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On this day in 1924, a Burmese juggler performed at the British Empire Exhibition in London, entertaining audiences with a display of traditional chinlone cane ball prowess.
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On this day in 1930, violence between Myanmar and Indian workers over jobs at Yangon Port led to days of bloody clashes between the two communities across the country.
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On this day in 1966, Italian-born U Lokanatha died of cancer in Pyin Oo Lwin after many decades of promoting Buddhism around the world.
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On this day in 1902, Charles Henry Allan Bennett entered the Buddhist Order in Myanmar, becoming the first Buddhist missionary in Britain.
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On this day in 1964, Gen. Ne Win’s regime caused financial havoc when it demonetizedtwo banknotes and ceased exchanging them for legal tender just a few days later.
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On this day in 1988, renowned Myanmar legal expert U Chan Htoon died in Yangon after a career spent designing the country’s first constitution and serving on its Supreme Court.
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On this day in 1932, renowned Buddhist scholar U Shwe Zan Aung, who made the first translation of the ancient Buddha Abhidhamma texts into English, passed away.
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On this day in 1962, General Ne Win’s new dictatorship took to the radio to broadcast its ideology, the Burmese Way to Socialism, which soon pushed Myanmar deep into poverty.
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On this day in 1808, the casting of the Great Mingun Bell, now the second-largest bell in the world, began along the Irrawaddy River in central Myanmar.
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On this day in 1954, Chinese Kuomintang troops were forced out of Myanmar in the first large-scale military operation by the independent state.
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On this day in 1945, retreating Japanese forces destroyed Myanmar’s state-run radio system, then the one-and-only form of mass media entertainment in the country.
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On this day in 1953, Myanmar field a complaint at the UN against the Kuomintang army, setting off a two-year struggle to push the Chinese nationalists out and into Thailand.
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On this day in 1981, Myanmar dictator General Ne Win, once trained by Japanese military and intelligence operatives, left for his fourth and final visit to Japan.
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On April 6, 1942, Chinese general Chiang Kai-shek met Allied generals Joseph Stilwelland Harold Alexander in Pyin Oo Lwin to discuss how to repel the Japanese from Burma.
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On this day in 1965, the socialist government under Gen. Ne Win nationalized nearly 130 schools in Myanmar, sending its once proud education system into a long decline.
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