ON 8 MAY IN ASIAN HISTORY

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Updated on May 8, 2016

453 BC: The house of Zhao defeats the house of Zhi, ending the Battle of Jinyang, a military conflict between the elite families of the State of Jin during the Spring and Autumn period of China.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Jinyang

1278: Death of Emperor Duanzong, penultimate emperor of Southern Song dynasty (1276-1278), born in 1268
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Duanzong_of_Song
http://history.cultural-china.com/en/46History9318.html

1516: A group of imperial guards, led by Trịnh Duy Sản, murder Emperor Lê Tương Dực and fled, leaving the capital Thăng Long undefended
http://sussle.org/t/Tr%E1%BA%A7n_C%E1%BA%A3o_Rebellion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%AA_T%C6%B0%C6%A1ng_D%E1%BB%B1c

1641: Death of Chinese geographer Xu Xiake, born in January 1585
http://www.chinaculture.org/gb/en_madeinchina/2005-09/02/content_72439.htm

1895: The Treaty of Shimonoseki imposed to China by Japan, signed on 17 April 1985, enters into force by the exchange of the instruments of ratification at Chefoo
http://www.taiwandocuments.org/shimonoseki01.htm
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F4091FF83C5811738DDDAD0894D0405B8585F0D3

1911: Yìkuang, the Prince Qing, Manchu noble of the late Qing Dynasty become the first Prime minister of the Chinese imperial cabinet, until November 11
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yikuang,_Prince_Qing

1916: Birth of Swami Chinmayananda, Indian spiritualist who died on August 3, 1993
http://www.chinmaya-chicago.org/chinmaya.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swami_Chinmayananda
http://www.mapsofindia.com/on-this-day/8-may-1916-chinmayananda-saraswati-indian-spiritual-leader-was-born

1922: Birth of Stephan Kim Sou-hwan, Korean cardinal who died on February 16, 2009
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Kim_Sou-hwan

1929: Birth of Miyoshi Umeki, Japanese-born actress who died on 28 August 2007
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0880855/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvLUKmprbSU

1929: Birth of Girija Devi, Indian singer
http://www.iloveindia.com/indian-heroes/girija-devi.html
http://www.girijadevi.com/biography.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okcdusGLFtM

1933: Mohandas Gandhi begins a 21-day fast in protest of British oppression in India

1942: The Battle of the Coral Sea comes to an end with Japanese Imperial Navy aircraft carrier aircraft attacking and sinking the United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Lexington. The battle marks the first time in the naval history that two enemy fleets fight without visual contact between warring ships
http://www.pacificwar.org.au/CoralSea/May.8th.html
http://www.pacificwar.org.au/Battle_Coral_Sea.html

1942: Gunners of the Ceylon Garrison Artillery on Horsburgh Island in the Cocos Islands rebel in the Cocos Islands Mutiny. Their mutiny is crushed and three of them are executed, the only British Commonwealth soldiers to be executed for mutiny during the Second World War
http://www.sundayobserver.lk/2006/08/27/pow06.asp
https://www.awm.gov.au/journal/j34/cocosmutiny.asp
http://thepoormouth.blogspot.fr/2012/04/backwaters-of-history-cocos-island.html

1948: In Burma, execution of U Saw for having ordered the killing of General Aung San
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_Saw
http://www.executedtoday.com/2009/05/08/1948-u-saw-and-the-assassins-of-aung-san/

1953: During French Vietnam War,  General Navarre is appointed Commander-in-chief

1954: The first full session on Indochina begins at the Geneva Conference

1956: Constitutional union between Indonesia and the Netherlands is dissolved

1963: South Vietnamese soldiers of Catholic President Ngo Dinh Diem open fire on Buddhists defying a ban on the flying of the Buddhist flag on Vesak, killing nine and sparking the Buddhist crisis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hu%E1%BA%BF_Ph%E1%BA%ADt_%C4%90%E1%BA%A3n_shootings
http://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/content/south-vietnamese-buddhists-initiate-fall-dictator-diem-1963

1964: Beijing publishes all the letters exchanges between Soviet and Chinese communist parties and says it will no more participate at any world communist conference

1967: The Philippine province of Davao is split into three: Davao del Norte, Davao del Sur, and Davao Oriental
https://kahimyang.com/kauswagan/articles/1119/today-in-philippine-history-on-may-8-1967-republic-act-no-4867-which-divided-the-province-of-davao-into-three-provinces-was-passed-into-law

1969: The Liberation National Front delegate to Paris, suggest a « global solution » by the formation of a provisional coalition government in South Vietnam

