ON 1st DECEMBER IN SOUTHEAST ASIAN HISTORY
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Updated on December 1, 2018
1687: Siam enters into another treaty with France giving more privileges to the French East India Company
http://epicworldhistory.blogspot.fr/2012/06/french-east-india-company.html
1870 : Birth of Jose Alejandrino, Filipino engineer and a general in the revolutionary army of General Emilio Aguinaldo, who died on June 1, 1951
https://kahimyang.com/kauswagan/articles/1630/today-in-philippine-history-december-1-1870-jose-alejandrino-was-born-in-binondo-manila
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Alejandrino
1920: Birth of Le Duc Anh, president of Vietnam (1992-1997)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Duc_Anh
1942: Foundation of the Communist party of Thailand by Indian-born Prasert Sapsunthorn
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Thailand
1943: Death of Damrong Rajanubhab, Thai prince and historian, founder of the modern Thai education system as well as the modern provincial administration, born on June 21, 1859
http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Damrong_Rajanubhab
http://www.biographybase.com/biography/Rajanubhab_Damrong.html
1945: The Communist Party of Malaya, gives back the weapons provided by the British to fight the Japanese
1956: Mohammad Hatta, vice-president of Indonesia, resigns. (No more vice-president again until 1973)
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Hatta-Mo.html
1957: Indonesian authorities take retaliations against Dutch after a bomb Attack failed killing of president Sukarno
1959: Death of Jose Nepomuceno, Filipino film maker and producer, pioneer in the Philippine film industry and is therefore called the “father of the Philippine movie”, born on May 15, 1893
http://pelikulaatbp.blogspot.fr/2008/09/jose-nepomuceno-father-of-rp-movies.html
https://kahimyang.com/kauswagan/articles/788/today-in-philippine-history-december-1-1959-jose-nepomuceno-died-at-the-age-of-66
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVkLlnvUW84
1961: The independent Republic of West Papua is proclaimed in modern-day Western New Guinea
1964: US president Lyndon B. Johnson and his top-ranking advisers meet to discuss plans to bomb North Vietnam
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/johnson-administration-makes-plans-to-bomb-north-vietnam
1965: US government says it is ready to a new Geneva conference on Vietnam and accuses China to help Hanoi
1971: The Khmer Rouge rebels intensify assaults on Cambodian government positions, forcing their retreat from Kompong Thmar and Ba Ray
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/situation-in-cambodia-worsens
1973: Papua New Guinea gains self government from Australia
1989: Right-wing military rebel Reform the Armed forces Movement (RAM) attempts to oust Philippine President Corazon Aquino in a failed bloody coup d’etat
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reform_the_Armed_Forces_Movement
https://asiancorrespondent.com/2017/01/philippines-cia-declassified-reveals-aquino-us-airstrikes-rebels-1989/
1999: Indonesian President Wahid begins state visit to China; issues press release stating that restrictions against ethnic Chinese and expressions of Chinese culture in Indonesia will be lifted
2011: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pledges to improve ties with Burma if current reforms continue. After meeting Burmese President Thein Sein, Mrs Clinton said the US would reward Burma’s leaders if they kept “moving in the right direction”
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/12/01/world/asia/myanmar-clinton-visit/index.html?hpt=ias_c1
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-15978893
2016 : Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn is proclaimed king of Thailand, ascending the throne 50 days after his father’s death
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-38168912
http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/2050883/new-era-thai-monarchy-crown-prince-set-be-proclaimed-king
Holidays and observances
Thailand: Damrong Rajanubhab Day
World AIDS Day