On this day: The Dalai Lama flees Tibet to India in 1959

Following are some of the major events to have occurred on March 31: 1959 – The Dalai Lama, fleeing Chinese repression of an uprising in Tibet, arrived at the Indian border and was granted political asylum. 1970 – Lesotho’s prime minister, Leabua Jonathan, announced that King Moshoeshoe II was leaving the country indefinitely and Queen […]

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