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Events

• 307 – After divorcing his wife Minervina, Constantine marries Fausta, the daughter of the retired Roman Emperor Maximian.
• 1146 – Bernard of Clairvaux preaches his famous sermon in a field at Vézelay, urging the necessity of a Second Crusade. Louis VII is present, and joins the Crusade.
• 1492 – Queen Isabella of Castille issues the Alhambra decree, ordering her 150,000 Jewish subjects to convert to Christianity or face expulsion.
• 1717 – A sermon on "The Nature of the Kingdom of Christ" by Benjamin Hoadly, the Bishop of Bangor, provokes the Bangorian Controversy.
• 1774 – American Revolutionary War: The Kingdom of Great Britain orders the port of Boston, Massachusetts closed pursuant to the Boston Port Act.
• 1822 – The massacre of the population of the Greek island of Chios by soldiers of the Ottoman Empire following a rebellion attempt, depicted by the French artist Eugène Delacroix.
• 1854 – Commodore Matthew Perry signs the Treaty of Kanagawa with the Japanese government, opening the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to American trade.
• 1866 – The Spanish Navy bombs the harbor of Valparaíso, Chile.
• 1877 – The family with samurai antecedents that responded to the Saigo army in Ōita Nakatsu rebels.
• 1885 – The United Kingdom establishes a protectorate over Bechuanaland.
• 1889 – The Eiffel Tower is inaugurated.
• 1903 – Richard Pearse allegedly makes a powered flight in an early aircraft.
• 1906 – The Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States (later National Collegiate Athletic Association) is established to set rules for amateur sports in the United States.
• 1909 – Serbia accepts Austrian control over Bosnia-Herzegovina.
• 1909 – Construction begins on the RMS Titanic.
• 1912 – Construction is completed on the RMS Titanic.
• 1917 – 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.
• 1918 – Daylight saving time goes into effect in the United States for the first time.
• 1921 – The Royal Australian Air Force is formed.
• 1930 – The Motion Pictures Production Code is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in film for the next thirty eight years.
• 1931 – An earthquake destroys Managua, Nicaragua, killing 2,000.
• 1933 – The Civilian Conservation Corps is established with the mission of relieving rampant unemployment.
• 1942 – World War II: Japanese forces invade Christmas Island, then a British possession.
• 1942 – Holocaust in Ivano-Frankivsk (then called Stanislawow), western Ukraine. German Gestapo organize the first deportation of 5,000 Jews from Stanislawow ghetto to Belzec death camp. It is one of the largest transports to Belzec in the first phase of the camp.
• 1946 – The first election is held in Greece after World War II.
• 1949 – The Dominion of Newfoundland joins the Canadian Confederation and becomes the 10th Province of Canada.
• 1951 – Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau.
• 1957 – Elections to the Territorial Assembly of the French colony Upper Volta are held. After the elections PDU and MDV form a government.
• 1959 – The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, crosses the border into India and is granted political asylum.
• 1964 – The Dictatorship in Brazil, under the aegis of general Castello Branco, begins.
• 1965 – Iberia Airlines Convair 440 crashes into the sea on approach to Tangier, killing 47 of 51 occupants.
• 1966 – The Soviet Union launches Luna 10 which later becomes the first space probe to enter orbit around the Moon.
• 1968 – President Lyndon B. Johnson announces he will not run for re-election.
• 1970 – Explorer 1 re-enters the Earth's atmosphere (after 12 years in orbit).
• 1970 – Nine terrorists from the Japanese Red Army hijack Japan Airlines Flight 351 at Tokyo International Airport, wielding samurai swords and carrying a bomb.
• 1979 – The last British soldier leaves the Maltese Islands. Malta declares its Freedom Day (Jum il-Helsien).
• 1980 – The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railroad operates its final train after being ordered to liquidate its assets because of bankruptcy and debts owed to creditors.
• 1985 – The first WrestleMania, the biggest wrestling event from the WWE, takes place in Madison Square Garden in New York
• 1986 – A Mexicana Boeing 727 en route to Puerto Vallarta erupts in flames and crashes in the mountains northwest of Mexico City, killing 166.
• 1986 – Six metropolitan county councils are abolished in England.
• 1990 – 200,000 protestors take to the streets of London to protest against the newly introduced Poll Tax.
• 1991 – The Islamic Constitutional Movement, or Hadas, is established in Kuwait.
• 1991 – Georgian independence referendum, 1991: nearly 99 percent of the voters support the country's independence from the Soviet Union.
• 1992 – The USS Missouri (BB-63), the last active United States Navy Battleship, is decommissioned in Long Beach, California.
• 1994 – Human evolution: The journal Nature reports the finding in Ethiopia of the first complete Australopithecus afarensis skull.
• 1995 – In Corpus Christi, Texas, Latin superstar Selena Quintanilla Perez is shot and killed by Yolanda Saldivar, the president of her own fan club.
• 1998 – Netscape releases the code base of its browser under an open-source license agreement; the project is given the code name Mozilla and would eventually be spun off into the non-profit Mozilla Foundation.
• 2004 – In Fallujah, Iraq, 4 American private military contractors working for Blackwater USA, are killed and their bodies mutilated after being ambushed.
• 2007 – In Sydney, Australia, 2.2 million people take part in the first Earth Hour.
• 2008 – Aloha Airlines, a bankrupt airline, permanently ends passenger service

