Event:
The International Court of Justice at the U.N. agrees that Japanese whaling is conducted for commercial purposes, not scientific research; Japan accepts the order to cease all whaling activities in the Antarctic
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
