WARS, CONFLICTS AND STRATEGY ON 20 SEPTEMBER IN ASIAN HISTORY
Updated on September 20, 2019
1857: The Indian Mutiny ends with the recapture of Delhi by troops loyal to the East India Company after a 3 month siege
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Rebellion_of_1857
1875: Ganghwa Island incident between Japanese and South Koreans
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganghwa_Island_incident
1945: The Pan-Indian Congress, with Gandhi and Nehru as leaders, rejects the British proposition of internal autonomy and asks the United Kingdom to quit India
1965: In a diplomatic note to New Delhi, Beijing reminds its claim on 90,000 km2 of Indian territory
1971: Negotiations between North and South Korea resume
1977: Dissolution of SEATO
http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0846053.html#axzz1017zl77o
1999: A United Nations multinational force arrives to East-Timor to protect the population from pro-Indonesia militias
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/20/newsid_2524000/2524891.stm
2008: At least 40 people are killed and 100 others wounded after a car-bomb attack on the Marriott Hotel in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2008/09/200892014179932320.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/7627175.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7627207.stm
2011: The peace council leader, former President Burhanuddin Rabbani, is killed by a suicide bomber in or near his heavily guarded home in the Afghan capital, Kabul
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-14985779
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-15031157