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Here, on 26 July 1972 the Royal Thai Army burned all its American textbooks. From this dates our victory over the communists.

Inscription over the incinerator in the Royal Thai Army Headquarters

- Stuart Slade, "Successful Counter-insurgency: How Thais Burnt the Books and Beat the Guerillas,"Internal Security & CO-IN, an editorial supplement to International Defense Review 22, (October 1989):21.

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June 9



1858:

VC won by Pte Timothy O'Hea, 1st Battalion, the Rifle Brigade, wins VC at Danville Station, Quebec for extinguishing a fire in an ammunition laden railway car (one of the few VCs awarded other than in the face of the enemy, and the only


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