March 3, 1930

The Palm Island Tragedy occurred at the Palm Island aborigines settlement on Great Palm Island in Queensland, Australia, when the settlement's Superintendent (Robert Henry Curry) shot and wounded two people, set fire to several buildings and killing his two children. Later in the day, the Superintendent was shot dead.

Births

Heiner Geißler, German politician

Deaths

William Wells Quatremain, an English oil and watercolour landscape artist (b. 22 December 1857)

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