1970: The Hard Hat riot occurs in the Wall Street area of New York City as blue-collar construction workers clash with anti-war demonstrators protesting the Vietnam War
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/nixon-defends-invasion-of-cambodia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_Hat_riot

1972: Death of Japanese painter Ito Shinsui, born on 4 February 1898
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%C5%8D_Shinsui
https://www.google.fr/search?q=Ito+Shinsui&hl=fr&rlz=1G1ACAW_FRFR414&prmd=imvns&source=lnms&tbm=isch&ei=sQioT4rcKcak0QXmz8zUDA&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&ved=0CBQQ_AUoAQ&biw=1192&bih=543

1972: US President Richard Nixon announces his order to place mines in major North Vietnam ports in order to stem the flow of weapons and other goods to that nation
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/mining-of-north-vietnamese-harbors-is-announced

1973: Birth of Hiromu Arakawa, Japanese artist
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=17621
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiromu_Arakawa

1978: Birth of Jang Woo Hyuk, Korean artist
http://global.yesasia.com/en/PrdDept.aspx/code-k/section-music/pid-1004504094/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUPhBGrHPsE

1980 : Filipino opposition leader Ninoy Aquino is allowed to leave the country for a coronary bypass surgery
https://kahimyang.com/kauswagan/articles/1747/today-in-philippine-history-may-8-1980-ninoy-aquino-was-allowed-to-leave-for-a-coronary-bypass-surgery

1984: Birth of Nadine Chandrawinata, 2006 Universe Pageant (Indonesia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadine_Chandrawinata
http://www.nadinechandrawinata.com/

1995: Death of Taiwanese singer Teresa Teng from a severe asthma attack, born on January 29, 1953
http://www.graman.net/teresa/teng.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bv_cEeDlop0

1997: Sonia Gandhi by adhering to the Indian Congress Party enters officially in politics

1999: Beginning of the Kargill conflict between India and Pakistan, up to July 14
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/kargil-99.htm
http://nativepakistan.com/kargil-war-1999-real-facts-about-kargil-conflict/

2002: In Karachi, a bomb attack on a bus belonging to the French navy company DCN causes the death of 14 people including  9 French
http://u2r2h-documents.blogspot.fr/2009/07/2002-french-karachi-mass-murder-by.html

2006: In Manila, six leftist members of Parliament who took refuge there during 71 days, go out after justice cleared them of the charge of plotting against the president

2006: In Thailand, the Supreme Court cancels the April 2 general elections

2007: Military inter-Korean negotiations resume. It is decided that for the first time since 1953 that the railway between the two countries will be tested

2008: Indian courts declare that a MF Husain painting depicting India as a nude goddess is not obscene
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7389440.stm
http://www.mfhussain.com/paintings/

2008: A Malaysian court, for the first time allows apostasy

2009: Mas Selamat Kastari, a member of the al-Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) group, the suspected leader of a Southeast Asian Islamic group accused of plotting a 9/11-style attack on Singapore’s international airport is recaptured in Malaysia more than a year after he escaped from a Singapore jail
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/05/20095874138801454.html

2013: People’s Daily publishes a call for a review of Japan’s sovereignty over the island of Okinawa, home to major US bases, with the Asian powers already embroiled in a territorial row

2014: Thailand National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) resolves  to bring impeachment proceedings against former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra over the rice-pledging scheme, with criminal charges
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-27325898
http://news.asiaone.com/news/asia/thai-graft-agency-rules-against-ex-pm-red-shirts-head-bangkok

2014: Pakistani notable human rights lawyer Rashid Rehman Advocate is shot dead at his office in Multan Wednesday (7) evening
http://tribune.com.pk/story/705659/human-rights-lawyer-rashid-rehman-shot-dead/
http://www.dawn.com/news/1104788/rights-advocate-rashid-rehman-khan-gunned-down-in-multan

Holidays and observances

South Korea:Parents’ Day

ON 9 MAY IN ASIAN HISTORY

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Updated on May 9, 2016

1147: Birth of Minamoto no Yorimoto, founder and first shogun of the Kamatura shogunate who died on 9 February 1199
http://www.samurai-archives.com/mny.html

1540: Birth of Maharana Pratap, Hindu ruler of Mewar who died on January 29, 1597
http://www.chittorgarh.com/maharana-pratap.asp
http://www.mapsofindia.com/on-this-day/9-may-1540-maharana-pratap-indian-ruler-was-born

1593: A strong Chinese action, combined with strong efforts of Korean national hero Yi Sunshin (1545-1598) forces Japanese to leave Seoul
http://www.koreanhero.net/en/AboutYiSunsin.htm

