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Matir Moina, a Bangladeshi film by Tareque Masud, was temporarily banned by censors in Bangladesh before becoming the country's first film to compete for the Academy Awards in the Best Foreign Language Film category. 
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| When the English actress Lucia Elizabeth Vestris (pictured) took over the Olympic Theatre in 1830, she became the first ever female actor-manager in the history of London theatre. |
| The dispute settlement system in the World Trade Organization is characterized as the most adjudicative mechanism in the world. |
| Richmond Herald, Lawrence Dalton, embezzled tabards from the Royal Household in 1547. |
| The Russian Communist Varvara Yakovleva was a member of the board of the Secret Police and led food inspections that requisitioned food as a punitive measure. |
| The extinct species of Edaphodon, a type of rabbitfish related to the shark, grazed along the bottom of the ocean like land-dwelling herbivores do now. |
| Author Dean Koontz reportedly was so unsatisfied with the film version of his novel Hideaway that he attempted to have his name removed from the credits. |
| Henri Le Secq was a founding member of the short-lived, first ever photographic organization Société héliographique. |
| Reopening of the Cemetery of the Defenders of Lwów (pictured) in 2005 marked a major improvement of Polish-Ukrainian relations. |
| Seaport Centre, a large biotechnology research complex, was developed over old salt evaporation ponds. |
| Albert Blaustein was a consultant on the national constitutions for over 14 countries and helped found the United States' Law Day. |
| On March 23 a Transaviaexport Cargo Airline Ilyushin Il-76 aircraft delivering humanitarian aid was shot down in Somalia. |
| Because of liberal divorce laws in the U.S. state of Nevada, the Riverside Hotel in Reno catered specifically to wealthy divorce-seekers. |
| An infinite geometric series with a common ratio of 1/4 (pictured) was used by Archimedes in 250-200 BC to find the area enclosed by a parabola. |
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