On March 31

A tornado caused the collapse of a venue hosting a sold-out concert in Belvidere, Illinois, United States, resulting in one death and 48 injuries.

Nikol Pashinyan began his protest walk, starting in the city of Gyumri, opening the 2018 Armenian revolution.

The Old National Library Building in Singapore was closed to make way for a tunnel, despite widespread protests.

TAROM Flight 371 (pictured) crashed near Balotești, Romania, killing all 60 people on board.

American singer-songwriter Selena, known as the "queen of Tejano music", was murdered by the president of her fan club, Yolanda Saldívar, in Corpus Christi, Texas, deeply affecting the Latino community.

USS Missouri, the last active United States Navy battleship, was decommissioned in Long Beach, California.

The Brazilian Armed Forces overthrew President João Goulart, establishing a military dictatorship that lasted 21 years.

After a two-week escape journey from Tibet, the 14th Dalai Lama reached the Tawang Monastery in Arunachal Pradesh in India.

Second World War: Because of a mutiny by Indian soldiers against their British officers, Japanese troops captured Christmas Island without any resistance.

To avoid government censorship, Hollywood movie studios instituted their own set of industry censorship guidelines, popularly known as the Hays Code.

The Australian Air Force was formed, replacing the short-lived Australian Air Corps and separating it from the Army.

Arnold Schoenberg conducted the Vienna Concert Society in a concert of expressionist music that so shocked the audience that they began to riot.

Six English towns amalgamated to form a single county borough called Stoke-on-Trent, the first union of its type.

A magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck the Black Sea, the most powerful ever recorded in the area.

Philippine–American War: Malolos, capital of the First Philippine Republic, was captured by American forces.

U.S. Navy Commodore Matthew C. Perry (Japanese depiction pictured) and the Tokugawa shogunate signed the Convention of Kanagawa, forcing the opening of Japanese ports to American trade.

After fighting through the night, the French Navy ship of the line Guillaume Tell surrendered to a British squadron in the Malta Channel.

Lisbon experienced its second major earthquake in six years, with effects felt as far north as Scotland.

Ferdinand Magellan and members of his crew participated in the first Catholic Mass in the Philippines.

Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile sign the Alhambra Decree, ordering all Jews to convert to Christianity or be expelled from the country.