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2004 Earthquake, greatest in over 40 years, strikes the Pacific Ocean near Sumatra, triggering a massive Indian Ocean tsunami, killing as many as 266,000 in coastal regions of Asia and Africa

1995 Total solar eclipse in SW/S Asia (2m09s)

1995 India beats Sri Lanka to win the Asia Cricket Cup final in Sharjah

1995 Pope John Paul II begins visit to SE Asia

1992 Philip C Habib, U.S. diplomat (Middle-East/Asia), dies at 72

1988 U.N. estimates Asia's population hits 3 billion

1984 India beat Pak by 58 runs to win 1st Asia Cricket Cup in Sharjah

1975 Asia Argento, Italian Actress

1972 Edgar P Snow, U.S. author/journalist (Battle for Asia), dies at 66

1972 11th Winter Olympic games opens in Sapporo, Japan (1st in Asia)

1971 Pentagon reports blacks constitute 11% of U.S. soldiers in SE Asia

1966 Radio Free Asia (South Korea) begins radio transmission

1955 South East Asia Collective Defense Treaty goes into effect

1954 SE Asia Treaty Org (SEATO) forms to stop communists in Asia

1951 John Wetton, rocker, Asia

1949 John Wetton, rock vocalist/bassist, Asia, King Crisom

1947 Steve Howe, born in London, rock guitarist, Asia, Yes-Roundabout

1943 Lord Mountbatten appointed Supreme Allied Commander in SE Asia

1941 Winston Churchill routes "Forces South" to SE Asia

1922 Turkish troops chase Greeks out of Asia

1896 George B Cressey, U.S. geographer, Asia's Lands and Peoples

1895 Kavalam Madhava Panikkar, born in India, diplomat, Asia and Western Dominance

1853 1st train in Asia (Bombay to Tanna, 36 km)

1839 Nikolay Przhevalsky, naturalist, explorer of east central Asia, OS

1595 Cornelis de Houtman's ships depart to Asia through Cape of Good Hope

1497 John Cabot tells King Henry VII of his trip to "Asia"

1497 John Cabot claims eastern Canada for England (believes he found Asia in Nova Scotia)

1304 Muhammad ibn Battutah, Arab travel writer, Travels in Asia and Africa

787 2nd Council of Nicaea (7th ecumenical council) opens in Asia Minor

325 1st Christian ecumenical council opens at Nicaea, Asia Minor



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