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Historical Events in March 1930

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  • Mar 2 1st US indoor glider flight, St Louis Terminal Building
  • Mar 4 Coolidge Dam in Arizona dedicated
  • Mar 4 Emma Fahning bowls 1st sanctioned 300 game by a woman
  • Mar 4 Terrible floods ransack Languedoc and the surrounds in south-west France, resulting in twelve departments being submerged by water and causing the death of over 700 people.
  • Mar 7 Georgetown High of Chicago defeats Homer 1-0 in basketball
  • Mar 7 NY Times agrees to capitalize the n in "Negro"

Babe Ruth's 2-Year Yankee Deal

Mar 8 Baseball slugger Babe Ruth signs 2-year contract for a then huge $160,000 with NY Yankees; GM Ed Barrow, wrongly predicts "No one will ever be paid more than Ruth"

Baseball Legend Babe Ruth

The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny

Mar 9 Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's satirical opera "The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny" premieres in Leipzig, Germany

Poet and Playwright Bertolt Brecht

Appointment of Interest

Mar 11 Hans Luther is appointed as president of the Reichsbank.

Chancellor of Germany Hans Luther
  • Mar 11 William Taft, American 27th President & Chief Justice buried in Arlington Cemetery

Salt March

Mar 12 Mahatma Gandhi begins his famous 200 mile (300km) protest march against the widely hated British salt tax

Mahatma Gandhi during the Salt March to abolish the British salt laws
  • Mar 12 Stanislawa Walasiewicz [Stella Walsh] sets world record for the 220-yard dash (0:26.1)
  • Mar 13 Clyde Tombaugh announces discovery of Pluto at Lowell Observatory
  • Mar 15 1st seaplane glider flown at Port Washington, NY
  • Mar 15 1st streamlined submarine of US navy, USS Nautilus, launched
  • Mar 16 USS Constitution (Old Ironsides) floated out to become a national shrine
  • Mar 17 Construction begins of the Empire State Building, the world's 1st skyscraper of 100+ stories, on 5th Avenue in New York City
  • Mar 18 Boston Bruins win record 20th NHL home game
  • Mar 19 Nakagawa Soen accepted as a student of Katsube Keigaku Roshi
  • Mar 20 American engine builder Clessie Cummins sets diesel engine speed record of 80.4 mph (129.39 kph)

Sanders Court & Café

Mar 20 American fast food restaurant chain "KFC" [Kentucky Fried Chicken] is founded as Sanders Court & Café by Colonel Harland Sanders in North Corbin, Kentucky

Businessman and Restaurateur Colonel Sanders

Vinson Again US Champion

Mar 23 US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson

Figure Skater Maribel Vinson
  • Mar 24 1st religious services telecast in US (W2XBS NYC)
  • Mar 26 Congress appropriates $50,000 for Inter-American highway
  • Mar 27 1st US radio broadcast from a ship at sea

Piston's Suite for Orchestra

Mar 28 1st performance of Walter Piston's Suite for orchestra (Boston)

Composer Walter Piston

Istanbul – The Queen of Cities

Mar 28 Turkish cities Constantinople and Angora change their names to Istanbul and Ankara

The magnificent Hagia Sophia ranked as the world's largest cathedral for a thousand years
  • Mar 29 89h Grand National: 10-year-old 100/8 shot Shaun Goilin, ridden by jockey Tommy Cullinan, wins by a neck from Melleray's Belle
  • Mar 29 Heinrich Brüning is appointed German Chancellor
  • Mar 30 Babberich-H soccer team forms
  • Mar 31 The Motion Pictures Production Code is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in film for the next 38 years


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