WARS, CONFLICTS AND STRATEGY ON 2 JANUARY IN ASIAN HISTORY
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Updated on January 2, 2019
1757: Robert Clive, who leads Madras for the East India Company retakes Calcutta from the nawab of Bengal, Sirāj-ud-Dawlah. The Nawab had seized Calcutta in June 1756
http://webs.bcp.org/sites/vcleary/ModernWorldHistoryTextbook/Imperialism/section_4/robertclive.html
1905: In the Russo-Japanese war, Port Arthur Russian garrison surrenders
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/russian-fleet-surrenders-at-port-Arthur
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Port_Arthur
http://history.04007.cn/en.php/HisMain/97.html
1932-Japanese occupation of Jinzhou northeast of China
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jinzhou_Operation
1942: Manila is captured by Japanese forces
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=hpYcAAAAIBAJ&sjid=e2QEAAAAIBAJ&dq=manila&pg=4897%2C72037
http://retronewser.com/2012/01/manila-taken-by-japanese-invaders-70-years-ago-this-hour-1942/
1942: Chinese forces defeat the Japanese army in one fight of the third Changsha Battle
http://francefightson.yuku.com/topic/394/APOD-China-The-Third-Battle-of-Changsha#.VKV8B73LTZ4
http://history.04007.cn/en.php/HisMain/114.htm
1955: The establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Yugoslavia
https://www.marxists.org/subject/yugoslavia/maoism/
1963: Vietnam War: The Viet Cong wins its first major victory in the Battle of Ap Bac
http://www.vietnamwar.net/ApBacBattle.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF4oShhG-JM
1965: Indonesia quits United Nations, the first country to do so
1967: Heavy US bombing on North Vietnam through on 15
1980: In a strong reaction to the December 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, President Carter asks the Senate to postpone action on the Salt II nuclear treaty and recalls the US ambassador to Moscow
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/carter-reacts-to-soviet-intervention-in-afghanistan
2009: Sri Lankan military seize control of the Tamil Tiger rebels’ de facto capital of Kilinochchi
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/01/20091242244697512.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7807908.stm
2011: The first oil pipeline linking the world’s biggest oil producer, Russia, and the world’s biggest consumer of energy, China, has begun operating
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12103865
http://www.asianews.it/news-en/The-first-oil-pipeline-between-Russia-and-China-now-operating-20411.html