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March 31, 1930

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BYRD FILM ON WAY BY AIR FROM CANAL; Taken Off Liner at Dawn and Rushed to Schoenhair, Who Flies North 175 Miles an Hour. FIRST OF EXPEDITION LAND Bringing More Photographic Records, Van Der Veer and Rucker Sail On Home. Flown Across the Isthmus. Found Polar Sun "Burned Harder." BYRD FILM ON WAY BY AIR FROM CANAL Spending Night at Managua.

By Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Films rushed to U S from Panama by L Schoenhair; his plane forced to land at Managua, Nicaragua; W Van Der Veer and J H Rucker, cameramen, proceed homeward by S S; progress of City of N Y

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Notable Births

1930Yehuda Nir, Polish-American psychiatrist (died 2014)[†]

Yehuda Nir was a Polish-born American Holocaust survivor, psychiatrist and author of The Lost Childhood. Nir posed as a Roman Catholic and learned Latin to escape Nazi persecution in Poland during World War II. Nir's ordeal led him to a career as a psychiatrist, specializing in the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder and severely ill children. He immigrated to the United States in 1959 to complete medical residencies in New York City and Philadelphia. He served as the chief of child psychiatry of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center from 1979 until 1986.

Jim Mutscheller

1930Jim Mutscheller, American football player and coach (died 2015)[†]

James 'Bucky' Mutscheller was an American professional football player who was a tight end for nine seasons with the Baltimore Colts of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish.

Notable Deaths

1930Ludwig Schüler, German politician, Mayor of Marburg (born 1836)[†]

Ludwig Schüler was a German politician and from 17 September 1884 until 20 May 1907 mayor of Marburg. In January 1911 he was appointed honorary citizen.

Historical Events

Hays Code

1930The Motion Picture Production Code is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in film, in the U.S., for the next thirty-eight years.[†]

The Motion Picture Production Code was a set of industry guidelines for the self-censorship of content that was applied to most motion pictures released by major studios in the United States from 1934 to 1968. It is also popularly known as the Hays Code, after Will H. Hays, president of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA) from 1922 to 1945. Under Hays's leadership, the MPPDA, later the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the Motion Picture Association (MPA), adopted the Production Code in 1930 and began rigidly enforcing it in 1934. The Production Code spelled out acceptable and unacceptable content for motion pictures produced for a public audience in the United States.