ON 8 SEPTEMBER IN SOUTHEAST ASIAN HISTORY
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Updated on September 8, 2019
1930: Birth of Nguyen Cao Ky, Vietnamese prime minister (1965-1967) and vice-president (1967-1971)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguyen_Cao_Ky
1945: First British troops parachute into Kemayoran Airport at Jakarta
1954: The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) is established to stop communist spread in South-East Asia
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/seato-established
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/usmu003.asp
1959: Following a call from Laos, United Nations Security Council decides to send a mission in this country
1968: For the first time, a South Vietnam general is killed
1992: At the request of the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC), a major UN peacekeeping operation, Japan sends troops overseas for the first time since World War II
http://www.mofa.go.jp/policy/un/pko/pamph96/02_2.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZprTRJQ2ZCE
1996: Birth of Krystal Reyes, lolita Filipina actress
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krystal_Reyes
2013: Cambodia’s ruling CPP party confirmed election winner. Prime Minister Hun Sen’s CPP won 68 seats, compared with 55 for the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party CNRP
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24005685
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/result-09082013134938.html