ON 21 JANUARY IN SOUTHEAST ASIAN HISTORY
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Updated on January 21, 2019
1853: Birth of Leon Ma. Guerrero y Leogardo, Filipino writer, revolutionary leader, politician, the first licensed pharmacist in the Philippines, and one of the most eminent botanists in the country in his time, who died on April 13, 1935
https://kahimyang.com/kauswagan/articles/893/today-in-philippine-history-january-21-1853-leon-ma-guerrero-was-born-ermita-manila
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le%C3%B3n_Mar%C3%ADa_Guerrero
1883: Birth of Amang Rodriguez, Filipino politician, who died on December 19, 1964
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eulogio_Rodriguez
1899: Aguinaldo promulgates what is now known as the Malolos Constitution of the Philippines
http://www.philippine-history.org/malolos-congress.htm
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2142663?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
http://filipino.biz.ph/history/constitution.html
1910: Birth of Eua Sunthornsanan, Thai composer and bandleader who died on April 1, 1981
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eua_Sunthornsanan
1918: Birth of Chichay, Filipino actress who died on March 31, 1993
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chichay
1948: Dutch found “Negara Madura” government on Madura
1949: The United Nations Security Council votes a resolution asking the resumption of negotiations between Netherlands and Indonesian independence leaders
1950: Nguyen Phan Long becomes Prime Minister of the State of Vietnam
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguy%E1%BB%85n_T%E1%BA%A5n_D%C5%A9ng
1955: US Army takes charge of organization and training of South Vietnam Army
1961: Senator Ferdinand Marcos is elected president of the Liberal party
https://kahimyang.com/kauswagan/articles/1427/today-in-philippine-history-january-21-1961-senator-marcos-was-elected-president-of-the-liberal-party
1968: The North Vietnamese forces attack the US Marines base of Khe Sanh, South Vietnam. One of the biggest battle of the Vietnam war, it finished only in early April
http://www.pbs.org/battlefieldvietnam/khe/index.html
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/battle-for-khe-sanh-begins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St1yhbRdiZ4
1970: After two-month, resumming of sino-Us talks in Varsovy and again adjourned on May 18
1977: President Jimmy Carter pardons nearly all American Vietnam War draft evaders, some of whom had emigrated to Canada
1979: Birth of Inul Daratista, Indonesian dangdut singer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inul_Daratista
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e80J5xPnMbg
1999: The Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen authorizes United Nations to organize the trial of Khmer Rouge
2008: Since the military seized power in September, a new elected parliament meets in Thailand
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7199647.stm
2010: A court in Vietnam has convicted four activists, including prominent human rights lawyer Le Cong Dinh, of trying to overthrow the Communist government
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8470110.stm
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2010/01/201012182633950983.html
2010: Joseph Estrada, the former Philippines president, is cleared to make a run for the presidency again in elections scheduled for later this year. Estrada, who was removed from office in 2001, argues that he never completed his first term
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2010/01/201012122529345315.html
2013: Death of Chumpol Silpa-archa, Thai academic and politician; Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand since 2011, born on June 6, 1940
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/politics/BANHARN-MOURNS-DEMISE-OF-BROTHER-CHUMPOL-30198383.html