Births

• 250 – Constantius Chlorus, Roman Emperor (d. 306)
• 1360 – Philippa of Lancaster, queen of Portugal (d. 1415)
• 1425 – Bianca Maria Visconti, Duchess of Milan (d. 1468)
• 1499 – Pope Pius IV (d. 1565)
• 1504 – Guru Angad Dev, second Sikh guru (d. 1552)
• 1519 – King Henry II of France (d. 1559)
• 1536 – Ashikaga Yoshiteru, Japanese shogun (d. 1565)
• 1576 – Louise Juliana of Nassau, Regent of Bohemia (d. 1644)
• 1596 – René Descartes, French mathematician (d. 1650)
• 1621 – Andrew Marvell, English poet (d. 1678)
• 1651 – Karl II, Elector Palatine (d. 1685)
• 1675 – Pope Benedict XIV (d. 1758)
• 1718 – Infanta Mariana Victoria of Spain, queen regent of Portugal (d. 1781)
• 1723 – King Frederick V of Denmark (d. 1766)
• 1730 – Étienne Bézout, French mathematician (d. 1783)
• 1732 – Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer (d. 1809)
• 1777 – Charles Cagniard de la Tour, French physicist (d. 1859)
• 1778 – Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Dutch zoologist (d. 1858)
• 1794 – Thomas McKean Thompson McKennan, American politician (d. 1852)
• 1809 – Edward FitzGerald, English poet (d. 1883)
• 1811 – Robert Wilhelm Bunsen, German chemist and inventor (d. 1899)
• 1819 – Prince Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1901)
• 1847 – Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev, Russian mathematician (d. 1878)
• 1855 – Alfred E. Hunt, founder of Alcoa (d. 1899)
• 1871 – Arthur Griffith, President of Ireland (d. 1922)
• 1872 – Alexandra Kollontai, Russian ambassador to Norway (d. 1952)
• 1872 – Serge Diaghilev, Russian ballet impresario (Ballets Russes) (d. 1929)
• 1876 – Borisav "Bora" Stanković, Serbian writer (d. 1927)
• 1878 – Jack Johnson, American boxer (d. 1946)
• 1884 – Adriaan van Maanen, Dutch-American astronomer (d. 1946)
• 1885 – Pascin, Bulgarian painter (d. 1930)
• 1890 – William Lawrence Bragg, English physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1971)
• 1891 – Victor Varconi, Hungarian film actor (d. 1976)
• 1893 – Clemens Krauss, Austrian conductor (d. 1954)
• 1896 – Florrie Baldwin, British supercentenarian
• 1906 – Shin'ichiro Tomonaga, Japanese physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1979)
• 1907 – Eddie Quillan, American actor (d. 1990)
• 1908 – Red Norvo, American jazz vibraphonist (d. 1999)
• 1911 – Elisabeth Grümmer, German soprano (d. 1986)
• 1912 – William Lederer, American writer (d. 2009)
• 1914 – Octavio Paz, Mexican diplomat and writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1998)
• 1915 – Albert Hourani, English historian (d. 1993)
• 1915 – Shoichi Yokoi, Japanese military man (d. 1997)
• 1916 – Lucille Bliss, American voice actress
• 1916 – John H. Wood, Jr., American federal judge (d. 1979)
• 1919 – Frank Akins, American football player (d. 1993)
• 1920 – Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, English Duchess, now Dowager Duchess
• 1922 – Richard Kiley, American actor and singer (d. 1999)
• 1924 – Leo Buscaglia, American author (d. 1998)
• 1924 – Charles Guggenheim, American film director/producer (d. 2002)
• 1925 – Jean Coutu, French Canadian actor (d. 1999)
• 1926 – John Fowles, English author (d. 2005)
• 1927 – César Chávez, American labor activist (d. 1993)
• 1927 – William Daniels, American actor
• 1928 – Lefty Frizzell, American singer and songwriter (d. 1975)
• 1928 – Gordie Howe, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1929 – Liz Claiborne, Belgian-born American fashion designer (d. 2007)
• 1929 – Bertram Fields, American lawyer
• 1931 – Miller Barber, American golfer
• 1932 – Nagisa Oshima, Japanese film director
• 1933 – Nichita Stănescu, Romanian poet (d. 1983)
• 1934 – Richard Chamberlain, American actor
• 1934 – Shirley Jones, American singer and actress
• 1934 – Carlo Rubbia, Italian physicist, Nobel laureate
• 1934 – John D. Loudermilk, American singer and songwriter
• 1935 – Herb Alpert, American trumpeter and band leader
• 1935 – Judith Rossner, American author
• 1936 – Bob Pulford, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1936 – Marge Piercy, American writer
• 1936 – Dokumamushi Sandayu, Japanese actor
• 1938 – Sheila Dikshit, Chief Minister of Delhi
• 1938 – Bill Hicke, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2005)
• 1938 – Michiko Nomura, Japanese voice actor
• 1938 – Arthur B. Rubinstein, American composer
• 1938 – David Steel, Scottish politician
• 1939 – Zviad Gamsakhurdia, first President of Georgia (d. 1993)
• 1939 – Volker Schlöndorff, German film director
• 1940 – Barney Frank, U.S. Representative from Massachusetts
• 1940 – Patrick Leahy, U.S. Senator from Vermont
• 1942 – Michael Savage, (né Michael Weiner) American talk radio host and political commentator
• 1942 – Ulla Hoffmann, Swedish politician
• 1943 – Christopher Walken, American actor
• 1944 – Pascal Danel, French singer and songwriter
• 1944 – Mick Ralphs, English guitarist (Mott the Hoople, Bad Company)
• 1945 – Valerie Curtin, American actress, writer, and producer
• 1945 – Myfanwy Talog, Welsh actress (d. 1995)
• 1945 – Gabe Kaplan, American actor and comedian
• 1946 – Gonzalo Márquez, Venezuelan baseball player (d. 1984)
• 1947 – César Gaviria Trujillo, President of Colombia
• 1947 – Kristian Blak, Danish musician, composer and recording executive
• 1948 – Al Gore, former Vice President of the United States and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
• 1948 – Rhea Perlman, American actress
• 1948 – Gustaaf Van Cauter, Belgian cyclist
• 1950 – Ed Marinaro, American football player and actor
• 1950 – András Adorján, Hungarian chess player
• 1951 – Frankie Sabath, Puerto Rican performer/singer
• 1952 – Dermot Morgan, Irish actor and comedian (d. 1998)
• 1955 – Angus Young, Scottish-born Australian guitarist (AC/DC)
• 1955 – Robert Vance, New Zealand cricketer
• 1957 – Marc McClure, American actor
• 1957 – Alan Duncan, British politician
• 1958 – Tony Cox, American actor
• 1959 – Ali McMordie, Irish bassist (Stiff Little Fingers)
• 1962 – John Taylor, American football player
• 1962 – Mark Begich, U.S. Senator from Alaska
• 1963 – Paul Mercurio, Australian actor/dancer
• 1964 – Paul Wong Koon-Chung, Hong Kong musician (Beyond)
• 1965 – Tom Barrasso, American ice hockey player
• 1965 – Jean-Christophe Lafaille, French mountaineer (d. 2006)
• 1965 – Steven T. Seagle, American comic-book writer
• 1966 – Roger Black, English athlete
• 1968 – Naoya Ogawa, Japanese professional wrestler
• 1968 – J.R. Reid, American basketball player
• 1969 – Samantha Brown, American television host
• 1969 – Nyamko Sabuni, Swedish politician
• 1969 – Steve Smith, American basketball player
• 1971 – Pavel Bure, Russian ice hockey player
• 1971 – Craig McCracken, American Animator
• 1971 – Ewan McGregor, Scottish actor
• 1972 – Alejandro Amenábar, Spanish film director
• 1972 – Andrew Bowen, American actor
• 1972 – Hristos Polihroniou, Greek hammer thrower
• 1973 – Bold Forbes, Puerto Rican/American thoroughbred racehorse (d. 2000)
• 1974 – Stefan Olsdal, Swedish bassist (Placebo)
• 1974 – Benjamin Eicher, Swiss film director
• 1975 – Adam Green, American film director
• 1976 – Sugiantoro, Jakarta Youth Socialist Leader
• 1976 – Josh Saviano, American actor
• 1976 – Ashton Moore, American porn actress
• 1977 – Toshiya, Japanese musician (Dir en grey)
• 1977 – Garth Tander, Australian racing driver
• 1978 – Stephen Clemence, English footballer
• 1978 – Jérôme Rothen, French footballer
• 1978 – Tony Yayo, American rapper
• 1979 – Josh Kinney, American baseball player
• 1979 – Amey Date, Indian playback singer
• 1980 – Chien-Ming Wang, Taiwanese baseball player
• 1980 – Maaya Sakamoto, Japanese voice actor
• 1980 – Michael Ryder, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1980 – Dean Clark, English footballer
• 1981 – Maarten van der Weijden, Dutch swimmer
• 1981 – Gerard McCarthy, British actor
• 1981 – Pa Dembo Tourray, Gambian footballer
• 1982 – Ryland Blackinton, American guitarist (Cobra Starship)
• 1982 – Tal Ben Haim, Israeli footballer
• 1982 – Philippe Mexès, French footballer
• 1982 – Lennon Murphy, American rock singer/songwriter
• 1983 – Paddy McCarthy, Irish footballer
• 1983 – Vlasios Maras, Greek gymnast
• 1984 – James Jones, American football player
• 1984 – David Clarkson, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1984 – Yanin Vismistananda, Thai actress
• 1987 – Georg Listing, German bassist for Tokio Hotel
• 1987 – Humpy Koneru, Indian chess grandmaster
• 1988 – Hogan Ephraim, English footballer
• 2003 – Carl Alexander Acosta, Filipino child actor and dancer

