The Blue Angel
Release year: 1930
Directed by: Josef von Sternberg
Starring: Emil Jannings, Marlene Dietrich, Kurt Gerron, Rosa Valetti
Country: United States of America
March 1930 calendar
Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened in March 1930.
The US president was Herbert Hoover (Republican), the UK Prime Minister was Ramsay MacDonald (Labour), Pope Pius XI was leading the Catholic Church.
But much more happened on March 1930: find out below
Historical Events
Which were the important events of March 1930?
Events
- 02 Mar 1930 First US indoor glider flight, Saint Louis Terminal Building.
- 04 Mar 1930 Emma Fahning bowls 1st sanctioned 300 game by a woman
- 05 Mar 1930 Danish painter Einar Wegener goes through a sexual reassignment surgery and takes the name Lili Elbe.
- 06 Mar 1930 Brooklyn's Clarence Birdseye develops a method for quick freezing food.
- 07 Mar 1930 Georgetown High of Chicago defeats Homer 1-0 in basketball.
- 08 Mar 1930 Babe Ruth signs two-year contract for $160,000 with New York Yankees general manager Ed Barrow; Barrow wrongly predicts "No one will ever be paid more than Ruth".
- 11 Mar 1930 US President and Chief Justice William Taft buried in Arlington cemetary.
- 12 Mar 1930 Stella Walsh sets record for the 220-yard dash (26.1 seconds).
- 13 Mar 1930 Clyde Tombaugh announces discovery of Pluto at Lowell Observatory, USA.
- 15 Mar 1930 First seaplane glider flown, at Port Washington, New York.
- 16 Mar 1930 USS Constitution (Old Ironsides) floated out to become a national shrine.
- 18 Mar 1930 Boston Bruins win record 20th NHL home game.
- 19 Mar 1930 Nakagawa Soen accepted as a student of Katsube Keigaku Roshi
- 20 Mar 1930 Clessie Cummins sets diesel engine speed record of 129.39 kph.
- 23 Mar 1930 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Maribel Vinson.
- 24 Mar 1930 1st religious services telecast in US (W2XBS NYC)
- 26 Mar 1930 US Congress appropriates $50,000 for Inter-American highway.
- 27 Mar 1930 First US radio broadcast from a ship at sea.
- 28 Mar 1930 Constantinople and Angora change their names to Istanbul and Ankara.
- 30 Mar 1930 Babberich-H soccer team forms.
- 31 Mar 1930 The Motion Pictures Production Code is instituted in the United States, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in motion pictures for the next 40 years.
Famous Birthday
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American actor famous for his tough-guy roles.
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Famous Deaths
US writer (Pembroke), dies at 77.
Writer, dies at 51.
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English writer (Born 1885).
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Movies
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The Girl Said No
Release year: 1930
Directed by: Sam Wood
Starring: William Haines, Leila Hyams, Polly Moran, Marie Dressler
Earth
Release year: 1930
Directed by: Aleksandr Dovzhenko
Starring: Stepan Shkurat, Semyon Svashenko, Yuliya Solntseva, Yelena Maksimova
Country: United States of America
Lovin' the Ladies
Release year: 1930
Directed by: Melville W. Brown
Starring: Richard Dix, Lois Wilson, Allen Kearns, Rita La Roy
Mammy
Release year: 1930
Directed by: Michael Curtiz
Starring: Al Jolson, Lois Moran, Lowell Sherman, Louise Dresser