1849: Birth of Empress Shoken, also known as Empress Dowager Shoken, empress consort of Emperor Meiji of Japan who died on April 9, 1914
http://everything2.com/title/Empress+Shoken

1866: Birth of Gopal Krishna Gokhale, leader of Indian Independence Movement, who died on 19 February 1915
http://www.iloveindia.com/indian-heroes/gopal-krishna-gokhale.html
http://www.liveindia.com/freedomfighters/29.html

1874: The first horse-drawn omnibus makes its debut in the city of Mumbay, plying on two routes

1914: Sneevliet founds Indische Sociaal-Democratische Vereeniging, would become PKI (Indonesian Communist Party)

1915: Following a Japanese ultimatum, Yuan Shikai accept the humiliating Japanese “21 Demands”
http://thediplomat.com/2015/01/china-japan-and-the-21-demands/

1932: Pu Yi becomes the puppet leader of Manchukuo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchukuo



1941: On board of Japanese cuirassier Natrri, Peace convention between France and Thailand is signed returning right side of the Mekong river Laotian and Cambodian territories to Thailand
http://www.ww2f.com/topic/12620-vichy-versus-asia-the-franco-siamese-war-of-1941/

1947: Birth of Yukiya Amano, Japanese diplomat, current Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
https://www.iaea.org/about/dg/biography

1951: During the War of Korea, air raid on Chinese positions at Yalu River

1953: French Government announces the appointment of General Henri-Eugene Navarre as Commander in Chief of the French Union Forces (FUF) in Indochina

1956: First ascent of Manaslu mount (Nepal), the world eighth-highest mountain, by a Japanese team
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manaslu

1956: A War Reparations and Peace Settlement between Philippines and Japan is signed at Malacañang Palace under Magsaysay administration, restauring the diplomatic relations
http://www.geocities.jp/cbnetnagoya/update/historical.html

1958: Beijing cuts its commercial and cultural links with Japan

1963: Death of Vyner Brooke, third and final White Rajah of Sarawak (Borneo) from 1917 to 1946, born on 30 September 1874
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Vyner_Brooke

1964: Ngo Dinh Can, de facto ruler of central Vietnam under his brother President Ngo Dinh Diem before the family’s toppling, is executed. Born in 1911
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngo_Dinh_Can

1965: The Chinese People’s Action Party (PAP) and four others political parties of the Federation of Malaysia ally in the Malaysian Solidarity Convention fighting the Malays preference in the country
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysian_Solidarity_Council

1970: 75,000 to 100,000 anti-Vietnam war protestors demonstrate in front of the White House
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/demonstrations-held-in-washington

1972: Birth of Megumi Odaka, Japanese actress and artist
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0643894/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nu5eCny_NuY

1973: Birth of Chu Sang-mi, South Korean actress
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0160876/
http://wiki.d-addicts.com/Choo_Sang_Mi

1977: Birth of Choi Jeong-yoon, South Korean actress
http://www.hancinema.net/korean_Choi_Jeong-yoon.php

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGN-lUm5Vhg

1981: Birth of You Yokoyama, Japanese actor and singer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yu_Yokoyama
http://saraineilan.wordpress.com/category/music/kanjani-8/you-yokoyama/

1983: Birth of Ryuhei Matsuda, Japanese actor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryuhei_Matsuda

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2FuQRqebsw

1986: Death of sherpa Tenzing Norgay, the first man who, with Sir Edmund Hillary, has reached the summit of Mount Everest
http://www.tenzing-norgay.com/pages/tenzingnorgaysherpa.html

1989: Journalists petition the Chinese government for freedom of press

1993: Birth of Ryosuke Yamada, Japanese actor and singer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryosuke_Yamada

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxUTg2ZZ-fw

1997: A former POW, Douglas Peterson,  is appointed first ambassador to Vietnam since 1975

1998: Death of Talat Mahmood, Indian singer and actor, born on February 24 1924
http://www.talatmahmood.net/

1999: Big demonstrations in China, after the May 7 bombing of China embassy in Belgrade
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/9/newsid_2519000/2519271.stm

2001: Indonesian military warn President Abdurraman Wahid not to dissolve the parliament in the purpose to escape impeachment procedure
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdurrahman_Wahid

2003: North Korea says it has a deterrent nuclear force as a self defense from the US threat

2007: Ex Malaysian prime minister Mahathir says that his successor (that he has himself pick up) do not deserve to lead the country

2008: North Korea hands in nuclear records to the US
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7392189.stm

