Today is Monday, March 31, the 90th day of 2014. There are 275 days left in the year.
1796 ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s “Egmont” premieres in Weimar
1814 ― Forces allied against Napoleon capture Paris France
1868 ― Chinese Embassy arrives aboard steamship China
1909 ― Gustav Mahler conducts New York Philharmonic for his first time
1921 ― Albert Einstein lectures in New York on his new theory of relativity
1933 ― German Republic gives power to Hitler
1945 ― Tennessee Williams’ “Glass Menagerie” premieres in New York City
1958 ― USSR suspends nuclear weapons tests, and urges U.S. and Britain to do same
1959 ― Dalai Lama fled China and was granted political asylum in India
1967 ― Jimi Hendrix begins his tradition of burning his guitar