Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Chronicle/1914


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Feb 13, 2012, 6:10:20 PM (12 years ago)
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Lawrence Liang
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     1'''1914: Key Events''' 
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     3* Start of WW1. Indian soldiers fight with British forces at Kut-al-Amara in Turkey and in Mesopotamia.  
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     5* Gandhi’s agreement with General Smuts in South Africa on immigration and taxation laws for Indians is the first political success of his Satyagraha (non-violent) ‘experiments with truth’.  
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     7* The Komagata Maru sails from Hong Kong to Vancouver carrying 376 passengers including several Sikh Ghadar activists, and is refused entry by Canadian authorities.  
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     9* The MacMahon Line fixes the border between India and China, leading to disputes erupting in the 1962 war. 
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     11* Phalke shows his first three features, Raja Harishchandra, Mohini Bhasmasur and Satyavan Savitri, in London.  
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     13* R. Venkaiah and R. S. Prakash build Madras’s first permanent cinema, the Gaiety.