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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]
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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.
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  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.
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  44. ^ "15,583 British Lose Jobs in a Week; Total, 1,563,800". Chicago Daily Tribune. March 19, 1930. p. 2.
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