Historical Events
- Mar 1 Bank holidays declared in 6 states, to prevent run on banks
King Kong Premieres
Mar 2 "King Kong" film directed by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack, starring Fay Wray premieres at Radio City Music Hall and RKO Roxy in NYC
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- Mar 2 Sanriku earthquake of 8.4 and tsunami hit Japan, country's most powerful earthquake in 180 years
- Mar 3 German presidential candidate Earnest Thalmann (KPD) arrested
- Mar 3 Mount Rushmore dedicated
- Mar 4 Chancellor Dollfuss dissolves Austrian parliament
- Mar 4 Frances Perkins becomes Secretary of Labor, 1st female member of the US Cabinet
- Mar 4 Henderson, DeSylva & Brown's "Strike Me Pink" premieres in NYC
- Mar 4 Noordwijk soccer team forms
President Inaugurated
Mar 4 Franklin D. Roosevelt inaugurated as 32nd US President, pledges to pull US out of the Depression, "We have nothing to fear but fear itself"
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Event of Interest
Mar 6 Maxwell Anderson's "Both your Houses" premieres in NYC
Maxwell Anderson
- Mar 6 Poland occupies the free city of Danzig (Gdańsk)
- Mar 9 Bulgarian communists Dimitrov, Popov & Vassili arrested in Berlin
- Mar 9 US Congress is called into special session by FDR, beginning its "100 days"
- Mar 10 Major earthquake in Long Beach, California
- Mar 10 Nevada becomes 1st US state to regulate narcotics
- Mar 12 FDR conducts his 1st "fireside chat"
- Mar 13 American banks allowed to reopen after a government imposed bank holiday
Event of Interest
Mar 13 Joseph Goebbels becomes Nazi Germany's Minister of Information and Propaganda
Joseph Goebbels
Appointment of Interest
Mar 16 Adolf Hitler names Hjalmar Schacht as President of Bank of Germany
Adolf Hitler
Event of Interest
Mar 21 Day of Potsdam in Nazi Germany, a ceremony to open the new Reichstag after the fire in February; Adolf Hitler and Paul von Hindenburg shake hands in public
Paul von Hindenburg
Adolf Hitler
- Mar 22 FDR makes wine & beer with up to 3.2% alcohol legal
- Mar 23 Enabling Act: German Reichstag grants Adolf Hitler dictatorial powers
- Mar 23 Kroll Opera in Berlin opens
- Mar 24 Peter I Island incorporated as a Norwegian dependency
- Mar 24 92nd Grand National: Dudley Williams aboard 25/1 chance Kellsboro' Jack wins by 3 lengths and a neck from Really True
- Mar 27 Farm Credit Administration (US) authorized
- Mar 27 Japan leaves League of Nations
- Mar 27 Polythene discovered by Reginald Gibson & Eric William Fawcett
- Mar 28 1st SEC Men's Basketball Tournament: Kentucky beats Mississippi State, 46-27
- Mar 31 1st newspaper published on pine pulp paper, "Soperton News" (Ga)
- Mar 31 Congress authorizes Civilian Conservation Corps
Famous Birthdays
- Mar 1 Istvan Lang, Hungarian composer, born in Budapest
- Mar 1 Joan Hackett, NY, actress (Will Penny, One Stone Pony)
- Mar 1 Myrlie Evers, American politician and commissioner (LA Board of Public works)
- Mar 3 Lee Radziwell Ross, American princess (Jackie O's sister), born in NYC, New York
- Mar 3 Marco Antonio Munoz, Mexican spanish singer (Murmullos)
- Mar 3 Alfredo Landa, Spanish actor (The Crach, Sinatra), born in Pamplona, Spain (d. 2013)
- Mar 4 Ann Burton [Anna Rafalowicz], Dutch singer
- Mar 4 John W Mills, British sculptor
- Mar 5 Norbert Linke, German composer
- Mar 5 Evgeni Vasiukov, Russian chess grandmaster (World Senior Champion 1995), born in Moscow, Russia (d. 2018)
- Mar 6 Dorothy "Dolly" Ann Collins, English folk musician and composer
- Mar 6 Heiko Wierenga, Dutch soc-dem mayor of Enschede (1977-94)
- Mar 6 Kim Elgie, South African cricketer (South African bat v NZ 1961-62, Scotland RU intl)
- Mar 6 William Davis, author/broadcaster (Battle at Bull Run)
- Mar 6 Ted Abernathy, American baseball player (d. 2004)
- Mar 7 Jackie Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer (d. 1998)
- Mar 8 Johnny Dollar, American country and rockabilly singer, born in Kilgore, Texas (d. 1986)
- Mar 9 Lloyd Price, American R&B singer (Just Because), born in Kenner, Louisiana
- Mar 9 W. Francis McBeth, American composer, born in Ropesville, Texas (d. 2012)
- Mar 9 Mel Lastman, Canadian businessman and politician, born in Toronto, Ontario
- Mar 10 Bernadetta Matuszczak, Polish composer
- Mar 11 Terry J Hatter Jr, American judge in California
- Mar 11 Saïd Amara, Algerian soccer midfielder (5 caps; Strasbourg, Béziers, Bordeaux) and manager (Algeria), born in Saïda, Algeria (d. 2020)
- Mar 12 Barbara Feldon, American actress (Agent 99-Get Smart), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Mar 13 Frank H. Murkowski, American politician, U.S. Senator from Alaska (1981-2002), born in Seattle, Washington
- Mar 13 Mike Stoller, American composer (Lieber & Stoller-Hound Dog, Charlie Brown), born in Belle Harbor, Queens, New York