2009: Official results in Indonesia’s parliamentary elections confirm the president’s Democrat Party in first place with 20.85% of the vote. Its two main rivals – the PDIP and Golkar – both trail with around 14% each of the vote
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8042095.stm

2011: Taiwan complains to the World Health Organization (WHO) for being described as a province of China in its internal documents

2011: Pakistan denies allegations of complicity or incompetence in the Osama bin Laden case. Prime minister says an inquiry, to be led by a top general, has been ordered
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2011/05/201159132239456367.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/10/world/asia/10pakistan.html?ref=asia
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-13330909

2013: Bangladesh Jamaat leader sentenced to death. War tribunal convicts Mohammad Kamaruzzaman on charges of genocide and torture of unarmed civilians during 1971 war
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2013/05/2013595575783613.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-22461129

2013: Japan has protested to China over a newspaper article that called for a review of Japanese sovereignty over Okinawa.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-22460810

2015 : North Korea carries out a successful underwater test of a ballistic missile
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/05/08/asia/north-korea-missile-test/index.html
http://www.euronews.com/2015/05/09/n-korea-claims-successful-ballistic-missile-launch-from-submarine/

2015 : President Joko Widodo announces he is lifting restrictions on foreign journalists in Papua immediately, after signing off pardons for five political detainees held for over a decade in a prison in the restive eastern province
http://www.asianewsnet.net/Jokowi-signals-reconciliation-with-restive-Papua-p-74910.html
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-32677259 http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/10/world/asia/indonesia-president-pardons-prisoners-in-papua-province.html?ref=asia&_r=0

ON 10 MAY IN ASIAN HISTORY

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Updated on May 10, 2016

28 BCE – A sunspot is observed by Han Dynasty astronomers during the reign of Emperor Cheng of Han, one of the earliest dated sunspot observations in China.

689: Death of Kusakabe, Japanese crown prince, born in 662
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Kusakabe

1265: Birth of Fushimi, 92nd emperor of Japan (1287-1298) who died on 8 October 1317
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Fushimi

1424: Death of Go-Kameyama, 99th emperor of Japan (1383-1992), born in 1347
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Go-Kameyama

1661: Birth of Jahandar Sha 1, Mughal emperor of India (1712-1713), who died in February 1713
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jahandar_Shah

1737: Death of Nakamikado, 114th emperor of Japan (1709-1735), born on 14 January 1702
http://everything2.com/e2node/Nakamikado

1756: Birth of Singu Min, King of Burma, who died on February 6, 1782
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singu_Min

1824: A British army under Commodore Charles Grant and Major-General Sir Archibald Campbell, enters the Rangoon River, and anchors off the town of Rangoon. After initial resistance Rangoon will surrender
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Anglo-Burmese_War
http://www.donaldheald.com/pages/books/16521/lieutenant-joseph-moore-captain-frederick-marryat/view-of-the-landing-at-rangoon-of-part-of-the-combined-forces-from-bengal-and-madras-under-the-orders

1833: The desecration of the grave of the viceroy of southern Vietnam Le Van Duyet by Emperor Minh Mang provokes his adopted son to start a revolt.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Van_Duyet

1849: Death of Japanese painter Hokusai Katsushika, born on 31st October 1760
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hokusai
https://www.google.fr/search?q=Hokusai+Katsushika&hl=fr&rlz=1G1ACAW_FRFR414&prmd=imvnso&source=lnms&tbm=isch&ei=A2SqT7PQEqSt0QWZppQN&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&ved=0CBUQ_AUoAQ&biw=1192&bih=543

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3FhFewRCY0&hl=fr

1855: Birth of Yukteswar Giri, Indian guru and educator who died on March 9, 1936
http://www.kriya.org/about__guru.php?id=3
http://www.angelfire.com/yt/Yukteswar/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFCK7d0RyO4

1857: In India, the first war of independence begins in Meerut barracks by the revolt of Sepoys against their commanding officers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Mutiny
http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/1800_1899/1857revolt/meerut/meerut.html
http://www.mapsofindia.com/on-this-day/10-may-1857-the-first-war-of-independence-began

1863: Birth of Upendrakishore Ray, Bengali writer, painter, violin player and composer who died on December 20, 1915
http://www.indianetzone.com/56/upendrakishore_ray_chauduri.htm
http://blog.rarh.in/?p=184
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upendrakishore_Ray

1886: Birth of Felix Manalo, Philippine Founder and 1st Executive Minister of the Iglesia ni Cristo, who died on April 12, 1963
http://www.letusreason.org/Iglesia2.htm

