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Tue, 11/04/2008 - 09:47
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Today in Korean history
Nov. 4
1920 -- Korea's national sports council holds the country's first baseball championship for junior high and high school students at Seoul's Baejae High School.
1933 -- The Korean Language Society announces the first orthography for the
Korean language.
1983 -- The government of Burma, now called Myanmar, severs diplomatic ties with
North Korea after a group of North Korean agents is blamed for a bombing in
Rangoon on Oct. 9 that year. Seventeen South Korean officials, who were
accompanying then President Chun Doo-hwan on a visit to the Southeast Asian
country, were killed in the attack.
2002 -- Unionized government workers stage a nationwide walkout for the first
time in history.
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1920 -- Korea's national sports council holds the country's first baseball championship for junior high and high school students at Seoul's Baejae High School.
1933 -- The Korean Language Society announces the first orthography for the
Korean language.
1983 -- The government of Burma, now called Myanmar, severs diplomatic ties with
North Korea after a group of North Korean agents is blamed for a bombing in
Rangoon on Oct. 9 that year. Seventeen South Korean officials, who were
accompanying then President Chun Doo-hwan on a visit to the Southeast Asian
country, were killed in the attack.
2002 -- Unionized government workers stage a nationwide walkout for the first
time in history.
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