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31 March 2016 at a glance
- Day of the week
- 31 March 2016 was a Thursday.
- UK Number One
- The UK Number One single was “I Took a Pill in Ibiza” by Mike Posner.
- Top Film of 2016
- The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 2016 was Captain America: Civil War.
- Star sign
- The star sign for 31 March is Aries.
- Chinese zodiac
- In the Chinese zodiac, 31 March 2016 fell in the Year of the Monkey.
- Birthstone
- The birthstone for March is Aquamarine.
- Moon phase
- The moon phase on 31 March 2016 was Last Quarter.
On this day: 31 March
- 1998 Netscape releases Mozilla source code under an open source license.
- 2005 The dwarf planet Makemake is discovered by a team led by astronomer Michael E. Brown at the Palomar Observatory.
- 2016 NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Roscosmos cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko return to Earth after a yearlong mission at the International Space Station.
- 2018 Start of the 2018 Armenian revolution.
- 2023 A historic tornado outbreak occurs in the American Midwest and South.
Famous people born on 31 March
- Ewan McGregor, Scottish actor (born 1971)
- Christopher Walken, American actor (born 1943)
- Angus Young, Scottish-Australian guitarist and songwriter (born 1955)
- Rhea Perlman, American actress (born 1948)
Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Events of 2016 in the United Kingdom
A selection from Wikipedia's '2016 in the United Kingdom'. Not a complete list.
- 5 May – UK local and Police and crime commissioner elections, as well as elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly, Welsh Assembly and Scottish Parliament are held.
- 23 June – The 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum is held in the UK and Gibraltar, the first of its kind since the 1975 referendum on the UK's membership of the then European Economic Community.
- 11 July – Theresa May is announced as the Conservative Party leader, and Prime Minister-designate, after Andrea Leadsom withdraws from the leadership election.New Prime Minister and Conservative leader Theresa May
Life in 2016
Prime Minister
David Cameron
Monarch
Elizabeth II
Pint of Beer
£3.45
Loaf of Bread
£1.45
Average House
£214,578
Weekly Wage
£789.00
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