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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.?

• 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 30: Education and Sharing day in the United States (2007); Spiritual Baptist Shouter Liberation Day in Trinidad and Tobago.

• 1867 - U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward negotiated the purchase of Alaska for US$7.2 million from Russia.
• 1912 - Sultan Abdelhafid signed the Treaty of Fez, making Morocco a French protectorate.
• 1940 - World War II: Wang Jingwei (pictured) was installed by Japan as head of the puppet government in China.
• 1961 - The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, an international treaty aimed against the illicit manufacture and trafficking of narcotic drugs, was signed.
• 1981 - John Hinckley, Jr. shot and wounded U.S. President Ronald Reagan and three others outside the Washington Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C.

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