1897: Death of Andrès Bonifacio, the founder of the Katipunan secret organization in the Philippines, executed by Aguildano soldiers
http://www.loc.gov/rr/hispanic/1898/bonifacio.html
https://kahimyang.com/kauswagan/articles/1123/today-in-philippine-history-may-10-1897-andres-bonifacio-was-executed-for-being-guilty-of-treason-and-sedition

1899: Birth of Zhang Daqiang, Chinese painter, who died on April 12, 1983
http://www.chinaonlinemuseum.com/painting-zhang-daqian.php
http://www.icm.gov.mo/exhibition/daqian/BiographyE.asp

1927: Birth of Nayantara Sahgal, Indian author
http://www.loc.gov/acq/ovop/delhi/salrp/nayantarasahgal.html

1938: Birth of Dang Nhat Minh, Vietnamese director
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dang_Nhat_Minh

1940: Dutch-Indies governor Van Starkenborch proclaims end of state of siege

1942: The Thai Phayap Army invades the Shan States during the Burma Campaign
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burma_Campaign
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phayap_Army

1948: First legislative elections in South Korea. Syngman Rhee sets up a government
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Korean_Constitutional_Assembly_election,_1948

1948: The Republic of China implements « temporary provisions » granting President Chiang Kai-shek extended powers to deal with the Communist uprising; they will remain in effect until 1991. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporary_Provisions_Effective_During_the_Period_of_Communist_Rebellion

1951: Death of Shastriji Maharaj, Indian spiritual leader, born January 1865
http://www.swaminarayan.org/shastrijimaharaj/

1962: Death of Shunroku Hata, Japanese field marshal, born on July 26, 1879
http://ww2db.com/person_bio.php?person_id=677

1963: Birth of A. Raja, Indian politician
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._Raja

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qXnxSxVaR4

1968: Preliminary Vietnam peace talks begin in Paris between American and North Vietnamese

1969: In Vietnam, the National Liberation Front bombs more than 150 targets and launches many assaults around Saigon while US launch Apache operation
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/operation-apache-snow-is-launched

1969: During the Vietnam War, during the Apache Snow operation,: the Battle of Dong Ap Bia begins with an assault on Hill 937. It will ultimately become known as Hamburger Hill, up to May 20
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hamburger_Hill
http://www.historynet.com/battle-for-hamburger-hill-during-the-vietnam-war.htm
https://ehistory.osu.edu/articles/battle-dong-ap-bia-hill-937-10-21-may-1969-battle-hamburger-hill

1974: Birth of Liu Fang, Chinese pipa player
http://www.liufangmusic.net/English/biography.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtrthXXmKgA

1975: Birth of Shin Jung-hwan, Korean singer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shin_Jung-hwan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7fjKsRpsZ4

1977: Birth of Denise Ho, Hong Kong singer
http://wiki.d-addicts.com/Denise_Ho

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZtefJlWa6o

1979: Birth of Lee Hyori, South Korean singer
http://www.asiafinest.com/korean/hyori.htm
http://yummycelebrities.com/2006/01/18/lee-hyori/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PfHhFbd84A

1981: Birth of Namitha Kapoor, Indian actress
http://southheroines.blogspot.com/2007/11/namitha-kapoor-actress-hot-sexy.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DjFtiFciZo

1985: In India, during two days, around 30 bomb attacks in public transports of the capital and four neighboring cities by Sikh extremists

1988: Death of Chinese writer Shen Congwen, born on 28 December 1902
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shen_Congwen

1990: The Chinese government releases 211 Tiananmen Square prisoners, but also declares that over 400 others are still being investigated while being held in custody
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/china-releases-tiananmen-square-prisoners

1992: Birth of Zia Marquez, Filipina actress
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zia_Marquez

1993: Birth of Mirai Shida, Japanese actress
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirai_Shida

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILN38JH-JXg

1994: Birth of Charice Pempengco, Filipina singer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charice_Pempengco

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8fR2jroUxE

2001: Death of Sudhakarrao Naik, Indian politician, born on August 21, 1934
http://www.banjaratimes.com/12248/12290.html

2002: Death of Kaifi Azmi, Indian poet and songwriter, born on January 14, 1919
http://www.iloveindia.com/literature/urdu/poets/kaifi-azmi.html

2004: In Japan, Naoto Kan resigns as chairman of the Democratic Party of Japan
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3249613.stm

2004: Philippine president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo is elected with 39,5 % of the votes, against 36,6 %  for her main rival, the actor Fernando Poe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Poe,_Jr
http://www.nndb.com/people/278/000047137/

2006: Death of Raizo Matsuno, Japanese politician, born on 12 February 1917
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raizo_Matsuno

