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On this day ... A look back to what we've been blogging about on this day in previous years,
and to some selected world events too.
For the day ... 23rd March 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. These stories are the aggregation of a number of source feeds Please select this link to return to the main Well House Consultants home page. | |||
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