Deaths

• 1074 – Regency Yorimichi Fujiwara of Japan (b. 992)
• 1204 – Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen of France and England (b. 1121)
• 1340 – Ivan I of Russia, Prince of Moscow (b. 1288)
• 1547 – Francis I of France (b. 1494)
• 1567 – Philipp I of Hesse (b. 1504)
• 1621 – Philip III of Spain (b. 1578)
• 1631 – John Donne, English writer and prelate (b. 1572)
• 1671 – Anne Hyde, wife of James II of England (b. 1637)
• 1703 – Johann Christoph Bach, German composer (b. 1642)
• 1723 – Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, British-born U.S. state governor (b. 1661)
• 1727 – Sir Isaac Newton, English mathematician and physicist (b. 1643)
• 1741 – Pieter Burmann the Elder, Dutch classical scholar (b. 1668)
• 1783 – Nikita Ivanovich Panin, Russian statesman (b. 1718)
• 1837 – John Constable, English painter (b. 1776)
• 1850 – John C. Calhoun, 7th Vice President of the United States (b. 1782)
• 1855 – Charlotte Brontë, English author (b. 1816)
• 1877 – Antoine Augustin Cournot, French mathematician (b. 1801)
• 1880 – Henryk Wieniawski, Polish composer (b. 1835)
• 1885 – Franz Wilhelm Abt, German composer (b. 1819)
• 1913 – John Pierpont Morgan, American financier (b. 1837)
• 1917 – Emil Adolf von Behring, German physician, Nobel laureate (b. 1854)
• 1915 – Wyndham Halswelle, Scottish athlete (b. 1882)
• 1924 – George Charles Haité, English designer, painter and illustrator (b.1855)
• 1931 – Knute Rockne, American football coach (b. 1888)
• 1935 – Georges V. Matchabelli, Russian-born perfumer (b. 1885)
• 1944 – Mineichi Koga, Japanese admiral (b. 1885)
• 1945 – Hans Fischer, German chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1881)
• 1945 – Anne Frank, German-born diarist (b. 1929)
• 1945 – Frank Findlay, New Zealand politician (b. 1884)
• 1952 – Wallace H. White, Jr., American politician (b. 1877)
• 1956 – Ralph DePalma, Italian-born race car driver (b. 1884)
• 1968 – Grover Lowdermilk, American baseball player (b. 1885)
• 1972 – Meena Kumari, Indian actress (b. 1932)
• 1975 – Percy Alliss, English Golfer (b. 1897)
• 1976 – Paul Strand, American photographer and filmmaker (b. 1890)
• 1978 – Charles Best, Canadian medical scientist (b. 1899)
• 1980 – Vladimír Holan, Czech poet (b. 1905)
• 1980 – Jesse Owens, American athlete (b. 1913)
• 1981 – Enid Bagnold, British playwright (b. 1889)
• 1983 – Christina Stead, Australian writer (b. 1902)
• 1984 – Ronald Clark O'Bryan, American murderer (b. 1944)
• 1986 – O'Kelly Isley, Jr., American singer (The Isley Brothers) (b. 1937)
• 1986 – Jerry Paris, American actor (b. 1925)
• 1988 – William McMahon, 20th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1908)
• 1993 – Chichay, Filipino actress (b. 1918)
• 1993 – Brandon Lee, American actor (b. 1965)
• 1993 – Mitchell Parish, American lyricist (b. 1900)
• 1995 – Selena, Mexican-American singer (b. 1971)
• 1996 – Jeffrey Lee Pierce, American musician (The Gun Club) (b. 1958)
• 1998 – Bella Abzug, American politician (b. 1920)
• 1998 – Tim Flock, American race car driver (b. 1924)
• 1999 – Yuri Knorozov, Russian linguist (b. 1922)
• 2001 – Clifford Shull, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1915)
• 2002 – Barry Took, British comedian (b. 1928)
• 2002 – Moturu Udayam, Indian women's activist (b. 1924)
• 2003 – H.S.M. Coxeter, English-born geometer (b. 1907)
• 2003 – Anne Gwynne, American film actress (b. 1918)
• 2003 – Tommy Seebach, Danish singer (b. 1949)
• 2004 – Scott Helvenston, American Navy SEAL and Blackwater Contractor (b. 1965)
• 2005 – Stanley J. Korsmeyer, American oncologist (b. 1951)
• 2005 – Justiniano Montano, Filipino politician (b. 1905)
• 2005 – Frank Perdue, American poultry farmer (b. 1920)
• 2005 – Terri Schiavo, American figure in right to die case (b. 1963)
• 2006 – Angela Devi, American adult model (b. 1975)
• 2006 – Jackie McLean, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1931)
• 2007 – Paul Watzlawick, Austrian-born theoreticist (b. 1921)
• 2008 – Jules Dassin, American film director (b. 1911)
• 2008 – Bill Keightley (Mr. Wildcat), American basketball equipment manager (b. 1926)
• 2009 – Jarl Alfredius, Swedish news anchor (b. 1943)
• 2009 – Raúl Alfonsín, former President of Argentina (b. 1927)
• 2009 – Choor Singh, Singaporean judge (b. 1911)

