March 31st
Today in America's Present Past
1736 | Bellevue, the first public hospital in the US, opened in New York.
1835 | The start of the Toledo War between Michigan and Ohio.
1850 | Politician John C. Calhoun died.
1870 | Thomas Mundy Peterson is the first recorded African American voter under the 15th Amendment.
1880 | Wabash, Indiana, becomes the first US city to deploy electric street lighting.
1878 | Boxer Jack Johnson was born.
1913 | Entrepreneur J.P. Morgan died.
1918 | First daylight savings time in the US goes into effect.
1927 | Activist Cesar Chavez was born.
1929 | Entrepreneur Liz Claiborne was born.
1930 | The Motion Pictures Production Code is instituted.
1931 | Notre Dame football coach Knute Rockne is killed in a plane crash.
1932 | Ford publicly unveils the first commercial V-8 engine.
1933 | Congress: The Civilian Conservation Corps is authorized.
1948 | Congress: Enacted the Marshall Aid Act.
1949 | Politician Al Gore was born.
1955 | Chase and Manhattan Bank merge.
1962 | SCOTUS: Justice Charles Whittaker resigned.
1968 | POTUS: Democrat President Johnson authorizes a troop surge in Vietnam.
1980 | POTUS: Democrat President Jimmy Carter deregulates the banking industry.
1980 | Olympian Jesse Owens died.
2020 | Psychoanalyst Richard Friedman died.