WARS, CONFLICTS AND STRATEGY ON 10 APRIL IN ASIAN HISTORY
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Updated on April 10, 2019
1656: Dutch fleet occupies Colombo, Ceylon
http://lakdiva.org/codrington/chap09.html
1942: In the Philippines, Bataan Death March begins for defeated US and Filipinos prisonners
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/bataan-death-march-begins
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/bataandeathmarch.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BtDeKWfL1c
1945: US troops land on Tsugen Shima, Okinawa
http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/battles_okinawa2.html
1965: After border fighting, Pakistan and India sign a cease-fire
1971: US table tennis team arrives in China marking the first thaw between Beijing and Washington since 1949
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/us-table-tennis-team-visits-communist-china
http://uschina.usc.edu/w_usct/showarticle.aspx?articleID=10957&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1
http://history.04007.cn/en.php/HisMain/3897.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ping_Pong_Diplomacy
1972: In Vietnam War, for the first time since November 1967, American B-52 bombers reportedly begin bombing North Vietnam
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/b-52s-begin-bombing-north-vietnam
2003: The North Korean withdrawal from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, announced on January 10, becomes effective
https://www.ipinst.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/pdfs_koreachapt2.pdf