ON THIS DAY- On this day in 1978, cardinals at the Vatican picked Cardinal Karol Wojtyla, the Archbishop of Krakow, who became Pope John Paul II and the first non-Italian Pope for more than 400 years. In 1934, Mao Zedong and Chinese Communists began what was known as the Long March to escape encirclement during the civil war between the Nationalists and Communists. The UK made the sensible move to announce plans to outlaw almost all handguns on this day 1996. Across the Channel, Marie-Antoinette was guillotined in the wake of the French Revolution. In Enterprise last year, readers were hearing about plans by the private sector to attempt to cool off the parallel market by boycotting it for 21 days.