WARS, CONFLICTS AND STRATEGY ON 19 SEPTEMBER IN ASIAN HISTORY
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Updated on September 19, 2019
1931: Following the Mukden Incident (September 18), Japan Kwantung Army takes Mukden and starts to invade Manchuria
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Manchuria
1961: India annexes Daman and Diu, part of Portuguese India
1966: Indonesia which, on January 7, 1965, had withdraw from United Nation in protest of the admission of the Federation of Malaysia announces that it comes back
http://www.jstor.org/stable/757388?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
1971: Montagnard troops of South Vietnam revolt against the rule of Nguyen Khanh, killing 70 ethnic Vietnamese soldiers
1984: China and Britain complete a draft agreement transferring Hong Kong from British to Chinese rule by 1997
1997: After the Hun Sen coup d’état, United Nation decides to keep vacant the seat of Cambodia, up to the situation is cleared in the country
2001: Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri is the first head of state of a Muslim country to visit Washington after September 11 attacks. She gives her support to the fight against terrorism and gets a 400 million $ aid from the USA
2001: In Afghanistan, the religious leaders ask Oussama ben Laden to voluntarily leave the country as US combat activities in Afghanistan looking at destroying A-qaida and the Taleban protecting them begin
2005: In Beijing, North Korea agrees in the principle to renounce to its nuclear programs
2006: The Thai military, led by General Sonthi Boonyaratkalin stages a coup in Bangkok, toppling corrupted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra. The constitution is revoked and martial law declared
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/5361008.stm
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2010/12/thai-d18.html
2008: North Korea starts preparatory works to restart its main nuclear facility, a senior diplomat has said, amid a deadlock in international disarmament talks
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2008/09/20089195336918794.html
2010: Philippine troops clash with Abu Sayyaf gunmen on Basilan island and kill Abdukarim Sali, a long-wanted militant who helped in the 2001 kidnapping of three American and 17 Filipino tourists
2014: Former Japanese premier Hoshiro Mori brings a letter from Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to South Korean President Park Geun-hye during a visit to Seoul as Tokyo seeks a thaw in frosty ties
http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20140919000872
2014: Chinese troops have begun pulling back from the disputed border with India as President Xi Jinping wrapped up a rare visit to New Delhi overshadowed by the stand-off at the remote frontier
http://www.dawn.com/news/1132984/china-troops-withdraw-from-india-border-as-xi-visit-ends
http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/hours-after-withdrawing-chinese-troops-cross-into-chumar-region-again/
2014: The South Korean navy fires warning shots to end a brief incursion by a North Korean patrol boat across the sensitive maritime border
http://www.rawstory.com/2014/09/south-korea-fires-warning-shots-after-north-korea-incursion/
2015: Japan’s upper chamber of Parliament approves controversial bills allowing the country’s military to engage in overseas combat in limited circumstances — a major shift after seven decades of pacifism
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/09/18/asia/japan-military-constitution/index.html
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/09/japan-passes-law-allowing-troops-fight-150918125944422.html