Today, Swift & Company is an industry leader in fresh ideas,
products and technology with headquarters in Greeley, Colorado.

        
       

Gustavus Franklin Swift, Sr.
(June 24, 1839 – March 29, 1903)      
      
      
     

ED DANAHUE

March 24, 1989: One of the worst oil spills in U.S. history began
when the supertanker Exxon Valdez, owned and operated by
the Exxon Corporation, ran aground on a reef in Prince William
Sound in southern Alaska. An estimated 11 million gallons of oil eventually spilled into the water.

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.