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The following events occurred in March 1930:

March 12, 1930: The Mahatma Gandhi and his followers begin the "Salt March" in India
March 31, 1930: U.S. film industry adopts the Hays Code for film censorship
March 11, 1930: Former U.S. President and Chief Justice Taft mourned at U.S. Capitol rotunda after March 8 death

Saturday, March 1, 1930

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Prestes, elected but will not serve

Sunday, March 2, 1930

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Monday, March 3, 1930

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Tuesday, March 4, 1930

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  • The London Naval Disarmament Conference reopened after two weeks' adjournment due to the French cabinet crisis.[12]

Wednesday, March 5, 1930

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  • London stockbrokers Buckmaster & Moore caused a stir in the British banking world when they issued a circular to clients advising them to sell their shares in British industry and invest in the United States and Canada instead. It expressed the opinion that England's business depression was part of a permanent decline, while "the economic, the political and climatic advantages of the United States and Canada in the next few decades will be so overwhelmingly great that these countries offer the most attractive field for investment."[13]
  • Danish painter Einar Wegener began sex reassignment surgery in Germany, and took the name Lili Elbe.[14]
  • Born: Del Crandall, American baseball catcher and the last of the Boston Braves; in Ontario, California (d. 2021)

Thursday, March 6, 1930

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Friday, March 7, 1930

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  • Hjalmar Schacht resigned as President of Germany's Reichsbank, explaining he could not agree to the ratification of the Young Plan in its present version because it had been "adulterated by politicians in the last fourteen months."[19]
  • U.S. President Herbert Hoover said that all evidence indicated "that the worst effects of the crash upon unemployment will have been passed during the next sixty days with the amelioration of seasonal unemployment, the gaining strength of other forces, and the continued cooperation of the many agencies actively cooperating with the government to restore business and to relieve distress."[20]
  • Born: Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, English photographer and filmmaker who was the husband of Princess Margaret of the United Kingdom from 1960 until their divorce in 1978; London (d. 2017)

Saturday, March 8, 1930

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Sunday, March 9, 1930

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Monday, March 10, 1930

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  • A fire in Japanese Korea killed 105 people, most of them the children of Japanese naval officers, who had gathered at a warehouse at the Chinkai Guard District to watch a film commemorating the 25th anniversary of Japan's victory over Russia in the Battle of Mukden. The 105 were part of 600 who had assembled to watch the film.[26]
  • Born: Claude Bolling, French jazz musician, in Cannes (d. 2020)

Tuesday, March 11, 1930

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Albee

Wednesday, March 12, 1930

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  • The Mahatma Gandhi began his "march to the sea" in defiance of India's salt tax.[29]
  • The London Naval Conference was jeopardized when French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand walked out.[30]
  • Born: Vern Law, American baseball pitcher and 1960 Cy Young Award winner; in Meridian, Idaho[31]
  • Died: RCAF Lieutenant Colonel William G. "Billy" Barker, 35, Canadian ace fighter pilot and the most decorated serviceman in Canadian history, killed in a plane crash while demonstrating a biplane trainer.[32]

Thursday, March 13, 1930

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Friday, March 14, 1930

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  • A committee, by a majority of four to one, endorsed the construction of a tunnel from England to France under the English Channel.[35]

Saturday, March 15, 1930

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  • André Tardieu arrived in London attempting to salvage the London Conference.[36]
  • The Polish cabinet tried to quit, but President Ignacy Mościcki refused to accept their resignations with the national budget still incomplete.[37]
  • Born: Zhores Alferov, Soviet Russian physicist and 2000 Nobel Prize laureate for his development of semiconductor heterojunction; in Vitebsk, Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union (d. 2019)

Sunday, March 16, 1930

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  • Nine U.S. Navy sailors were injured in Manila during race riots with Filipino residents resentful of news of U.S. discrimination.[38]
  • Died: Miguel Primo de Rivera, 60, the former premier and dictator of Spain, of diabetes, six weeks after being forced out office. He was found dead by his son in a Paris hotel room, where he had been preparing to go to the German spa town of Wiesbaden to seek treatment.[39]

Monday, March 17, 1930

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Capone on the March 24, 1930 cover of TIME
  • Al Capone was released from a Philadelphia prison after serving ten months for illegal possession of a firearm.[5][40]
  • The popular US adventure comic strip Scorchy Smith first appeared.[41]
  • Poland and Germany signed a trade agreement.[42]
  • The U.S. Supreme Court decided Lucas v. Earl.
  • Born: James B. Irwin, U.S. astronaut on the Apollo 15 mission and the eighth person to walk on the Moon; in Pittsburgh (d. 1991)

