ON 14 NOVEMBER IN SOUTHEAST ASIAN HISTORY
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Updated on November 14, 2017
1875: Birth of Gregorio del Pilar, Filipino general, who was killed on December 2, 1899
https://kahimyang.com/kauswagan/articles/749/today-in-philippine-history-november-14-1875-gregorio-del-pilar-was-born-in-bulacan-bulacan
1885: Beginning of the third war between Great-Britain and Burma. The Burmese king and his country are taken completely by surprise by the rapidity of the advance with no time for them to collect and organize any resistance
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Anglo-Burmese_War
1905: Birth of Sanoesi Pane, Indonesian author, who died on January 2, 1968
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanusi_Pane
1935: American president Roosevelt announces that The Philippines will be a Commonwealth member and will get full independence in 1946
1945: Sutan Sjahrir is the first Prime Minister of Indonesia (with Sukarno as president), up to June 20, 1947
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soetan_Sjahrir]
1950 : the Quirino-Foster agreement is signed in Philippine Baguio City
https://kahimyang.com/kauswagan/articles/1343/today-in-philippine-history-november-14-1950-the-quirinofoster-agreement-was-signed-in-baguio-city
http://www.liquisearch.com/elpidio_quirino/presidency/foreign_policies/quirino-foster_agreement
1959: A technical cooperation agreement is signed between France and Vietnam
1965: During the Vietnam War, the Battle of the Ia Drang begins – the first major engagement between regular American and North Vietnamese forces
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/major-battle-erupts-in-the-ia-drang-valley
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_la_Drang
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLyBazkpUFQ
1966: US Navy bombs North Vietnam coast
1967: During the Vietnam War, Major General Bruno Arthur Hochmuth, commander of the Third Marine Division, becomes the first general to be killed in Vietnam by enemy fire
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/marine-general-killed-in-vietnam
1972: Nixon promises Thieu that U.S. will continue to support South Vietnam
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/nixon-promises-thieu-that-u-s-will-continue-to-support-south-vietnam
1979: The United Nations General Assembly adopts a resolution demanding the withdrawal of all foreign forces in Cambodia
1984: Zamboanga City mayor Cesar Climaco, a prominent critic of the government of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, is assassinated in his home city
http://www.lazamboangatimes.com/cesar_climaco_latest001.html
1990: 70 Indonesian soldiers are killed in a battle with Fretilin guerillas near Ainaro, East Timor. Army lands several thousand reinforcements later in the month
1991: Prince Sihanouk comes back to Cambodia after 13 years in exile
http://www.nytimes.com/1991/11/15/world/joyous-sihanouk-returns-to-cambodia-from-exile.html
http://www.ina.fr/video/CAC93066315
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/cambodia/king-norodom-sihanouk-2.htm
2008: In Myanmar, Ein Khaing Oo, a journalist is sentenced to two years in prison for critical coverage of the military government’s response to a devastating cyclone
http://sanooaung.wordpress.com/2008/11/14/reporter-covering-nargis-victims-sentenced-to-two-years/
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2008/11/2008111592037651928.html
2010: Democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi first day of freedomafter she has been released from house arrest
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln5poWNveNQ&feature=player_embedded
http://www.france24.com/en/20101114-freed-opposition-leader-aung-san-suu-kyi-supporters-democracy-in-check-junta-burma