March 1930 in History

Events in History

Event of Interest

Mar 12 Mahatma Gandhi begins his famous 200 mile (300km) protest march against the widely hated British salt tax

Mar 12 Stanislawa Walasiewicz [Stella Walsh] sets world record for the 220-yard dash (0:26.1)
Mar 13 Clyde Tombaugh announces discovery of Pluto at Lowell Observatory
Mar 15 1st seaplane glider flown at Port Washington, NY
Mar 15 1st streamlined submarine of US navy, USS Nautilus, launched
Mar 16 USS Constitution (Old Ironsides) floated out to become a national shrine
Mar 17 Construction begins of the Empire State Building, the world's 1st skyscraper of 100+ stories, on 5th Avenue in New York City
Mar 19 Nakagawa Soen accepted as a student of Katsube Keigaku Roshi
Mar 20 American engine builder Clessie Cummins sets diesel engine speed record of 80.4 mph (129.39 kph)

Sanders Court & Café

Mar 20 American fast food restaurant chain "KFC" [Kentucky Fried Chicken] is founded as Sanders Court & Café by Colonel Harland Sanders in North Corbin, Kentucky

Businessman and Restaurateur Colonel Sanders

Mar 24 1st religious services telecast in US (W2XBS NYC)
Mar 26 Congress appropriates $50,000 for Inter-American highway
Mar 27 1st US radio broadcast from a ship at sea

Istanbul – The Queen of Cities

Mar 28 Turkish cities Constantinople and Angora change their names to Istanbul and Ankara

The magnificent Hagia Sophia ranked as the world's largest cathedral for a thousand years

Mar 29 Heinrich Brüning is appointed German Chancellor

Birthdays in History

Mar 2 Jan van Noor, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (CDA)
Mar 3 Heiner Geißler, German politician
Mar 3 Ion Iliescu, President of Romania
Mar 7 Antony Armstrong-Jones [Lord Snowdon], British photographer and husband of Princess Margaret, born in London, England (d. 2017)
Mar 7 Stanley Miller, American chemist (created 'primordial soup' experiment to show how life might have originated on earth), born in Oakland, California (d. 2007)
Mar 9 Harry Aarts, Dutch politician and 2nd chamber member (CDA), born in 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
Mar 11 David Gentleman, designer/painter
Mar 12 Antony Acland, provost of Eton/British ambassador (to US)
Mar 12 Robin Cavendish, English campaigner for the disabled, born in Middleton (d. 1994)
Mar 15 Zhores Alferov, Soviet-Russian physicist (2000 Nobel Prize in Physics), born in Vitebsk, Soviet Union (d. 2019)
Mar 17 James Irwin, American air force officer and NASA astronaut (Apollo 15, 8th person to walk on the moon), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 1991)
Mar 22 Derek Bok, American lawyer and educator (President of Harvard University), born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
Mar 22 Lynden Pindling, Bahamas 'Father of the Nation' Prime Minister of Bahamas (1967-92), born in Nassau, Bahamas (d. 2000)
Mar 22 Pat Robertson, American televangelist and media mogul (700 club, Presidential candidate-R-1989), born in Lexington, Virginia
Mar 26 Gregory Corso, American beat poet (Happy Birthday of Death, Long Live Man), born in New York City (d. 2001)

Sandra Day O'Connor (92 years old)

Mar 26 American 1st woman Supreme Court Justice (1981- 2006), born in El Paso, Texas

Mar 27 Bob den Uyl, Dutch journalist and writer (Bird Watching), born in Rotterdam, Netherlands (d. 1992)
Mar 28 Amelia Rosselli, Italian poet, born in Rome (d. 1996)
Mar 28 George Bruce, British portrait painter, born in London
Mar 29 Hugh Seymour, 8th Marquess of Hertford (d. 1997)
Mar 30 Lord Browne-Wilkinson [Nicolas Christopher Henry Browne-Wilkinson], Senior Lord of Appeal in Ordinary (UK)

Deaths in History

D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)

Mar 2 English poet and writer (Lady Chatterley's Lover), dies of tuberculosis at 44

Mar 6 Alfred von Tirpitz, German architect of the Imperial Navy (Tirpitz Plan, Unrestricted U-boat Warfare) and World War I Grand Admiral, dies at 80
Mar 8 Edward Terry Sanford, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (b. 1865)

William Howard Taft (1857-1930)

Mar 8 27th US President (Republican: 1909-13) and Chief Justice, dies at 72

Mar 12 Alois Jirásek, Czech writer (b. 1851)

William George Barker (1894-1930)

Mar 12 Canadian fighter ace (Victoria Cross recipient), dies in a training accident at 35

Mar 13 Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, American writer (Revolt of Mother), dies at 77
Mar 15 Antonio Beltramelli, Italian writer, dies at 51
Mar 16 Miguel Primo de Rivera, Spanish dictator (1923-30), dies at 60

Arthur Balfour (1848-1930)

Mar 19 British Prime Minister (Conservative: 1902-05) and Foreign Secretary (Balfour Declaration), dies of unremitting circulatory trouble at 81

Mar 28 Uchimura Kanzō, Japanese religious writer and pacifist (How I Became a Christian), dies at 69
Mar 29 Anton Bettelheim, Austrian writer, dies at 78