Holidays and observances

• César Chávez Day (California, Texas, Arizona, Colorado, Michigan, New Mexico, Utah, and Wisconsin)
• Christian Feast Day
  • Abdas of Susa
  • Acathius of Melitene (Eastern Orthodox Church)
  • Anesius and companions
  • Benjamin
• Freedom Day (Malta)
• King Nangklao Memorial Day (Thailand)
• Thomas Mundy Peterson Day (New Jersey)
• Transfer Day (US Virgin Islands)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

From Wikiquote

Quotes of the day from previous years:

2004

The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder. ~ Æschylus

• selected by Kalki

2005

Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks he is so well supplied with it, that even those most difficult to please in all other matters never desire more of it than they already possess. ~ René Descartes (born 31 March 1596)

• selected by Kalki

2006

When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit that our lives are all that really belong to us. So, it is how we use our lives that determines what kind of men we are. It is my deepest belief that only by giving our lives do we find life. ~ Cesar Chavez (born 31 March 1927)

• selected by Kalki

2007

So blind is the curiosity by which mortals are possessed, that they often conduct their minds along unexplored routes, having no reason to hope for success, but merely being willing to risk the experiment of finding whether the truth they seek lies there. ... I do not deny that sometimes in these wanderings they are lucky enough to find something true. But I do not allow that this argues greater industry on their part, but only better luck. ~ René Descartes

• proposed by InvisibleSun

2008

Let us roll all our strength and all
Our sweetness up into one ball,
And tear our pleasures with rough strife
Thorough the iron gates of life:
Thus, though we cannot make our sun
Stand still, yet we will make him run.
~ Andrew Marvell ~

• proposed by Kalki

2009

Cogito ergo sum
I think, therefore I am.
~ René Descartes ~

• proposed by Zarbon

2010

Suggestions

But at my back I always hear
Time's wingèd chariot hurrying near;
And yonder all before us lie
Deserts of vast eternity.
~ Andrew Marvell (born March 31, 1621)

• 3 InvisibleSun 08:38, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 21:38, 30 March 2007 (UTC) with a lean toward 4, but would prefer to extend it at least thus:

At my back I always hear
Time's winged chariot hurrying near;
And yonder all before us lie
Deserts of vast eternity.
Thy beauty shall no more be found,
Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound
My echoing song; then worms shall try
That long preserv'd virginity,
And your quaint honour turn to dust,
And into ashes all my lust.
The grave's a fine and private place,
But none I think do there embrace.

OR, perhaps, even earlier,

My vegetable love should grow
Vaster than empires, and more slow.
An hundred years should go to praise
Thine eyes, and on thy forehead gaze;
Two hundred to adore each breast,
But thirty thousand to the rest;
An age at least to every part,
And the last age should show your heart.
For, lady, you deserve this state,
Nor would I love at lower rate.

But at my back I always hear
Time's winged chariot hurrying near;
And yonder all before us lie
Deserts of vast eternity.
Thy beauty shall no more be found,
Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound
My echoing song; then worms shall try
That long preserv'd virginity,
And your quaint honour turn to dust,
And into ashes all my lust.
The grave's a fine and private place,
But none I think do there embrace.

Or even from the start of the poem to the final line quoted above. ~ Kalki 00:33, 29 March 2009 (UTC) or even the whole thing, and be done with it... ~ Kalki 00:35, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

• 1 Zarbon 04:46, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
• Comment: Favoring the shorter extension. - InvisibleSun 21:35, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

The mind, that ocean where each kind
Does straight its own resemblance find;
Yet it creates, transcending these,
Far other worlds, and other seas;
Annihilating all that's made
To a green thought in a green shade.
~Andrew Marvell

• 3 InvisibleSun 08:38, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 21:38, 30 March 2007 (UTC) I had been hoping to use this soon, but would opt for the Descartes line at this time. Strong lean toward a 4, but would prefer to extend this to at least include the preceding stanza:

What wondrous life is this I lead!
Ripe apples drop about my head;
The luscious clusters of the vine
Upon my mouth do crush their wine;
The nectarine and curious peach
Into my hands themselves do reach;
Stumbling on melons as I pass,
Insnared with flowers, I fall on grass.

Meanwhile the mind, from pleasure less,
Withdraws into its happiness:
The mind, that ocean where each kind
Does straight its own resemblance find;
Yet it creates, transcending these,
Far other worlds, and other seas;
Annihilating all that's made
To a green thought in a green shade.

