29 February, 1940 – Hattie McDaniel became the first black actor to win an Academy Award

She won Best Supporting Actress for her role as Mammy in the 1939 historical romance movie Gone with the Wind.

01 March, 1998 – Titanic became the first film to gross $1 billion

James Cameron's epic account of the sinking of the iconic Titanic ship had a budget of $ 200 million and grossed over $ 2 billion in the end.

02 March, 1959 – Miles Davis recorded Kind of Blue

It is considered the best-selling jazz album in history and one of the most influential works of jazz music ever produced.

03 March, 1924 – The last remnant of the Ottoman Empire in Turkey abolished

The end of the Islamic caliphate marked the demise of the 600-year old empire and gave way to the formation of a reformed Turkey under Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.

04 March, 1789 – The U.S. Constitution put into effect

The law is one of the world's oldest constitutions still in use. The oldest is the Constitution of San Marino, which was issued in 1600.

05 March, 1981 – The home computer ZX81 launched

The British ZX81 was one of the world's first home computers and was sold over 1.5 million times.

06 March, 1899 – The painkiller Aspirin registered as a trademark

Dmitri Mendeleev presented the system to the Russian Chemical Society on that day.