Today is Monday, March 31, the 90th day of 2025. There are 275 days a year left.
Today in history:
On March 31, 1993, actor Brandon Lee, 28, was accidentally shot to death during the shooting of a film in Wilmington, in North Carolina, when he was struck by a ball fragment which had been housed in a Prop pistol.
Also on this date:
In 1492, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain delivered the decree of Alhambra, an edict expeling Jews from the Spanish soil, with the exception of those who wish to convert to Christianity.
In 1854, Japan and the United States signed the Kanagawa Treaty, which opened two Japanese ports to American ships and marked the start of Japan’s transition away from isolationism.
In 1918, the United States observed for the first time the summer hour, advancing the one hour clocks.
In 1931, Notre Dame College’s football coach Knute Rockne, 43, was killed in the accident of a Two -like plane near Bazaar, in Kansas.
In 1968, at the end of an address broadcast at the national level in Vietnam, President Lyndon B. Johnson amazed the listeners by declaring: “I will not seek, and I will not accept, the appointment of my party for another mandate as president.”
In 1995, the 23 -year -old Tejano music star died after being killed by Yolanda Saldívar, the president of the Selena fan club, who turned out to divert the singer’s money.
In 2004, four American civil entrepreneurs were killed by Iraqi insurgents in Faludah, Iraq; Frenched crowds then dragged the burned and mutilated bodies and hanged two of them from a bridge.
In 2005, Terre Schiavo (Shy’-Voh), 41, died in a hospice from Pinellas Park, Florida, 13 days after the withdrawal of his food tube in a duty-to-dying battle that started in 1998.
In 2022, scientists announced that they had completely finished sequencing the human genome, the complete genetic plan for human life.
Today’s birthdays:
- Actor William Daniels is 98 years old.
- The actor Richard Chamberlain is 91.
- The actor Shirley Jones is 91.
- The musician-producer Herb Alpert is 90 years old.
- Actor Christopher Walken is 82 years old.
- Senator Angus King, I-Maine, is 81 years old.
- Former vice-president Al Gore is 77 years old.
- Actor Rhea Perlman is 77 years old.
- The musician of Rock Angus Young (AC / DC) is 70 years old.
- Hockey Hall of Famer, Pavel Bure, is 54 years old.
- Actor Ewan McGregor is 54 years old.
- Actor Brian Tyree Henry is 43 years old.
- The filmmaker Chloé Zhao is 43 years old.
- The musician-producer Jack Antonoff is 41 years old.
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