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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 ... 3rd June 2015: Regular Expressions for the petrified - in Ruby - [read] 2013: What might you find at a tiny bed and breakfast? - [read] 2012: Not everyone has a computer - 9 more ways to learn about the Melksham Campus - [read] 2011: Friday - Electrician, Food Festival, C++ Course, Rail Group Meeting - [read] 2010: Should Government compete with private industry? - [read] 2009: Past Delegate Offer - Summer Holiday / Weekend Break - [read] 2008: Example of OO in Perl - [read] 2007: Five of the best - pictures from London - [read] 2006: A visit from the solicitor - [read] 2005: Sad priorities - [read] 2003: Sammy Sosa (Chicago Cubs) broke a bat when he grounded out against the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. The bat he was using was a corked bat. (Illinois, Florida) 1999: Slobodan Milosevic's government accepted an international peace plan concerning Kosovo. NATO announced that airstrikes would continue until 40,000 Serb forces were withdrawn from Kosovo. 1991: IRA men shot dead by British army. Three members of the IRA are ambushed and killed by soldiers in Northern Ireland acting on intelligence information. 1989: Chinese army troops positioned themselves to began a sweep of Beijing to crush student-led pro-democracy demonstrations in Tiananmen Square. 1985: After five years, the characters of Nancy and Chris Hughes returned to CBS-TV's "As the World Turns." 1982: Israeli ambassador shot in London. Shlomo Argov, the Israeli ambassador to Britain, is critically ill in hospital after being shot on a London street. 1972: Protestant march ends in battle. Soldiers disperse crowds as a Protestant march against "no-go" areas in Londonderry turns violent at Craigavon Bridge. 1970: Har Gobind Khorana and colleagues announced the first synthesis of a gene from chemical components. 1965: Edward White became the first American astronaut to do a "space walk" when he left the Gemini 4 capsule. 1962: 130 die in Paris air crash. An Air France Boeing 707 crashes on take-off at Orly Airport killing all but two of those on board. 1959: The first class graduated from the Air Force Academy in Denver, CO. 1957: Noel Coward comes home. Noel Coward returns from Jamaica for a short visit to Britain and rebuffs suggestions he has become a tax exile. 1952: A rebellion by North Korean prisoners in the Koje prison camp in South Korea was put down by American troops. 1938: The German Reich voted to confiscate so-called "degenerate art." 1937: The Duke of Windsor, who had abdicated the British throne, married Wallis Warfield Simpson. 1932: Lou Gehrig set a major league baseball record when he hit four consecutive home runs. 1923: In Italy, Benito Mussolini granted women the right to vote. 1918: The Finnish Parliament ratified its treaty with Germany. 1888: "Casey at the Bat" the poem by Ernest Lawrence Thayer was first published. 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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