WARS, CONFLICTS AND STRATEGY ON 19 FEBRUARY IN ASIAN HISTORY
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Updated on February 19, 2019
1184: During the Genpei wars, Second battle of Uji in Japan
http://www.myetymology.com/encyclopedia/Battle_of_Uji_(1184).html
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Uji_(1184)
1942: Japanese troop land on Timor
https://timor2worldwar.wordpress.com/2012/04/07/february-20-1942-japanese-occupation-of-timor/
https://www.awm.gov.au/articles/blog/1942-timor
1942: Nearly 250 Japanese warplanes attack the Australian northern city of Darwin, killing 243 people
http://www.naa.gov.au/collection/fact-sheets/fs195.aspx
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-17073472
1942: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the executive order 9066, allowing the United States military to relocate Japanese-Americans to Japanese internment camps
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/roosevelt-signs-executive-order-9066
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5154
http://www.pbs.org/childofcamp/history/eo9066.html
1945: Start of the offensive against Japanese on Iwo-Jima (Volcano Archipelao)
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/marines-invade-iwo-jima
http://ww2today.com/19-february-1945-us-marines-invade-beaches-of-iwo-jima
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWcDIMrd6eE&NR=1&feature=fvwp
1945: 980 Japanese soldiers reportedly killed by crocodiles in 2 days on Ramree Island, Burma
http://iberianature.com/wildworld/tag/massacre-by-crocodiles-on-ramree-island/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPrK1ndjbZI
1952: French offensive at Hanoi
1955: South-East Asia collective Defense Treaty (SEATO), signed in September 1954, goes into effects
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/int/seato.htm
1958: Beijing and Pyongyang announce the withdrawal of all the Chine troops from North Korea before the end of the year
http://history.04007.cn/en.php/HisMain/1244.html
1960: China successfully launches the T-7, its first sounding rocket
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-7_(rocket)
1961: Albania disavows Chinese “Revisionism”
1965: Dissident officers move several battalions of troops into Saigon on this day with the intention of ousting Gen. Nguyen Khanh from leadership. General Khanh escaped to Dalat with the aid of Air Vice Marshal Nguyen Cao Ky
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/south-vietnamese-coup-unsuccessful
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpDRlr0pIcQ
1986: Akkaraipattu massacre, massacre of 80 Tamil farm workers by the Sri Lankan Army in the eastern province of Sri Lanka
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=7545534
1989: Second informal Jakarta meeting between all the Cambodian factions
2005: United States and Japan say that stability in the Taiwan Strait is one in their strategic target
2013: Prominent Pakistani Taliban commander Maulvi Faqir Mohammad is been arrested in eastern Afghanistan
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21504250
2013: North Korean diplomat Jon Yong Ryong told the meeting in Geneva that “South Korea’s erratic behaviour would only herald its final destruction”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21510479
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/9880727/North-Korea-envoy-warns-South-of-final-destruction.html