Tabu: A Story of the South Seas
Release year: 1931
Directed by: F.W. Murnau
Starring: Anne Chevalier, Matahi, Hitu, Bill Bambridge
Country: United States of America
March 1931 calendar
Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened in March 1931.
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 1931: find out below
Historical Events
Which were the important events of March 1931?
Events
- 01 Mar 1931 The USS Arizona is placed back in full commission after a refit.
- 03 Mar 1931 Star Spangled Banner officially becomes US national anthem
- 04 Mar 1931 West Indies beat Australia in cricket for the first time, by 30 runs at Sydney Cricket Ground.
- 05 Mar 1931 The British Viceroy of India, Governor-General Edward Frederick Lindley Wood and Mohandas Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi) sign an agreement envisaging the release of political prisoners and allowing salt to be freely used by the poorest members of the population.
- 10 Mar 1931 British Labour party removes fascist Sir Oswald Mosley.
- 14 Mar 1931 1st theater built for rear movie projection
- 15 Mar 1931 SS Viking explodes off Newfoundland, killing 27 of the 147 on board.
- 16 Mar 1931 Genootschap Onze Taal (Our Language) organizes (Netherlands).
- 17 Mar 1931 Nevada legalizes gambling.
- 18 Mar 1931 Juan Bautista Aznar becomes premier of Spain.
- 19 Mar 1931 Nevada legalizes casino gaming and most other forms of gambling. Nevada Governor Fred Balzar signs into law Assembly Bill 98, allowing faro, monte, roulette, keno, fan-tan, twenty-one, blackjack, seven-and-a-half, big injun, klondike, craps, stud poker, draw poker, or any card, dice, machine, at licensed establishments. Licensing fees for social games is set at US$25 per table per month, $50 for each mercantile game, $10 for each slot machine. Legal gambling age set at 21.
- 20 Mar 1931 Bishop Schreiber warns against national-socialism in Berlin.
- 21 Mar 1931 KRO-broadcast studio initiated in Hilversum Holland
- 25 Mar 1931 Hal Kemp and his orchestra record Whistles, with Skinnay Ennis
- 26 Mar 1931 New Delhi replaces Calcutta as capitol of British-Indies.
- 27 Mar 1931 John McGraw says night baseball will not catch on.
- 31 Mar 1931 TWA Flight 599 crashes near Bazaar, Kansas killing 8 including Knute Rockne, head football coach at the University of Notre Dame
Famous Birthday
![Mikhail Gorbachev]()
Russian politician who succeeded Konstantin Chernenko as General Secretary of the Communist Party on 11 March 1985.
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Canadian-American actor in film and TV best known as the Starship Commander James T. Kirk on the series "Star Trek," 1966-1969.
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American actor who became famous as the pointed-eared alien Spock in "Star Trek," 1965-1967.
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Famous Deaths
Finnish Painter / illustrator, dies at 65.
Painter / architect, dies at 47.
Composer, dies at 87.
Famous black, dies in Chicago at 78.
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Movies
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The Front Page
Release year: 1931
Directed by: Lewis Milestone
Starring: Adolphe Menjou, Pat O'Brien, Mary Brian, Edward Everett Horton
Country: United States of America
A Connecticut Yankee
Release year: 1931
Directed by: David Butler
Starring: Will Rogers, William Farnum, Frank Albertson, Maureen O'Sullivan
Behind Office Doors
Release year: 1931
Directed by: Melville W. Brown
Starring: Mary Astor, Robert Ames, Ricardo Cortez, Catherine Dale Owen
The Lady Refuses
Release year: 1931
Directed by: George Archainbaud
Starring: Betty Compson, John Darrow, Gilbert Emery, Margaret Livingston