What happend on 31st March

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1986

Six metropolitan county councils are abolished in England

1986

A Mexicana Boeing 727 en route to Puerto Vallarta erupts in flames and crashes in the mountains northwest of Mexico City, killing 166

1985

The first ever WrestleMania is held in New York City's Madison Square Garden.

1979

The last British soldier leaves the Maltese Islands. Malta is no longer a military base.

1979

In Jerusalem, Israel, Gali Atari & Milk and Honey win the twenth-fourth Eurovision Song Contest for Israel singing "Hallelujah".

1970

Explorer 1 re-enters the Earth's atmosphere (after 12 years in orbit).

1968

President Lyndon Johnson announces he will not run for re-election.

1967

Jimi Hendrix burns his guitar for the first time at London's Astoria Theatre. He is sent to the hospital afterwards for burns on his hands.

1966

The Soviet Union launches Luna 10 which later becomes the first spaceprobe to enter orbit around the Moon.

1964

The Dictatorship in Brazil, under the aegis of general Castello Branco, begins.