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1943 Nov 20 |
US Marines began landing on Tarawa and Makin atolls in the Gilbert Islands, encountering fierce resistance from Japanese forces but emerging victorious three days later. The US 2nd marine division invaded the tiny isle of Betio on Tarawa Atoll in the Gilberts. It was the first seriously opposed landing experienced by the Americans in WWII. After 3 days 1,027 US Marine and Navy personnel were killed. Of some 4,800 Japanese and Korean laborers on Betio, 146 survived, including 17 Japanese troops. In 2006 John Wukovits authored “One Square Mile Of Hell.” Links: USA, Japan, Korea, Kiribati, WWII, Gilbert Islands 
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1943 Nov 20 |
US Marine cinematographer Norman Hatch (1921-2017) began filming much of the 76-hour battle for the island of Tarawa. The film was edited and made into a 20-minute documentary: “With the Marines at Tarawa.” In 1945 the film received an Academy Award for best short documentary. Links: USA, Japan, Kiribati, Film, WWII, Gilbert Islands
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1943 Nov 23 |
During World War II US forces seized control of the Tarawa and Makin atolls from the Japanese. Makin Atoll, part of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, was the first central Pacific island to be reconquered by the Allies. More than 900 US marines and 30 sailors were killed in the battle for Tarawa. Links: USA, Japan, Kiribati, WWII, Gilbert Islands
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1971 |
Australia joined with New Zealand and 14 independent of self-governing island nations to form the South Pacific Forum. The name was changed in 2000 to Pacific Islands Forum. Member states include: Australia, the Cook Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, the Marshall Islands, Nauru, New Zealand, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, the Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu. Since 2006, associate members territories are New Caledonia and French Polynesia. In 2011 Guam, the Northern Marianas and American Samoa became associate members. Links: Australia, Marshall Islands, New Zealand, Guam, Samoa, Fiji, Cook Islands, Vanuatu, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Marianas, Micronesia, Kiribati, Niue, Palau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Solomon Islands
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1979 Jul 12 |
The Gilbert Islands gained independence from Britain and became a nation, the Archipelago of Kiribati. It is a chain of 35 islands that sprawls 1,860 miles from east to west. Fanning Island was renamed to Tabuaeran. Kiribati began using the Australia dollar for its currency. Links: Britain, Money, Kiribati
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1994 |
Te Buroro Tito was elected president of Kiribati. Links: Kiribati
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1995 Jan 1 |
Teburoro Tito, the incoming president of Kiribati, moved the International Date Line a thousand miles east around Kiribati to allow all of its 33 atolls to be line the same time zone. Thus the atoll of Kirimati never experienced Dec 31, 1994. Links: Time, Kiribati
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1997 |
In Kiribati the El Nino weather system caused heavy rains and flooding on Kiritimati (Christmas Island). Links: Kiribati, Flood
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1999 Mar 6 |
From Kiribati it was reported that state of emergency had been declared after a prolonged drought nearly exhausted the underground fresh water supply of the 81,000 inhabitants. Links: Kiribati
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1999 Jun 18 |
Kiribati reported that the islands of Tebua Tarawa and Abanuea were swallowed by the ocean. Links: Kiribati
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2001 Jul |
Kiribati, a South Pacific island nation, joined the United Nations. The population was 94,149. Links: Kiribati
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2003 Aug 14 |
The 16-member Pacific Islands Forum (Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, the Cook Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, the Marshall Islands, Samoa, the Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu) planned to create a region-wide aviation market aimed at encouraging tourism. Links: Australia, Marshall Islands, New Zealand, Samoa, Fiji, Cook Islands, Vanuatu, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Micronesia, Kiribati, Palau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Nieu, Solomon Islands
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2003 Nov 29 |
China said it broke diplomatic relations with Kiribati after the tiny Pacific island nation opened ties with rival Taiwan. Links: China, Taiwan, Kiribati
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2006 Mar 28 |
President Anote Tong of the Republic of Kiribati announced the formation of the world's third-largest marine reserve at the 8th UN conference on the Convention on Biological Diversity under way this week in Brazil. Links: Britain, Environment, Kiribati
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2007 |
Kiribati decided to turn half of its waters in the uninhabited Phoenix Islands into a 160,000-square-mile-reserve. Links: Fish, Kiribati
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2008 May |
