March 30 2010

30 March 2010 (2010-03-30) (Tuesday) edit history watch

South America: The closing ceremony of the 2010 South American Games, with Colombia winning the most gold medals and Brazil just a little over 10 medals behind. Middle East: A Palestinian teenager dies at a protest rally in the Gaza Strip, according to medical sources there. (BBC) Somali pirates hijack 8 Indian vessels abducting 120 sailors, biggest abduction count till date, off the coast of Kismayo. Times of India At the Large Hadron Collider at CERN the first collisions took place between two 3.5 TeV beams setting a world record for the highest energy man-made particle collisions. 10 children, youths and young adults between the ages of 8 and 21 were gunned down, presumably by drug traffickers, in the northern Mexican state of Durango. (CNN) Chinese police are hunting a man suspected of killing five members of a migrant family, including an 8-year-old girl, in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. (People Dialy)

March 30, 2010 Wikinews articles

Illinois judge lifts restraining order on pre-abortion parental notification law Banned Chinese medicine still on sale in United Kingdom China executes more people than rest of world combined, according to report British scientist shot dead in Ecuador was ‘unlawfully killed’ Miami of Ohio and Boston College advance to 2010 NCAA men's ice hockey Frozen Four Man dies after being hit by train in Moray, Scotland NCAA 2010 ice hockey east and west regional tournament results Two dead after car crash in Inverness, Scotland Caloundra win Sunshine Coast, Australia cricket grand final

Current events of 29 March 2010 (2010-03-29) (Monday) edit history watch

Aung San Suu Kyi's party, the National League for Democracy, announces it will boycott the upcoming general elections in Burma. (BBC) (AP) Suicide bombers detonate two bombs at Moscow Metro stations Lubyanka and Park Kultury, killing at least 36 with the death toll expected to rise. (RIA) (AP) (Russia Today) (RIAN) The stern of the South Korean warship which exploded on Friday with 46 crewmen still missing is located and the military is expected to attempt a dive. (The Sydney Morning Herald) (Yonhap) Maule, Chile, is rattled by a 6.1 magnitude aftershock on Monday 08.43 a.m. AEDT (5:43 p.m. Sunday local time). (The Sydney Morning Herald) (Xinhua) A Rio Tinto executive is jailed for 10 years in China. (RTÉ) FARC releases into the jungle a soldier it kidnapped just under a year ago. (BBC) Ireland's rail line between Galway and Limerick reopens for the first time in 34 years. (RTÉ) More than 300 southern right whales, mostly young calves, have been discovered dead off Argentina's Patagonian coast in the last five years. (The Sydney Morning Herald) In architecture, Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, cofounders of the firm SANAA, win the 2010 Pritzker Prize. (BBC News) Nine members of the Hutaree militia are arrested in the United States on allegations of a plot to kill policemen then to attack the funerals, in preparation for a war against all levels of American government. (CNN) A patent on two human genes is struck down by a judge in U.S. District Court in Manhattan. (The New York Times) (Newsweek)

March 29, 2010 Wikinews articles

Russia removes two timezones

and the past, again.. March 30th 2000

30 March 2000 (2000-03-30) (Thursday) edit history watch

America's Cup 2000 retained by Team New Zealand near Auckland. Prada Challenge 2000 lost 0-5 in a "best-of-9".

So what to expect in April? Its coming fast, and last decade..

Events

• April 1 - Japanese prime minister Obuchi Keizo suffers a stroke and falls into a coma.
• April 3 - United States v. Microsoft: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust laws by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors.
• April 5 - Mori Yoshiro replaces Obuchi as prime minister of Japan.
• April 7 - Attack submarine ex-Trepang completes being recycled.
• April 16 - Tuanku Syed Putra ibni Almarhum Syed Hassan Jamalullail, Raja of Perlis dies after a reign of 55 years. He was the longest reigning monarch in the world since the death of Hirohito, Emperor of Japan.
• April 17 - Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin becomes Raja of Perlis.
• April 22 - In a predawn raid, federal agents seize six-year old Elián González from his relatives' home in Miami, Florida and fly him to his Cuban father in Washington, DC ending one of the most publicized custody battles in US history.
• April 25 - The State of Vermont passes HB847, legalizing Civil Unions for same-sex couples.

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