WARS, CONFLICTS AND STRATEGY ON 21 FEBRUARY IN ASIAN HISTORY
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Updated on February 21, 2019
1184: In Japan, Minamoto no Yoshinaka is killed during the Battle of Awazu
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Awazu
http://www.historyoffighting.com/tomoe-gozen.php
1795: The Dutch give up Ceylon to the British
1849: In India, the British defeat the Sikhs at Gujrat
https://www.britishbattles.com/second-sikh-war/battle-of-goojerat/
http://pakgeotagging.blogspot.fr/2014/05/the-battle-of-gujrat-it-took-british.html
http://www.mcgonagall-online.org.uk/gems/the-battle-of-gujrat
1875: The murder of the British diplomat and explorer Augustus Raymond Margary cause a crisis between China and The United Kingdom. The “Margary Affair” will end with the Chefoo Convention signed on August 21, 1876
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margary_Affair
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bulletin-of-the-school-of-oriental-and-african-studies/article/margary-affair-and-the-chefoo-agreement-by-wang-s-t-pp-ix-138-oxford-university-press-1940-7s-6d/50707D81C5C91646D80FB1C1375AD839
1945: Japanese kamikaze planes sink escort carrier Bismarck Sea and damage the Saratoga
http://www.taraross.com/2018/02/this-day-in-history-uss-bismarck-sea/
https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?134222
1965: In South Vietnam, the Armed Forces Council dismissed General Khanh as chairman and as commander of the armed forces. General Lam Van Phat replaces him. The next day, Khanh announces that he had accepted the council’s decision, after which he was appointed a “roving ambassador,” assigned first to go to the United Nations
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/south-vietnamese-coup-unsuccessful
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguy%E1%BB%85n_Kh%C3%A1nh
http://www.britishpathe.com/video/general-khanh-arrives-in-america/query/China
1970: Communist Pathet Lao guerilla seizes Xieng Khuang and Muong Suy in central Laos
http://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/history/pathet-lao.html
1970: Kissinger begins secret talks with North Vietnamese negotiator Le Duc Tho
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/kissinger-begins-secret-negotiations-with-north-vietnamese
1972: US president Richard Nixon starts his historical visit to China (up to February 28)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/21/newsid_2728000/2728761.stm
http://abcnews.go.com/Archives/video/feb-20-1972-president-nixon-visits-china-9411161
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/nixon-arrives-in-china-for-talks
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/107545-1
1973: A ceasefire is signed for Laos
1999: India’s Prime Minister Atal Bihair Vajpayee concluded two days of meeting with Pakistan’s Prime Minister Mohammad Nawaz Sharif. Declaration of Lahore
http://www.nti.org/treaties-and-regimes/lahore-declaration/
http://storyofpakistan.com/the-lahore-declaration/
http://www.google.fr/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CDEQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.usip.org%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2Ffile%2Fresources%2Fcollections%2Fpeace_agreements%2Fip_lahore19990221.pdf&ei=VJ_nVIK3OMP5UPiTguAF&usg=AFQjCNFKGo3lYYhqlCNQsVKzogNFFNy5VA&sig2=8L4k8zbFpokkS7GzfoGZAA
2001: China publishes a new White Paper on Taiwan threatening of a military intervention
2010: Albader Parad, one of the Philippines’s most wanted Abu Sayyaf leaders, is killed in fighting with the military in the country’s south
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2010/02/20102217219857969.html
2013: Twin bomb blasts kill 17 people in Hyderabad
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-21537197
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Hyderabad_blasts
http://www.mapsofindia.com/on-this-day/21-february-2013-twin-bomb-blasts-killed-17-people-in-hyderabad