April 25, 1940: American actor Alfredo James “Al” Pacino was born.
Pacino was born to Italian-American parents in East Harlem, New York, and was raised in the Bronx by his mother and her parents,...
April 11, 1970: Apollo 13 was launched.
After the successes of the Apollo 11 and the Apollo 12 missions, Apollo 13 was set to be NASA’s third moon-landing mission. The mission was manned by astronauts...
April 4, 1975: Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded the Microsoft Corporation.
Childhood friends Gates and Allen founded the Microsoft Corporation in 1975, originally named Micro-Soft for microprocessors...
March 28, 1913: Japanese artist Toko Shinoda was born.
Born in Manchuria, China, to a Japanese family and raised in Gifu, Japan, Shinoda acquired a passion for art when she was very young. She started...
March 21, 1806: Benito Pablo Juárez García, the 26th President of Mexico, was born.
Juarez was born in Oaxaca on March 21, 1806. He was the first Indigenous president of Mexico from 1861 to 1872....
March 7, 1936: Germany violated the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact under the authority of Adolf Hitler.
The Treaty of Versailles was signed by the Allied Nations and Germany in 1919 and formally...
Assimilation is the American dream, isn’t it? It is the thing we all dream of when we do not know where we fit in. I think I have, unfortunately, assimilated to the point of not being seen anymore. I...
Even antiquated censorship cannot ignore one of the most prolific and greatly admired poets of the Classical period. Sappho has survived for almost two millennia, having composed close to 10,000 lines...
Briah Ramos, Contributing Writer
• October 6, 2021
The UTSA Institute of Texan Cultures recently reopened during Hispanic Heritage Month after 18 months of closure due to the pandemic. The Institute of Texan Cultures (ITC) is a historical museum composed...
Black History Month was created to remember important individuals and events in Black history. Black History Month originally began as Negro History Week, created in 1926 by Dr. Carter G. Woodson, an African...
The resurgence of ‘90s trends is indicative of our love for the decade that a majority of us were born in. Despite our enamoredness, many of us
were probably too young to have experienced...
“History is more or less bunk. It’s tradition. We don’t want tradition. We want to live in the present, and the only history that is worth a tinker’s damn is the history that we make today.”...
