On this date in 1905, this happened in French Indochina:

“Annamites” — a term that will not get you a warm welcome in Southeast Asia today — were residents of the French protectorate of Annam. It, along with Tonkin to its north and Cochinchina to its south, comprise present-day Vietnam: “Annamite” was also sometimes generalized as a colonialist synonym for all Vietnamese. (Here’s a 1947 Life magazine article by William Bullitt that does just that in its warning about the burgeoning war wherein “Annamites — half starved and weakened by malaria, gentle by nature but courageous” had started “kill[ing] every Frenchman they can.”)

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On this day..

• 1524: The rulers of the K'iche' kingdom
• 1679: Four at Tyburn
• 1829: Jane Jameson
• 1764: John Prince, dissembler
• 1748: William Whurrier, War of Austrian Succession veteran
• 1884: Two abusive husbands
• 1562: Michael Lindener, poet laureate
• 1968: Veyusile Qoba, the last of the Langa Six
• 1811: Thomas White and John Newbolt Hepburn of the Vere Street Coterie
• 1842: Maketu Wharetotara, New Zealand's first execution
• 1937: Alexander Yulevich Tivel
• 203: Perpetua, the earliest Christian woman whose writings survive