2024 Portugal legislative election

Ramadan begins (until 9 April) 

International Day of Women Judges

Get your earplugs its International Bagpipe Day

Birthdays for Chuck Norris (1940), Sharon Stone (1958), Prince Edward (1964), Jon Hamm (1971), Robin Thicke (1977), Carrie Underwood (1983) and Olivia Wilde (1984)

Anniversary of:

• the birthday of NZ suffragette Kate Sheppard (1847)

• Ethiopian Airlines crash that led to the grounding of all Boeing 737 MAX planes (2019)

• Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) collapsing after a bank run, marking the third-largest bank failure in United States history and the largest since the 2007–2008 financial crisis (2023)