{"id":503319,"date":"2026-03-30T17:24:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T21:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/march-31st-anniversaries\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T17:24:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T21:24:02","slug":"march-31st-anniversaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/style\/anniversaries\/march-31st-anniversaries\/","title":{"rendered":"March 31st Anniversaries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Santo Domingo.-<\/strong>\u00a0The events of\u00a0<strong>March 31,<\/strong>\u00a0are marked by important historical events and international celebrations that left their mark on world history.\u00a0<strong>Here are the main events of March 31:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>International Zero Waste Day<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>International Transgender Day of Visibility promotes respect and inclusion globally<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>World Backup Day (Data Backup)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Saint's Day:<\/strong>&nbsp;Saints Balbina and Cornelia. Saint Guy of Pomposa, Prophet Amos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>National: March 31st Anniversaries<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>1864.&nbsp;<\/strong>Field Marshal Jos\u00e9 de la G\u00e1ndara y Navarro assumes command of the Spanish colony in La Espa\u00f1ola.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1876.<\/strong>&nbsp;The tenth constitutional amendment is approved in Santo Domingo (in the last three years).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1905.<\/strong>&nbsp;President Carlos Morales Languasco issues a customs collection decree, whose revenues will be distributed as follows: 45% to the Dominican Government and the remaining 55% for the payment of the national external debt.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1938.<\/strong>&nbsp;The publication of the bulletin of the General Archive of the Nation begins.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1960.<\/strong>&nbsp;Cuban hitman Francisco Quintana Valdez offers the FBI details of how he and his compatriot Artemio Molina Fern\u00e1ndez assassinated the Spanish writer Jos\u00e9 Almoina Mateos, by order of dictator Rafael Trujillo.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1963.&nbsp;<\/strong>Several leaders of the communist party Movimiento Popular Dominicano (MPD), led by M\u00e1ximo L\u00f3pez Molina, return to the country, being received by a group of people shouting \u201cHomeland or Death\u201d and \u201cYankees Out\u201d.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1970.<\/strong>&nbsp;During a workers' demonstration held in Puerto Plata, the port workers Tom\u00e1s Severo hijo, Severino Pascual, Pedro Almonte and Carlos Santos L\u00f3pez are murdered.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1993.<\/strong>&nbsp;Representatives of the PRD, PLD and PRSC parties accept the proposal that Cardinal Nicol\u00e1s de Js. L\u00f3pez Rodr\u00edguez mediate between the JCE and the political organizations, to resolve the dispute over the signing of the contract with IBM\/Kodak in the updating of the electoral roll.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2008.<\/strong>&nbsp;The Attorney General's Office of the Republic reveals that, according to its statistics, during 2007 there were 803 homicides linked to common crime.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2015.&nbsp;<\/strong>The traditional company Cervecer\u00eda Nacional Dominicana (CND) disappears as a legal entity, being absorbed by Brazilian Cervecera Ambev Dominicana, S.A., as part of the merger process of both liquor firms.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>International: March 31st Anniversaries<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>1492.<\/strong>&nbsp;The Catholic Monarchs of Spain, Ferdinand II and Isabella I, sign the decree of expulsion from their entire territory of the Jews who do not convert to Christianity, within four months.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1493.<\/strong>&nbsp;Spanish navigator Mart\u00edn Alonso Pinz\u00f3n dies.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1854.<\/strong>&nbsp;The treaty of peace and friendship between Japan and the USA is signed, by which the ports of Sidoma and Hakodate were opened.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1917.<\/strong>&nbsp;The United States takes control of the Virgin Islands purchased from Denmark for 20 million dollars.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><\/strong><strong>1931.<\/strong>&nbsp;An earthquake devastates Managua and leaves a balance of 1,500 dead and 3,000 injured.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1939.<\/strong>&nbsp;France and Great Britain guarantee the integrity of the borders of the Polish state.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1948.<\/strong>&nbsp;The so-called \u201cMarshall Plan\u201d is approved in the USA.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1989.<\/strong>&nbsp;The leader Mohammed Yasir Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini, better known as Yaser Arafat, is proclaimed president of Palestine by unanimous decision of the 70 members of the PLO Central Committee.