• David Oliver Tonkin AO (20 July 1929 – 2 October 2000) was an Australian politician who served as the 38th Premier of South Australia from 18 September...
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  • Tonkin, also spelled Tongkin, Tonquin or Tongking, is an exonym referring to the northern region of Vietnam. During the 17th and 18th centuries, this term...
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    The Gulf of Tonkin incident (Vietnamese: Sự kiện Vịnh Bắc Bộ) was an international confrontation that led to the United States engaging more directly in...
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    Tonkin (chữ Hán: 東京), or Bắc Kỳ (北圻), was a French protectorate encompassing modern Northern Vietnam. Like the French protectorate of Annam, Tonkin was...
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    Michael Harvey Tonkin (born November 19, 1989) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Minnesota Twins of Major League Baseball (MLB). He...
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  • Look up Tonkin in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Tonkin refers to: Đông Kinh, a former name of Hanoi, Vietnam Tonkin, an exonym for northern Vietnam...
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    The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution or the Southeast Asia Resolution, Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 88–408, 78 Stat. 384, enacted August 10, 1964...
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    and organisers, modelling after the Victorian Liberals. In July 1975, David Tonkin challenged Eastick for party leadership, and became leader unopposed...
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    After the 1982 election and the electoral defeat and retirement of David Tonkin, Olsen defeated Brown for the state Liberal Party leadership and became...
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    to the Labor leadership. Despite factional struggles within Labor, the Tonkin Liberal government oversaw the economy suffer through the early 1980s recession...
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