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• ...that the Royal Fort in Bristol was built with façades in Baroque, Palladian and Rococo styles because it was a compromise between the designs of three different architects?
• ...that the French Military Mission to Japan played a key role in the establishment of the nascent Imperial Japanese Army?
• ...that a power struggle between Thomas Benolt and Thomas Wriothesley in 1530 almost brought an end to the College of Arms?
• ...that in 2002, 72% of Swiss voters voted in favour of making abortion in Switzerland legal on demand in the first trimester of a pregnancy?
• ...that on April 29, 1899, trade unionists in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho killed two men by steering an explosives-laden train to the site of a mill, in order to protest the firing of fellow union members?
• ...that the British Member of Parliament Dr Donald Johnson was interested by the connotations of the Macmillan government's 69-vote win over the Profumo sex scandal?
• ...that Hersey Kyota has represented Palau at the United Nations Millennium Summit, even though he is not Palau's ambassador to the U.N.?

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• Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks is the first to receive a sentence from the Guantanamo military commission, and the first conviction in a US war crimes trial since World War II.
• Following a provincial general election that saw no party win more than 39% of the seats, the Liberal Party retains power in Quebec (flag pictured) as the province's first minority government in 129 years.
• Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi is declared the winner of the Mauritanian presidential election.
• In Northern Ireland, members of the DUP and Sinn Féin, led respectively by Ian Paisley and Gerry Adams, meet face-to-face for the first time, and agree on a timetable for implementing the St Andrews Agreement.
• Iran's Revolutionary Guards detain fifteen British Royal Navy personnel assigned to HMS Cornwall, alleging they illegally entered Iranian waters.
• Jamaican police are treating the death of Pakistan cricket team coach Bob Woolmer during the ongoing Cricket World Cup as a case of murder.

March 31: Mawlid in Sunni Islam (2007); César Chávez Day in various U.S. states, Freedom Day in Malta.

• 1854 - Commodore Matthew Perry of the U.S. Navy signed the Treaty of Kanagawa, forcing the opening of Japanese ports to American trade.
• 1889 - The Eiffel Tower (pictured) was inaugurated in Paris.
• 1903 - New Zealand inventor Richard Pearse reportedly flew in one of the first flying machines.
• 1917 - The Danish West Indies became the U.S. Virgin Islands after the United States paid Denmark US$25 million for the Caribbean islands.
• 1930 - Hollywood movie studios instituted the Production Code to avoid government censorship.

Recent days: March 30 – March 29 – March 28

April 1: Palm Sunday in Western Christianity (2007); Independence Day in San Serriffe (1967); April Fools' Day; Assyrian New Year.

• 1318 - The Scottish captured Berwick upon Tweed from the English.
• 1957 - About eight million viewers watched a report on the BBC television programme Panorama about spaghetti trees.
• 1970 - U.S. President Richard Nixon (pictured) signed the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act into law, banning cigarette advertisements on television and radio in the United States.
• 1997 - Cartoonists of popularly syndicated comic strips swapped cartoons for the day.
• 2006 - Five British policing agencies merged to form the Serious Organised Crime Agency.

Recent days: March 31 – March 30 – March 29