WHAT HAPPENED ON 31. MARCH
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The United States takes possession of the Danish West Indies after paying $25 million to Denmark, and renames the territory the United States Virgin Islands. (31. March 1917)

Massacre of ethnic Azerbaijanis is committed by allied armed groups of Armenian Revolutionary Federation and Bolsheviks. Nearly 12,000 Azerbaijani Muslims are killed. (31. March 1918)

Daylight saving time goes into effect in the United States for the first time. (31. March 1918)

The Royal Australian Air Force is formed. (31. March 1921)

The Motion Pictures Production Code is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in film, in the U.S., for the next thirty eight years. (31. March 1930)

An earthquake destroys Managua, Nicaragua, killing 2,000. (31. March 1931)

TWA Flight 599 crashes near Bazaar, Kansas killing 8 including Knute Rockne, head football coach at the University of Notre Dame (31. March 1931)

The Civilian Conservation Corps is established with the mission of relieving rampant unemployment in the United States. (31. March 1933)

World War II: Japanese forces invade Christmas Island, then a British possession. (31. March 1942)

World War II: a defecting German pilot delivers a Messerschmitt Me 262A-1, the world's first operational jet-powered fighter aircraft, to the Americans, the first to fall into Allied hands. (31. March 1945)

The Dominion of Newfoundland joins the Canadian Confederation and becomes the 10th Province of Canada. (31. March 1949)

Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau. (31. March 1951)

Elections to the Territorial Assembly of the French colony Upper Volta are held. After the elections PDU and MDV form a government. (31. March 1957)

In the Canadian federal election, the Progressive Conservatives, led by John Diefenbaker, win the largest percentage of seats in Canadian history, with 208 seats of 265. (31. March 1958)

The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, crosses the border into India and is granted political asylum. (31. March 1959)

A coup d'état in Brazil establishes a military government, under the aegis of general Castello Branco. (31. March 1964)

An Iberia Airlines Convair 440 crashes into the sea on approach to Tangier, killing 47 of 51 occupants. (31. March 1965)

The Soviet Union launches Luna 10 which later becomes the first space probe to enter orbit around the Moon. (31. March 1966)

Explorer 1 re-enters the Earth's atmosphere after 12 years in orbit. (31. March 1970)

Nine terrorists from the Japanese Red Army hijack Japan Airlines Flight 351 at Tokyo International Airport, wielding samurai swords and carrying a bomb. (31. March 1970)