1997 Saw Maung, general/president of Myanmar (Burma) (1988-92), dies
1996 Or San Yu, president of Burma in (1981-88), dies
1995 U Nu, PM of Burma (1948-56, 57-58, 60-62), dies
1994 Maung Maung, premier of Burma (1988), dies at 69
1994 Allan G Odell, Ad exec (Burma Shave), dies at 90
1993 Dan Seymour, actor (Bombs over Burma, Intrigue, Watusi), dies at 78
1993 Army of opium king Khun Sa kills 60 in NE Burma
1991 Leonard C Odell, wrote 7,000 Burma Shave poems, dies at 83
1990 Fire kills 110 on a ferry in Norway, in an unrelated event, 30 die in a ferry flip over in Burma
1989 Burma government puts author Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest
1988 Burma suspends its constitution
1988 Muang Muang succeeds Gen Sein Lwin as President of Burma
1988 General Sein Lwin succeeds Ne Win as President of Burma
1987 Korean Air jetliner disappears off Burma, all 115 lost
1983 4 South Korean government ministers assassinated in Rangoon Burma
1979 Earl of Mountbatten funeral held in Burma
1976 Murvyn Vye, actor (Road to Bali, Escape to Burma), dies at 63
1975 Quake damages over 2,000 temples in Pagan Burma, 20-foot-high seated Buddha of Thandawgya decapitated
1974 Burma accepts its constitution
1968 Bess Singh, [Lennart Bes], Dutch pop drummer, Burma Shop-Hippies
1965 Annabella Lwin, [Myant Aye], Rangoon Burma, singer, I Want Candy
1965 Remco Prins, Dutch rock guitarist and vocalist, Burma Shave-Stash
1965 Ben Lee, Rangoon Burma, U.S. badminton player 1992 Olympics
1963 Nelis Gobel, pop guitarist, Burma Shave-Hippies
1963 MDV, [Michiel de Vos], Dutch pop bassist, Burma Shave-Stash
1962 U Thant of Burma elected 3rd Secretary-General of United Nations unanimously
1960 U Nu elected premier of Burma
1958 James Wilby, Burma, actor, Howards End, Maurice
1956 Burma Premier U Nu's Volksliga voor Vrijheid loses election
1949 Burma recognizes People's Republic of China
1948 Burma declares independence from UK
1945 British troops take Ramree Island, Burma
1945 Gen "Vinegar Joe" Stillwell and truck convoy reopen Burma Road to China
1945 West Africa 82nd division occupies Myohaung, Burma
1945 Burma highway reopens
1945 British troops land on Ramree, near coast of Burma
1945 Allies land on west coast of Burma, conquer Akyab
1944 Allied troops conquer Myitkyina Burma
1944 Lt-Gen Stilwells troops occupy Myitkyina Burma
1944 Chinese/U.S. armed forces take Myitkyina Airport, Burma
1944 O C Wingate, British general-major (Burma), dies in air crash
1944 Japans begins offensive in Burma
1944 British troops conquer Maungdaw, Burma
1943 Burma railroad completed and opens
1943 Burma railway opens
1943 Japan declares Burma Independence under U Ba Maw
1942 1st transport of British/Dutch prisoners to South Burma
1942 Japanese troops occupy Mandalay Burma
1942 Japanese troop march into Lashio, cuts off Burma Road
1942 Japanese forces captures Rangoon Burma
1942 Japanese invade Burma
1942 Japanese forces invade Burma
1941 Japan begins assault on Rangoon Burma
1936 Ama Samy, Burma, Jesuit priest/Zen teacher/disciple of Yamada Koun
1925 Harry H Corbett, Rangoon Burma, actor, Steptoe and Son, Jabberwacky
1924 Countess Mountbatten, of Burma
1909 [Sithu] U Thant, Burma, 3rd United Nations sec-genl, 1962-72
1907 U Nu, premier Burma, 1948-58, 1960-62
1900 Lord Louis Mountbatten, of Burma, royal relative/earl/baron/admiral
1886 China takes British protectorate of Burma
1870 Saki, [Hector Hugo Munro], Burma, author, Reginald, When William Came
1850 Rangoon Burma, destroyed by fire
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