ON 21 FEBRUARY IN SOUTHEAST ASIAN HISTORY
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Updated on February 21, 2019
1853: Birth of Felix Resurreccion Hidalgo, Filipino painter who died on March 13, 1913
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A9lix_Resurrecci%C3%B3n_Hidalgo
https://kahimyang.com/kauswagan/articles/945/today-in-philippine-history-february-21-1853-felix-resurreccion-hidalgo-was-born-in-binondo-manila
1949: In Indonesia, Tan Malaka, nationalist and communist leader, is captured and executed by a TNI commander after a Dutch contingent attacks the town where he was staying
http://www.marxists.org/archive/malaka/index.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tan_Malaka
1957: Sukarno formally proposes “guided democracy” in a speech
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guided_Democracy_in_Indonesia
1965: In South Vietnam, the Armed Forces Council dismissed General Khanh as chairman and as commander of the armed forces. General Lam Van Phat replaces him. The next day, Khanh announces that he had accepted the council’s decision, after which he was appointed a “roving ambassador,” assigned first to go to the United Nations
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/south-vietnamese-coup-unsuccessful
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguy%E1%BB%85n_Kh%C3%A1nh
http://www.britishpathe.com/video/general-khanh-arrives-in-america/query/China
1970: Communist Pathet Lao guerilla seizes Xieng Khuang and Muong Suy in central Laos
http://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/history/pathet-lao.html
1970: Kissinger begins secret talks with North Vietnamese negotiator Le Duc Tho
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/kissinger-begins-secret-negotiations-with-north-vietnamese
1973: A ceasefire is signed for Laos
2007: According to a United Nations representative investigating on 887 political killings in the Philippines, the military is involved in the killing of 356 leftist personalities
2010: Albader Parad, one of the Philippines’s most wanted Abu Sayyaf leaders, is killed in fighting with the military in the country’s south
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2010/02/20102217219857969.html
2015: Indonesia recalls its new ambassador to Brazil after the South American country postponed a ceremony sealing his appointment, Jakarta said on Saturday, amid a row over the execution of a Brazilian national for drugs trafficking
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2015/02/21/brazil-s-overreaction-puts-diplomatic-ties-risk.html