2007: In an interview with a foreign press agency, former Vietnam’s premier Vo Van Kiet urge the communist party leaders to talk with political dissidents
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6638347.stm

2008: In Burma, the military junta organizes a referendum on a new constitution in its favor
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-05/10/content_8138927.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7408738.stm

2009: Wan Yanhai, the best-known Chinese AIDS activist and his family flee to USA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wan_Yanhai

2010: Presidential election in the Philippines Benigno Aquino junior III (Noynoy) is elected with 42 % of the votes
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2010/06/20106941734617825.html

2010: The senior US diplomat for East Asia and the Pacific has warned Myanmar’s government against buying weapons from North Korea, calling on the country to abide by UN sanctions prohibiting such transactions
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2010/05/201051125758430876.html

2011: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has criticised China’s crackdown on dissent as « a fool’s errand », saying Beijing is trying to halt history
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13353199
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-13358081

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868: A copy of the Diamond Sutra is printed in China, making it oldest known dated printed book
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_Sutra

1304: Death of Mahmud Ghazan, Mongol ruler, born on 5 November 1271
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmud_Ghazan

1571: Birth of Niwa Nagashige, Japanese warlord, died on 1st April 1637
http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/niwa-nagashige/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niwa_Nagashige

1610: Death, in Beijing, of Matteo Ricci, Italian Jesuit missionary, born on 6 October 1552
http://www.faculty.fairfield.edu/jmac/sj/scientists/ricci.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFqndkx6zdc

1760: Alaungpaya, king of Burma is killed while invading Siam, born in August 1714
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaungpaya
http://www.myanmars.net/myanmar-history/king-alaungpaya.htm

1857: During the Indian mutiny, Indian rebels seize Delhi from the British
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Mutiny

1891: in the Otsu Incident, Tsarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich of Imperial Russia (late Nicholas II) is critically injured on his head by the sword attack by a Japanese policeman Tsuda Sanzo
http://repository.upenn.edu/dissertations/AAI8922607/
http://www.thefullwiki.org/Otsu_Incident

1912: Birth of Saadat Hasan Manto, Pakistani short story writer who died on January 18, 1955
http://www.ludhianadistrict.com/personality/saadat_hasan_manto.php

1937: Birth of Cheng Yen, Taiwanese Buddhist nun and philanthropist
http://tw.tzuchi.org/en/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=159&Itemid=198
http://www.forbes.com/global/2010/0412/companies-cheng-yen-taiwan-philanthropy-widjaja-sister-of-charity.html

1940: Death of Chujiro Hayashi, Japanese Reiki Master, born on September 15, 1880
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chujiro_Hayashi

1942: Japanese troops conquer Kalewa (Burma)

1945: US marines conquer Awatsha Draw in Okinawa (Japan), but the aircraft carrier USS Bunker Hill, is hit by two kamikazes, killing 346 of her crew. Badly damaged, the ship is able to return to the U.S. under her own power
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Bunker_Hill_(CV-17)

1946: In Malaya, the United Malays National Organization (UNMO) is founded
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UMNO

1947: Dutch create the state of West Kalimantan with Sultan of Pontianak at head; PM Sjahrir protests

1947: Laos accepts constitution for parliamentary democracy

1948: Birth of Nirj Deva, SriLankan-British politician
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirj_Deva

1948: Birth of Shigeru Izumiya, Japanese folk musician
http://wiki.d-addicts.com/Izumiya_Shigeru

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nqh2xtTQ_Q

1949: Siam officially changes its name to Thailand, a name in use since 1939

1953: Establishment of the Islamic Association of China
http://www.islamichina.com/islamic-association.html
http://www.topchinatravel.com/china-muslim/china-islamic-association.htm

1957: The Chinese government issues a statement condemning the U.S. missile troops stationed in Taiwan

1961: Soviet and British officials defuse the impending crisis in Laos by orchestrating a truce and by reactivating the International Control Commission (associated with the 1954 Geneva Agreement on Indochina that led to the division of Vietnam)

1962: US sends troops to Thailand

1963: Birth of Masotoshi Hamada, Japanese comedian
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masatoshi_Hamada
http://www.jdorama.com/artiste.51.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MicHnvp46Qk

1965: Birth of Monsour del Rosario, Filipino martial artist and actor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsour_del_Rosario

1982: Birth of Guji Lorenzana, Filipino singer and actor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guji_Lorenzana

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdLXdRmvKv4

1985: Birth of Sifow, Japanese singer and business woman
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sifow

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4DF6-YV4ao

1991: Death of Ho Dam, North Korean foreign minister from 1970 to 1983
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CEEDA1238F937A25756C0A967958260

