Here are some historical events that occurred on March 31 in the United States:
- 1776: Abigail Adams writes to her husband John, urging him to "remember the ladies" when drafting the new American Constitution.
- 1889: The Eiffel Tower opens to the public in Paris, France.
- 1917: The United States takes possession of the Danish West Indies, which are renamed the U.S. Virgin Islands.
- 1933: The Civilian Conservation Corps, a New Deal program, is established to provide employment for young, unemployed men during the Great Depression.
- 1949: Newfoundland officially becomes a province of Canada.
- 1968: President Lyndon B. Johnson announces that he will not seek re-election.
- 1980: Jesse Owens, the Olympic gold medalist who famously defeated Nazi athletes in the 1936 Berlin Olympics, dies in Tucson, Arizona.
- 1991: The Warsaw Pact, the military alliance of communist countries led by the Soviet Union, is officially dissolved.
- 2012: North Korea launches a long-range rocket, which fails shortly after liftoff, in defiance of international warnings.
These are just a few of the many historical events that have occurred on March 31 in the United States
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