Daily Archives: March 25, 2022

‘A Horse with No Name’ by America peaks at #1 in USA 50 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Mar 25 #1972)

1970s, Popular Music 1970s

(Saturday, March 25, 1972) — “A Horse with No Name” by America peaked at #1 on today’s Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for three weeks (Mar. 25, Apr. 1/8, 1972), the group’s first of two number one hits (1972-1975). Continue reading ‘A Horse with No Name’ by America peaks at #1 in USA 50 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Mar 25 #1972) →

First mass transport of Jews to Auschwitz concentration camp departs Poprad railway station in northern Slovakia 80 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Mar 25 #1942)

1940s, The Holocaust, World War II


Video: '1942: Auschwitz'

(Wednesday, March 25, 1942, 8:20 p.m. Central European Summer Time; during the First mass transport of Jews to Auschwitz concentration camp, part of The Holocaust and World War II) — The first mass transport of Jews to the Auschwitz concentration camp departed today from the Poprad railway station in the Slovak Republic, in the Slovak State, arriving at its destination the following afternoon, March 26, 1942. Continue reading First mass transport of Jews to Auschwitz concentration camp departs Poprad railway station in northern Slovakia 80 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Mar 25 #1942) →