- Mar 13 Donald Henry "Pee Wee" Gaskins, American serial killer (claimed to have murdered over 100 people), born in Florence County, South Carolina (d. 1991)
Michael Caine
Mar 14 Michael Caine [Maurice J Micklewhite], English actor (Alfie), born in London, England
Michael Caine
Quincy Jones Jr
Mar 14 Quincy Jones Jr, American composer and singer (We Are The World), born in Chicago, Illinois
Quincy Jones Jr
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Mar 15 Ruth Bader Ginsburg, American jurist and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1993-2020), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2020)
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Philippe de Broca
Mar 15 Philippe de Broca, French film director, born in Paris, France
Philippe de Broca
- Mar 16 Sandy Weill, American financier and philanthropist
- Mar 17 Penelope Lively, British writer (Moon Tiger, The Ghost of Thomas Kempe), born in Cairo, Egypt
- Mar 17 Myrlie Evers-Williams, American civil rights activist (NAACP chair), born in Vicksburg, Mississippi
- Mar 18 Unita Blackwell, 1st African American mayor in Mississippi
- Mar 18 Dayton "Bones" Howe, American record producer and sound engineer (The 5th Dimension; The Association; Tom Waits), born in Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Mar 19 Philip Roth, American novelist (Goodbye Columbus, Portnoy's Complaint), born in Newark, New Jersey
- Mar 19 Renee Taylor [Wexler], American actress (Jack Paar Show; The Nanny - "Sylvia"), born in NYC, New York
- Mar 20 David James Moore, educationalist
- Mar 20 Jacquez Guyonnet, Swiss composer, born in Geneva, Switzerland
- Mar 20 George Altman, American MLB player, born in Goldsboro, North Carolina
- Mar 20 Alexander Gorodnitsky, Russian geologist and poet
- Mar 20 Ian Walsh, Australian rugby league hooker, captain and coach (25 Tests; St. George), born in Bogan Gate, New South Wales (d. 2013)
- Mar 21 John Hall, English real estate developer/multi-millionaire
- Mar 21 Michael Heseltine, UK Secretary of State for Defence (1986)/MP
- Mar 22 J. P. McCarthy, American radio personality (WJR Detroit), born in NYC, New York (d. 1995)
- Mar 22 Buddy MacKay, (Rep-D-FL, 1983- )
- Mar 22 Abolhassan Banisadr, former President of Iran
- Mar 22 Michel Hidalgo, French soccer midfielder (1 cap; Monaco) and manager (France 1976-84; UEFA Euro 1984), born in Leffrinckoucke, France (d. 2020)
- Mar 23 Geoffrey Leigh, CEO (Allied London Properties)
- Mar 23 Monique van Vooren, Belgian actress (Andy Warhol's Frankenstein)
- Mar 23 Norman Bailey, British bass-baritone (Flying Dutchman)
- Mar 23 Hayes Jenkins, American figure skater (Olympic gold singles 1956; World C'ship gold 1953-56), born in Akron, Ohio
- Mar 23 Norman Yemm, Australian actor (Oklahoma!), born in Elsternwick, Australia (d. 2015)
- Mar 23 Philip Zimbardo, American psychologist, known for the Stanford prison experiment
- Mar 24 David Harries, composer
- Mar 27 Frank Taylor, Chief Constable (Durham)
- Mar 28 Tete Montoliu, Catalonian jazz pianist, born in Barcelona (d. 1997)
- Mar 28 Li Xueqin, Chinese eminent historian, archaeologist, and palaeographer, born in Beijing, China (d. 2019)
- Mar 29 Jacques Brault, French Canadian poet (Quand nous serons heureux), born in Montreal, Quebec
- Mar 30 Jean-Claude Brialy, Algerian actor and director (Églantine, Circle of Love, Cousins), born in Aumale, Algeria (d. 2007)
- Mar 30 Joe Ruby, American animator (co-creator of Scooby-Doo), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2020)
- Mar 31 Bob Simmons, Fulham England, stuntman (double for James Bond)
- Mar 31 Shirley Jones, American actress (Partridge Family, Elmer Gantry), born in Smithton, Pennsylvania
- Mar 31 Nichita Stănescu, Romanian poet (d. 1983)
Famous Deaths
- Mar 1 Uładzimir Žyłka, Belarusian poet, dies at 32
Thomas J. Walsh
Mar 2 Thomas J. Walsh, United States Senator (Montana), dies of a heart attack at 73
Thomas J. Walsh
- Mar 4 Willie Walker, US jazz singer and guitarist (Dupree Blues), dies at 36
- Mar 6 Anton Cermak, American politician (44th Mayor of Chicago, 1931-33), dies 23 days after being shot in Miami at 59
- Mar 6 Anton J Cermak, US mayor of Chicago, murdered
- Mar 14 Balto, husky dog who brought back the antitoxin in 1925
- Mar 16 Alfred Haar, Hungarian mathematician, dies at 47
- Mar 17 Ferdinand Von Alten, German-Russian actor (Champagne), dies at 48
- Mar 18 Luigi A duke of the Abruzzi, Italian explorer (Ruwenzori), dies at 60
- Mar 20 Giuseppe [Joe] Zangara, electrocuted for assassination attempt on FDR
- Mar 26 Eddie Lang [Salvatore Massaro], American jazz guitarist known as the "father of jazz guitar", dies at 30
- Mar 27 Lionel Palairet, British cricketer (49 runs in 2 Tests for England 1902), dies at 62
- Mar 29 Alexander Schmuller, Russian-Dutch violinist and conductor, dies at 52
