On this day in history - Today, March, 29

Today in History

• 1912 Robert Scott makes his final diary entry

  Scott wrote: “We shall stick it out to the end, but we are getting weaker, of course, and the end ca

• 1971 Charles Manson is sentenced to death in the gas chamber

  The sentence was never carried out because the California Supreme Court abolished the death penalty

• 1974 The Terracotta Army is discovered in Xi'an, China

  The famous collection of some 8000 soldier sculptures, depicting Emperor Qin Shi Huang's army, was l

• 2004 Ireland becomes the first country to ban smoking in all workplaces

  Contrary to initial concerns, the ban had no adverse economic effects, and soon several other countr

• 2010 Two Chechen suicide bombers detonate their devices in the Moscow underground

  40 people died in the attack allegedly carried out by so-called “black widows”, or Islamist Chechen