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* 1932 – Lakshman Kadirgamar, Sri Lankan politician ( d. 2005 )
* 1971 – Piyal Wijetunge, Sri Lankan cricketer
* 2010 – The MV Sun Sea docks in CFB Esquimalt, British Columbia, Canada, carrying 492 Sri Lankan Tamils.
* 2006 – Chencholai bombing in which 61 Tamil girls are killed in Sri Lankan Airforce bombing.
* 1971 – Pramodya Wickramasinghe, Sri Lankan cricketer
* 1951 – Ranjan Gunatilleke, Sri Lankan cricketer
* 1952 – Mahes Goonatilleke, Sri Lankan cricketer
* 1977 – The 1977 riots in Sri Lanka, targeting the minority Sri Lankan Tamil people, begin, less than a month after the United National Party came to power.
* 1956 – Sidath Wettimuny, Sri Lankan cricketer
* 1987 – Sabrina Herft, Sri Lankan model, Miss Universe Sri Lanka 2012
* 1952 – Duleep Mendis, Sri Lankan cricketer
* 2000 – Second Battle of Elephant Pass: Tamil Tigers capture a strategic Sri Lankan Army base and hold it for 8 years.
* 1983 – Lasith Malinga, Sri Lankan cricketer
* 1993 – Sri Lankan politician Lalith Athulathmudali is assassinated while addressing a gathering, approximately 4 weeks ahead of the Provincial Council elections for the Western Province.
* 1915 – Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Sri Lankan politician and the world's first female head of government ( d. 2000 )
* 1972 – Muttiah Muralitharan, Sri Lankan cricketer
Sri Lankan astrology is largely based on Hindu astrology with some modifications to bring it in line with Buddhist teachings.
* 1962 – Uvais Karnain, Sri Lankan cricketer
* 1985 – Jacqueline Fernandez, Sri Lankan Model and Bollywood Actress
* 1979 – Dinusha Fernando, Sri Lankan cricketer
Composer Dinesh Subasinghe became the first Sri Lankan to write a cappella pieces for SATB choirs.
* 2006 – A massacre is carried out by Sri Lankan government forces, killing 17 employees of the French INGO Action Against Hunger ( known internationally as Action Contre la Faim, or ACF ).
* 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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* 1971 – In Sri Lanka, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna launches insurrection against the United Front government of Sirimavo Bandaranaike.
A fast attack boat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam | rebel LTTE in Sri Lanka in 2003 passes the hulk of an LTTE supply ship that had been sunk by government aircraft, Sri Lankan Civil War ( 1983-2009 )
* 1995 – The Sri Lankan government announces the conquest of Tamil stronghold of Jaffna.
Gandhi was the second female head of government in the world after Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka, and she remains as the world's second longest serving female Prime Minister as of 2012.
On November 3, 1988, Sri Lankan Tamil mercenaries tried to overthrow the Maldivian government.
* 2009 – Sri Lankan Civil War: The LTTE are defeated by the Sri Lankan government, ending almost 26 years of fighting between the two sides.
* 1988 – Sri Lankan Tamil mercenaries try to overthrow the Maldivian government.
Sri Lanka is a republic and a unitary state which is governed by a semi-presidential system with its official seat of government in Sri Jayawardenapura-Kotte, the capital.
The name Ceylon is still in use in the names of a number of organisations ; in 2011, the Sri Lankan government announced a plan to rename all of those for which it is responsible.
In 2002, the Sri Lankan government and LTTE signed a Norwegian-mediated ceasefire agreement.
From 1985 to 2006, Sri Lankan government and Tamil insurgents held four rounds of peace talks without success.
During the Mahaweli Program of the 1970s and 1980s in northern Sri Lanka, the government set aside four areas of land totalling as national parks.
* Executive: The President of Sri Lanka is the head of state, the commander in chief of the armed forces, as well as head of government, and is popularly elected for a six-year term.
During the Mahaweli Ganga Program of the 1970s and 1980s in northern Sri Lanka, the government set aside four areas of land totalling 1, 900 km² as national parks.
Through such projects, the government of Sri Lanka has planned to recreate in the dry zone the lush, irrigated landscape associated with the ancient Sinhalese civilization.
The government has stated these Tamils will not be forced to return to India, although they are not technically citizens of Sri Lanka.
Politics of Sri Lanka takes place in a framework of a presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the President of Sri Lanka is both head of state and head of government, and of a multi-party system.
The UK government does not record statistics on the basis of language or ethnicity and all Sri Lankans are classified into one group as Asian British or Asian Other.
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