AND, perhaps extended even further to include:

Here at the fountain's sliding foot,
Or at some fruit-tree's mossy root,
Casting the body's vest aside,
My soul into the boughs does glide:
There like a bird it sits and sings,
Then whets and combs its silver wings;
And, till prepared for longer flight,
Waves in its plumes the various light.
And opposition of the stars.

• 1 Zarbon 04:46, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
• Comment: Favoring the shorter extension. - InvisibleSun 21:35, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

My love is of a birth as rare
As 'tis for object strange and high;
It was begotten by Despair
Upon Impossibility. ~ Andrew Marvell

• 3 InvisibleSun 08:38, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 21:38, 30 March 2007 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
• 2 Zarbon 04:46, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

We have suffered unnumbered ills and crimes in the name of the Law of the Land. Our men, women, and children have suffered not only the basic brutality of stoop labor, and the most obvious injustices of the system; they have also suffered the desperation of knowing that the system caters to the greed of callous men and not to our needs. Now we will suffer for the purpose of ending the poverty, the misery, and the injustice, with the hope that our children will not be exploited as we have been. They have imposed hunger on us, and now we hunger for justice. We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure. ~ Cesar Chavez (born March 31, 1927)

• 3 InvisibleSun 08:38, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 21:38, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 04:46, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Love's whole world on us doth wheel. ~ Andrew Marvell

• 3 Kalki 21:38, 30 March 2007 (UTC) with a lean toward 4, but now would prefer to extend this to more of the poem:

Fate with jealous eye does see
Two perfect loves, nor lets them close:
Their union would her ruin be,
And her tyrranic power depose.

And therefore her decrees of steel
Us as the distant Poles have placed
(Though Love's whole world on us doth wheel)
Not by themselves to be embraced,

Unless the giddy heaven fall,
And earth some new convulsion tear;
And, us to join, the world should all
Be cramped into a planisphere.

As lines (so loves) oblique may well
Themselves in every angle greet:
But ours so truly parallel,
Though infinite, can never meet.

Therefore the love which us doth bind,
But Fate so enviously debars,
Is the conjunction of the mind,
And opposition of the stars.

• 3 InvisibleSun 22:04, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 04:46, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
• Comment: Favoring the extension. - InvisibleSun 21:35, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

History will judge societies and governments — and their institutions — not by how big they are or how well they serve the rich and the powerful, but by how effectively they respond to the needs of the poor and the helpless. ~ Cesar Chavez

• 3 Kalki 00:55, 29 March 2009 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4, but edged out slightly by Cogito ergo sum below.
• 3 Zarbon 03:09, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 21:35, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Die before the one whom you love; to live after he dies is to live a worthless life in this world. ~ Guru Angad Dev

• 3 Zarbon 03:09, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
• 1 Kalki 00:44, 30 March 2009 (UTC) I have some sympathies with the sentiment, but not the conclusion.
• 1 InvisibleSun 21:35, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Doubt is the origin of wisdom. ~ René Descartes

• 3 Zarbon 03:09, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 00:44, 30 March 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
• 3 InvisibleSun 21:35, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Nothing comes out of nothing. ~ René Descartes

• 3 Zarbon 03:09, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 00:44, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 21:35, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Staying as I am, one foot in one country and the other in another, I find my condition very happy, in that it is free. ~ René Descartes

• 3 Zarbon 03:09, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 00:44, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 21:35, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. ~ René Descartes

• 2 Zarbon 03:09, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 00:44, 30 March 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
• 3 InvisibleSun 21:35, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well. ~ René Descartes

• 3 Zarbon 03:09, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 00:44, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 21:35, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues. ~ René Descartes

• 4 Zarbon 03:09, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
• 1 Kalki 00:44, 30 March 2009 (UTC) though I can agree with the intentions of this statement, I always am inclined to object to mere intelligence being equated with greatness — without other virtues it is never that at all.
• 3 InvisibleSun 21:35, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt. ~ René Descartes

• 3 Zarbon 03:09, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 00:44, 30 March 2009 (UTC) (and even then be cautious.)
• 3 InvisibleSun 21:35, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power. ~ René Descartes

• 3 Zarbon 03:09, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 00:44, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake. ~ René Descartes

• 3 Zarbon 03:09, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 00:44, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow. ~ René Descartes

• 3 Zarbon 03:09, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 00:44, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare. ~ René Descartes

• 3 Zarbon 03:09, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 00:44, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts. ~ René Descartes

• 2 Zarbon 03:09, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 00:44, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable. ~ René Descartes

• 3 Zarbon 03:09, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 00:44, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

I am all for the short and merry life. ~ Edward FitzGerald

• 3 Zarbon 03:09, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 00:44, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 21:35, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Whether we wake or we sleep,
Whether we carol or weep,
The Sun with his Planets in chime,
Marketh the going of Time. ~ Edward FitzGerald

• 3 Zarbon 03:09, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 00:44, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 21:35, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it. ~ Edward FitzGerald

• 3 Zarbon 03:09, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 00:44, 30 March 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward a 4, but prefer to credit it to Omar Khayyám, as translated by FitzGerald, and thus use it on 18 May for Khayyám.
• 3 for use on May 18. - InvisibleSun 21:35, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

To fight evil is to fight ourselves. ~ Octavio Paz

• 3 Zarbon 03:09, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 00:44, 30 March 2009 (UTC) truth, but not entirely well expressed in this form.
• 3 InvisibleSun 21:35, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

I am a man: little do I last

and the night is enormous.

But I look up:

the stars write.

Unknowing I understand:

I too am written,

and at this very moment

someone spells me out.

