March 1931

March 1, 1931 (Sunday)

March 2, 1931 (Monday)

March 3, 1931 (Tuesday)

March 4, 1931 (Wednesday)

March 5, 1931 (Thursday)

March 6, 1931 (Friday)

March 7, 1931 (Saturday)

March 8, 1931 (Sunday)

  • The Balkans were hit again with a 6.9 magnitude earthquake.[11] 35 were killed in Yugoslavia alone and thousands were left homeless.[12][13]
  • Born: Neil Postman, author, media theorist and cultural critic, in New York City (d. 2003)

March 9, 1931 (Monday)

March 10, 1931 (Tuesday)

March 11, 1931 (Wednesday)

March 12, 1931 (Thursday)

March 13, 1931 (Friday)

  • The German People's Party announced its withdrawal from the coalition government of Thuringia, saying they could no longer work with the Nazi Party as coalition partners due to constant attacks from them.[20][21]
  • The French village of Le Châtelard was saved when the landslide split into three great rivers of earth that bypassed it. The Interior Ministry sent an emergency fund to assist villagers left homeless by the landslide.[19]

March 14, 1931 (Saturday)

  • The Prince of Wales opened a British trade exposition in Buenos Aires. He addressed the crowd of 2,000 in Spanish and then pressed a gold button opening the exhibition's gates.[22]
  • A riot broke out at Joliet Prison. One inmate was killed and four others, including a guard, were injured.[23]
  • Ernst Henning, a communist member of the Hamburg city council, was murdered by three Nazis.[24][25]
  • The first ever Indian film with dialogues was released.

March 15, 1931 (Sunday)

March 16, 1931 (Monday)

  • Communists stormed NSDAP headquarters in Altona, Hamburg and killed a Nazi in retaliation for the murder of Ernst Henning. The Nazi leadership officially condemned the Henning murder and called on the three killers to give themselves up to police, which they did.[25]

March 17, 1931 (Tuesday)

March 18, 1931 (Wednesday)

March 19, 1931 (Thursday)

March 20, 1931 (Friday)

March 21, 1931 (Saturday)

March 22, 1931 (Sunday)

March 23, 1931 (Monday)

  • The Indian revolutionaries Bhagat Singh, Shivaram Rajguru and Sukhdev Thapar were hanged in Lahore for assassinating a British police commissioner in 1928 and throwing a bomb into the legislative assembly in 1929.[38]
  • King Alfonso XIII of Spain restored the country's constitutional guarantees ahead of municipal elections scheduled for April 12.[39]

March 24, 1931 (Tuesday)

March 25, 1931 (Wednesday)

March 26, 1931 (Thursday)

  • An international conference of 48 nations opened in Rome to discuss the problem of low grain prices. Many countries were displeased by the Soviet Union's practise of harvesting vast amounts of grain and then dumping the surplus on the world market.[35][43][44]
  • Swissair was founded.
  • Born: Leonard Nimoy, actor and director, in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 2015)

March 27, 1931 (Friday)

  • A Soviet delegate at the international wheat conference said that Russia would continue exporting as much surplus grain as it pleased and would listen to the proposals of other nations, but would make no commitment to accept them.[44]
  • Born: David Janssen, actor, in Naponee, Nebraska (d. 1980)
  • Died:

March 28, 1931 (Saturday)

March 29, 1931 (Sunday)

March 30, 1931 (Monday)

  • Alfred Hugenberg bitterly attacked Hindenburg's emergency decree, saying it was enforced only to prevent Der Stahlhelm from winning a referendum demanding the dissolution of the Prussian Landtag. The cabinet of Heinrich Brüning countered with a statement accusing the Nationalists of "seeking to undermine the public's confidence in President von Hindenburg", adding, "To demand a repeal of the decree is a personal attack on the president."[48]
  • At the Rome wheat conference, Austrian Agriculture Minister Engelbert Dollfuss blamed Prohibition in the United States for the world's agricultural problems, saying, "If the United States would drop Prohibition so that the American farmers could raise hops to make beer, then the strain of wheat crops would be relieved and the United States would drop out of the wheat exporting category to the relief of the entire world."[49]

March 31, 1931 (Tuesday)

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