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| March 31st |
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| About March 31st is the 90th day of the year (91st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 275 days remaining until the end of the calendar year. It is Thomas Mundy Peterson Day in New Jersey to honor the first African-American to vote after the passage of the 15th Amendment. Births 1926 - Sydney Earle Chaplin, actor (son of Charlie Chaplin) 1928 - Gordie Howe, Hall of Fame hockey player 1938 - Jimmy Johnson, Hall of Fame cornerback (49ers) 1940 - Patrick Leahy, U.S. Senator (Vermont) 1943 - Christopher Walken, actor (Batman Returns, Pulp Fiction) 1944 - Gabe Kaplan, comedian, actor, poker player 1948 - Al Gore, 45th U.S. Vice President 1962 - Mark Begich, U.S. Senator (Alaska) Deaths 1727 - Isaac Newton, physicist, mathematician, astronomer (discovered laws of motion) 1850 - John C. Calhoun, 7th U.S. Vice President 1931 - Knute Rockne, Notre Dame football coach 1980 - Jesse Owens, track star, Olympic Gold Medalist 1993 - Brandon Lee, actor (The Crow) 2003 - George Connor, Hall of Fame offensive tackle, linebacker Events 1870 - Thomas Mundy Peterson becomes the first African-American to vote after ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment. 1999 - TIVO ships out their first product. |
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