- Mar 3 "The Star-Spangled Banner" officially becomes US national anthem by congressional resolution; lyrics by Francis Scott Key in 1814, set to John Stafford Smith's 18th century tune "The Anacreontic Song"
Minnie the Moocher
Mar 3 Cab Calloway records "Minnie the Moocher" (Jazz's 1st million seller)
Bradman's Duck
Mar 4 Don Bradman is bowled for a rare first ball duck by Herman Griffith (4-50) on the last day of 5th cricket Test vs West Indies in Sydney; Windies win by 31 runs but lose series to Australia, 4-1
- Mar 4 West Indies beat Australia for the 1st time, by 30 runs at SCG
Crawford's 1st Australian Title
Mar 8 Australian Championships Men's Tennis: Jack Crawford wins 1st of 4 Australian titles; beats fellow Australian Harry Hopman 6-4, 6-2, 2-6, 6-1
- Mar 8 Australian Championships Women's Tennis: In an all-Australian final Coral McInnes Buttsworth beats Marjorie Cox Crawford 1-6, 6-3, 6-4
Event of Interest
Mar 10 Oswald Mosley leaves British Labour party and founds the "New Party"
- Mar 11 Ready for Labour and Defence of the USSR, abbreviated as GTO, is introduced in the Soviet Union
- Mar 14 1st theater built for rear movie projection (NYC)
- Mar 16 Genootschap Onze Taal (Our Language) organizes (Netherlands)
- Mar 18 1st electric shavers go on sale in US (Schick)
- Mar 18 Juan Bautista Aznar becomes premier of Spain
- Mar 19 Nevada legalizes gambling
- Mar 20 Bishop Schreiber warns against national-socialism in Berlin
- Mar 21 KRO-broadcast studio initiated in Hilversum Holland
Maribel Vinson US Champion
Mar 21 US Ladies' Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson
Freedom Fighters Hanged
Mar 23 Indian independence fighters Bhagat Singh, Shivaram Rajguru and Sukhdev Thapar are hanged after conducting an assassination and a bombing. Their request to be shot by a firing squad is refused.
- Mar 25 Hal Kemp & his Orchestra record "Whistles", with Skinnay Ennis as vocalist, in NYC
- Mar 25 Scottsboro Boys arrested in Alabama, accused of raping a white woman
- Mar 26 Iraq & Trans-Jordan sign peace treaty
- Mar 26 Leo Bentley bowls 3 consecutive perfect games in Lorain, Ohio
- Mar 26 New Delhi replaces Calcutta as capital of British-Indies
- Mar 27 90th Grand National: 9-year-old Grakle, at odds of 100/6 and ridden by jockey Bob Lyall wins by 1.5 lengths from 1929 winner Gregalach
Chaplin Legion of Honor
Mar 27 Charlie Chaplin receives France's distinguished Legion of Honor
- Mar 27 John McGraw says night baseball will not catch on
- Mar 31 Brilliant Notre Dame football coach Knute Rockne (43) is killed with 7 others when light plane crashes on trip from Kansas City to Los Angeles; record 105-12-5 @ .881 remains best ever
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