Es passierte an einem 31 March

1951 : UNIVAC


On 31 March 1951, the first commercial computer made ​​in the USA, UNIVAC, was sold by the company Remington Rand to the United States Census Bureau for the modest sum of 159,000 dollars.

1959 : Dalai Lama


On 31 March 1959, the Dalai Lama crossed the border with India after a 15 day journey through the Himalayan mountains, from the Tibetan capital Lhasa to seek political asylum after the repression of the Tibetan rebellion by the Chinese authorities.

1964 : Military coup in Brazil


On March 31, 1964 a military coup by Humberto Castello Branco overthrew the regime of President João Goulart. The military dictatorship lasted until 1985.

1991 : End of the Warsaw Pact


On 31 March 1991, the Warsaw Pact military alliance created in 1955 between the Soviet Union and the countries of Eastern Europe's communist bloc, ended.

1992 : United Nations Resolution 748 against Libya


On March 31, 1992, the UN voted resolution 748 imposing an embargo against Libya because of its involvement in the Lockerbie bombing against a Pan Am plane in 1988 and the attack against a French UTA aircraft in Niger in 1989.

Zitat des Tages : 31 March

Tenzin Gyatso, Dalai Lama
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

Geburtstage : 31 March

René Descartes, French mathematician and philosopher (1596)
Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer (1732)
Nikolai Gogol, Russian writer (1809)
Sergei Diaghilev, Founder of the Ballets Russes (1872)
William L. Bragg, English physicist, Nobel Prize (1890)
Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Japanese physicist, Nobel laureate (1906)
Octavio Paz, Mexican writer, Nobel Prize in Literature (1914)
John Fowles, English writer (1926)
William Daniels, American actor (1927)
Richard Chamberlain, American actor (1934)
Carlo Rubbia, Italian physicist, Nobel Prize (1934)
Arthur B. Rubinstein, American composer (1938)
Christopher Walken, American actor (1943)
Al Gore, 45th Vice President of the United States, environmental activist, Nobel Peace Prize (1948)
Angus Young, Scottish-born Australian musician (AC/DC) (1955)
Jean-Christophe Lafaille, French mountaineer (1965)
Ewan McGregor, Scottish actor (1971)
Stefan Olsdal, Swedish musician (Placebo) (1974)
Maarten van der Weijden, Dutch swimmer (1981)
Paddy McCarthy, Irish footballer (1983)
Jessica Szohr, American actress (1985)
Georg Listing, German bassist (Tokio Hotel) (1987)
Hogan Ephraim, English footballer (1988)

Sie haben uns verlassen 31 March

Isaac Newton, English physicist and mathematician (1727)
Olaudah Equiano, Nigerian slave, explorer, and abolitionist (1797)
John Constable, English painter (1837)
Charlotte Brontë, English writer (1855)
Emil Adolf von Behring, German physiologist, Nobel Prize (1917)
George Haité, English illustrator (1924)
Anne Frank, German diarist (1945)
Jesse Owens, American athlete (1980)
William McMahon, Prime Minister of Australia (1988)
Brandon Lee, American actor (1993)
Clifford Shull, American physicist, Nobel laureate (2001)
Jules Dassin, French director (2008)
Raúl Alfonsín, President of Argentina (2009)

Tipp des Tages : 31 March

Rainwater collector


To prevent bugs moving into your rainwater collector, put a bit of oak sawdust inside. The oak has its own defenses against insects.

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