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March 2, 1931

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The Times Starts Printing in Brooklyn Plant; Building, Fully Equipped, Has 16 Press Units; WHERE BROOKLYN EDITION OF THE TIMES IS ISSUED TODAY.

By Times Wide World Photo

The big presses in the new Brooklyn plant of THE NEW YORK TIMES, in Third Avenue between Pacific and Dean Streets, were placed in commission early today when, for the first time, the Brooklyn and Queens edition of THE TIMES was printed there. Hereafter this edition will be published in Brooklyn daily.

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NAVAL REBELS OUST GOVERNMENT IN PERU; JUDGE HEADS JUNTA; Officers Intervene to Stop the Civil War--Halt Ships Bearing Reinforcements. HAND ULTIMATUM TO LIMA Sanchez Cerro Then Gives His and Cabinet's Resignations to Meeting of High Officials. CROWD CHEERS HIM LATER New Regime Immediately Makes Overtures to Insurgents in North and South. NAVAL REBELS OUST PERU'S GOVERNMENT Navy Tells of Rebel Strength.

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Naval rebels force resignations of L M Sanchez Cerro and Cabinet and set up new Govt; overtures to rebels in North and South

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Notable Births

Mikhail Gorbachev

1931Mikhail Gorbachev, Russian lawyer and politician, the 8th and final leader of the Soviet Union, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2022)[†]

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was a Soviet and Russian politician who was the last leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to the country's dissolution in 1991. He served as General Secretary of the Communist Party from 1985 and additionally as head of state from 1988. Ideologically, he initially adhered to Marxism–Leninism but moved towards social democracy by the early 1990s.