~ Octavio Paz

• 2 Zarbon 03:09, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 21:35, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. ~ Octavio Paz

• 3 Zarbon 03:09, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 00:44, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 21:35, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

The windy lights of Autumn flare;
I watch the moonlit sails go by;
I marvel how men toil and fare,
The weary business that they play!
Their voyaging is vanity,
And fairy gold is all their gain,
And all the winds of winter cry,
“My Love returns no more again.” ~ Andrew Lang

• 2 Zarbon 03:09, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 00:44, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 21:35, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

There are only two races on this planet—the intelligent and the stupid. ~ John Fowles

• 2 Zarbon 03:09, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 00:44, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
• 1 InvisibleSun 21:35, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

One does not fall "in" or "out" of love. One grows in love. ~ Leo Buscaglia

• 3 Kalki 23:41, 22 April 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life. ~ Leo Buscaglia

• 3 Kalki 23:41, 22 April 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

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Articles detailing events that are related to March 31. This may include the release of games or systems, the founding of a video game related company or some other important event.

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Game releases

• 1999
  • Chameleon Twist 2 for the Nintendo 64
  • Triple Play 2000 for the PC in North America

• 1998
  • 1080° Snowboarding for the Nintendo 64
  • Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon for the Nintendo 64 in North America
  • World Cup 98 for the PlayStation in North America

• 1997
  • Doom 64 for the Nintendo 64

• 1995
  • Tekken for the PlayStation in Japan

From Familypedia

March 31 is the 90th day of the year (91st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 275 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 307 - After divorcing his wife Minervina, Constantine marries Fausta, the daughter of the retired Roman Emperor Maximian.
• 1146 - Bernard of Clairvaux preaches his famous sermon in a field at Vézelay, urging the necessity of a Second Crusade. Louis VII is present, and joins the Crusade.
• 1492 - Queen Isabella of Castille orders her 150,000 Jewish subjects to convert to Christianity or face expulsion.
• 1717 - A sermon on "The Nature of the Kingdom of Christ" by Benjamin Hoadly, the Bishop of Bangor, provoked the Bangorian Controversy.
• 1774 - American Revolutionary War: The Kingdom of Great Britain orders the port of Boston closed in the Boston Port Act.
• 1822 - The massacre of the population of the Greek island of Chios by soldiers of the Ottoman Empire following a rebellion attempt, depicted by the French artist Eugène Delacroix.
• 1854 - Commodore Matthew Perry signs the Treaty of Kanagawa with the Japanese government, opening the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to American trade.
• 1866 - The Spanish Navy bombs the harbour of Valparaíso, Chile.
• 1877 - The family with samurai antecedents who responded to the Saigo army in Ōita Nakatsu rebels.
• 1885 - The United Kingdom establishes a protectorate over Bechuanaland.
• 1889 - The Eiffel Tower is inaugurated.
• 1903 - Richard Pearse apparently made the worlds first powered flight, after flying a few hundred metres he crashed into a hedge.
• 1906 - The Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States (later National Collegiate Athletic Association) is established to set rules for amateur sports in the United States.
• 1909 - Serbia accepts Austrian control over Bosnia-Herzegovina.
• 1917 - The United States takes possession of the Danish West Indies after paying $25 million to Denmark, and renames the territory the U.S. Virgin Islands.
• 1918 - Daylight saving time goes into effect in the United States for the first time.
• 1930 - The Motion Pictures Production Code is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in motion pictures for the next thirty eight years.
• 1931 - An earthquake destroys Managua, Nicaragua, killing 2,000.
• 1933 - The Civilian Conservation Corps is established with the mission to relieve rampant unemployment.
• 1942 - In World War II, Japanese forces invade Christmas Island, then a British possession.
• 1942 - Holocaust in Ivano-Frankivsk (then called Stanislawow), western Ukraine. German Gestapo organise the first deportation of 5.000 Jews from Stanislawow ghetto to Belzec death camp. It was one of the biggest transports to Belzec in the first phase of the camp.
• 1944 - Japanese Navy Marshal Mineichi Koga dies in the performance of job in the Navy Second Incident.
• 1946 - The first election is held in Greece after World War II.
• 1949 - The Dominion of Newfoundland joins Confederation and becomes the 10th Province of Canada.
• 1951 - The first commercial US made computer, UNIVAC I, was delivered to the United States Census Bureau.
• 1957 - Elections to the Territorial Assembly of the French colony Upper Volta. After the elections PDU and MDV form a government.
• 1959 - The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, crosses the border into India and is granted political asylum.
• 1964 - The Dictatorship in Brazil, under the aegis of general Castello Branco, begins.
• 1965 - Iberia Airlines Convair 440, crashed into the sea on approach to Tangier killing 47 of 51 occupants.
• 1966 - The Soviet Union launches Luna 10 which later becomes the first spaceprobe to enter orbit around the Moon.
• 1968 - President Lyndon B. Johnson announces he will not run for re-election.
• 1970 - Explorer 1 re-enters the Earth's atmosphere (after 12 years in orbit).
• 1970 - Eight terrorists from the Japanese Red Army hijacked Japan Airlines Flight 351 at Tokyo International Airport, wielding samurai swords and carrying a bomb.
• 1979 - The last British soldier leaves the Maltese Islands. Malta declares its Freedom Day (Jum il-Helsien).
• 1986 - A Mexicana Boeing 727 en route to Puerto Vallarta erupts in flames and crashes in the mountains northwest of Mexico City, killing 166.
• 1986 - Six metropolitan county councils are abolished in England.
• 1990 - 200,000 protestors took to the streets of London to show their displeasure at the newly introduced Poll Tax.
• 1991 - The Establishment of Islamic Constitutional Movement - Hadas in Kuwait.
• 1992 - USS Missouri, the last active US Navy Battleship, is decommissioned in Long Beach.
• 1994 - The journal Nature reports the finding in Ethiopia of the first complete Australopithecus afarensis skull (see Human evolution).
• 1995 - In Corpus Christi, Latin superstar Selena Quintanilla Perez is shot and killed by Yolanda Saldivar, the president of her own fan club.
• 1998 - Netscape releases the code base of its browser under an open-source license agreement; the project is given the code name Mozilla and would eventually be spun off into the non-profit Mozilla Foundation.
• 2002 - 331 Earthquake in Taiwan, which measured 7.1 and killed at least four people.
• 2004 - In Fallujah, Iraq, 4 American private military contractors working for Blackwater USA, are killed and their bodies mutilated after being ambushed.

