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On March 23, 1998, James Cameron’s Titanic won 11 Academy awards, including the Best Picture. It tied with the 1959 classic Ben Hur. Titanic was nominated for 14 Academy Awards…
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*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons In an industry dominated by larger-than-life personalities, one man stands above the rest as the epitome of a daring showman: Harry Houdini. Born on March 24,…
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March 25 1996 – The Veterinary Committee of the European Union Bans the Export of British Beef
by Vishul Malik*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons Nearly a decade after the first reported case of a strange new disease affecting cattle in the United Kingdom (UK), the Veterinary Committee of the European…
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*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons Five-and-half years after the Yom Kippur War, Egypt and Israel agreed to an historic peace treaty in Washington, DC on March 26, 1979. After more than…
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*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons Four decades after joining the Communist Party at the age of 24, Nikita Khrushchev ascended to the highest office in the Soviet Union on March 27,…
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*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons Twenty-eight months after launching an assault on Madrid, Generalissimo Francisco Franco and his Nationalist soldiers finally broke into the Spanish capital on March 28, 1939. Within…
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*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons The Wars of the Roses, a three-decade series of conflicts between the Houses of York and Lancaster for control of the English throne, featured some of…
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*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons In the midst of the most extensive expansion of European colonization in centuries, the Qing Dynasty — head of a closed Chinese society — decided to…
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*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons In the tiny town of Groot-Zundert near the southern coast of the Netherlands, one of the most tragic figures in the history of art was born…
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*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons Stretching more than a thousand feet above west-central Paris, the Eiffel Tower is one of the world’s iconic structures. Opened on March 31, 1889, the “Iron…
