- Container ship collides with Baltimore’s Key Bridge
by HISTORY.com Editors on March 25, 2026 at 8:08 pmThe subsequent bridge collapse killed six and crippled the Port of Baltimore for months.
- Jack Kevorkian Convicted of Second-Degree Murder (1999)
on March 26, 2026 at 5:00 amBy 1998, Dr. Jack Kevorkian had been prosecuted numerous times—without being convicted—for the deaths of terminally ill patients whose suicides he had admittedly assisted. However, after the TV program 60 Minutes aired a videotape of him administering a lethal injection to a man who was too physically debilitated to commit suicide on his own, Kevorkian was charged with murder. He chose to defend himself in court and was convicted. He was paroled eight years later under what conditions?
- Sergei Krikalev, the "Last Soviet Citizen," Returns to Earth (1992)
on March 25, 2026 at 5:00 amIn May 1991, the Soviet Union launched the Soyuz TM-12 mission to the Mir space station. Within months, all but one of the mission's crew members had returned to Earth. Krikalev, a Soviet flight engineer, stayed behind to help staff Mir and conduct experiments. That December, the USSR dissolved. When the cosmonaut finally returned to Earth the following spring, it was as a citizen of Russia. Krikalev has spent more time in space than any other human—how many days in total?
- Archbishop Óscar Romero Assassinated in San Salvador (1980)
on March 24, 2026 at 5:00 amAs the archbishop of San Salvador during El Salvador's civil war, Romero won international acclaim by speaking out against social injustices, such as human rights abuses and assassinations perpetrated by the Salvadoran government. Just one day after Romero publicly exhorted Salvadoran soldiers to obey God instead of their corrupt government, he was shot to death while celebrating Mass. What unprecedented confession did the president of El Salvador make on the 30th anniversary of Romero's death?
