Talk:March 31

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March 31: Mawlid in Sunni Islam (2007); César Chávez Day in various U.S. states, Freedom Day in Malta.

• 1854 - Commodore Matthew Perry of the U.S. Navy signed the Treaty of Kanagawa, forcing the opening of Japanese ports to American trade.
• 1889 - The Eiffel Tower (pictured) was inaugurated in Paris.
• 1917 - The Danish West Indies became the U.S. Virgin Islands after the United States paid Denmark US$25 million for the Caribbean islands.
• 1930 - Hollywood movie studios instituted the Production Code to avoid government censorship.

Recent days: March 30 – March 29 – March 28

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