ON 19 JANUARY IN SOUTHEAST ASIAN HISTORY
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Updated on January 19, 2019
1607: San Agustin Church in Manila is officially completed; it is currently the oldest church in the Philippines
http://www.philippines-travel-guide.com/san-agustin-church-manila.html
1819: Raffles leaves Penang to establish a new settlment sout of Malacca. It will be Singapore
1890: Birth of Prince Phetsarath Rattanavongsa, prime minister of Laos from 1942 to 1945, and the first and last vice-king of the Kingdom of Laos
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phetsarath_Rattanavongsa
http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Phetsarath_Rattanavongsa
1941: Birth of Tony Anholt, Singapore born actor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Anholt
1942: Japanese forces invade Burma from Thailand
http://ww2db.com/battle_spec.php?battle_id=59
1943: Birth of Petchara Chaowarat, Thai film actress
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petchara_Chaowarat
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGp0vlzavxc
1944: Birth of Robert Barbers, Filipino politician who died on December 25, 2005
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Barbers
http://bulatlat.com/news/3-35/3-35-barbers.html
1958: Peace treaty and war reparations agreement between Japan and Indonesia
1962: Death of Dato’s Sir Onn bin Ja’afar, a Malay politician and Chief Minister of Johore in Malaysia, then Malaya. The founder of United Malays National Organization (UMNO), born in 1895
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onn_Jaafar
https://icssis.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/0609082010_13.pdf
2001: In the Philippines, the Armed forces withdraw its support to president Joseph Estrada
2011: Nguyen Phu Trong becomes the new General Secretary of the Communist Party of Viet Named as the 11th National Party Congress ends its nine-day sitting
http://vietnamnews.vn/Politics-Laws/207768/Congress-ends-on-high-note-.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguy%E1%BB%85n_Ph%C3%BA_Tr%E1%BB%8Dng
2011: Malaysia’s New Opposition Party Kita, the People’s Welfare Party, announced its president, Zaid Ibrahim, aims “to bring back the politics of goodwill and compromise that started this nation 54years ago… so that politics and public service can be made honorable once again.”
http://www.asiasentinel.com/politics/malaysias-new-opposition-party/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaid_Ibrahim
2015: Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen says that seven opposition lawmakers charged with insurrection, which is punishable by up to 30 years in jail, would not be « spared » from prosecution