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03/31/1838
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L‚on Dierx, French poet
Type: Birth
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03/31/1839
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Nikolay Przhevalsky, naturalist, explorer of east central Asia (OS)
Type: Birth
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03/31/1840
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John Herbert Kelly, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
Type: Birth
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03/31/1841
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1st performance of Robert Schumann's 1st Symphony in B
Type: Event
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03/31/1844
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Andrew Lang, Scotland, author (The Blue Fairy Book)
Type: Birth
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03/31/1847
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Jarolslaw Zielinski, composer
Type: Birth
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03/31/1848
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John Henry Roberts, composer
Type: Birth
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03/31/1849
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Col John W Geary arrives as 1st postmaster of SF
Type: Event
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03/31/1850
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US population hits 23,191,876 (Black population: 3,638,808 (15.7%))
Type: Event
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03/31/1850
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John Calhoun, dies at 68
Type: Death
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03/31/1854
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Treaty of Kanagawa: Commodore Perry forces Japan to opens ports to US
Type: Event
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03/31/1854
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Dugald Clerk, inventor (2-stroke motorcycle engine)
Type: Birth
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03/31/1855
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Charlotte Bront‰, English author (Jane Eyre), dies at 38
Type: Death
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03/31/1861
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Confederacy takes over mint at New Orleans
Type: Event
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03/31/1862
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Civil War action at Island #10 on Mississippi River
Type: Event
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03/31/1863
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Battle of Grand Gulf MS and Dinwiddie Court House VA
Type: Event
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03/31/1865
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Battle of Boydton, VA (White Oaks Roads, Dinwiddie C H)
Type: Event
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03/31/1865
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Gen Pickette moves to 5 Forks, abandoning the defense of Peterburg
Type: Event
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03/31/1868
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Chinese Embassy arrives aboard steamship China
Type: Event
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03/31/1868
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Karl Bonhoeffer, German psychiatrist/neurologist
Type: Birth
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03/31/1870
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1st black to vote in US (Thomas P Mundy of Perth Amboy NJ)
Type: Event
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03/31/1872
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Arthur Griffith, Irish journalist, founder of Sinn F‚in
Type: Birth
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03/31/1872
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Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev, Russia, dance master (Imperial Ballet)
Type: Birth
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03/31/1877
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British high director/governor sir Bartle Frere arrives in Capetown
Type: Event
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03/31/1877
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Test Cricket debut of Fred "Demon" Spofforth, Aust v Eng MCG
Type: Event
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03/31/1877
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Antoine A Cournot, French mathematician (rule of C), dies at 75
Type: Death
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03/31/1878
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Jack Johnson is 1st black to hold a heavyweight boxing title
Type: Event
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03/31/1878
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Jack Johnson,1st black heavyweight boxing champ (1908-1915)
Type: Birth
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03/31/1880
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Henryk Wieniawski, Polish violist/composer, dies at 44
Type: Death
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03/31/1880
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1st town completely illuminated by electric lighting (Wabash, IN)
Type: Event
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03/31/1881
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Gaetano Gaspari, composer, dies at 73
Type: Death
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03/31/1883
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1st performance of C‚sar Franck's "Le Chasseur Maudit"
Type: Event
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03/31/1883
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Utrecht begins water pipe system
Type: Event
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03/31/1884
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Jan T Beelen, Neth/Belgian catholic bible expert, dies at 77
Type: Death
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03/31/1885
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Great Britain declares Bechuanaland a protectorate
Type: Event
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03/31/1885
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Jules Pascin, [Julius Pincas], Bulgarian/US painter/cartoonist
Type: Birth
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03/31/1885
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Franz Wilhelm Abt, German composer/choir conductor, dies at 65
Type: Death
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03/31/1885
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Franz W Abbot, German composer/choir conductor, dies
Type: Death
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03/31/1885
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Philipp Fahrbach, composer, dies at 69
Type: Death
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03/31/1886
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Giovanni Rossi, composer, dies at 57
Type: Death
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03/31/1887
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Saint-John Perse, [MRA Alexis L‚ger], Fren poet (Nobel 1960) [or 5/31]
Type: Birth
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03/31/1887
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Jose Maria Usandizaga, composer
Type: Birth
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03/31/1889
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300m Eiffel Tower officially opens (commemorates French Revolution)
Type: Event
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03/31/1891
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Victor Varconi, Hungary, actor (Divine Lady, King of Kings, Big City)
Type: Birth
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03/31/1891
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Erich Walter Sternberg, composer
Type: Birth
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03/31/1891
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Ion Pillat, Romaniams poet/senator (Umbra timpului)
Type: Birth
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03/31/1892
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Adolf Rzepko, composer, dies at 66
Type: Death
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03/31/1892
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Stanislav Wladyslaw Maczek, Polish/British general-major/commandant
Type: Birth
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03/31/1893
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Clemens Krauss, Vienna Austria, conductor (Berlin State Orch-1937)
Type: Birth
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03/31/1895
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Vardis A Fisher, US author (Darkness and Deep)
Type: Birth
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