March 1930

March 1, 1930 (Saturday)

March 2, 1930 (Sunday)

March 3, 1930 (Monday)

March 4, 1930 (Tuesday)

  • The London Naval Disarmament Conference reopened after two weeks' adjournment due to the French cabinet crisis.[6]

March 5, 1930 (Wednesday)

  • London stockbroker Buckmaster & Moore caused a stir in the British banking world when it issued a circular to its 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."[7]
  • Born: Del Crandall, baseball player, in Ontario, California

March 6, 1930 (Thursday)

March 7, 1930 (Friday)

  • Hjalmar Schacht quit as President of the 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."[11]
  • 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."[12]
  • Born: Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, photographer and filmmaker, in London, England

March 8, 1930 (Saturday)

March 9, 1930 (Sunday)

March 10, 1930 (Monday)

  • 105 people, almost all children, were killed when a fire broke out in a warehouse showing a film at the Chinkai Guard District in Korea. The movie was about the Battle of Mukden, marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Japanese victory in that battle, and most of the 600 gathered to watch the film were Japanese naval officers and their families.[18]
  • Born: Claude Bolling, jazz musician, in Cannes, France

March 11, 1930 (Tuesday)

March 12, 1930 (Wednesday)

March 13, 1930 (Thursday)

March 14, 1930 (Friday)

  • A committee, by a majority of four to one, endorsed constructing of a tunnel from England to France.[25]

March 15, 1930 (Saturday)

March 16, 1930 (Sunday)

  • Former Spanish dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera was found dead by his son in a Paris hotel room. He had been on his way to the German spa town of Wiesbaden to seek treatment for diabetes.[28]
  • 9 American sailors were wounded in Manila in race riots with Filipinos.[29]
  • Died: Miguel Primo de Rivera, 60, Spanish military officer and dictator

March 17, 1930 (Monday)

March 18, 1930 (Tuesday)

March 19, 1930 (Wednesday)

March 20, 1930 (Thursday)

  • Mahatma Gandhi arrived in Kareli during the Salt March where he instructed villagers to refuse to fetch water for the tax collector as long as he worked for the British government.[36]
  • Born: Willie Thrower, American football player, in New Kensington, Pennsylvania (d. 2002)

March 21, 1930 (Friday)

March 22, 1930 (Saturday)

March 23, 1930 (Sunday)

  • 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.[40]

March 24, 1930 (Monday)

March 25, 1930 (Tuesday)

March 26, 1930 (Wednesday)

March 27, 1930 (Thursday)

  • Hermann Müller resigned as Chancellor of Germany over disagreements with his coalition government on the issue of unemployment insurance for the country's 3 million jobless.[44]

March 28, 1930 (Friday)

  • Turkey officially requested that all countries stop referring to its largest city as Constantinople and call it Istanbul instead.[45]
  • Persia adopted the gold standard.[46]
  • 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.[47]
  • 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."[48]
  • Born: Robert Ashley, composer, in Ann Arbor, Michigan (d. 2014); Jerome Isaac Friedman, physicist and Nobel Laureate, in Chicago, Illinois

March 29, 1930 (Saturday)

  • The French Chamber of Deputies ratified the Young Plan by an overwhelming vote of 530 to 55.[49]

March 30, 1930 (Sunday)

  • Paul von Hindenburg appointed Heinrich Brüning to be the new German chancellor.[50]
  • Australian Prime Minister James Scullin laid out the seriousness of the country's economic problems, including a 13% unemployment rate, at a conference of state premiers in Canberra. "Australia must realize she must export in the next few years as much produce as she can", Scullin said. "This means Australia must do with fewer luxuries and with less of foreign-made goods."[51]
  • Born: John Astin, actor, in Baltimore, Maryland; Rolf Harris, entertainer, in Bassendean, Western Australia

March 31, 1930 (Monday)

  • The Motion Picture Association of America agreed to abide by the new Motion Picture Production Code, more popularly known as the Hays Code, which laid out a set of moral guidelines for the content of films.[52]
  • The Battle of Anchem was fought in Ethiopia between two factions of the country's royal family.

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  2. Wales, Henry (March 2, 1930). "Channel Tunnel Seen as Key to Navy Deadlock". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 1.
  3. "Russia Loosens Iron Grip in Peasant Class". Chicago Daily Tribune. March 3, 1930. p. 6.
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