* 1963 – Sarawak, North Borneo ( now Sabah ) and Singapore achieve technical independence pending accession to the Federation of Malaysia

Commercial planting began in 1930 in British North Borneo ; with the commencement of World War II, the supply from the Philippines was eliminated by the Japanese.

In 1703 ( other sources say 1658 ), the Sultanate of Sulu received North Borneo from the Sultan of Brunei, after Sulu sent aid against a rebellion in Brunei.

Subsequently HM Sultan Jamalul Ahlam Kiram ( 1863 – 1881 ), the 29th reigning Sultan of Sulu, leased North Borneo in 1878 to Gustavus Baron de Overbeck and Alfred Dent, representing the British North Borneo Company in what is now the Malaysian state of Sabah.

A large log being placed on a railroad car at Batottan, British North Borneo in 1926

The North Borneo Federation, also known as Kalimantan Utara or North Kalimantan was a proposed political entity which would have comprised the British Colonies of Sarawak, British North Borneo ( Sabah ) and the protectorate of Brunei.

Before the formation of Malaysian Federation, the Philippines claimed that the Malaysian state of Sabah in north Borneo is within their territorial rights based on historical facts of the Sultanate of Sulu's leasing agreement with the North Borneo Company, is presently an unresolved claim against Malaysia.

* North Borneo

In the same year Holden commenced exports to Malayia, Thailand and North Borneo.

On 31 August 1963, the British territories in North Borneo and Singapore were granted independence and formed Malaysia with the Peninsular states on 16 September 1963.

The Philippines objected to the formation of the federation, claiming North Borneo was part of Sulu, and thus the Philippines.

Examples include Greenland, Long Island, and Sable Island off North America ; Barbados and Trinidad off South America ; Great Britain, Ireland and Sicily off Europe ; Sumatra, Borneo and Java off Asia ; and New Guinea, Tasmania and Kangaroo Island off Australia.

Indonesia claimed all territories of the former Dutch East Indies, and previously viewed British plans to group the Straits Settlements, the Federated Malay States, the Unfederated Malay States, Sarawak and British North Borneo into a new independent federation of Malaysia as a threat to its objective to create a united state called Greater Indonesia.

The presence of British and other Commonwealth troops were crucial to Malaysia's security during the Malayan Emergency ( 1948 – 1960 ) and the Indonesian Confrontation ( 1962 – 1966 ), which was sparked by Malaya's merger with the British colonies of Singapore, Sarawak and North Borneo to form Malaysia in 1963.

* 1963 – Malaysia is formed from the Federation of Malaya, Singapore, British North Borneo ( Sabah ) and Sarawak.

Enslaved people made up about two-thirds of the population in part of North Borneo in the 1880s.

After Habré consolidated his authority and assumed the presidency in 1982, his victorious army, the Armed Forces of the North ( Forces Armées du Nord — FAN ), became the nucleus of a new national army.

Admiral Clark now serves on the Board of Directors of Raytheon Company, Rolls Royce North America, SRI International, Horizon Lines, the Armed Forces YMCA, and is on the World Board of Governors of the USO.

* April 2 – First Battle of Copenhagen: The British fleet under Admiral Sir Hyde Parker, along with Admiral Horatio Nelson, attack Copenhagen ; the Armed Neutrality of the North is dissolved.

** Armed Lumbee Indians confront a handful of Klansmen in Maxton, North Carolina.

Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed is a North American anarchist magazine, and was one of the most popular anarchist publications in North America in the 1980s and 1990s.

After Abba Siddick assumed the leadership of FROLINAT, the Second Liberation Army, first under Oueddei's command and then under Habré's, split from FROLINAT and became the Command Council of the Armed Forces of the North ( CCFAN ).

In 1976 Oueddei and Habré quarreled and Habré split his newly named Armed Forces of the North ( Forces Armées du Nord or FAN ) from Goukouni's followers who adopted the name of People's Armed Forces ( Forces Armées Populaires or FAP ).

The Norwegian Armed Forces headquarters for North Norway is located at Reitan, east of the city.

* The Deacons for Defense: Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement, Lance Hill, University of North Carolina Press ( 2004, ISBN 0-8078-2847-5 ).

As a member of the U. S. Senate Committee on Armed Services, Dole is credited with helping to prevent any closures of North Carolina military bases despite threats from the Department of Defense.

Sydney-siders fighting in the Australian Armed Forces served in campaigns against Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy in Europe, the Mediterranean and North Africa, as well as against Imperial Japan in south-east Asia and other parts of the Pacific.

He is the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for North Devon and was the Minister of State for the Armed Forces from 2010-2012 until losing that position.

