Today in History - March 26 | World confronted by photo of vulture waiting for starving child to die
One of the most confronting photos of all time was published by The New York Times on March 26, 1993.
South African photographer Kevin Carter was in South Sudan documenting the famine there when he saw a starving child on the ground outside the town of Ayod.
In the background was a vulture, presumably waiting for the child to die.
After taking the photo, Carter shooed the bird away.
The child was taken to an aid station and survived until adulthood.
The picture, The Vulture and the Little Girl won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography.
It was later revealed the child was a little boy.
But despairing at the extraordinary suffering he had witnessed and beset by personal problems, Carter took his own life four months after winning the Pulitzer.
The famine was a profound one. In Ayod alone, a dozen adults were dying each day of starvation.
One of the world's most pervasive computer viruses was released on March 26, 1999.
The Melissa virus infiltrated Microsoft Word and Outlook, emailing itself on to the inbox of the first 50 addresses in the victim's contact list.
The email contained a file with the message: "Here's that document you asked for. Don't show anyone else ;)"
An estimated one million email accounts were hijacked by the virus, and infected 100,000 workplace computers.
Culprit David L Smith, who named the virus after a stripper, was jailed for 20 months.
The first thermonuclear weapon to be tested was detonated at the Bikini Atoll on March 26, 1954.
The Castle Romeo bomb was expected to have a yield of four megatons. When it exploded, it actually had an 11-megaton blast.
Its fiery mushroom cloud quickly became an iconic image.
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