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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 ... 29th March 2013: Using web services to access you data - JSON and RESTful services - [read] 2011: Answering at my earliest convenience - [read] 2010: In Japan, the Tokyo Skytree tower became the tallest structure in Japan when it reached 1,109 feet. 2009: Funny Amusing, Funny Amazing and The Smarts - [read] 2007: Sharing the load with Apache httpd and perhaps Tomcat - [read] 2006: Dressed up for a phone call - [read] 2005: Putting a form online - [read] 2004: Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia became members of NATO. 1999: Hanratty family wins right to appeal. The case of James Hanratty is sent back to the Court of Appeal - 37 years after he was hanged for the notorious A6 murder in Bedfordshire. 1998: Tennessee won the woman's college basketball championship over Louisiana. Tennessee had set a NCAA record with regular season record or 39-0. 1995: The U.S. House of Representatives rejected a constitutional amendment that would have limited terms to 12 years in the U.S. House and Senate. 1993: The South Korean government agreed to pay financial support to women who had been forced to have sex with Japanese troops during World War II. 1992: Democratic presidential front-runner Bill Clinton said "I didn't inhale and I didn't try it again" in reference to when he had experimented with marijuana. 1987: Hulk Hogan took 11 minutes, 43 seconds to pin Andre the Giant in front of 93,136 at Wrestlemania III fans at the Silverdome in Pontiac, MI. 1986: A court in Rome acquitted six men in a plot to kill the Pope. 1983: Erno Rubik was granted a patent for his Magic Cube. (U.S. Patent 4,378,116) 1982: The soap opera "Search for Tomorrow" changed from CBS to NBC. 1981: Triumph at first London Marathon. Thousands of people jog through the normally quiet Sunday streets of the capital to try and cross the finish line of the first ever London marathon. 1979: The Committee on Assassinations Report issued by U.S. House of Representatives stated the assassination of President John F. Kennedy was the result of a conspiracy. 1975: Egyptian president Anwar Sadat declared that he would reopen the Suez Canal on June 5, 1975. 1974: Mariner 10, the U.S. space probe became the first spacecraft to reach the planet Mercury. It had been launched on November 3, 1973. 1973: "Hommy," the Puerto Rican version of the rock opera "Tommy," opened in New York City. 1971: Calley guilty of My Lai massacre. Lieutenant William Calley is found guilty of murder at a court martial for his part in the My Lai massacre which claimed the lives of 500 South Vietnamese civilians. 1967: Bombs rain down on Torrey Canyon. The stricken oil supertanker, the Torrey Canyon, refuses to sink despite more than a day of heavy bombing by the RAF and the Royal Navy. 1966: Leonid Brezhnev became the First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party. He denounced the American policy in Vietnam and called it one of aggression. 1962: Cuba opened the trial of the Bay of Pigs invaders. 1961: The 23rd amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. The amendment allowed residents of Washington, DC, to vote for president. 1951: The Chinese reject MacArthur's offer for a truce in Korea. 1946: Fiorella LaGuardia became the director general of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Organization. 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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