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Today in Asian History
August 4
1842 British warships reached Nanjing.
1949 Hunan's Nationalist leader Cheng Qian surrendered the province to the Communist People's Liberation Army.
1993 The Japanese government apologized for the first time for compelling Korean, Chinese, and other women to serve its soldiers as sex slaves during the Pacific War.
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