WARS, CONFLICTS AND STRATEGY ON 17 OCTOBER IN ASIAN HISTORY
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Updated on October 17, 2019
1748: In India, British forces raise the siege of Pondicherry, defended by French Dupleix
http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/siege_pondicherry_1748.html
1887: Foundation of the Indochina Union including the French protectorates of Cambodia, Annam and Tonkin
http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Indochina+Union
1904: The Russians are finaly driven back by the Japanese in the Battle of Shaho that started on October 5; both sides suffer high casualties: Japanese (16,000) and Russians (60,000)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Shaho
http://59297586.weebly.com/battle-of-shaho.html
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Battle_of_Shaho
1943: The 415-km Thailand Burma railroad ( Death Railway ) between Bangkok, Thailand and Rangoon, Burma is completed. During the construction of the railway approximately 13,000 prisoners of war and 100,000 civilians. Part of the railway was “The Bridge on the River Kwai” which was later made into a movie.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-two/10382906/Burma-Railway-British-POW-breaks-silence-over-horrors.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFMmJMNRv-Q
1947: In London, Clement Attlee and Thakin Nu sign the “Treaty between the Government of the United Kingdom and the Provisional Government of Burma Regarding the Recognition of Burmese Independence and Related Matters”
http://www.ibiblio.org/obl/docs/1947_treaty.htm
1950: Local leader Ngapo Ngawang Jigme accepts the capitulation of Chambo, one of the three parts of Tibet, to China
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Chamdo
http://historicaldocs.blogspot.fr/2012/05/road-map-of-entering-tibet-1950-1951-he.html
http://historicaldocs.blogspot.fr/2013/03/the-fall-of-chamdo-tibetan-account.html
1950: Americano-Siamese security agreement
1953: Signature of a friendship and association treaty between France and Laos
1953: Franco-Cambodian agreement on the transfer of competences in military matters
2002: US Secretary in charge of Asia, James Kelly, says to the Congress that during its travel to Pyongyang, the North Koreans recognized that they have carried on their nuclear program
2009: Pakistan’s military begin its campaign against the Taliban in South Waziristan, long-promised after a series of deadly attacks by Taliban fighters across the country
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/10/2009101755843246925.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8311927.stm
2014: India’s homemade subsonic cruise missile Nirbhay, capable of carrying a nuclear payload and considered similar to the US Tomahawk cruise missile, is test-fired for the second time from the missile testing center in the eastern state of Odisha
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2014/10/india-tests-first-domestic-cruise-missile-20141017104129418564.html
2014: China and Vietnam agree to “address and control” maritime disputes, Chinese state media said, as differences over the potentially energy-rich South China Sea have spoiled relations between the two countries and other neighbours
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1618397/china-vietnam-pledge-address-and-control-maritime-disputes
2017: Declassified US files reveal new details of Indonesia’s mid-60s mass killings
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/17/indonesia-anti-communist-killings-us-declassified-files