On This Day for March 31 - Eiffel Tower inaugurated, Zaha Hadid is featured, and more

Created: 2020-03-31 10:03 Updated: 2020-03-31 10:03 Notebook: On this Day in History

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March 31

FEATURED BIOGRAPHY

1950

Zaha Hadid

FEATURED EVENT

1889

Eiffel Tower inaugurated

MORE EVENTS ON THIS DAY

2008: American director Jules Dassin, a master of film noir perhaps best known for the influential heist film Rififi (1955), died at age 96.

1948: American politician Al Gore, who served as vice president (1993–2001) in the administration of President Bill Clinton and lost the disputed 2000 presidential election, was born.

1928: Canadian-born American ice hockey player Gordie Howe —one of the game's greatest players, known for both his scoring ability and his toughness—was born in Floral, Saskatchewan, Canada.

1811: German chemist Robert Wilhelm Bunsen, who observed that each element emits a light of characteristic wavelength, was born in Göttingen, Westphalia.

1596: French mathematician, scientist, and philosopher René Descartes, widely considered the father of modern philosophy and perhaps best known for the famous phrase “I think, therefore I am,” was born.

1980: American track-and-field legend Jesse Owens, who won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin , died at age 66.

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ALSO BORN ON THIS DAY

1948

Al Gore
vice president of United States

1596

René Descartes
French mathematician and philosopher

1927

Cesar Chavez
American labour leader

1732

Joseph Haydn
Austrian composer

1519