Tuesday, March 18, 1930

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  • The U.S. Senate restored provisions for censorship of imports of foreign literature.[43]
  • British Ministry of Labour figures showed that 1,563,800 people were out of work in the UK during the week ending March 10, an increase of over 15,500 over the previous week.[44]
  • Born: Adam Maida, Roman Catholic Cardinal and Archbishop of Detroit; in East Vandergrift, Pennsylvania

Wednesday, March 19, 1930

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Thursday, March 20, 1930

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  • The Mahatma Gandhi arrived in Kareli (now part of India's Madhya Pradesh) state during the Salt March and instructed villagers to refuse to fetch water for the British government tax collector or any other holders of the office in India.[46]
  • Born: Willie Thrower, American football player and the first African-American quarterback in the NFL (for the Chicago Bears in 1953); in New Kensington, Pennsylvania (d. 2002)

Friday, March 21, 1930

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  • Wireless service between Germany and Brazil was inaugurated.[47]
  • The Chilean Air Force was created by an amalgamation of the aviation divisions of the Chilean Army and the Chilean Navy.

Saturday, March 22, 1930

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Sunday, March 23, 1930

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  • Fascist Italy abolished customs laws dating back to medieval times which had given municipalities the right to levy a tax on farmers entering city gates with their produce.[50]

Monday, March 24, 1930

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Tuesday, March 25, 1930

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Wednesday, March 26, 1930

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Thursday, March 27, 1930

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Friday, March 28, 1930

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  • Turkey officially requested that all countries stop referring to its largest city as Constantinople and call it Istanbul instead.[55]
  • Persia adopted the gold standard.[56]
  • The British government decided to abolish capital punishment for four crimes in the British army: misbehaviour before the enemy in such a manner as to show cowardice, leaving a guard, picket, patrol or post without orders, intentionally sounding a false alarm and leaving a post when acting as a sentinel. The death penalty for mutiny, treason and desertion was maintained.[57]
  • In a speech in Toronto, the Governor General of Canada Viscount Willingdon suggested that Canada take over the British West Indies, explaining that the West Indies had a "feeling of enormous gratitude for the steps taken by Canada following the recent trade agreement" and that they wanted to be "linked directly with Canada."[58]
  • Born:

Saturday, March 29, 1930

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Chancellor Brüning
  • Paul von Hindenburg appointed Heinrich Brüning to be the new Chancellor of Germany.[59]
  • The French Chamber of Deputies ratified the Young Plan by an overwhelming vote of 530 to 55.[60]

