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Today in Asian History

July 27

1939 The US announced that it would break off its 1911 trade treaty with Japan in six months.

1953 A cease-fire was declared in the Korean War.

1976 Former Japanese prime minister Tanaka Kakuei was arrested for accepting bribes from US Lockheed corp.

1981 Japan and the USSR blocked a world ban on whaling.

1996 Fierce riots broke out in Jakarta, Indonesia following the police attack on the headquarters of the Indonesian Democratic Party.

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