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Sunflowers
Sunflowers is a world-class museum collection item preserved at National Gallery, London.
Vincent van Gogh (Oil on canvas)
Famous Pioneer Born on 3/24
Born under Aries (♈ Aries), possessing unique vision and inspiration.
"We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once."
—— Aries Pioneer
Historical Milestone of 3/24
On this day in history (3/24), significant global milestones and breakthroughs were recorded across science, culture, and human society.
One day after making a plea to Salvadoran soldiers to stop carrying out the government's repression, Archbishop Óscar Romero was assassinated while celebrating Mass in San Salvador.
The Revolutionary Government Junta was the name of three consecutive joint civilian-military dictatorships that ruled El Salvador between 15 October 1979 and 2 May 1982.
Christopher_Briney Born
Christopher Thomas Briney is an American actor. He is known for his breakthrough role as Conrad Fisher in the Amazon Prime Video teen romance series The Summer I Turned Pretty (2022–2025). He also starred in the musical film Mean Girls (2024).
「Christopher Thomas Briney is an American actor. He is known for his breakthrough role...」
—— Christopher_Briney
Katie_Swan Born
Katie Swan is a British tennis player. She has won 18 ITF singles titles and one in doubles. Her peak world ranking in singles is 118 and her highest in doubles is 293. When she made her debut, Swan was the youngest player to represent Great Britain in the Fed Cup.
「Katie Swan is a British tennis player. She has won 18 ITF singles titles and one in d...」
—— Katie_Swan
Clara_Burel Born
Clara Burel is a French professional tennis player. She has a career-high WTA singles ranking of No. 42, achieved on 10 June 2024, and a doubles ranking of No. 246, reached on 9 May 2022.
「Clara Burel is a French professional tennis player. She has a career-high WTA singles...」
—— Clara_Burel
At the 74th Academy Awards, Halle Berry became the first African American to win Best Actress, winning for her role as Leticia Musgrove in Monster's Ball.
The 74th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), took place on March 24, 2002, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles. During the ceremony, AMPAS presented Academy Awards in 24 categories honoring films released in 2001. The ceremony, televised in the United States by ABC, was produced by Laura Ziskin and directed by Louis J. Horvitz. Actress Whoopi Goldberg hosted the show for the fourth time. She first hosted the 66th ceremony held in 1994 and had last hosted the 71st ceremony in 1999. Three weeks earlier, in a ceremony held at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, on March 2, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by Charlize Theron.
Gonzalo_García_(footballer,_born_2004) Born
Gonzalo García Torres is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a forward for La Liga club Real Madrid and the Spain national team.
「Gonzalo García Torres is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a forward for...」
—— Gonzalo_García_(footballer,_born_2004)
Hannah Montana, starring Miley Cyrus as an actress whose alter ego is the titular character, premiered.
Hannah Montana is an American teen sitcom created by Michael Poryes, Rich Correll, and Barry O'Brien that aired on Disney Channel for four seasons between March 2006 and January 2011. The series centers on Miley Stewart, a teenage girl living a double life as famous pop singer Hannah Montana, an alter ego she adopted so she could maintain her anonymity and live a normal life as a typical teenager. Episodes deal with Miley's everyday struggles to cope with the social and personal issues of adolescence while maintaining the added complexities of her secret identity, which she sustains by wearing a blonde wig. Miley has strong relationships with her brother Jackson and father Robby Ray, as well as her best friends Lilly Truscott and Oliver Oken, who become aware of her secret. Overarching themes include a focus on family and friendships as well as the importance of music and discovering one's identity.
Led by Jigme Thinley, the Bhutan Peace and Prosperity Party won 45 of 47 seats in the country's first National Assembly election.
Lyonpo Jigme Yoser Thinley is a Bhutanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Bhutan for three nonconsecutive terms, from 20 July 1998 to 9 July 1999, 30 August 2003 to 18 August 2004 and 9 April 2008 to 28 April 2013.
The co-pilot of Germanwings Flight 9525 deliberately crashed the aircraft, an Airbus A320, in a mass murder–suicide in the French Alps, killing all 150 people on board.
Germanwings Flight 9525 was a scheduled international passenger flight from Barcelona–El Prat Airport in Spain to Düsseldorf Airport in Germany. The flight was operated by Germanwings, a low-cost carrier owned by the German airline Lufthansa. On 24 March 2015, the Airbus A320 operating the flight crashed 100 km north-west of Nice in the French Alps, killing all 150 people on board.
OpenAI announces that their flagship Sora app and API are shutting down.
OpenAI is an American artificial intelligence (AI) research organization headquartered in San Francisco, consisting of OpenAI Group PBC, a for-profit public benefit corporation (PBC), partially controlled by OpenAI Foundation, a nonprofit. OpenAI develops generative AI models, particularly the GPT series of large language models. Its release of ChatGPT in November 2022 has been credited with catalyzing the AI boom, and widespread interest in generative AI.
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