ON 14 MARCH IN SOUTHEAST ASIAN HISTORY
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Updated on March 14, 2019
1880: Death of Pagan Min, king of Burma from 1846 to 1853, born on June 21, 1811
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagan_Min
1947: The U.S. signed a 99-year lease on naval bases in the Philippines
https://kahimyang.com/kauswagan/articles/1007/today-in-philippine-history-march-14-1947-the-military-bases-agreement-was-signed
1954: Vietminh forces take the vital Gabrielle Hill in Dien Bien Phu against the French
1957: Indonesian second government of Ali Sastroamidjojo resigns
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Sastroamidjojo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Ali_Sastroamidjojo_Cabinet
1965: In Vietnam War, second set of raids in Operation Rolling Thunder and the first in which U.S. planes used napalm
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/allies-launch-second-wave-of-rolling-thunder
1971: South Vietnamese troops flee Laos
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1971/3/18/south-vietnamese-routed-from-laotian-fire/
1975: Birth of Rico Yan, Filipino actor, who died on March 29, 2002
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rico_Yan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYPNbzuhMcY
1978: In the Netherlands, police free 71 hostages captured by Mullocas terrorists
1980: Death of Mohammad Hatta, Indonesian politician, vice president of Indonesia (August 1945-December 1956), born in August 1902
http://www.myhero.com/myhero/hero.asp?hero=hatta_bandung
1988: Sino-Vietnamese conflict in the Spratly. Three Vietnamese ships are sunk and 74 are missing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson_South_Reef_Skirmish
http://history.04007.cn/en.php/HisMain/2180.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWyI79v6Fic&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uy2ZrFphSmc
2001: End of the VIIth Pathet Lao congress. The old guard is maintained to lead Laos
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/laos.htm
2013: The Khmer Rouge’s former foreign minister, Ieng Sary, dies in Phnom Penh at age 87. He was one of three defendants in the genocide trial of the former leaders of the Khmer Rouge
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2013/03/201331454337915782.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/14/ieng-sary
2014: Philippine officials announce that they have reached a “consensus” with the United States on a plan to host temporary U.S. military facilities on Philippine bases. The two countries are in the last stages of negotiations to increase the number of American troop visits each year
http://www.voanews.com/content/philippines-reaches-consensus-on-temporary-us-military-facilities/1870967.html