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* Colombo, Sri Lanka – May 16 – An Batticaloa-based employee of the Norwegian Refugee Council is abducted while visiting the capital and disappears, presumed dead.
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* 1987 – The Tamil Tigers are blamed for a car bomb that explodes in the Sri Lankan city of Colombo, killing 106 people.
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On 14 September 2012 Brian Lara was inducted to the ICC's Hall of Fame at the awards ceremony held in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Sri Lanka Railways operates commuter rail service in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
* University of Colombo, Centre for Instrument Development, in Sri Lanka
In South Africa's next Test series against Sri Lanka Cronje scored his second Test century, 122 in the second Test in Colombo ; the victory margin of an innings and 208 runs is a South African record.
Therefore, in 1950 the World Fellowship of Buddhists inaugurated in Colombo unanimously decided that the term Hīnayana should be dropped when referring to Buddhism existing today in Sri Lanka, Thailand, Burma, Cambodia, Laos, etc.
Other major South Asian ports include Chittagong in Bangladesh, Colombo, Hambantota and Galle in Sri Lanka, Kolkata, Visakhapatnam, Paradip Port, Chennai, Ennore, Tuticorin, and Nagapattinam in India, and Karachi in Pakistan.
* 1996 – An explosives-filled truck rams into the gates of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka in Colombo, Sri Lanka killing at least 86 and injuring 1, 400.
* 1986 – Twenty-one people are killed and forty-one are injured after a bomb explodes in an airliner ( Flight UL512 ) at Colombo airport in Sri Lanka.
* 2006 – Sri Lankan Tamil Parliamentarian Nadarajah Raviraj is assassinated in Colombo.
* 1978 – A chartered Douglas DC-8 crashes near Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing 183.
The Supreme Court of Sri Lanka, Colombo
Transportation in Sri Lanka is based mainly on the road network which is centered on Sri Lanka's capital, Colombo.
Rail Transport in Sri Lanka consists of a heavy-rail intercity network connecting major population centres and commuter rail serving Colombo commuter traffic.
* April 5 – WWII: the Japanese Navy attacks Colombo in Ceylon ( Sri Lanka ).
* July 15 – Tamil Tigers kill 168 Muslims in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
** Central Bank bombing: an explosives-filled truck rams into the gates of the Central Bank in Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing at least 86 and injuring 1, 400.
* Colombo International School, in the suburbs of Colombo, Sri Lanka
* The Dutch capture the city of Colombo in Sri Lanka.
* Portuguese under Dom Lourenço d ' Almeida reach Colombo, Sri Lanka and send envoys to King of Kotte.
Colombo and Lanka
Born in Colombo, Ceylon ( now Sri Lanka ) to British parents, he received his Bachelor's degree in Classics from the University of Oxford ( Merton College ) in 1956.
The ship from Europe arrived in Colombo, Sri Lanka on 15 January 1897.
* Colombo, Sri Lanka From 2012-2016
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* 1942 – World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy launches a carrier-based air attack on Colombo, Ceylon during the Indian Ocean Raid.
* 1983 – Black July: 37 Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada high security prison in Colombo are massacred by the fellow Sinhalese prisoners.
* 1915 – Militia officer Henry Pedris executed by firing squad at Colombo, Ceylon-an act widely regarded as a miscarriage of justice by the British colonial authorities.
* 1983 – Black July: 18 Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada high security prison in Colombo are massacred by Sinhalese prisoners, the second such massacre in two days.
* 1983 – Felipe Colombo, Argentine / Mexican actor and singer
The following Dutch – Portuguese War resulted in Dutch victory, with Colombo falling into Dutch hands by 1656.
Partly based on the works by the Italian surgeon and anatomist Matteo Realdo Colombo ( c. 1516 – 1559 ), the anatomist William Harvey ( 1578 – 1657 ) described the circulatory system.
* December – Colombo Plan for Co-operative Economic and Social Development in Asia and the Pacific ( CESDAP )
* July 24 – The Dehiwala train bombing kills 56 commuters outside Colombo.
* June 28 – Assassin Jerome A. Johnson shoots Joe Colombo in the head in a middle of an Italian-American rally, putting him in a coma.
* May 22 – Joe Colombo, American gangster ( b. 1914 )
* July 14 – King Dominicus Corea ( Edirille Bandara ) is beheaded by the Portuguese in Colombo, Ceylon.
* February – The Sinhalese abandon the siege of Colombo, capital of Portuguese Ceylon.
* 1559 – Realdo Colombo describes the circulation of blood through the lungs in detail
* Marie Musaeus Higgins ( 1855 – 1926 ), founder of Musaeus College, Colombo
* The IATA airport code for Bandaranaike International Airport, Colombo – Sri Lanka's only international airport
( which is 3 – 4 years long in Sri Lankan State Universities of University of Colombo and the Open University of Sri Lanka ) are given direct entry to undertake law exams that the Sri Lanka Law College.
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