March 1930

Wednesday 12:

Mahatma Gandhi leads a 200-mile march known as Dandi March to the sea in defiance of British opposition, to protest the British monopoly on salt.

Friday 28:

Constantinople and Angora change their names to Istanbul and Ankara.

Saturday 29:

Heinrich Brüning is appointed German Reichskanzler.

Monday 31:

The Motion Pictures Production Code is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in motion pictures for the next forty years.