What Happened In March 1930 In History

Historical Events for March, 1930

• 6th » International Unemployment Day demonstrations globally initiated by the Comintern
• 12th » Mahatma Gandhi leads a 200-mile march, known as the 'Salt Satyagraha Salt March', to the sea in defiance of United Kingdom British opposition, to protest the British Empire British monopoly on salt
• 13th » The news of the discovery of Pluto is telegraphed to the Harvard College Observatory.
• 28th » Constantinople and Ankara named Angora change their names to Istanbul and Ankara.
• 29th » Heinrich Brüning is appointed German Chancellor of Germany (German Reich) named Reichskanzler.
• 31st » The Motion Picture Production Code is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in film, in the U.S., for the next thirty-eight years.

Famous Birthdays on March in 1930

• 1st » R. P. Goenka, Indian businessman, founded RPG Group (d. 2013)
• 1st » Gastone Nencini, Italian cyclist (d. 1980)
• 2nd » Pat Arrowsmith, English activist and author
• 2nd » John Cullum, American actor and singer
• 2nd » Emma Penella, Spanish actress (d. 2007)
• 3rd » Alfredo Alcón, Argentinian actor (d. 2014)
• 3rd » Heiner Geißler, German politician
• 3rd » Ion Iliescu, Romanian politician, 2nd President of Romania
• 3rd » K. S. Rajah, Singaporean politician (d. 2010)
• 5th » John Ashley (ice hockey) called John Ashley, Canadian ice hockey player and referee (d. 2008)
• 5th » Del Crandall, American baseball player and manager
• 6th » Lorin Maazel, French-American violinist, composer, and conductor (d. 2014)
• 7th » Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, English photographer
• 7th » Robert Trotter, Scottish actor and photographer (d. 2013)
• 8th » Nancy Burley, Australian figure skater (d. 2013)
• 8th » Bob Grim (baseball) named Bob Grim, American baseball player (d. 1996)
• 8th » Douglas Hurd, English politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
• 9th » Ornette Coleman, American saxophonist and composer
• 9th » Taina Elg, Finnish-American actress and dancer
• 11th » David Gentleman, English illustrator and engraver
• 11th » Claude Jutra, Canadian actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1986)
• 12th » Bronco Horvath, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 12th » Vern Law, American baseball player, coach, and manager
• 12th » Win Tin, Burmese journalist and politician, co-founded the National League for Democracy (d. 2014)
• 13th » Blue Mitchell, American trumpet player (d. 1979)
• 15th » Zhores Alferov, Belarusian-Russian physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics named Nobel Prize laureate
• 15th » Martin Karplus, Austrian-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize in Chemistry named Nobel Prize laureate
• 15th » Kostas Nestoridis, Greek footballer and manager
• 16th » Tommy Flanagan, American pianist (d. 2001)
• 17th » Paul Horn (musician) known as Paul Horn, American flute player
• 17th » James Irwin, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut (d. 1991)
• 18th » Pat Halcox, English trumpet player (d. 2013)
• 19th » Gualtiero Marchesi, Italian chef
• 19th » Eugene Selznick, American volleyball player and coach (d. 2012)
• 20th » S. Arasaratnam, Sri Lankan historian, author, and academic (d. 1998)
• 21st » James Coco, American actor (d. 1987)
• 21st » Otis Spann, American singer and pianist (d. 1970)
• 22nd » Derek Bok, American lawyer and academic
• 22nd » Pat Robertson, American minister and broadcaster, founded the Christian Broadcasting Network
• 22nd » Stephen Sondheim, American composer and songwriter
• 23rd » Ahmed Ramzy, Egyptian actor (d. 2012)
• 24th » David Dacko, Central African politician, 1st President of the Central African Republic (d. 2003)
• 24th » Agustín González, Spanish actor (d. 2005)
• 24th » Steve McQueen, American actor (d. 1980)
• 25th » David Burge, American pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 2013)
• 25th » Carlo Mauri, Italian mountaineer (d. 1982)
• 25th » Rudy Minarcin, American baseball player and coach (d. 2013)
• 26th » Gregory Corso, American poet (d. 2001)
• 27th » Bob den Uyl, Dutch author (d. 1992)
• 27th » Daniel Spoerri, Romanian-Swiss photographer
• 28th » Robert Ashley, American composer (d. 2014)
• 28th » Elizabeth Bainbridge, English soprano
• 28th » Jerome Isaac Friedman, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physics named Nobel Prize laureate
• 29th » Anerood Jugnauth, Mauritian politician, 4th President of Mauritius
• 30th » John Astin, American actor and director
• 30th » Nicolas Browne-Wilkinson, Baron Browne-Wilkinson, English judge and politician
• 30th » Rolf Harris, Australian-English singer-songwriter

Famous Deaths for March 1930

• 2nd » D. H. Lawrence, English author, poet, and playwright (b. 1885)
• 8th » William Howard Taft, American politician, 27th President of the United States (b. 1857)
• 8th » Edward Terry Sanford, American jurist (b. 1865)
• 12th » William George Barker, Canadian colonel and pilot, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1894)
• 12th » Alois Jirásek, Czech author and playwright (b. 1851)
• 16th » Miguel Primo de Rivera, Spanish general and politician, Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1870)
• 19th » Arthur Balfour, Scottish politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1848)
• 20th » Arthur F. Andrews, American cyclist (b. 1876)
• 31st » Ludwig Schüler, German politician, List of mayors of Marburg known as Mayor of Marburg (b. 1836)

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