U.S. Navy battleship USS Missouri (BB-63) (”Mighty Mo” or “Big Mo”) was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named in honor of the U.S. state of Missouri, and is notable for being the site of the surrender of the Empire of Japan at the end of World War II.
Missouri saw […]

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Japan Airlines Flight 351 was hijacked by nine members of the Japanese Communist League-Red Army Faction (a predecessor of the Japanese Red Army) on March 31, 1970 while flying from Tokyo to Fukuoka, in an incident typically referred to in Japanese as the Yodo Hijacking.
The hijackers wielding samurai swords and carrying a bomb took 122 […]

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Lyndon Baines Johnson, often referred to as LBJ, was the thirty-sixth President of the United States (1963-1969). As the running-mate of John F. Kennedy, Johnson became the thirty-seventh Vice President, and in 1963, he succeeded to the presidency following Kennedy’s assassination.
He was elected President in his own right in a landslide victory in 1964. Johnson […]

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Luna 10 (E-6S series) was an unmanned space mission of the Luna program, also called Lunik 10. The Luna 10 spacecraft was launched towards the Moon from an Earth orbiting platform on March 31, 1966.
It was the first artificial satellite of the Moon (or another heavenly body, for that matter). The spacecraft entered lunar orbit […]

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Field Marshal Humberto de Alencar Castello Branco, entered the Brazilian Army in 1918 and was a colonel in the Brazilian Expeditionary Force during World War II.
Appointed Chief of Staff of the Army by President João Goulart in 1963, he became one of the leaders of the coup d’etat of March 31, 1964 that overthrew Goulart. […]

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Elections were held for the Territorial Assembly of Upper Volta on March 31, 1957. The results were: Unified Democratic Party (PDU) 35 seats, Voltaic Democratic Movement (MDV) 26 seats, African Popular Movement (MPA) 5 seats and Independents 2 seats.
After the elections PDU formed a government together with the Voltaic Democratic Movement (MDV). PDU held seven […]

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The Dominion of Newfoundland was a British dominion from 1907 (before which the territory had the status of a British colony) to 1949.
The Dominion of Newfoundland was situated in northeastern North America along the Atlantic coast and comprising the island of Newfoundland and Labrador on the continental mainland. The dominion was self-governing from 1907 to […]

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Albert Arnold “Al” Gore, Jr. was the forty-fifth Vice President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton. Gore previously served in the U. S. House of Representatives (1977-85) and the U. S. Senate (1985-93), representing Tennessee.
A prominent environmental activist, he shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with the Intergovernmental […]

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Mineichi Koga became Vice Chief of the Navy General Staff and promoted to vice admiral in December 1936 shortly before the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937.
With the start of the Pacific War, Koga commanded naval operations during the capture of Hong Kong from 9 December-31 1941. Following the death of Admiral Yamamoto […]

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At dawn on 31 March 1942, a dozen Japanese bombers launched the attack, on Christmas Island, destroying the radio station, which stood roughly where the post office is today. Fragments of bombs dropped were still being found into the 1980s in the Post Office Padang.
Because of a mutiny by Indian soldiers against their British officers, […]

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