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Source: BBC News "On This Day"
Roundup
5-3-06

3 May -- On This Day [multiple clips]

1986: Bomb kills 21 in Sri Lanka. A lethal bomb explodes on an Air Lanka passenger jet at Colombo's airport leaving 21 dead and 41 injured. The finger of blame points to the Tamil Tigers. Other video and audio from the BBC news archive, WWII and 1950-2004, includes 1968: Surgeons conduct UK's first heart transplant; 2000: Leading stock exchanges plan merger; 1990: Latvia to declare independence.
Read entire article at BBC News "On This Day"