Sergeant Vince Phillips, a nineteen year veteran of the British Armed Forces, and eight year veteran of the Special Air Service, was 36 when he died of hypothermia in the evening of 25 January 1991 in North Western Iraq.

RCAF Station North Bay was renamed Canadian Forces Base North Bay ( abbreviated " CFB North Bay ") on 1 April 1966, as part of the Canadian government's plan to merge the country's air force, army and navy into a single entity, the Canadian Armed Forces.

As of 2012 airstrips operated by a Columbian guerrilla group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, in Apure were the point of origin for significant amounts of cocaine which were transported first to Honduras and other Central American and Caribbean locations by small planes and then to North America by Mexican drug cartels.

In the Vietnam War the Soviet Union and People's Republic of China supplied North Vietnam and the Vietcong with training, logistics and materiel but unlike the United States Armed Forces they fought the war through their proxies and, except for sending military consultants and some air force personnels, did not enter the conflict directly.

From 1992 to 2010, the Armed Forces maintained a diminishing number of former Soviet Armed Forces districts-Leningrad Military District, Moscow Military District, Volga-Urals Military District, North Caucasus Military District, Siberian Military District, Far East Military District.

S. 974 — To amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to prohibit any involvement of U. S. Armed Forces in an invasion of North Vietnam without prior and explicit congressional authorization.

The United Nations Service Medal is awarded to any military service member, of an Armed Force allied with South Korea, who participated in the defense of South Korea from North Korea between the dates of June 27, 1950 and July 27, 1954.

Recently it has emerged from the Police Ombudsman that senior North Belfast UVF member and Royal Ulster Constabulary ( RUC ) Special Branch informant Mark Haddock has been involved in drug dealing.

* North West Motorway Police Group: Cheshire Constabulary, Lancashire Constabulary, and Merseyside Police

The town is located in the South Area of the Durham Constabulary, and served by the County Durham and Darlington Fire and Rescue Service and North East Ambulance Service.

In 2003, ten police officers from Greater Manchester Police, North Wales Police and Cheshire Constabulary were forced to resign after a BBC documentary, The Secret Policeman, shown on 21 October, revealed racism among recruits at Bruche Police National Training Centre at Warrington.

Most Chief Constables and police authorities did not back the measure, and some suggested that cross-regional mergers would make more sense ( for example, Hampshire Constabulary in the South East suggested it could merge with Dorset Police in the South West, whilst there was also a suggestion of North Wales Police increasing co-operation with Cheshire Police )

When in 1856 the North Riding Constabulary was founded, one of the last county forces to be formed, Northallerton was selected as its headquarters, operating initially from premises in East Road.

In the 19th century, the RNC was modelled after the Royal Irish Constabulary ( the RIC ) with the secondment in 1844 of Timothy Mitchell of the Royal Irish Constabulary to be Inspector General, making it the oldest civil police force in North America.

Avon & Somerset Constabulary is the territorial police force in England responsible for policing the non-metropolitan county of Somerset, the city & county of Bristol and the unitary authorities of South Gloucestershire, North Somerset and Bath and North East Somerset ; before 1996 these districts formed the now-defunct county of Avon, hence the force's name.

It is a successor to the Teesside Constabulary, and also the York and North East Yorkshire Police, which existed before 1974, and also took over part of Durham Constabulary.

Under proposals made by the Home Secretary on 6 February 2006, a proposal for a merger with Northumbria Police and Durham Constabulary to form a single strategic police force for the North East England was suggested but there was no support for this.

Cleveland was a member of the North East Air Support Unit helicopter sharing agreement with neighbouring Durham Constabulary and Northumbria Police in which all three forces shared two helicopters, one based at Newcastle Airport and the other at Durham Tees Valley Airport.

Grampian Police was formed on May 16, 1975, when Grampian Region was created, a merger of the previously-formed Scottish North Eastern Counties Constabulary and the Aberdeen City Police.

The North Eastern force had been formed on May 16, 1949, by the merger of Aberdeenshire Constabulary, Banffshire Constabulary, Kincardineshire Constabulary, and Moray and Nairn Constabulary.

Under proposals made by the Home Secretary on 6 February 2006, it would merge with Cleveland Police and Durham Constabulary to form a single strategic police force for the North East England.

* Three ACCs: Avon and Somerset Constabulary, Devon and Cornwall Constabulary, Essex Police, Hampshire Constabulary, Lancashire Constabulary, Ministry of Defence Police, Norfolk Constabulary, Northumbria Police, North Yorkshire Police, South Wales Police, South Yorkshire Police, Staffordshire Police, Sussex Police, Thames Valley Police