WARS, CONFLICTS AND STRATEGY ON 27 FEBRUARY IN ASIAN HISTORY
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Updated on February 27, 2019
1626: Yuan Chonghuan is appointed governor of Liaodong, after he led the Chinese into a great victory at Ningyuan against the Manchurians under Nurhaci
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuan_Chonghuan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Ningyuan
1942: During the Battle of the Java Sea, an allied (ABDA) strike force is defeated by a Japanese task force in the Java Sea in the Dutch East Indies
http://www.microworks.net/PACIFIC/battles/java_sea.htm
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/u-s-aircraft-carrier-langley-is-sunk
http://thediplomat.com/2013/03/08/history-lesson-the-battle-of-java-sea/
1962: Two pilots bomb the Independence Palace of Vietnam’s president Ngo Dinh Diem. In this action, the first US is killed in Vietnam
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/diem-survives-coup-attempt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1962_South_Vietnamese_Independence_Palace_bombing
1965: In a White Paper, Washington accuses Hanoi of leading against Saigon an aggression so real as the one of an invasion army
2002: A train carrying Hindu nationalist pilgrims is attacked at Godhra (Gujarat) causing 59 victims. In the following days, violence between Muslims and Hindus will cause more than 1,000 deaths
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/27/newsid_4168000/4168073.stm
http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/27/from-the-archives-godhra-february-2002/?ref=asia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7Lgzcgo1Qo
2004: A bombing of a Superferry by Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines worst terrorist attack kills 116
http://4freedoms.com/group/filipino/forum/topics/abu-sayyaf-bombed-superferry
2007: A suicide bomber strikes Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan during a visit by Vice President Dick Cheney, who is rushed to a bomb shelter. Twenty-three people are killed
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/17355517/ns/world_news-south_and_central_asia/t/cheney-unhurt-after-deadly-blast-afghan-base/#.VO-SKO83NMs
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/feb/28/usa.afghanistan
2012: Indonesia’s top court upholds a 15-year jail term against Islamist militant Abu Bakar Bashir for terrorist acts, reversing an earlier decision to slash the sentence to nine years
http://www.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne%2BNews/Asia/Story/A1Story20120227-330486.html