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Events on March 31

• 1206 Margrave Dietrich of Meissen arbitrates a dispute between the Burgrave of Dohna and the Bishop of Meissen over Thorun Castle. Dresden is recorded in writing for the first time in the arbitration document.
• 1848 The Pre-Parliament convenes in Frankfurt am Main for its first session.
• 1889 In Paris, the Eiffel Tower, built by Gustave Eiffel and named after him, is inaugurated on the occasion of the World's Fair. The steel lattice tower, the tallest at the time, was regarded by the population of Paris as an “eyesore” and was originally intended to stand for only 20 years.
• 1909 At the Harland & Wolff Ltd. shipyard in Belfast, the keel of the Titanic is laid. After the Olympic, it is the second ship of the Olympic class to enter construction.
• 1933 The Lex van der Lubbe is published in the Imperial Law Gazette. The law was passed on the occasion of the Reichstag fire on March 29 to enable the alleged arsonist Marinus van der Lubbe to be sentenced to death retroactively, thereby contradicting the principle of the rule of law.
• 1956 For the last time, tax stamps for the Berlin emergency levy must be affixed to mail in the Federal Republic of Germany. The proceeds from the emergency tax stamp, introduced following the Berlin Blockade, were intended to help alleviate the economic hardship of West Berlin.
• 1966 The Soviet Union launches the Luna 10 space probe, which is to become the first satellite to orbit the Moon.
• 1979 In a popular vote in Iran during the Islamic Revolution, an overwhelming majority votes in favor of establishing an Islamic Republic.
• 1991 The military structures of the Warsaw Pact are dissolved.
• 1994 The British Army of the Rhine is officially disbanded. Parts of the armed forces remain stationed in Germany as British Forces Germany.
• 1997 Martina Hingis becomes the youngest female tennis player (at 16 years old) to be ranked No. 1 in the WTA rankings.
• 2007 At the Olympiahalle in Munich, Henry Maske defeats the reigning WBA world champion in the cruiserweight division, Virgil Hill, on points at the age of 43 after a ten-year break, thereby making boxing history as he has taken the longest break between fights in history. After the fight, Maske announces his permanent retirement.

Born on March 31

• 1868 Karl Bonhoeffer, German psychiatrist
• 1890 William Lawrence Bragg, British physicist, Nobel Prize winner
• 1920 Rolf Boysen, German actor
• 1932 Nagisa Ōshima, Japanese director
• 1940 Timm Ulrichs, German artist
• 1971 Dieter Fischer, German actor
• 1971 Ewan McGregor, British actor
• 1972 Alejandro Amenábar, Chilean-Spanish film director, screenwriter and composer
• 1992 Christian Mathenia, German footballer
• 2000 Lars Lukas Mai, German footballer

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „31. März“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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