Today in Indonesia History (Part 2)
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Historical Events
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1975-12-07 - Indonesian army occupies East Timor
1976-06-02 - East-Timor People's Assembly accepts annexation through Indonesia
1976-06-17 - Indonesia annexes Portuguese East-Timor
1976-07-17 - Indonesian president Suharto annexes East Timor
1979-09-12 - Indonesia is hit with an earthquake that measures 8.1 on the Richter scale.
1988-04-15 - Meteorite explode above Indonesia
1991-11-12 - Indonesian army shoots on funeral possession: 270-520 die
1991-11-12 - Dili Massacre, Indonesian forces open fire on a crowd of student protesters in Dili, East Timor.
1994-06-02 - Indonesian censors ban Steven Spielberg's "Schindler's List"
1997-07-13 - Indonesian ferry sinks, killing at least 77
1998-05-13 - Race riots break out in Jakarta, Indonesia, where shops owned by Indonesian of Chinese descendants are looted and women raped.
1998-05-21 - Suharto, the Indonesian dictator who had ruled for 32 years, resigns.
1999-09-12 - Indonesia announces it will allow international peace-keepers into East Timor.
2001-01-29 - Thousands of student protesters in Indonesia storm parliament and demand that President Abdurrahman Wahid resign due to alleged involvement in corruption scandals.
2001-10-19 - SIEV-X, an Indonesian fishing boat en-route to Christmas Island, carrying over 400 asylum seekers, sank in international waters with the loss of 353 people.
2002-05-20 - The independence of East Timor is recognized by Portugal, formally ending 23 years of Indonesian rule and 3 years of provisional UN administration (Portugal itself was the former colonizer of East Timor until 1976).
2003-08-05 - A car bomb explodes in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta outside the Marriott Hotel killing 12 and injuring 150.
2004-07-05 - First Indonesian presidential election by the nation.
2004-11-30 - Lion Air Flight 538 crash lands in Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia, killing 26.
2004-12-26 - A 9.3 magnitude earthquake creates a tsunami causing devastation in Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, the Maldives and many other areas around the rim of the Indian Ocean, killing 230,000 people.
2005-03-28 - The 2005 Sumatran earthquake rocks Indonesia, and at magnitude 8.7 is the second strongest earthquake since 1960.
2005-08-18 - Massive power blackout hits the Indonesian island of Java, affecting almost 100 million people.
2005-09-05 - Mandala Airlines Flight 091 crashes into a heavily-populated residential of Sumatra, Indonesia, killing 104 people on board and at least 39 persons on ground.
2007-01-01 - Adam Air Flight 574 disappears over Indonesia with 102 people on board.
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