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1146 \u2013 During a council convoked by French King Louis VII at V\u00e9zelay, France, the Benedictine monk Bernard of Clairvaux preaches a sermon urging a Second Crusade due to the fall of the crusader state of Edessa in southern Turkey, causing the entire assembly to take up the pilgrim cross.<\/p>\n
1492 \u2013 Queen Isabella of Castile issues the Alhambra Decree<\/em>, ordering her 150,000 Jewish and Muslim subjects to convert to Christianity or face expulsion.<\/p>\n 1685 \u2013 Johann Sebastian Bach is born in Eisenach, Thuringia, Duchy of Saxe-Eisenach in modern Germany.<\/p>\n 1774 \u2013 In response to the ‘Boston Tea Party’, the British parliament passes the Boston Port Act<\/em>, the first of the Intolerable Acts<\/em>\u00a0closing down the port of Boston on June 1st.<\/p>\n 1854 \u2013 Commodore Matthew Perry signs the Convention of Kanagawa<\/em> with the Japanese Tokugawa Shogunate, opening the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to American trade.<\/p>\n 1889 \u2013 The Eiffel Tower is officially opened.<\/p>\n 1899 \u2013 During\u00a0 the Phillipine-American War, Malolos, capital of the First Philippine Republic, is captured by American forces.<\/p>\n 1906 \u2013 The Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States (later the N<\/em><\/strong>ational C<\/em><\/strong>ollegiate A<\/em><\/strong>thletic A<\/em><\/strong>ssociation – NCAA<\/em><\/strong>) is established to set rules for college sports in the U.S.<\/p>\n 1917 \u2013 By the terms of the Treaty of the Danish West Indies<\/em>, The Virgin Islands are sold to the U.S. for $25 million in gold.<\/p>\n 1918 \u2013 Daylight saving time goes into effect in the U.S. for the first time.<\/p>\n 1930 \u2013 The Motion Picture Production Code is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in film in the U.S.<\/p>\n 1931 \u2013 A Transcontinental & Western Air Fokker F-10<\/em> airliner crashes near Bazaar, Kansas, killing all 8 passengers and crew aboard, including University of Notre Dame head football coach, Knute Rockne.<\/p>\n 1933 \u2013 The Civilian Conservation Corps, a voluntary public work relief program, is established with the mission of relieving rampant unemployment in the United States.<\/p>\n 1951 \u2013 Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau.<\/p>\n 1959 \u2013 Fleeing Chinese communist persecution in Tibet, the 14th Dalai Lama crosses the border into India and is granted political asylum.<\/p>\n 1968 \u2013 During a televised speech on “Steps to Limit the War in Vietnam” President Lyndon B. Johnson concludes by announcing “I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your President.”<\/em><\/p>\n 1992 \u2013 BB-63,\u00a0USS Missouri<\/em>, the last active U.S. Navy battleship, is decommissioned in Long Beach, California.<\/p>\n 1995 \u2013 Singer Selena Quintanilla-P\u00e9rez is murdered by her fan club’s president Yolanda Sald\u00edvar at a Days Inn motel in Corpus Christi, Texas<\/p>\n 1998 \u2013 Netscape releases Mozilla source code under an open source license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" March 31 1146 \u2013 During a council convoked by French King Louis VII at V\u00e9zelay, France, the Benedictine monk Bernard of Clairvaux preaches a sermon urging a Second Crusade due to the fall of the crusader state of Edessa in southern Turkey, causing the entire assembly to take up the pilgrim cross. 1492 \u2013 Queen … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66367"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91400,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66367\/revisions\/91400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}