Pacific Island nations imposed a series of measures aimed at halting overfishing. 8 of 17 members of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission agreed on the measures In December the 9 remaining members joined in imposing a conservation agenda on 20 million square miles to take effect on January 1, 2010. The 17 members included Australia, Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, New Zealand, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu. Links: Australia, Marshall Islands, New Zealand, Samoa, Fiji, Fish, Cook Islands, Vanuatu, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Micronesia, Kiribati, Niue, Palau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Tokelau, Solomon Islands
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2010 Aug 2 |
UNESCO added 6 sites located in Brazil, China, Mexico, France's Reunion Island and the South Pacific nation of Kiribati to World Heritage status. Links: Brazil, China, UN, Mexico, Kiribati, Reunion
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2012 Mar 9 |
Kiribati President Anote Tong said that his Cabinet this week endorsed a plan to buy nearly 6,000 acres on Fiji's main island, Viti Levu. He said the fertile land, being sold by a church group for about $9.6 million, could provide an insurance policy for Kiribati's entire population of 103,000, though he hopes it will never be necessary for everyone to leave. Links: Fiji, Kiribati
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2013 May |
Kiribati Pres. Anote Tong acknowledged that commercial fishing was still taking place in 97% of the Phoenix Islands Protected Area because no agreement has been reached with Conservation Int’l. on payment for lost fishing revenues. The 158,000 square mile preserved was created in 2008. Links: Fish, Kiribati
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2013 |
The population of Kiribati was about 103,248. Links: Kiribati
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2014 Sep 20 |
Kiribati President Anote Tong ended a Greenpeace-organized tour of glaciers in Norway's Svalbard Archipelago, a trip he said left a deep impression that he would share with world leaders at a UN climate summit next week in New York. Links: Environment, Norway, Kiribati
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2014 |
Kiribati President Anote Tong used nearly $7m of government money to buy 6,000 acres in Fiji. Links: Kiribati
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2015 Mar 14 |
Residents in Vanuatu hunkered in emergency shelters for a second straight night after venturing out to find their homes damaged or blown away by Cyclone Pam. 24 people were later confirmed killed with 3,300 left homeless and nearly half the 300,000 population impacted. The cyclone had already caused damage to other Pacific islands, including Kiribati and the Solomon Islands. Links: Vanuatu, Kiribati, Hurricane, Solomon Islands
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2015 Aug 13 |
President Anote Tong of the low-lying Pacific island nation of Kiribati called for a global moratorium on new coal mines to slow global warming and a creeping rise in world sea levels. Links: Kiribati
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2016 Mar 9 |
Kiribati opposition candidate Taaneti Mamau won the presidential election. Links: Kiribati
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2016 Nov 18 |
The island nation of Kiribati established a large shark sanctuary that will help ensure the creatures are protected across much of the central Pacific. Palau established the first shark sanctuary in the region in 2009, and has been followed by the Marshall Islands, French Polynesia and other nations. Links: Animal, Kiribati
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2016 |
The population of Kiribati was about 111,000. Links: Kiribati
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2018 Jan 20 |
A 17-meter (56 foot) ferry with 50 people on board was reported missing two days after it departed Nonouti Island on a 250 km (155 mile) trip to Betio in Kiribati. On Jan. 28 seven survivors from the ferry were found adrift in a dinghy by a New Zealand search plane. Links: New Zealand, Tragedy, Kiribati
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2018 Nov 20 |
Interpol's general assembly, meeting in Dubai, voted against allowing Kosovo to join the international police agency. The bids of Pacific island nations Kiribati and Vanuatu were approved by delegates, but Kosovo did not secure the required two-thirds majority. Links: Kosovo, Dubai, Vanuatu, Kiribati
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2019 Sep 20 |
Kiribati severed ties with Taiwan, switching its diplomatic allegiance to China in the second such defection in a week. Links: China, Taiwan, Kiribati
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2020 Jan 6 |
Chinese President Xi Jinping lauded Kiribati for “standing on the right side of history” during his first meeting with the Pacific island nation's leader since it severed ties with Taiwan. Links: China, Kiribati
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2022 May 27 |
China's foreign minister Wang Yi stopped over in Kiribati, visiting the remote island nation as part of a Pacific tour that Beijing hopes will lay ground for a regional trade and security pact. An official said Kiribati was focused on trade and tourism opportunities with China, and wasn't keen on a security arrangement. Links: China, Kiribati
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2022 Jul 11 |
Leaders arrived in Fiji for the 4-day Pacific Islands Forum, its first in-person summit in three years. Kiribati President Taneti Maamau has said in a letter his country would withdraw from the forum because it did not agree with terms of a deal brokered weeks ago to solve a rift between Micronesian states and other members, and wanted the meeting delayed. Links: Fiji, Kiribati, PIF
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