Sri Lankan general and politician

Sarath Fonseka

Field Marshal Gardihewage Sarath Chandralal Fonseka is a Sri Lankan retired army officer. He was the eighteenth Commander of the Sri Lankan Army from 2005 to 2009, and under his command the Sri Lankan Army ended the 26-year Sri Lankan civil war in 2009, defeating the militant group Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam; he thereafter briefly served as the Chief of Defence Staff. After retiring from the Army with the rank of General, he entered politics as the common opposition candidate in the 2010 presidential election contesting against President Mahinda Rajapaksa.

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1950

December 18

Died

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1950s

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1118 The city of Zaragoza is conquered by king Alfonso I of Aragon from the Almoravid.
1271 Kublai Khan renames his empire "Yuan" (元 yuán), officially marking the start of the Yuan dynasty of Mongolia and China.
1499 A rebellion breaks out in Alpujarras in response to the forced conversions of Muslims in Spain.
1622 Portuguese forces score a military victory over the Kingdom of Kongo at the Battle of Mbumbi in present-day Angola.

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The world in 1950

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april 21 The Nainital wedding massacre occurs, killing 22 members of the Harijan caste.
august 1 Guam is organized as an unincorporated territory of the United States as the President Harry S. Truman signs the Guam Organic Act.
august 12 Korean War: Bloody Gulch massacre: Seventy-five American POWs are massacred by the North Korean Army.
august 15 Measuring Mw 8.6, the largest earthquake on land occurs in the Assam-Tibet-Myanmar border, killing 4,800.

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Steven Spielberg 1946– American director, producer, and screenwriter, co-founded DreamWorks Allen Klein 1931–2009 American businessman and music publisher (died 2009) Bobby Jones 1951–1971 American basketball player Francis Burton Harrison 1873–1957 American general and politician, 6th Governor-General of the Philippines (died 1957) Jack Brooks 1922–2012 American colonel, lawyer, and politician (died 2012) John Hull 1624–1683 colonial American merchant and politician (died 1683) Joseph Stalin 1878–1953 Georgian-Russian marshal and politician,General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (died 1953) Jules Dassin 1911–2008 American-Greek actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2008) Keith Richards 1943– English musician

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Abraham Sarmiento 1950–1977 Jr., Filipino journalist and activist (died 1977) Alex Chilton 1950–2010 American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2010) Alexander Lebed 1950–2002 Russian general and politician (died 2002) Billy Smith 1950– Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager Charles Fleischer 1950– American comedian and actor Charles Krauthammer 1950–2018 American columnist and conservative political commentator (born 1950) Claire Morissette 1950– Canadian cycling activist (died 2007) Daniel Auteuil 1950– French actor, director, and screenwriter David Cannadine 1950– English historian and author

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