What happend on 31st March

30.03
01.04
2004

Sandton Square in Johannesburg, South Africa, is renamed Nelson Mandela Square.

2004

In Fallujah, Iraq, 4 American private military contractors working for Blackwater USA, are killed and their bodies mutilated after being ambushed.

2004

Google announces Gmail, the first web-based mail service to offer 1 gigabyte of storage.

1998

Netscape gives the code base of its browser under an open-source license agreement, thus creating Mozilla Foundation, a non-profit corporation to oversee the development of Mozilla.

1995

Popular Tex-Mex singer Selena Quintanilla is murdered by her assistant Yolanda Saldívar in a Corpus Christi, Texas motel after a heated discussion where the latter was accused of ripping off the artist's fan club.

1994

The journal Nature reports the finding in Ethiopia of the first complete Australopithecus afarensis skull (see Human evolution).

1993

Actor Brandon Lee is accidentally killed during the filming of The Crow.

1992

The television news program Dateline NBC premieres.

1991

The Warsaw Pact comes to an end.

1990

Boxer Julio César Chávez defeats Meldrick Taylor to unify the boxing's world junior welterweight title in a very controversial fight known as "Thunder Meets Lightning".