ON 13 AUGUST IN SOUTHEAST ASIAN HISTORY
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Upgrated on August 13, 2019
1898: Mock battle of Manila won on the Spanish. Start of the American occupation
http://philippineamericanwar.webs.com/mockbattleofmanila.htm
https://kahimyang.com/kauswagan/articles/483/today-in-philippine-history-august-13-1898-the-battle-of-manila-occurred
1945: In Laos, foundation of the anti-French Lao Issara movement
http://www.marktheday.com/nationholidaydates/lao_laoissara.aspx
1945: In Vietnam, the National Insurrection Committee orders a general uprising
1950: US President Harry Truman gives military aid to Vietnamese regime of Bao-Dai
https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/pentagon/pent5.htm
1965: In Vietnam, US Marine Corps launches a massive operation with 76 anti-SAM mission, but it fails
1966: Prince Norodom Sihanouk, ruler of neutral Cambodia, criticizes the United States
1972: In Vietnam War, communist sappers raid Long Binh ammunition dump
1990: Birth of Shila, Malaysian pop singer-songwriter
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shila_(singer)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8Eq908-Vvg
2015 : Myanmar President Thein Sein consolidates his power in the country’s ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) by forcing out his chief rival Shwe Mann as party chairman
http://www.irrawaddy.org/burma/shwe-mann-sacked-as-party-chief-in-power-struggle-with-thein-sein.html
http://www.mmtimes.com/index.php/national-news/15976-security-forces-surround-usdp-meet.html
http://cogitasia.com/shwe-manns-fall-from-power-a-mixed-blessing-for-myanmar/
2015 : Prime Minister Hun Sen orders the arrest of opposition senator Hong Sok Hour for “treason” over a fake treaty the senator posted to Facebook that purported to show Heng Samrin, as Cambodia’s head of state in 1979, pledging to dissolve the border between Cambodia and Vietnam
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/pm-orders-senators-arrest-over-facebook-post-91638/
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/arrest-senator-pm-says
Holidays and observances
Laos: Lao Issara, Day of the Free Laos