Births

• 250 - Constantius Chlorus, Roman Emperor (d. 306)
• 1360 - Philippa of Lancaster, queen of Portugal (d. 1415)
• 1425 - Bianca Maria Visconti, Duchess of Milan (d. 1468)
• 1499 - Pope Pius IV (d. 1565)
• 1504 - Guru Angad Dev, second Sikh guru (d. 1552)
• 1519 - King Henry II of France (d. 1559)
• 1536 - Ashikaga Yoshiteru, Japanese shogun (d. 1565)
• 1576 - Louise Juliana of Nassau, Regent of Bohemia (died 1644)
• 1596 - René Descartes, French mathematician (d. 1650)
• 1621 - Andrew Marvell, English poet (d. 1678)
• 1651 - Karl II (d. 1685)
• 1675 - Pope Benedict XIV (d. 1758)
• 1718 - Marianne Victoria of Borbón, queen regent of Portugal (d. 1781)
• 1723 - King Frederick V of Denmark (d. 1766)
• 1730 - Étienne Bézout, French mathematician (d. 1783)
• 1732 - Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer (d. 1809)
• 1777 - Charles Cagniard de la Tour, French physicist (d. 1859)
• 1778 - Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Dutch zoologist (d. 1858)
• 1794 - Thomas McKean Thompson McKennan, American politician (d. 1852)
• 1809 - Edward FitzGerald, English poet (d. 1883)
• 1811 - Robert Wilhelm Bunsen, German chemist and inventor (d. 1899)
• 1819 - Prince Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1901)
• 1847 - Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev, Russian mathematician (d. 1878)
• 1855 - Alfred E. Hunt, founder of Alcoa (d. 1899)
• 1871 - Arthur Griffith, President of Ireland (d. 1922)
• 1872 - Alexandra Kollontai, Russian ambassador to Norway (d.1952)
• 1872 - Serge Diaghilev, Russian ballet impresario (Ballets Russes) (d. 1929)
• 1876 - Borisav "Bora" Stanković, Serbian writer (d. 1927)
• 1878 - Jack Johnson, American boxer (d. 1946)
• 1884 - Adriaan van Maanen, Dutch-American astronomer (d. 1946)
• 1885 - Pascin, Bulgarian painter (d. 1930)
• 1890 - William Lawrence Bragg, English physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1971)
• 1891 - Victor Varconi, Hungarian film actor (d. 1976)
• 1893 - Clemens Krauss, Austrian conductor (d. 1954)
• 1906 - Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Japanese physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1979)
• 1907 - Eddie Quillan, American actor (d. 1990)
• 1908 - Red Norvo, American jazz vibraphonist (d. 1999)
• 1911 - Elisabeth Grümmer, Alsatian soprano (d. 1986)
• 1914 - Octavio Paz, Mexican diplomat and writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1998)
• 1915 - Albert Hourani, English historian (d. 1993)
• 1915 - Shoichi Yokoi, Japanese military man (d. 1997)
• 1916 - Lucille Bliss, American voice actress
• 1916 - John H. Wood, American federal judge (d. 1979)
• 1919 - Frank Akins, American football player (d. 1993)
• 1922 - Richard Kiley, American actor and singer (d. 1999)
• 1924 - Leo Buscaglia, American author (d. 1998)
• 1924 - Charles Guggenheim, American film director/producer (d. 2002)
• 1925 - Jean Coutu, French Canadian actor (d. 1999)
• 1926 - John Fowles, English author (d. 2005)
• 1927 - César Chávez, American labor activist (d. 1993)
• 1927 - William Daniels, American actor
• 1928 - Lefty Frizzell, American singer and songwriter (d. 1975)
• 1928 - Gordie Howe, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1929 - Liz Claiborne, Belgian-born American fashion designer (d. 2007)
• 1929 - Bertram Fields, American lawyer
• 1931 - Miller Barber, American golfer
• 1932 - Nagisa Oshima, Japanese film director
• 1933 - Nichita Stănescu, Romanian poet (d. 1983)
• 1934 - Richard Chamberlain, American actor
• 1934 - Shirley Jones, American singer and actress
• 1934 - Carlo Rubbia, Italian physicist, Nobel laureate
• 1934 - John D. Loudermilk, American singer and songwriter
• 1935 - Herb Alpert, American trumpeter and band leader
• 1935 - Judith Rossner, American author
• 1936 - Bob Pulford, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1936 - Marge Piercy, American writer
• 1936 - Dokumamushi Sandayu, Japanese actor
• 1938 - Sheila Dikshit, Chief Minister of Delhi
• 1938 - David Steel, Scottish politician
• 1938 - Michiko Nomura, Japanese voice actor
• 1938 - Bill Hicke, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2005)
• 1939 - Zviad Gamsakhurdia, first President of Georgia (d. 1993)
• 1939 - Volker Schlöndorff, German film director
• 1940 - Barney Frank, U.S. Representative from Massachusetts
• 1940 - Patrick Leahy, U.S. Senator from Vermont
• 1942 - Michael Savage, American talk radio host and commentator
• 1942 - Ulla Hoffmann, Swedish politician
• 1943 - Christopher Walken, American actor
• 1944 - Pascal Danel, French singer and songwriter
• 1944 - Mick Ralphs, English guitarist (Mott the Hoople, Bad Company)
• 1945 - Valerie Curtin, American actress, writer, and producer
• 1945 - Gabe Kaplan, American actor and comedian
• 1946 - Gonzalo Márquez, Venezuelan baseball player (d. 1984)
• 1947 - Cesar Gaviria Trujillo, President of Colombia
• 1948 - Al Gore, Vice President of the United States and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
• 1948 - Rhea Perlman, American actress
• 1950 - Ed Marinaro, American football player and actor
• 1950 - András Adorján, Hungarian chess player
• 1955 - Angus Young, Scottish-born Australian guitarist (AC/DC)
• 1955 - Robert Vance, New Zealand cricketer
• 1957 - Marc McClure, American actor
• 1957 - Alan Duncan, British politician
• 1959 - Ali McMordie, Irish bassist (Stiff Little Fingers)
• 1963 - Paul Mercurio, Australian actor/dancer
• 1964 - Paul Wong Koon-Chung, Hong Kong musician (Beyond)
• 1965 - Tom Barrasso, American ice hockey player
• 1965 - Steven T. Seagle, American comic-book writer
• 1966 - Roger Black, English athlete
• 1968 - Naoya Ogawa, Japanese professional wrestler
• 1969 - Samantha Brown, American television host
• 1969 - Nyamko Sabuni, Swedish politician
• 1971 - Pavel Bure, Russian ice hockey player
• 1971 - Ewan McGregor, Scottish actor
• 1972 - Hristos Polihroniou, Greek hammer thrower
• 1972 - Alejandro Amenábar, Spanish film director
• 1973 - Bold Forbes, Puerto Rican/American thoroughbred racehorse (d. 2000)
• 1974 - Stefan Olsdal, Swedish bassist (Placebo)
• 1974 - Benjamin Eicher, Swiss film director
• 1974 - Angela Dotchin, New Zealand actress
• 1976 - Josh Saviano, American actor
• 1976 - Ashton Moore, American porn actress
• 1977 - Toshiya, Japanese musician (Dir en grey)
• 1977 - Garth Tander, Australian racing driver
• 1978 - Stephen Clemence, English footballer
• 1978 - Jérôme Rothen, French footballer
• 1978 - Tony Yayo, American rapper
• 1979 - Josh Kinney, American baseball player
• 1980 - Chien-Ming Wang, Taiwanese baseball player
• 1980 - Maaya Sakamoto, Japanese voice actor
• 1980 - Michael Ryder, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1981 - Maarten van der Weijden, Dutch swimmer
• 1982 - Lennon Murphy, American rock singer/songwriter and Suicide Girl
• 1982 - Philippe Mexès, French footballer
• 1983 - Paddy McCarthy, Irish footballer
• 1983 - Vlasios Maras, Greek gymnast
• 1984 - James Jones, American football player

