On March 24, 1972, The Godfather—a three-hour epic
chronicling the lives of the Corleone’s, an Italian-
American crime family led by the powerful Vito
Corleone (Marlon Brando)—was released in theaters
nationwide.

By the time James Cameron took the stage to accept his Academy
Award for Best Director on the night of March 23, 1998, the Oscar dominance of his blockbuster film Titanic was all but assured.

Titanic tied the record for most Oscar nominations with 14—joining 1950’s All About Eve—and by night’s end would tie with Ben Hur
(1959) for most wins by sweeping 11 categories, including the
coveted Best Picture.

Please Please Me is the debut studio album by the Beatles. Produced
by George Martin, it was released in the UK on EMI‘s Parlophone
label on 22 March 1963. The album is 14 songs in length, and
contains a mixture of cover songs and original material written
by the partnership of band members John Lennon and Paul
McCartney.

Studio 2 at Abbey Road Studios, where the Beatles recorded 
the Please Please Me album.

On March 22, 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the
Beer and Wine Revenue Act. This law levies a federal tax on all
alcoholic beverages to raise revenue for the federal government
and gives individual states the option to further regulate the sale
and distribution of beer and wine.

In an aerial view, immigrants pass through coils of razor wire while crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in El Paso, Texas.

Illegal immigrants stormed the US border recently in El Paso and knocked over guards amid standoff over Texas law.