WARS, CONFLICTS AND STRATEGY ON 6 OCTOBER IN ASIAN HISTORY
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Updated on October 6, 2019
23: Rebels kill and decapitate the Xin Dynasty emperor Wang Mang two days after the capital Chang’an is sacked during a peasant rebellion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%BClin
http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/people_n2/ppersons2_n2/wangmang.html
1762: End of The Battle of Manila during the Seven Years’ War (known as the French and Indian War in the United States), between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Spain in and around Manila, the capital of the Philippines, a Spanish colony at that time
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Manila_(1762)
1879: During the Second Afghan War, battle of Charasiab
http://britishbattles.com/second-afghan-war/charasiab.htm
http://maiwandday.blogspot.fr/2015/01/the-british-army-at-charasiab-october.html
1928: War-torn China is reunited under the Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-Shek who takes the title of Generalissimo (Chairman of the National Military Council) of the Nationalist Government of the Republic of China (ROC)
1937: The League of Nations condemns the Japanese aggression against China
1939: End of the Battle of Changsha, which started on September 17, the first attempt by Japan to take the city of Changsha, China, during the second Sino-Japanese War
http://www.revolvy.com/main/index.php?s=Battle%20of%20Changsha%20(1939)&item_type=topic&sr=50
1942: The October Matanikau action on Guadalcanal begins as United States Marine Corps forces attack Imperial Japanese Army units along the Matanikau River.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actions_along_the_Matanikau
1949: Iva Toguri D’Aquino is sentenced to 10 years in prison and fined $10,000 for war crimes. The conviction was for being Japanese wartime broadcaster “Tokyo Rose.”
http://womenshistory.about.com/library/bio/blbio_toguri_iva.htm
1950: Battle of Markham Gartok, during the invasion of the Tibet by China
1951: Malayan Races Liberation Army (MRLA) ambushes and kills British High Commissioner Sir Henry Gurney
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Gurney
1970: South Vietnamese forces withdraw from Cambodia after a three-month operation
1976: Massacre of students gathering at Thammasat University in Bangkok, to protest the return of ex-dictator Thanom by a coalition of right-wing paramilitary and government forces, triggering the return of the military to government. The 1974 constitution is abolished
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6_October_1976_Massacre http://www.zenjournalist.org/2013/03/11/confidential-british-cable-on-the-october-1976-thammasat-massacre-and-coup/?goback=%2Egde_2343547_member_221516588
2012: New People’s Army regional chief Benjamin Mendoza and three other suspected insurgents are arrested outside their hideout in suburban Quezon City
http://asiancorrespondent.com/90420/communist-rebel-leader-captured-in-philippines/
2013: China cautions the United States, Australia and Japan not to use their alliance as an excuse to intervene in territorial disputes in the East China Sea and South China Sea, and urges them to refrain from inflaming regional tensions