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March 31st.
1 story on this exact date, across the years, plus 31 more from the surrounding weeks.
The surrounding week
12 stories within seven days of 31 March
2 April 1982Wikipedia · "Falkland Islands"Falkland Islands WarUnited Kingdom
4 April 1968Wikipedia · "Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr."Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.United States
4 April 1291Wikipedia · "Siege of Acre (1291)"Fall of AcrePalestine
5 April 1879Wikipedia · "War of the Pacific"War of the PacificChile
6 April 1992Wikipedia · "Bosnian War"Bosnian War BeginsBosnia and Herzegovina
6 April 1896Wikipedia · "1896 Summer Olympics"1896 Summer Olympic GamesGreece
7 April 1939Wikipedia · "Italian invasion of Albania"Italian Invasion of AlbaniaItaly
7 April 1906Wikipedia · "Algeciras Conference"Treaty of AlgecirasSpain
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24 March 1999Wikipedia · "NATO bombing of Yugoslavia"NATO Bombing of YugoslaviaYugoslavia
24 March 1951Wikipedia · "Festival of Britain"Festival of BritainUnited Kingdom
25 March 1911Wikipedia · "Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire"Triangle Shirtwaist Factory FireUnited States
29 March 1925Wikipedia · "1925 German presidential election"German Presidential Election 1925Germany
Elsewhere in March
17 stories
3 March 1913Wikipedia · "Woman Suffrage Procession"Women's Suffrage Parade in WashingtonUnited States
3 March 1878Wikipedia · "Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878)"Russo-Turkish War and Fall of PlevnaOttoman Empire
7 March 1965U.S. Department of Justice · via WikipediaBloody Sunday in SelmaUnited States
8 March 2014Wikipedia · "Malaysia Airlines Flight 370"Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
8 March 1917Wikipedia · "February Revolution"February Revolution Overthrows TsarRussian Empire
9 March 1989Wikipedia · "Revolutions of 1989"Fall of the Iron CurtainGermany
10 March 2000Wikipedia · "Dot-com bubble"Dotcom Bubble BurstsUnited States
11 March 2011Wikipedia · "Fukushima nuclear accident"Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear DisasterJapan
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11 March 2004Wikipedia · "2004 Madrid train bombings"2004 Madrid Train BombingsSpain
13 March 1954Wikipedia · "Battle of Dien Bien Phu"Battle of Dien Bien PhuVietnam
13 March 1938Wikipedia · "Germany"Germany Annexes AustriaGermany
13 March 1932Wikipedia · "1932 German presidential election"1933 German Presidential ElectionGermany
15 March 1991Norbert Braun on UnsplashGerman Reunification Treaty SignedGermany
17 March 1948Wikipedia · "Treaty of Brussels"Treaty of Brussels: NATO PrecursorBelgium
18 March 1839Wikipedia · "First Opium War"First Opium War beginsChina
20 March 1815"Napoleon I" by tonynetone is licensed under CC BY 2.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/.Napoleon's Escape from ElbaFrance
21 March 1960Wikipedia · "Sharpeville massacre"Sharpeville MassacreSouth Africa
Also in March
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