Aung San Suu Kyi was born on 19 June 1945 in Yangon. A Burmese politician, Aung San Suu Kyi is the daughter of Aung San, who led Burma's independence movement. After returning to the country from abroad in 1988 she became a leader of the pro-democracy movement and co-founded the National League for Democracy. The military government placed her under house arrest for around fifteen of the next twenty-one years, and she received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991. Her party won the 2015 election, and she took the newly created post of state counsellor in 2016. Her reputation abroad was damaged by her response to the 2017 military campaign against the Rohingya. She was deposed in the February 2021 coup and imprisoned after trials widely regarded as political.
Before and after
- 5 May 1945Battle of Castle Itter
- from 6 May 1945 to 11 May 1945Prague offensive
- from 10 June 1945 to 15 August 1945Battle of North Borneo
- 19 June 1945Birth of Radovan Karadžić
- 19 June 1945Birth of Aung San Suu Kyi
- 26 June 1945Charter of the United Nations
- 16 July 1945Trinity
- from 17 July 1945 to 2 August 1945Potsdam Conference
- from 20 July 1945 to 1 January 1959Operation Paperclip
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