1992: In the Philippines, a fair, open and mainly peaceful election, organized by Cory Aquino, results in the lawful and orderly transfer of the presidency to her Secretary of Defense, Fidel Ramos on June 30, 1992 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_presidential_election,_1992

1998: In Indonesia, while huge demonstrations continue, Amien Rais, leader of the Muhammadiyah, and several formers ministers and retired generals ask Suharto to resign

1998: India conducts three underground nuclear tests in Pokhran, including a thermonuclear device
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/11/newsid_3664000/3664259.stm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pokhran-II

1998: The former movie star Joseph Estrada wins the second democratic presidential election since the EDSA revolution. He will succeed President Ramos on June 30
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_presidential_election,_1998

2000: India officially reaches 1 billion inhabitants. Astha Arora named India’s billionth baby
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32688856

2007: For the first time since India’s independence, a Dalit party wins the election in one of the Union states, Uttar Pradesh, the most important in the country

2007: Nobel Prize Ramos-Horta wins the first East Timor presidential election since independence with 73 % of votes, while 90% went to vote
http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/ramos-horta-triumphs-in-east-timor-elections/2007/05/10/1178390468400.html%3E%3Ctarget=
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Timorese_presidential_election,_2007

2009: Death of Sardarilal Mathradas Nanda, Indian admiral, born on October 10, 1915
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1090513/jsp/nation/story_10956579.jsp
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/naval-obituaries/5551938/Admiral-Sardarilal-Nanda.html

2009: The communist authorities in Laos, one of Asia’s poorest nations, sign a decree to allow local non-governmental organizations for the first time

2009: Death of Shanthi Lekha, Sri Lankan actress, born on July 1, 1929
http://www.sundayobserver.lk/2009/05/17/imp15.asp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UorCdrGOiHY

2009: Ichiro Ozawa, head of the Democratic Party of Japan, tells he had decided to resign because he does not want the scandal involving one of his aides to cloud the elections, which must be held by Sept. 10
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8043226.stm

2013: Nawaz Sharif claims victory in Pakistan presidential election
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/10051440/Nawaz-Sharif-claims-victory-in-Pakistan-presidential-election.html

2013: The Maldivian home minister Mohamed Jameel is sacked shortly after he announced his candidature for the vice-presidency in crucial elections in September.
http://www.straitstimes.com/breaking-news/world/story/maldives-home-minister-sacked-ahead-key-vote-20130511

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Updated on May 12, 2016

907: Zhu Wen forces Emperor Ai into abdicating, ending the Tang Dynasty after nearly three hundred years of rule
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhu_Wen
http://www.chinatravel.ws/china-guide/Emperor-Ai-of-Tang—The-Last-Emperor-of-the-Tang-Dynasty.htm

1401: Birth of Shoko, 101st emperor of Japan (1412-1428) who died on 30 August 1428
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Shoko

1510: The Prince of Anhua rebellion begins when Zhu Zhifan kills all the officials invited to a banquet and declares his intent on ousting the powerful Ming Dynasty eunuch Liu Jin during the reign of the Zhengde Emperor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_of_Anhua_rebellion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhu_Zhifan

1888: In Borneo island, the sultanate of Brunei, and North Borneo (Sabah) become British protectorates but North Borneo administration remains entirely in the hands of the British North Borneo Company
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Borneo_Chartered_Company
http://flagspot.net/flags/my-sa_nb.html

1895: Birth of Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian spiritual philosopher who died on February 17, 1986
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiddu_Krishnamurti
http://www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net/
http://www.mapsofindia.com/on-this-day/12-may-1895-jiddu-krishnamurti-indian-american-philosopher-and-author-was-born

1907: Birth of Leslie Charteris, Singapore-born author, who died on 15 April 1993
http://www.saint.org/lcbio.htm

1936: The Mongol Military Government is formed (renamed in October 1937 as the Mongol United Autonomous Government)

1946: In India, failure of the Conference of Simla between Hindus and Muslims

1949: The People’s Liberation Army launches the Battle of Shanghai
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Campaign

1952: Gaj Singh, born on 13 January 1948,  is crowned as Maharaja of Jodhpur
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaj_Singh,_Maharaja_of_Jodhpur
http://www.maharajajodhpur.com/

1955: Nineteen days after bus workers went on strike in Singapore, rioting breaks out and seriously impacts Singapore’s bid for independence

1961: Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson meets with South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem in Saigon during his tour of Asian countries, calling Diem the « Churchill of Asia
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/lyndon-b-johnson-visits-south-vietnam

