ON 17 JUNE IN SOUTHEAST ASIAN HISTORY
To see another date, on Internet (Google…) type “On (date + month) in Southeast Asian history”
Updated on June 17, 2019
1918: Birth of Ajahn Chah, Thai Buddhist meditation master who died on January 16, 1992
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajahn_Chah
1961: In Zurich, opening of a conference between representatives of the three Laos political movements, till 22
1963: A day after South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem announced the Joint Communique to end the Buddhist crisis, a riot involving around 2,000 people breaks out, killing one
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Communique
1970: North Vietnamese troops cut the last operating rail line in Cambodia
2002: In Indonesia, beginning of the trial of Akbar Tanjung, chairman of Golkar party, accused to have used 4 million USD of state money to support his party in 1999
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/2049227.stm