclaiming to support for an independent state of Morocco.<\/p>\n 1906<\/strong> – The Conference on Moroccan Reforms in Algeciras ended after two months with France and Germany in agreement.<\/p>\n 1906<\/strong> – The Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States was founded to set rules in amateur sports. The organization became the National Collegiate Athletic Association in 1910.<\/p>\n 1908<\/strong> – 250,000 coal miners in Indianapolis, IN, went on strike to await a wage adjustment.<\/p>\n 1909<\/strong> – Serbia accepted Austrian control over Bosnia-Herzegovina.<\/p>\n 1917<\/strong> – The U.S. purchased and took possession of the Virgin Islands from Denmark for $25 million.<\/p>\n 1918<\/strong> – For the first time in the U.S., Daylight Saving Time went into effect.<\/p>\n 1921<\/strong> – Great Britain declared a state of emergency because of the thousands of coal miners on strike.<\/p>\n 1923<\/strong> – In New York City, the first U.S. dance marathon was held. Alma Cummings set a new world record of 27 hours.<\/p>\n 1932<\/strong> – The Ford Motor Co. debuted its V-8 engine.<\/p>\n 1933<\/strong> – The U.S. Congress authorized the Civilian Conservation Corps to relieve rampant unemployment.<\/p>\n 1933<\/strong> – The “Soperton News” in Georgia became the first newspaper to publish using a pine pulp paper.<\/p>\n 1939<\/strong> – Britain and France agreed to support Poland if Germany threatened an invasion.<\/p>\n 1940<\/strong> – La Guardia airport in New York officially opened to the public.<\/p>\n 1941<\/strong> – Germany began a counteroffensive in North Africa.<\/p>\n 1945<\/strong> – “The Glass Menagerie” by Tennessee Williams opened on Broadway.<\/p>\n 1946<\/strong> – Monarchists won the elections in Greece.<\/p>\n 1947<\/strong> – John L. Lewis called a strike in sympathy for the miners killed in an explosion in Centralia, IL, on March 25, 1947.<\/p>\n 1948<\/strong> – The Soviets in Germany began controlling the Western trains headed toward Berlin.<\/p>\n 1949<\/strong> – Winston Churchill declared that the A-bomb was the only thing that kept the U.S.S.R. from taking over Europe.<\/p>\n 1949<\/strong> – Newfoundland entered the Canadian confederation as its 10th province.<\/p>\n 1958<\/strong> – The U.S. Navy formed the atomic submarine division.<\/p>\n 1959<\/strong> – The Dalai Lama (Lhama Dhondrub, Tenzin Gyatso) began exile by crossing the border into India where he was granted political asylum. Gyatso was the 14th Daila Lama.<\/p>\n 1960<\/strong> – The South African government declared a state of emergency after demonstrations led to the death of more than 50 Africans.<\/p>\n 1966<\/strong> – An estimated 200,000 anti-war demonstrators march in New York City. (New York)<\/p>\n 1966<\/strong> – The Soviet Union launched Luna 10<\/i>, which became the first spacecraft to enter a lunar orbit.<\/p>\n 1967<\/strong> – U.S. President Lyndon Johnson signed the Consular Treaty, the first bi-lateral pact with the Soviet Union since the Bolshevik Revolution.<\/p>\n 1970<\/strong> – The U.S. forces in Vietnam down a MIG-21, it was the first since September 1968.<\/p>\n 1976<\/strong> – The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled that Karen Anne Quinlan could be disconnected from a respirator. Quinlan remained comatose until 1985 when she died.<\/p>\n 1980<\/strong> – U.S. President Carter deregulated the banking industry.<\/p>\n 1981<\/strong> – In Bangkok, Thailand, four of five Indonesian terrorists were killed after hijacking an airplane on March 28.<\/p>\n 1985<\/strong> – ABC-TV aired the 200th episode of “The Love Boat.”<\/p>\n 1986<\/strong> – 167 people died when a Mexicana Airlines Boeing 727 crashed in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n 1987<\/strong> – HBO (Home Box Office) earned its first Oscar for “Down and Out in America”.<\/p>\n 1989<\/strong> – Canada and France signed a fishing rights pact.<\/p>\n 1991<\/strong> – Albania offered a multi-party election for the first time in 50 years. Incumbent President Ramiz Alia won.<\/p>\n 1991<\/strong> – Iraqi forces recaptured the northern city of Kirkuk from Kurdish guerillas.<\/p>\n 1993<\/strong> – Brandon Lee was killed accidentally while filming a movie.<\/p>\n 1994<\/strong> – “Nature” magazine announced that a complete skull of Australopithecus afarensis<\/i> had been found in Ethiopia. The finding is of humankind’s earliest ancestor.<\/p>\n 1998<\/strong> – U.N. Security Council imposed an arms embargo on Yugoslavia.<\/p>\n 1998<\/strong> – Buddy Hackett received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.<\/p>\n 1998<\/strong> – For the first time in U.S. history the federal government’s detailed financial statement was released. This occurred under the Clinton administration.<\/p>\n 1999<\/strong> – Three U.S. soldiers were captured by Yugoslav soldiers three miles from the Yugoslav border in Macedonia.<\/p>\n 1999<\/strong> – Fabio was hit in the face by a bird during a promotional ride of a new roller coaster at the Busch Gardens theme park in Williamsburg, VA. Fabio received a one-inch cut across his nose.<\/p>\n 2000<\/strong> – In Uganda, officials set the number of deaths linked to a doomsday religious cult, the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments, at more than 900. In Kanungu, a March 17 fire at the cult’s church killed more than 530 and authorities subsequently found mass graves at various sites linked to the cult.<\/p>\n 2004<\/strong> – Air America Radio launched five stations around the U.S.<\/p>\n 2004<\/strong> – Google Inc. announced that it would be introducing a free e-mail service called Gmail.<\/p>\n 2016<\/strong> – Apple released the iPhone SE.<\/p>\n History of 31 March 1900 – The W.E. Roach Company was the first automobile company to put an advertisement in a national magazine. 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