March 1936

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The following events occurred in March 1936:

March 1, 1936 (Sunday)

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March 2, 1936 (Monday)

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  • The League of Nations' Committee of Eighteen met in Geneva to renew discussions on expanding sanctions against Italy to include an oil embargo. France was opposed to the idea, believing it would not work and would only result in Italy quitting the League. The meeting adjourned with another agreement to make a last diplomatic attempt to bring about peace.[2][3]

March 3, 1936 (Tuesday)

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  • The Italian government had the four largest banks in the country declared public banks.[5]

March 4, 1936 (Wednesday)

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March 5, 1936 (Thursday)

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March 6, 1936 (Friday)

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  • Adolf Hitler summoned the Reichstag for Saturday at noon. International speculation abounded as to what the purpose of the session might be, as all that was announced for the agenda was "acceptance of a declaration of the German government."[8][9]
  • Yugoslavian Prime Minister Milan Stojadinović survived an assassination attempt when a Macedonian deputy shot at him on the floor of the Chamber. Stojadinović was unhurt as another deputy struck the assailant's arm and caused the shots to go wild.[10]
  • Born: Marion Barry, civil rights activist and politician, in Itta Bena, Mississippi (d. 2014)
  • Died: Rubin Goldmark, 63, American composer

March 7, 1936 (Saturday)

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March 8, 1936 (Sunday)

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March 9, 1936 (Monday)

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March 10, 1936 (Tuesday)

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March 11, 1936 (Wednesday)

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March 12, 1936 (Thursday)

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  • Britain, France, Belgium and Italy (the signatories of the Locarno Treaties besides Germany) formally protested the German government's renunciation of the Locarno Pact. The League of Nations also noted it as a violation of international law.[20]
  • Germany threatened to enter a state of "honourable isolation" and increase its military presence in the Rhineland if France and Belgium continued to mass troops on their eastern borders.[21]

March 13, 1936 (Friday)

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  • Leftist rioters burned down churches and a newspaper plant in Madrid.[22][23]
  • 18 died in flooding across the northeastern United States and Canada.[24]

March 14, 1936 (Saturday)

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March 15, 1936 (Sunday)

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  • Hitler set two conditions before Germany would agree to send an envoy to a conference on the Rhineland dispute. First, Germany would have equal rights with those of the other powers present. Second, the powers would immediately enter negotiations for peace pacts with Germany. France was infuriated by the second condition and insisted that no such peace proposals could be discussed until German troops were withdrawn from the Rhineland.[26]
  • Serge Mdivani of the aristocratic Mdivani family was killed in a polo accident in Delray Beach, Florida.[27]
  • Born: Howard Greenfield, songwriter, in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1986)

March 16, 1936 (Monday)

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March 17, 1936 (Tuesday)

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  • The Pittsburgh Flood of 1936 was the worst flood in the city's history. At least 10 were dead in nearby Johnstown.[28]
  • Soviet Foreign Affairs Minister Maxim Litvinov told the League of Nations that it would become a "laughing stock" and could not be preserved "if it does not carry out its own decisions, but to the contrary accustoms the aggressor to ignore its recommendations, its admonitions and its warnings." Litvinov expressed skepticism of Hitler's proposals for peace, pointing out that the Locarno Treaties already represented just such a pact.[29]
  • Born: Patty Maloney, actress, in Perkinsville, New York

March 18, 1936 (Wednesday)

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March 19, 1936 (Thursday)

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  • The known death toll in the flooding across twelve U.S. states rose to 150.[33]
  • President Roosevelt appealed for donations to the American Red Cross to help flood victims.[34]
  • In London, the Council of the League of Nations formally condemned Germany as a breaker of treaties. Joachim von Ribbentrop had pleaded for the delegates to delay the vote and take more time to consider Germany's peace offer, to no avail.[35]
  • Italy and Albania signed a new series of economic agreements between the two countries.[20]
  • Born: Ursula Andress, actress and model, in Ostermundigen, Switzerland

March 20, 1936 (Friday)

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  • The Polish government backed down on its plan to outlaw kosher slaughtering of animals. An amendment to the bill was passed allowing religious communities to slaughter animals according to their practice.[36]
  • Born: Lee "Scratch" Perry, reggae producer, in Kendal, Jamaica (d. 2021)

March 21, 1936 (Saturday)

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  • President Roosevelt allocated $25 million for flood relief in addition to the $18.4 million already allotted through emergency funds.[37]
  • The Noël Coward one-act play Star Chamber premiered in London.
  • Born: Ed Broadbent, politician and political scientist, in Oshawa, Canada (d. 2024)
  • Died: Alexander Glazunov, 70, Russian composer

March 22, 1936 (Sunday)

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  • Italian warplanes bombed Jijiga for more than an hour in the most intense aerial bombardment of the war to date.[3][38]
  • The musical drama film The Great Ziegfeld premiered in Los Angeles.[39]

March 23, 1936 (Monday)

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  • Mussolini created the National Council of Guilds, representing 23 professional corporations. All large private industries in the country were nationalized.[40][41]
  • The League of Nations Committee of Thirteen called upon the International Committee of the Red Cross to supply any information it could offer regarding accusations of Italian troops using poison gas in Ethiopia. The Red Cross denied the request, explaining that the "neutrality which the International Red Cross Committee is bound to observe makes it necessary for the Committee to exercise very great discretion."[42]
  • Died: Oscar Asche, 65, Australian actor, director and writer

March 24, 1936 (Tuesday)

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March 25, 1936 (Wednesday)

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  • Britain, France and the United States signed the Second London Naval Treaty, limiting tonnage and gun size for each ship category. However, the restrictions were slight and the agreement had many loopholes.[20]
  • International Committee of the Red Cross President Max Huber went to Rome to discuss an investigation of the Italian bombing of Red Cross units. Italy set its conditions: the question of poison gas would be excluded from any investigation, no Ethiopians could participate and Italy could not appear to be standing trial. Huber left with a promise from Mussolini to respect the Red Cross flag, but nothing more.[48]

March 26, 1936 (Thursday)

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March 27, 1936 (Friday)

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  • Reynoldstown won the Grand National horse race for the second straight year.

March 28, 1936 (Saturday)

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March 29, 1936 (Sunday)

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  • Parliamentary elections were held in Germany. No opposition parties were allowed and the Nazis claimed almost 99% of the vote.[51] Polling booths were established in the air for the first time in history, as the Hindenburg and Graf Zeppelin cruised over the Saar and Rhineland all day long as passengers and crew voted.[52]
  • Two large squadrons of Italian bombers pounded Harar for two and a half hours, setting the city ablaze. Ethiopian Red Cross and Egyptian Red Crescent hospitals were also bombed despite being clearly marked and set off some distance from the city.[3]

March 30, 1936 (Monday)

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  • The Palestine Broadcasting Service was inaugurated.
  • Iran informed the U.S. State Department that it was closing its diplomatic and consular offices in the country due to treatment of Iranian subjects in the American press. The controversy stemmed from an incident the previous October when Iranian diplomat Ghaffer Djalal was arrested for speeding. Despite Djalal's claims that his diplomatic immunity was violated, comments in the American press said that even diplomats should obey speed laws.[53]

March 31, 1936 (Tuesday)

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