Historical Events in March 1936

Mar 2 Bradman scores 369 in 253 mins, South Australia v Tasmania, 46 fours 4 sixes

Mar 3 Clarence Grimmett ends his Test career with 13 wkts in 5th Test v South Africa

Mar 4 1st flight of the airship Hindenburg at Friedrichshafen, Germany
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Mar 5 8th Academy Awards: "Mutiny on the Bounty", Victor McLaglen & Bette Davis wins

Mar 7 Hitler breaks Treaty of Versailles by sending troops to the Rhineland

Mar 9 Babe Ruth turns down Reds to make a comeback as a player

Mar 14 Federal Register, 1st magazine of the US government, publishes 1st issue

Mar 22 "The Great Ziegfeld" directed by Robert Z. Leonard and starring William Powell and Luise Rainer premieres in Los Angeles (Best Picture 1937

Mar 23 Physician Joseph G. Hamilton injects a leukemia patient with a sodium radioisotope, first intravenous injection of a human with a radioisotope

Mar 24 Red Wings beat Montreal Maroons in 16 mins & 30 seconds of 6th period Stanley Cup game lasts 9 periods (176 mins), ends 1-0
Mar 25 200-inch mirror blank leaves for California to be ground
Mar 25 Detroit Red Wings beat Montreal Maroons in NHL longest game (2h56m30s)
Mar 26 1st parliamentary debate on NZ radio
Mar 26 200" telescope lens shipped, Corning Glass Works, NY-Cal Tech
Mar 26 Mary Joyce ends a 1,000 mile trip by dog in Alaska
Mar 27 WOS-AM in Jefferson City Missouri goes off the air
Mar 27 95th Grand National: Mr. Fulke Walwyn aboard Reynoldstown wins
Mar 29 10,000 watch the 200-inch mirror blank passing through Indianapolis
Mar 29 Nazi propaganda claims 99% of Germans voted for Nazi candidates