20th March 1956 - Tunisia gained independence from France. 1993 - Johnathan Ball, aged 3, died in a bomb attack in Warrington. He was in town with his babysitter buying a Mothering Sunday Card. Tim Parry, 12, was fatally injured and died five days later in hospital. 1997 - The Liggett Group, the fifth-largest U.S. […]
19th March 1932 - The Sydney Harbour Bridge opened. (It's so iconic now, it's funny to think it didn't even exist once.)
18th March 1922 - Mahatma Gandhi was sentenced to six years in prison for civil disobedience against the British rulers of India.
17th March 1861 - Modern Italy became unified under the house of Savoy. 1992 - South African whites voted to end minority rule. 2.8 million whites who cast ballots, slightly more than 1.9 million (68.7 percent) voted to give Mr. de Klerk the mandate he had sought. In his own words "Today will be written […]
1968 - The My Lai massacre took place in Vietnam. (Of the 26 US soldiers initially charged with criminal offences for their actions at My Lai, only William Calley was convicted. He served three years of his life sentence.)