2017: Leonardo da Vinci's painting "Salvator Mundi" sold for $450.3 million at auction. The sell set a record for the most expensive painting sold at a public auction. 2014: Officially overcrowded in the first year - [read] 2013: Tcl + Tk (Wish) - an introduction and revision example - [read] 2012: 35 minutes is only a slight delay on our railway service - [read] 2011: Networking - North and West Wilts FSB Style - [read] 2010: Getting your C++ program to run - [read] 2009: Learning to program in ... - [read] 2008: Keys to friendless churches - [read] 2007: Wiltshire County Council - Budget Consultation - [read] 2006: Hotel door furniture - [read] 2005: Python printf - [read] 2004: PHP course. Come by train. - [read] 2000: Three police officers from the Rampart division of the Los Angeles police department were convicted on several counts of conspiracy to obstruct justice. One other officer was acquitted. The case was the first major case against the anti-gang unit. 1999: Representatives from China and the United States signed a major trade agreement that involved China's membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO). 1998: Iraqi climbdown averts air strikes. Britain and America call back their bombers after Iraq agrees to allow UN weapons inspectors back into the country. 1995: Texaco agreed to pay $176 million to settle a race-discrimination lawsuit. 1993: A judge in Mineola, NY, sentenced Joey Buttafuoco to six months in jail for the statutory rape of Amy Fisher. Fisher was serving a prison sentence for shooting and wounding Buttafuoco's wife, Mary Jo. 1992: Richard Petty drove in the final race of his 35-year career. 1988: The Palestine National Council, the legislative body of the PLO, proclaimed the establishment of an independent Palestinian state at the close of a four-day conference in Algiers. 1986: A government tribunal in Nicaragua convicted American Eugene Hasenfus of charges related to his role in delivering arms to Contra rebels. He was sentenced to 30 years in prison and was pardoned a month later. 1985: Anglo-Irish agreement signed. Britain and the Republic of Ireland sign a deal giving Dublin a role in Northern Ireland for the first time in more than 60 years - unionists accuse Mrs Thatcher or treachery. 1977: Princess Anne gives birth to Master Phillips. Princess Anne gives birth to a boy - the first royal baby to be born a commoner for more than 500 years. 1969: In Washington, DC, a quarter of a million protesters staged a peaceful demonstration against the Vietnam War. 1966: The flight of Gemini 12 ended successfully as astronauts James A. Lovell and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin Jr. splashed down safely in the Atlantic Ocean. 1965: The Soviet probe, Venera 3, was launched from Baikonur, Kazakhstan. On March 1, 1966, it became the first unmanned spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet when it crashed on Venus. 1951: Murder on Malay rubber estate. Anti-government rebels kill 11 people in an attack on a rubber plantation in Malaya. 1940: Germans bomb Coventry to destruction. The German Luftwaffe bombs Coventry in a massive raid leaving much of the city devastated. 1939: U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt laid the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, DC. 1926: The National Broadcasting Co. (NBC) debuted with a radio network of 24 stations. The first network radio broadcast was a four-hour "spectacular." 1920: The League of Nations met for the first time in Geneva, Switzerland. 1902: Anarchist Gennaro Rubin failed in his attempt to murder King Leopold II of Belgium. 1901: Miller Reese patented an electrical hearing aid. 1889: Brazil's monarchy was overthrown. 1867: the first stock ticker was unveiled in New York City. 1864: Union Gen. William T. Sherman and his troops began their "March to the Sea" during the U.S. Civil War. 1806: Explorer Zebulon Pike spotted the mountaintop that became known as Pikes Peak. 1777: The Continental Congress approved the Articles of Confederation, precursor to the U.S. Constitution.