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1.2 March

March 2 - Mohandas Gandhi informs British viceroy of India that civil disobedience would begin nine days later
March 5 - Danish painter Einar Wegener goes through a sexual reassignment surgery and takes the name Lili Elbe
March 6 - First frozen food products in USA
March 12 - Mohandas Gandhi sets off to a 200-mile protest march towards the sea with 78 followers to protest the British monopoly on salt - more will join them during the Salt March that ends in April 5
March 28 - Constantinople and Angora change their names to Istanbul and Ankara
March 29 - Heinrich Brüning is appointed German Reichskanzler.
March 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.

1.3 April-May

April 5 - In an act of civil disobedience, Mahatma Gandhi breaks British law after marching to the sea and making salt.
April 6 - Hostess Twinkies are invented.
April 21 - Fire in Ohio State Penitentiary near Columbus kills 320
April 22 - The United Kingdom, Japan and the United States sign the London Naval Treaty regulating submarine warfare and limiting shipbuilding.
April 28 - The first night game in organized baseball history takes place in Independence, Kansas.
May 4- 5 - Mohandas Gandhi is arrested again
May 15 - Aboard a Boeing tri-motor, Ellen Church becomes the first airline stewardess (the flight was from Oakland, California to Chicago, Illinois).
May 17 - French foreign minister André Tardieu decides to withdraw the remaining French troops from the Rheinland. They depart by June 30
May 20 - Sergei Eisenstein arrives to New York City
May 24 - Amy Johnson lands in Darwin, Australia becoming the first woman to fly from England to Australia (she left on May 5 for the 11,000 mile flight).
May 30 - Sergei Eisenstein arrives to Hollywood to work for Paramount Pictures - they part ways by October

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