It’s Sunday, March 31, the 90th day of 2013. There are 275 days left in the year. Today is Easter.

History

Highlight: On March 31, 1943, “Oklahoma!,” the first musical play by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, opened on Broadway.

In 1889, French engineer Gustave Eiffel unfurled the French tricolor from atop the Eiffel Tower, officially marking its completion.

In 1913, American financier J.P. Morgan died in Rome at age 75.

In 1931, Notre Dame college football coach Knute Rockne, 43, was killed in the crash of a TWA plane in Bazaar, Kan.

In 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Emergency Conservation Work Act, which created the Civilian Conservation Corps.

In 1953, Stanley Kubrick’s first feature, a war drama titled “Fear and Desire,” premiered in New York.

In 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson stunned the country by announcing he would not seek re-election.

In 1976, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled that Karen Ann Quinlan, who was in a persistent vegetative state, could be disconnected from her respirator. (Quinlan, who remained unconscious, died in 1985.)

In 1986, 167 people died when a Mexicana Airlines Boeing 727 crashed in a remote mountainous region of Mexico.

In 1993, actor Brandon Lee, 28, was accidentally shot to death during the filming of a movie in Wilmington, N.C., when he was hit by a bullet fragment that had been lodged inside a prop gun.

In 1995, Mexican-American singer Selena Quintanilla-Perez, 23, was shot to death in Corpus Christi, Texas, by the founder of her fan club, Yolanda Saldivar, who was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison.

In 2005, Terri Schiavo, 41, died at a hospice in Pinellas Park, Fla., 13 days after her feeding tube was removed in a wrenching right-to-die dispute.

Ten years ago: American forces battled Iraqi defenders in fierce street fighting 50 miles south of Baghdad, pointing toward a drive on the capital. Seven Iraqi women and children were killed by U.S. troops at an Army checkpoint when their van refused orders to stop.

Five years ago: HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson announced his resignation amid the wreckage of the national housing crisis.

One year ago: Hundreds of world landmarks from Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate to the Great Wall of China went dark as part of a global effort to highlight climate change. Carolina Kostner of Italy won the ladies’ world figure skating title while Patrick Chan of Canada captured the men’s title in Nice, France.

Birthdays

Actor William Daniels is 86. Musician Herb Alpert is 78. Senate President Pro Tempore Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., is 73. Former U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., is 73. Actor Christopher Walken is 70. Former Vice President Al Gore is 65. Author David Eisenhower is 65. Actress Rhea Perlman is 65. Actor Ed Marinaro is 63. Rock musician Angus Young (AC/DC) is 58. Actor Ewan McGregor is 42. Rapper Tony Yayo is 35. Actress Kate Micucci is 33. Jazz musician Christian Scott is 30. Pop musician Jack Antonoff (fun.) is 29. Actress Jessica Szohr is 28.