2014: Lacock Halt - former TransWilts Station - [read] 2012: Stepping through a list (or an array) in reverse order - [read] 2010: The World Company Register - is it another scam? - [read] 2009: A B C D of GA and TN - [read] 2008: All Change, Portsmouth Harbour - [read] 2007: PHP adding arrays / summing arrays - [read] 2006: Can some food be TOO different? - [read] 2005: STDIN, STDOUT, STDERR and DATA - Perl file handles - [read] 2001: Russia's orbiting Mir space station plunged into the South Pacific after its 15-years of use. 1999: NATO Secretary-General Javier Solana gave formal approval for air strikes against Serbian targets. 1998: Germany's largest bank pledged $3.1 million to Jewish foundations as restitution for Nazi looting. 1996: Taiwan held its first democratic presidential elections. 1994: Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexico's leading presidential candidate, was assassinated in Tijuana. Mario Aburto Martinez was arrested at the scene and confessed to the killing. 1993: U.N. experts announced that record ozone lows had been registered over a large area of the Western Hemisphere. 1991: Tories launch 'citizen charter'. Failing public service providers will be forced to offer customers cash refunds or face government budget cuts, the Prime Minister announces. 1990: Former Exxon Valdez Captain Joseph Hazelwood was ordered to help clean up Prince William Sound and pay $50,000 in restitution for the 1989 oil spill. 1989: A 1,000-foot diameter asteroid missed Earth by about 430,000 miles. 1987: 30 hurt as car bomb hits Army base. More than 30 people are injured in a car bomb explosion at the UK Army headquarters in Rheindahlen, West Germany. 1983: Reagan launches Cold War into space. President Reagan has unveiled plans to combat nuclear war in space. 1981: New measures to contain farm disease. The government bans all animal transport to contain an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease. 1980: The deposed shah of Iran, Muhammad Riza Pahlavi, left Panama for Egypt. 1977: Government wins no confidence vote. The Labour government survives a vote of "no confidence" in the House of Commons thanks to support from the Liberals. 1973: The last airing of "Concentration" took place. The show had been on NBC for 15 years. 1972: The U.S. called a halt to the peace talks on Vietnam being held in Paris. 1967: Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. called the Vietnam War the biggest obstacle to the civil rights movement. 1965: America's first two-person space flight took off from Cape Kennedy with astronauts Virgil I. Grissom and John W. Young aboard. The craft was the Gemini 3. 1957: The U.S. Army sold the last of its homing pigeons. 1956: Pakistan became the first Islamic republic. It was still within the British Commonwealth. 1951: U.S. paratroopers descended from flying boxcars in a surprise attack in Korea. 1950: "Beat the Clock" premiered on CBS-TV. 1942: The Japanese occupy the Andaman Islands. 1940: "Truth or Consequences" was heard on radio for the first time. 1937: The L.A. Railway Co. started using PCC streetcars. 1936: Italy, Austria & Hungary signed the Pact of Rome. 1934: The U.S. Congress accepted the independence of the Philippines in 1945. 1933: The German Reichstag adopted the Enabling Act. The act effectively granted Adolf Hitler dictatorial legislative powers. 1932: In the U.S., the Norris-LaGuardia Act established workers' right to strike. 1922: The first airplane landed at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC. 1921: Arthur G. Hamilton set a new parachute record when he safely jumped from 24,400 feet. 1920: Britain denounced the U.S. because of their delay in joining the League of Nations. 1919: Benito Mussolini founded his Fascist political movement in Milan, Italy. 1918: Lithuania proclaimed independence. 1917: Austrian Emperor Charles I made a peace proposal to French President Poincare. 1912: The Dixie Cup was invented. 1910: In the Canary Islands, women offered candidates for legislative elections. 1909: British Lt. Shackleton found the magnetic South Pole. 1903: The Wright brothers obtained an airplane patent. 1902: In Italy, the minimum legal working age was raised from 9 to 12 for boys and from 11 to 15 for girls. 1901: Dame Nellie Melba, revealed the secret of her now famous toast. 1889: U.S. President Harrison opened Oklahoma for white colonization. 1881: The Boers and Britain signed a peace accord ending the first Boer war. 1880: John Stevens patented the grain crushing mill. The mill increased flour production by 70 percent. 1868: The University of California was founded in Oakland, CA. 1861: John D. Defrees became the first Superintendent of the United States Government Printing Office. 1858: Eleazer A. Gardner patented the cable streetcar. 1857: Elisha Otis installed the first modern passenger elevator in a public building. It was at the corner of Broome Street and Broadway in New York City. 1848: Hungary proclaimed its independence of Austria. 1840: The first successful photo of the Moon was taken. 1839: The first recorded printed use of "OK" [oll korrect] occurred in Boston's Morning Post. 1836: The coin press was invented by Franklin Beale. 1835: Charles Darwin reached Los Arenales, in the Andes. 1808: Napoleon's brother Joseph took the throne of Spain. 1806: Explorers Lewis and Clark, reached the Pacific coast, and began their return journey to the east. 1794: Josiah G. Pierson patented a rivet machine. 1775: American revolutionary Patrick Henry declared, "give me liberty, or give me death!" 1657: France and England formed an alliance against Spain. 1490: The first dated edition of Maimonides "Mishna Torah" was published. 1066: The 18th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet took place. 1026: Koenraad II crowned himself king of Italy.