Events in History
- Mar 2 US Congress creates Court of Customs & Patent Appeals
President Inaugurated
Mar 4 Herbert Hoover inaugurated as the 31st US President
- Mar 4 National Revolutionary Party founded in Mexico by Plutarco Elías Calles (will go on to hold power until 2000)
Event of Interest
Mar 4 Republican Charles Curtis becomes the 1st Native American to be Vice President of the United States
- Mar 6 Turkey & Bulgaria sign friendship treaty
- Mar 8 US worker union commission reports of slavery in Liberia
- Mar 9 Marcel Pagnol's play "Marius" premieres in Paris
- Mar 16 WHP-AM in Harrisburg PA begins radio transmissions
- Mar 17 General Motors acquires German auto manufacturer Adam Opel
- Mar 17 Spanish dictator Primo de Rivera closes university of Madrid
- Mar 22 KIT-AM in Yakima WA begins radio transmissions
- Mar 22 US Coast Guard vessel sinks Canadian schooner suspected of carrying liquor
- Mar 23 1st telephone installed at the President’s desk under the Hoover administration at the White House
- Mar 28 Democratic constitution goes into effect in Ecuador
- Mar 29 US President Herbert Hoover has 1st telephone installed on the desk at the Oval Office's in the White House
Birthdays in History
- Mar 1 Georgi Markov, Bulgarian dissident (d. 1978)
- Mar 2 Sir Donald Gosling, British former-Chairman of "National Car Parks" and multi-millionaire, born in England
- Mar 6 Hal Miller, British MP
- Mar 6 Ho Dam, North Korean secretary of State (1970-83)
- Mar 6 Tom Foley, American politician (Rep-D, 1965-1995) and speaker of the house (1989-95), born in Spokane, Washington (d. 2013)
- Mar 9 Hugh Desmond Hoyte, Guyanese politician and President of Guyana (1985-92), born in Georgetown, Guyana (d. 2002)
- Mar 9 Marie Cardinal, French writer (La Clé Sur La Porte), born in French Algeria (d. 2001)
- Mar 11 Erskine Childers, Irish writer and United Nations civil servant official, born in Dublin, Ireland (d. 1996)
- Mar 12 Lupe Anguiano, Mexican-American civil rights activist
- Mar 12 U Win Tin, jailed Burmese journalist
- Mar 13 Bill Cunningham, American fashion photographer (New York Times), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 2016)
- Mar 13 Jim Slater, British financier and writer, born in Heswall, Cheshire (d. 2015)
- Mar 18 Christa Wolf, German novelist (Divided Heaven)
- Mar 18 John Macurdy, American bass
- Mar 23 Albert H Crews, American chemical and aeronautical engineer and USAF astronaut (X-20 Dyna-Soar program), born in El Dorado, Arkansas
- Mar 23 Michael Manser, English architect, born in Bristol (d. 2016)
- Mar 25 Harris W. Fawell, American politician (Rep-R-IL, 1985-99), born in Chicago, Illinois
- Mar 28 Aubrey Joseph Watson Sr., bishop
- Mar 29 Sheila Kitzinger, British author, anthropologist & child birth educator, born in Taunton, Somerset (d. 2015)
- Mar 29 Yayoi Kusama, Japanese artist and writer, born in Matsumoto, Japan
- Mar 31 Bertram Fields, American lawyer
Liz Claiborne (1929-2007)
Mar 31 American fashion designer, entrepreneur and founder of Liz Claiborne Inc, born in Brussels, Belgium
Deaths in History
- Mar 1 Royal H. Weller, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York), dies at 47
- Mar 5 David Dunbar Buick, Scottish-American automobile pioneer (Buick Motor Company), dies at 74
- Mar 12 Asa Griggs Candler, American businessman (developed Coca-Cola into a company), dies at 77
- Mar 20 Ferdinand Foch, French Allied military commander and marshal of France during WW I, dies at 77
- Mar 26 Katharine Lee Bates, American poet (b. 1859)
- Mar 27 Samuil Shatunovsky, Ukrainian mathematician, dies at 70
- Mar 28 Lomer Gouin, Quebec politician (b. 1861)
- Mar 31 Burner Matthews, American academic and critic who established study of theatre (NY Times), dies at 77
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