Daily Archives: March 31, 2014


In This Week in … 1889, the Eiffel Tower opens in a ceremony that saw an enormous French tricolor raised and fireworks set off from the second platform (31 March 1889); 1918, the Royal Air Force is formed by amalgamating the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service (1 April 1918); 1513, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon discovers Florida and claims the territory for the […]