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Brigadier Aubertin Walter Sothern Mallaby CIE OBE (12 December 1899 – 30 October 1945) was a British Indian Army officer who was killed in a shootout during the Battle of Surabaya in what was then the newly proclaimed as independent Republic of Indonesia during the Indonesian National Revolution. At the time of his death, Mallaby was the ...
295 [ 4] –2,000 [ 1] dead. 210 wounded. The Battle of Surabaya was a major battle in the Indonesian National Revolution fought between regular infantry and militia of the Indonesian nationalist movement and British and British Indian troops against the re-imposition of Dutch colonial rule. The peak of the battle was in November 1945.
Moestopo. Major General Moestopo (13 July 1913 – 29 September 1986) was an Indonesian military officer, revolutionary and educator, and military figure in the Indonesian War of Independence . Born in Kediri, East Java, Moestopo moved to Surabaya to attend the School of Dentistry there. At first becoming a practitioner, his work was ...
Hotel Yamato (now called Hotel Majapahit) with text commemorating the incident. The Hotel Yamato incident was the tearing of the blue colour of the Dutch flag flying at Hotel Yamato (now Hotel Majapahit) on 19 September 1945, which was preceded by the failure of negotiations between Soedirman (Surabaya residency) and W. V. C. Ploegman to lower the Dutch flag.
Robyn Rabinovitch said she'd been crying all day after watching son Ivan swim the men's 10K, the only American in the race.
In today’s workplace, the more ambitious you are, the more you're expected to work, the higher you go in your company. Now you're checking emails at 6 a.m., and then you're feeding your kids and ...
17 August: "Proclamation of Indonesian Independence", signed by Sukarno - Hatta. Tan Malaka, a former Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) leader, returns secretly from exile and reveals his identity in Jakarta and draws a large following. late August: A Republican government is established in Jakarta and a provisional constitution is adopted.
Officers were reportedly told by rally attendees moments before a gunman attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump of a man trying to reach the roof of a nearby building using a ladder.