On this day

March 31, 1946

Revisit the news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.

Portrait 1080 × 1920 PNG · created on your device

Filter by:

Headlines from March 31, 1946

COAL PARLEYS FAIL; MINERS WILL START STRIKE TOMORROW; Supplies on Hand Will Last Four to Six Weeks, Reports Secretary Schwellenbach PEACE EFFORT TO CONTINUE Steel Industry Plans Cut in Production--Thousands of Workers Face Idleness

By Joseph A. Loftus Special To the New York Times

Schwellenbach calls strike inevitable; P Fuller to act as Fed mediator; Lewis says UMWA will not picket mines; operators say UMWA asks 'blank check' and precedence of Fed over State mining laws; Natl Coal Assn estimates supplies; retroactive contract operation not wanted by Govt, UMWA or cos; UMWA Journal says operators forced contract end; effect on steel indus

None0 words

Violence Flares in Athens On Eve of General Election; Policemen Hurt as Leftists Mass to Appeal for Boycott of Voting--Conservatives' Victory Seen--Allied 'Eyes' on Watch

By Unknown Author

Leftists charge Populists (Royalists) plan coup for King return

None0 words

World News Summarized

By Unknown Author

None0 words

LAST BILLS SIGNED ON NEW STATE AID; Dewey Approves Eight Final Measures and Assails Opposition From Democrats

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Comment on support for St Lawrence Seaway

None0 words

REPLIES AWAITED; Council Set for Move by April 3--Gromyko Says Stand Is Unchanged BYRNES FLIES TO CAPITAL Expected to See Truman on Course for Us if Moscow Ignores UNO Inquiry

By W.h. Lawrence

flies to Washington to conf with Pres Truman on Iranian issue

None0 words

Notable Births

1946Gonzalo Márquez, Venezuelan baseball player (died 1984)^[†]

Gonzalo Enrique Márquez Moya was a Venezuelan professional baseball player. He played as a first baseman in Major League Baseball for the Oakland Athletics (1972–73) and Chicago Cubs (1973–74). Although baseball references during his career showed the year of his birth as 1946, his birth certificate showed the true year to be 1940. Márquez presented an ID that showed 1946 when he turned professional.

1946Bob Russell, English politician^[†]

Sir Robert Edward Russell is a former Liberal Democrat politician in the United Kingdom who was the Member of Parliament for Colchester from 1997 to 2015. He was first elected at the 1997 United Kingdom general election and won subsequent re-election in 2001, 2005 and 2010; he was defeated in the 2015 United Kingdom general election by the Conservative candidate Will Quince.