Sunday, March 30, 1930

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Monday, March 31, 1930

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References

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  2. ^ Wales, Henry (March 2, 1930). "Channel Tunnel Seen as Key to Navy Deadlock". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 1.
  3. ^ Young, Robert (1996). France and the Origins of the Second World War. London: Macmillan Education, Limited. p. 174. ISBN 9781349248902.
  4. ^ "Russia Loosens Iron Grip in Peasant Class". Chicago Daily Tribune. March 3, 1930. p. 6.
  5. ^ a b c Mercer, Derrik (1989). Chronicle of the 20th Century. London: Chronicle Communications Ltd. p. 390. ISBN 978-0-582-03919-3.
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  8. ^ Lawrence, D. H. (1997). The selected letters of D.H. Lawrence. Cambridge New York: Cambridge University Press. p. 149. ISBN 9780521777995.
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  10. ^ Who's who in European Politics. Bowker-Saur. 1990. p. 247.
  11. ^ Kar Tiang Low (2006). Who's who in Singapore, 2006. Singapore: Who's Who Pub. p. 413.
  12. ^ Steele, John (March 5, 1930). "Naval Parley Reopens; Hears Experts' Report". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 6.
  13. ^ Steele, John (March 6, 1930). "London Brokers Advise British to Invest in U.S.". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 2.
  14. ^ Alexis Kunsak (January 18, 2016). "There was no Hollywood ending at the end of the Danish Girl's life". CPH Post Outline. Retrieved October 23, 2021.
  15. ^ "First frozen food sold: March 6, 1930". HealthCentral. March 3, 2014. Retrieved April 18, 2015.
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  17. ^ "Reds Arrested, Many Injured in Petty Riots". Chicago Daily Tribune. March 7, 1930. p. 3.
  18. ^ Scheck, Raffael (1998). Alfred von Tirpitz and German right-wing politics, 1914-1930. Atlantic Highlands, N.J: Humanities Press. p. 208. ISBN 9780391040434.
  19. ^ Schultz, Sigrid (March 8, 1930). "Schacht Quits Reichsbank Job; Raps Young Plan". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 6.
  20. ^ Crawford, Arthur (March 8, 1930). "Hoover Says Industry's Slump Is Nearing End". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 1.
  21. ^ "Liberty or Jail, Mahatma Gandhi Followers Cry". Chicago Daily Tribune. March 9, 1930. p. 4.
  22. ^ "Ruth Signs; Gers $160,000 for Two Years". Chicago Daily Tribune. March 9, 1930. p. 29.
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  24. ^ Crawford, Arthur (March 9, 1930). "Taft Dead; 30 Day Mourning". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 1.
  25. ^ Ziolkowski, Theodore (24 September 2009). Scandal on Stage: European Theater as Moral Trial. Cambridge University Press. p. 99. ISBN 978-0-521-11260-4.
  26. ^ "Fire and Panic Kill 105 at War Movie in Corea". Chicago Daily Tribune. March 11, 1930. p. 3.
  27. ^ a b "Ex-Chancellor Luther Is Head Of Reichsbank". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. March 11, 1930. p. 1.
  28. ^ Crawford, Arthur (March 12, 1930). "Taft Buried in Arlington Cemetery". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 1.
  29. ^ "2,000 Youths Fight Police as Gandhi Marches". Chicago Daily Tribune. March 13, 1930. p. 3.
  30. ^ Wales, Henry (March 13, 1930). "Briand Quits; Perils Parley". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 1.
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  32. ^ Ralph, Wayne. William Barker VC: The Life, Death & Legend of Canada's Most Decorated War Hero. Mississauga, Ontario: John Wiley & Sons Canada Ltd., 2007. ISBN 978-0-470-83967-6.
  33. ^ Schultz, Sigrid (March 14, 1930). "Hindenburg Ends Young Plan War by Sweep of Pen". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 9.
  34. ^ Stern, Alan; Tholen, David James, eds. (1997). Pluto and Charon. University of Arizona Press. p. xv. ISBN 978-0-8165-1840-1.
  35. ^ Steele, John (March 15, 1930). "Channel Tunnel, 300 Feet Under Sea, Wins O.K.". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 2.
  36. ^ Wales, Henry (March 16, 1930). "Tardieu Arrives for Final Effort to Save Parley". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 5.
  37. ^ "President Won't Let Cabinet Quit in Polish Crisis". Chicago Daily Tribune. March 16, 1930. p. 5.
  38. ^ Wilkins, Ford (March 17, 1930). "9 U.S. Sailors Hurt in Riots in Philippines". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 1.
  39. ^ Allen, Jay (March 17, 1930). "Spain's Exiled Dictator Dies in Paris". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 1.
  40. ^ Lawson, William (March 17, 1930). "Capone Speeds for Chicago". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 1.
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  43. ^ "Senate Votes Censorship on Obscene Books". Chicago Daily Tribune. March 19, 1930. p. 1.
  44. ^ "15,583 British Lose Jobs in a Week; Total, 1,563,800". Chicago Daily Tribune. March 19, 1930. p. 2.
  45. ^ Darrah, David (March 20, 1930). "Pope Opens War of prayer on Godless Russia". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 12.
  46. ^ "Gandhi Orders Water Strike on Tax Collectors". Chicago Daily Tribune. March 21, 1930. p. 17.
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  48. ^ Steele, John (March 23, 1930). "Balfour Carried to Scotch Grave on Farm Cart". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 16.
  49. ^ Knopf, Robert (1999). The Theater and Cinema of Buster Keaton. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. p. 188. ISBN 0-691-00441-2.
  50. ^ Darrah, David (March 24, 1930). "Mussolini Lifts Tax Burden on Italy's Farmer". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 12.
  51. ^ Wales, Henry (March 25, 1930). "Italy Proposes 6 Month Recess of Naval Parley". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 7.
  52. ^ "Two Big German Ship Lines Form 50 Year Merger". Chicago Daily Tribune. March 26, 1930. p. 6.
  53. ^ "Reports by Labor Show Employment Gains in a Month". Chicago Daily Tribune. March 26, 1930. p. 10.
  54. ^ Schultz, Sigrid (March 28, 1930). "Jobless Dole Row Wrecks Berlin Cabinet". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 1.
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  58. ^ "Canada Urged to Take British Islands off U.S.". Chicago Daily Tribune. March 29, 1930. p. 4.
  59. ^ Grand, Alexander (1995). Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany: the "fascist" style of rule. New York: Routledge. p. xiv. ISBN 9780415105989.
  60. ^ Allen, Jay (March 30, 1930). "French Ratify Young Plan by Huge Majority". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 7.
  61. ^ Dailey, Charles (March 31, 1930). "Australia Told 'Do or Die' Spirit is Business Hope". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 13.
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