Deaths

• 1074 - Regency Yorimichi Fujiwara of Japan (b. 992)
• 1204 - Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen of France and England (b. 1121)
• 1340 - Ivan I of Russia, Prince of Moscow (b. 1288)
• 1547 - Francis I of France (b. 1494)
• 1567 - Philipp I of Hesse (b. 1504)
• 1621 - Philip III of Spain (b. 1578)
• 1631 - John Donne, English writer and prelate (b. 1572)
• 1671 - Anne Hyde, wife of James II of England (b. 1637)
• 1703 - Johann Christoph Bach, German composer (b. 1642)
• 1723 - Edward Hyde, British-born American statesman (b. 1661)
• 1727 - Sir Isaac Newton, English mathematician and physicist (b. 1643)
• 1741 - Pieter Burmann the Elder, Dutch classical scholar (b. 1668)
• 1783 - Nikita Ivanovich Panin, Russian statesman (b. 1718)
• 1837 - John Constable, English painter (b. 1776)
• 1855 - Charlotte Brontë, English author (b. 1816)
• 1877 - Antoine Augustin Cournot, French mathematician (b. 1801)
• 1880 - Henryk Wieniawski, Polish composer (b. 1835)
• 1885 - Franz Wilhelm Abt, German composer (b. 1819)
• 1913 - John Pierpont Morgan, American financier (b. 1837)
• 1917 - Emil Adolf von Behring, German physician, Nobel laureate (b. 1854)
• 1915 - Wyndham Halswelle, Scottish athlete (b. 1882)
• 1927 - Borisav "Bora" Stanković, Serbian writer (b. 1875)
• 1931 - Knute Rockne, American football coach (b. 1888)
• 1945 - Hans Fischer, German chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1881)
• 1945 - Anne Frank, German-born diarist (b. 1929)
• 1952 - Wallace H. White, American politician (b. 1877)
• 1956 - Ralph DePalma, Italian-born race car driver (b. 1884)
• 1968 - Grover Lowdermilk, American baseball player (b. 1885)
• 1972 - Meena Kumari, Indian actress (b. 1932)
• 1976 - Paul Strand, American photographer (b. 1890)
• 1978 - Charles Best, Canadian medical scientist (b. 1899)
• 1980 - Vladimír Holan, Czech poet (b. 1905)
• 1980 - Jesse Owens, American athlete (b. 1913)
• 1981 - Enid Bagnold, British playwright (b. 1889)
• 1984 - Ronald Clark O'Bryan, American murderer (b. 1944)
• 1985 - Jeanine Deckers, Belgian nun (b. 1933)
• 1986 - O'Kelly Isley, American singer (The Isley Brothers) (b. 1937)
• 1986 - Jerry Paris, American actor (b. 1925)
• 1988 - William McMahon, 20th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1908)
• 1993 - Brandon Lee, American actor (b. 1965)
• 1993 - Mitchell Parish, American lyricist (b. 1900)
• 1995 - Selena, American singer (b. 1971)
• 1996 - Jeffrey Lee Pierce, American singer, songwriter and guitarist (The Gun Club) (b. 1958)
• 1998 - Bella Abzug, American politician (b. 1920)
• 1998 - Tim Flock, American race car driver (b. 1924)
• 1999 - Yuri Knorosov, Russian linguist (b. 1922)
• 2001 - Clifford Shull, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1915)
• 2002 - Barry Took, British comedian (b. 1928)
• 2003 - H.S.M. Coxeter, English-born geometer (b. 1907)
• 2003 - Tommy Seebach, Danish singer (b. 1949)
• 2003 - Anne Gwynne, American film actress (b. 1918)
• 2005 - Stanley J. Korsmeyer, American oncologist (b. 1951)
• 2005 - Frank Perdue, American poultry farmer (b. 1920)
• 2005 - Terri Schiavo, American figure in right to die case (b. 1963)
• 2006 - Jackie McLean, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1931 or 1932)
• 2006 - Angela Devi, American adult model (b. 1975)
• 2007 - Paul Watzlawick, Communications & Constructivism Theorist (b. 1921)

Holidays and observances

• New Jersey - Thomas Mundy Peterson Day
• Freedom Day

Liturgical feasts

• Abdas of Susa ^[1]
• Saint Amos
• Anesius and companions ^[1]
• Blessed Hendrik Werner

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Holweck, F. G. A Biographical Dictionary of the Saints. St. Louis, MO: B. Herder Book Co. 1924.

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day

• On This Day in Canada