THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 2011

Today is Thursday, March 31, the 90th day of 2011. There are 275 days left in the year.

1657 ― English Humble Petition offers Lord Protector Cromwell the crown

1796 ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s ``Egmont" premieres in Weimar

1868 ― Chinese Embassy arrives aboard steamship China

1889 ― Three hundred-meter-high Eiffel Tower officially opens (commemorates French Revolution)

1909 ― Gustav Mahler conducts New York Philharmonic for his first time

1933 ― German Republic gives power to Hitler

1959 ― Dalai Lama fled China and was granted political asylum in India

1980 ― President Jimmy Carter deregulates banking industry

1988 ― Pulitzer prize awarded to Toni Morrison for ``Beloved"

1996 ― First Opening Day in history in March takes place in Seattle, Wash.