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.