At this time is Monday, March 31, the ninetieth day of 2025. There are 275 days left within the 12 months.
At this time in historical past:
On March 31, 1993, actor Brandon Lee, 28, was by chance shot to dying in the course of the filming of a film in Wilmington, North Carolina, when he was hit by a bullet fragment that had change into lodged inside a prop gun.
Additionally on this date:
In 1492, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain issued the Alhambra Decree, an edict expelling Jews from Spanish soil, besides these keen to transform to Christianity.
In 1854, Japan and the US signed the Treaty of Kanagawa, which opened two Japanese ports to American vessels and marked the start of Japan’s transition away from isolationism.
In 1918, the US first noticed daylight saving time, transferring clocks forward one hour.
In 1931, Notre Dame school soccer coach Knute Rockne, 43, was killed within the crash of a TWA aircraft close to Bazaar, Kansas.
In 1968, on the conclusion of a nationally broadcast handle on Vietnam, President Lyndon B. Johnson surprised listeners by declaring, “I shall not search, and I can’t settle for, the nomination of my occasion for an additional time period as your president.”
In 1995, Tejano music star Selena, 23, died after being shot by Yolanda Saldívar, the president of Selena’s fan membership, who was discovered to have been embezzling cash from the singer.
In 2004, 4 U.S. civilian contractors had been killed by Iraqi insurgents in Fallujah, Iraq; frenzied crowds then dragged the burned, mutilated our bodies and hanged two of them from a bridge.
In 2005, Terri Schiavo (SHY’-voh), 41, died at a hospice in Pinellas Park, Florida, 13 days after her feeding tube was eliminated in a wrenching right-to-die court docket battle that started in 1998.
In 2022, scientists introduced they’d completed absolutely sequencing the human genome, the total genetic blueprint for human life.
At this time’s Birthdays:
- Actor William Daniels is 98.
- Actor Richard Chamberlain is 91.
- Actor Shirley Jones is 91.
- Musician-producer Herb Alpert is 90.
- Actor Christopher Walken is 82.
- Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, is 81.
- Former Vice President Al Gore is 77.
- Actor Rhea Perlman is 77.
- Rock musician Angus Younger (AC/DC) is 70.
- Hockey Corridor of Famer Pavel Bure is 54.
- Actor Ewan McGregor is 54.
- Actor Brian Tyree Henry is 43.
- Filmmaker Chloé Zhao is 43.
- Musician-producer Jack Antonoff is 41.