Event:
U.S. Assay Office in Seattle, Washington closes Chase National (3rd largest bank) and Bank of the Manhattan Company (15th largest bank) merge to form Chase Manhattan
More Notable Events on March 31:
1992 U.N. Security Council voted to ban flights and arms sales to Libya
1968 Lyndon Baines Johnson announces he will not seek re-election
1963 Los Angeles ends streetcar service after 90 years
1921 Albert Einstein lectures in New York on his new theory of relativity
1889 300m Eiffel Tower officially opens, commemorates French Revolution
