1738 – Parliament sends an address to the king requesting that he demand redress from Spain (War of Jenkin’s Ear)
1774 – Britain passed the Coercive Act against Massachusetts.
1804 – Ohio passes law restricting movement of Blacks
1834 – The U.S. Senate voted to censure President Jackson for the removal of federal deposits from the Bank of the United States.
1854 – The Crimean War began with Britain and France declaring war on Russia.
1865 – Outdoor advertising legislation was enacted in New York. The law banned “painting on stones, rocks and trees.”
1885 – The Salvation Army was officially organized in the U.S.
1898 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a child born in the U.S. to Chinese immigrants was a U.S. citizen. This meant that they could not be deported under the Chinese Exclusion Act.
1917 – Jews are expelled from Tel Aviv & Jaffa by Turkish authorities
1921 – U.S. President Warren Harding named William Howard Taft as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court.
1930 – Turkish cities Constantinople and Angora change their names to Istanbul and Ankara
1933 – In Germany, the Nazis ordered a ban on all Jews in businesses, professions and schools.
1938 – In Italy, psychiatrists demonstrated the use of electric-shock therapy for treatment of certain mental illnesses.
1942 – St. Nazaire Raid (Operation Chariot): obsolete British destroyer HMS Campbeltown, rigged with explosives and flying German flags, rams gates of German occupied St Nazaire port in France, and self detonates; kills 360 Germans, and disables the dry dock for duration of the war
1946 – Cold War: The United States State Department releases the Acheson-Lilienthal Report, outlining a plan for the international control of nuclear power.
1979 – Three Mile Island nuclear power plant experiences a partial meltdown and radioactive leak – The coolant leak was the worst commercial nuclear accident in the United States. A continuous string of nuclear disasters, such as Three Mile Island (1979), Chernobyl (1986), and Fukushima (2011) continue to raise doubts about the security and environmental benefit of nuclear power. https://www.pennlive.com/news/2022/03/a-chain-reaction-of-mechanical-and-human-errors-the-partial-meltdown-at-tmi-in-1979.html
1981 – In Bangkok, Thailand, Indonesian terrorists hijacked an airplane. Four of the five terrorists were killed on March 31.
1986 – Extremist Sikhs kill 13 Hindus in Ludhiana, India
1990 – In Britain, a joint Anglo-U.S. “sting” operation ended with the seizure of 40 capacitors, which can be used in the trigger mechanism of a nuclear weapon.
1994 – Armed Zulus demonstrate in Johannesburg, over 53 killed
2000 – Supreme Court rules unanimously that an anonymous tip does not justify a stop-and-frisk action against a person
2003 – In a “friendly fire” incident, two US A-10 Thunderbolt IIs from the 190th Fighter Squadron attack British tanks participating in the invasion of Iraq, killing British soldier Matty Hull
2006 – At least 1 million union members, students and unemployed take to the streets in France in protest at the government’s proposed First Employment Contract law.
2010 – China’s Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co. signed a deal to buy Ford Motor Co.’s Volvo car unit.
2017 – US confirms likely it is behind the air strike in Mosul, Iraq, that led to collapse of a building that killed more than 100 civilians
2017 – US President Donald Trump signs Energy Independence executive order undoing Obama climate-control measures
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
