Events in History
- Mar 1 The March 1st, or Samil Movement, begins in Korea: it is a demonstration of resistance to Japanese occupation
- Mar 2 1st congress of Communist International opens at the Kremlin
- Mar 3 1st international air mail service from US, Seattle-Victoria, BC
- Mar 3 Communist Party in Germany announces a general strike
- Mar 11 General strike in Germany crushed
- Mar 12 Austrian National Meeting affirms Anschluss (incorporate into Germany)
- Mar 15 American Legion forms (Paris)
- Mar 17 Dutch steel workers strike for 8 hr day & minimum wages
- Mar 18 Order of DeMolay forms in Kansas City
Historic Publication
Mar 19 Literary Magazine "Littérature", edited by André Breton, Philippe Soupault, and Louis Aragon publishes its first issue
Five-Member Politburo
Mar 23 8th Congress of the Russian Communist Party re-establishes a five-member Politburo which becomes the center of political power in the Soviet Union. Original members Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Joseph Stalin, Lev Kamenev and Nikolai Krestinsky
- Mar 23 Bashkir ASSR, in RSFSR, constituted
Mussolini Forms Fascist Movement
Mar 23 Benito Mussolini forms Fascist movement in Milan Italy
Conference of Interest
Mar 25 Woodrow Wilson's dream of a League of Nations becomes a reality after the League Covenant is adopted at the Paris Peace Conference
- Mar 30 Belgian Army occupies Düsseldorf
- Mar 30 Paul Claudel's "Tête d'Or" premieres in Paris
- Mar 31 Strike against Ruhrgebied government of Scheidemann
Birthdays in History
- Mar 6 Maurice Grosse, British paranormal investigator (d. 2006)
- Mar 7 Jocelyn Hambro, British financier (Hambros Bank), born in London, England (d. 1994)
- Mar 7 Mochtar Lubis, Indonesian writer (Twilight in Jakarta), born in Padang, Dutch East Indies (d. 2004)
- Mar 13 Faye Glenn Abdellah, American pioneer in nursing research and US government official (health services), born in NYC, New York (d. 2017)
- Mar 14 Max Shulman, American novelist (Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, Tender Trap), born in St Paul, Minnesota (d. 1988)
- Mar 23 Carl Graffunder, American mid-century modernist architect in Minnesota, born in Rock Island, Illinois (d. 2013)
- Mar 23 Michael Lyne, British Air Vice-Marshal (d. 1997)
- Mar 24 John J. Duncan Sr., American politician (Rep-R-TN, 1965-1988), born in Huntsville, Tennessee (d. 1988)
- Mar 24 Lawrence Ferlinghetti, American beat poet (Coney Island of the Mind), born in Bronxville, New York (d. 2021) [1]
- Mar 24 Robert Heilbroner, American economist (d. 2005
- Mar 27 Julian Amery, British conservative politician and minister, born in London (d. 1996)
- Mar 30 McGeorge Bundy, American national security adviser for JFK (1961-66), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1996)
Deaths in History
- Mar 2 Melchora Aquino, Filipino revolutionary hero (b. 1812)
- Mar 8 LaMarcus Thompson 'Father of the American roller coaster', American inventor (Switchback Railway), dies at 71 [1]
- Mar 10 Amelia E. Barr, British-born American writer (Remember the Alamo), dies at 87
- Mar 14 Roger Atkinson Pryor, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 90
- Mar 25 Wilhelm Lehmbruck, German painter, poet and sculptor (Seated Youth), commits suicide at 38
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