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Gorbachev (R) meeting with American president George H. W. Bush in 1991. (The Times of Israel) On this day in 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev was elected General Secretary of the Soviet Union (USSR). A former tractor driver, Gorbachev joined the Communist Party in his youth and attained a law degree during the Khrushchev Thaw of the…
Pinkerton's incredibly detailed 1818 map of the East Indies. (Wikimedia Commons) The end of the 19th century was a tumultuous time in Southeast Asian history. Many colonial nations developed strong nationalist movements and, eventually, overthrew their colonial masters. Unlike Africa - recently colonized during the "Scramble for Africa" in the 1880s and 1890s - much…
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Tibetan resistance members - including monks - handing over weapons to PLA authorities in the wake of the failed 1959 uprising. (The Telegraph) On this day in 1959, protests began in the Tibetan Autonomous Region in defiance of Chinese military occupiers. Tibet's spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, was slated to attend a theatrical performance at…
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