On March 15, 1901, the Bernheim-Jeune gallery put on display a massive collection of 71 paintings by the late Vincent van Gogh. This event was actually his first-ever retrospective exhibit. Van Gogh had passed away […]
In October 1973, several Arab oil-producing nations decided to stop exporting oil to the United States and other countries that supported Israel during the Yom Kippur War. While the initial goal was political, the effects […]
On March 12, 1894, Joseph A. Biedenharn, in a small candy store in Vicksburg, Mississippi, became the first person to sell Coca-Cola in glass bottles. Today, the sight of a Coke bottle is one of […]
On March 9, 1997, the music world lost one of its most influential figures. Christopher Wallace, better known by his stage names Biggie Smalls and The Notorious B.I.G., was shot to death in Los Angeles. […]
On March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 took off from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, headed for Beijing, China. On board were 227 passengers and 12 crew members, making a total of 239 people. However, less […]
On March 7, 1876, a 29-year-old inventor named Alexander Graham Bell officially received a patent for his new invention, the telephone. Alexander Graham Bell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1847. Both his mother and […]
On March 5, 1953, the Soviet Union faced a massive shift in power. Joseph Stalin, the leader who had ruled the nation since 1924, died in Moscow ending a nearly 30-year reign that transformed the […]
On March 1, 1692, a series of events began in Salem Village, Massachusetts, that would lead to one of the most famous and tragic periods in American history. On this day, three women, Sarah Goode, […]
On February 28, 1953, two scientists, James Watson and Francis Crick, announced they had figured out the structure of DNA. DNA or deoxyribonucleic acid, is the hereditary material in humans and almost all other organisms, […]
On February 26, 1993, at 12:18 p.m., a normal Friday in Lower Manhattan was shattered by a massive explosion. A yellow rental van, packed with roughly 1,200 pounds of urea nitrate explosives, exploded in the […]