March 30, 1961 (Thursday)
- The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs was signed at New York. The pact entered into force on December 13, 1964, and now applies to 149 nations.
- Died: Armand Robin, 49, French poet and journalist, three days after his arrest following an altercation in a bar.; and former Brigadier General Mengistu Neway, 41, hanged after the unsuccessful coup attempt against the Ethiopian government in December 1960.
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Famous quotes containing the word march:
“The next thing his Lordship does, after clearing of the coast, is the dividing of his forces, as he calls them, into two squadrons, one of places of Scriptures, the other of reasons....
All that I have to say touching this, is that I observe a great part of those his forces do look and march another way, and some of them fight amongst themselves.”
—Thomas Hobbes (1579–1688)