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1990.<\/strong>\u00a0The Cuban singer-songwriter\u00a0Silvio Rodr\u00edguez\u00a0offers a concert to 75,000 people at the\u00a0National Stadium\u00a0of\u00a0Santiago de Chile, after being prohibited from entering the country for 17 years, during the\u00a0dictatorship\u00a0of\u00a0Augusto Pinochet\u00a0.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1992.<\/strong>&nbsp;Boris Yeltsin signs the Federation Treaty with 18 Russian republics in Moscow.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1995.<\/strong>&nbsp;The Mexican-American singer Selena Quintanilla-P\u00e9rez, called \u201cthe queen of tex mex\u201d, is murdered in a hotel in the city of Corpus Cristo, Texas.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1997.<\/strong>\u00a0At the\u00a0Huarte-Araquil\u00a0(Navarre,\u00a0Spain) station, a train accident occurs causing 18 deaths and between 80 and 100 injuries.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2006.<\/strong>&nbsp;The French president, Jacques Chirac, announces that he will enact the law of the First Employment Contract, but asks to modify its most criticized points before being applied, after four days of popular mobilizations.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2009.<\/strong>\u00a0Argentine ex-president Ra\u00fal Alfons\u00edn, who governed his country from\u00a0December 10,\u00a01983\u00a0-\u00a0July 8,\u00a01989, dies at the age of 82 due to\u00a0lung cancer.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2014<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong>&nbsp;The Colombian writer Gabriel Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez is hospitalized in a medical center in Mexico City due to pneumonia. He died two weeks later.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2017.<\/strong>&nbsp;After a night of rain, the city of Mocoa, Colombia, is destroyed, whose number of dead and missing remains uncertain.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2021.<\/strong>&nbsp;A federal court in New York imposes the maximum sentence, plus 30 years, on the Latino Antonio (Tony) Hern\u00e1ndez - brother of Honduran President Juan Orlando Hern\u00e1ndez - for charges of drug trafficking, use of weapons and endangering the health and safety of the United States and Honduras, for more than 12 years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Births: March 31st Anniversaries<\/strong><br><br>1596 \u2013 <strong>Ren\u00e9 Descartes<\/strong> French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist, considered the father of modern philosophy.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>1732 <\/strong>.Franz Joseph Haydn Austrian composer, one of the most important figures of musical classicism.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1927.<\/strong> C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez American activist and union leader, defender of agricultural workers.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1943 .<\/strong> Christopher Walken American actor, Oscar winner and recognized for his unique style.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1955. <\/strong>Angus Young<strong> <\/strong>Guitarist and co-founder of the rock band <strong>AC\/DC<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1971.<\/strong> Ewan McGregor Scottish actor, famous for his role as Obi-Wan Kenobi in <em>Star Wars<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Deaths: March 31st Anniversaries<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>1547<\/strong>. Francis I of France King of France, a prominent Renaissance monarch and rival of Emperor Charles V.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1880<\/strong>. Henryk Wieniawski Polish violinist and composer, considered one of the great virtuosos of the 19th century.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1917<\/strong>. Emil Adolf von Behring German physician and bacteriologist, first winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1993<\/strong>. Brandon Lee American actor, tragically deceased during the filming of the movie <em>The Crow<\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1995<\/strong>. Selena American Tejano music singer, known as the \u201cQueen of Tex-Mex\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santo Domingo.-\u00a0The events of\u00a0March 31,\u00a0are marked by important historical events and international celebrations that left their mark on world history.\u00a0Here are the main events of March 31: Saint&#8217;s Day:&nbsp;Saints Balbina and Cornelia. Saint Guy of Pomposa, Prophet Amos. National: March 31st Anniversaries International: March 31st Anniversaries Births: March 31st Anniversaries 1596 \u2013 Ren\u00e9 Descartes French [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40918],"tags":[40224],"class_list":{"0":"post-503319","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-anniversaries","7":"tag-ephemeris"},"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Yerandi Santana","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2026-02-13-at-5.35.07-PM-96x96.jpeg","categories_name":["Anniversaries"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}