1962: President Macapagal moves the Independence Day celebration from July 4 to June 12
https://kahimyang.com/kauswagan/articles/1126/today-in-philippine-history-may-12-1962-president-macapagal-moved-the-independence-day-celebration-from-july-4-to-june-12

1964: Visit to Saigon of US Secretary for Defense Robert McNamara. USA will deliver 75 Skyraider bombers to South Vietnam

1966: Beijing accuses the USA to have shot down a Chinese plane over Yunnan province

1968: North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces attack Australian troops defending Fire Support Base Coral, east of Lai Khe in South Vietnam on the night of 12/13 May, resulting in heavy casualties on both sides and beginning the Battle of Coral-Balmoral

http://vietnam-war.commemoration.gov.au/combat/coral-balmoral.php
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Coral%E2%80%93Balmoral
https://www.awm.gov.au/encyclopedia/coral/

1969: Moscow announces that skirmishes happened at the beginning of the month on Xinjiang and Soviet Kazakstan border

1975: The Cambodian navy seizes the American merchant ship SS Mayaguez in international waters
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/american-ship-mayaguez-seized
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayag%C3%BCez_incident

1981: Birth of Dennis Trillo, Filipino model, actor, and singer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Trillo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWGkQE_z6t8

1981: Birth of Kentaro Sato, Japanese composer
http://www.wisemanproject.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5EY8gNUTO0

1988: Birth of Marky Cielo, Filipino dancer and actor who died on December 7, 2008
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marky_Cielo

1990: Death of Chen Kenmin, Japanese chef, born on June 27, 1912
http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/chen-kenmin/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen_Kenmin

1991: In Nepal, first multi-party elections since 1959 when political parties where banned

1997: Indian and Pakistani leaders meet during SAARC meeting

1998: During three days, army fire to students demonstrating in Jakarta, killing 6 of them and wounding dozens, leading to widespread riots and the fall of Suharto

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trisakti_shootings
http://www.theindonesianarmy.com/?p=206

2000: Pakistan’s 12 member Supreme Court unanimously validated the October 1999 coup and granted Musharraf executive and legislative authority for 3 years from the coup date

2003: Death of Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
http://ismaili.net/heritage/node/25356

2007: Taiwanese Prime Minister Sun Tseng-chan resigns after he lost the PDP investiture for the presidential elections against  former Premier Frank Hsieh

2007: Riots which killed over 50 people in Karachi and above 100 injured, on the arrival of Chief Justice of Pakistan; Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry in Karachi city
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Karachi_riots#Jinnah_International_Airport

2007: Death of Mullah Dadullah Akhund, Taliban military leader
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mullah_Dadullah_Akhund

2008: Pakistan is readmitted in Commonwealth
http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/uncategorized/pakistan-back-in-53-nation-commonwealth-second-lead_10047925.html

2008: More than 69 000 dead in a quake in Chinese Sichuan province
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7396400.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7399897.stm

2008: In Pakistan Nawaz Sharif announces that his party leaves the federal government
http://www.pmln.org/home/

2008: Philippine president Gloria Arroyo pardons nine army officers who took part in a failed coup attempt in 2003
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7396563.stm

2009: Japan and Russia sign their first nuclear energy co-operation agreement during a visit to Tokyo by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. The deal will enable the transfer of Japanese technology to Russia and the sale of more nuclear fuel to Japan
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8046778.stm

2013: Death of Daisy Avellana, Filipino actor and director, born on January 7, 1917
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/407533/national-artist-for-theater-daisy-avellana-dies-96
http://www.pep.ph/guide/theater/11930/national-artists-celebrate-the-life-and-memory-of-daisy-hontiveros-avellana

 2014: Southeast Asian leaders express « serious concern » over worsening territorial disputes in the South China Sea, presenting a rare united front against an increasingly assertive Beijing.
http://news.asiaone.com/news/asia/asean-fires-warning-shot-across-chinas-bows

2014: Death of Sarat Pujari, Indian actor, director, and screenwriter, born in 1934
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/odia-actor-sarat-pujari-dies-at-80/471248-71.html
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bhubaneswar/Veteran-actor-Sarat-Pujari-passes-away/articleshow/35055102.cms

2015 : Former Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is unanimously re-elected as chairman of the Democratic Party after its three-day congress
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/susilo-bambang-yudhoyono/1845318.html
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2015/05/13/sby-give-direct-command-new-leadership-term.html

2015 : The Philippines and Japan hold their first joint naval exercises in the South China Sea while Japan’s coastguard works with Vietnam as Tokyo boosts maritime ties with two nations at odds with Beijing over the disputed waterway
http://thediplomat.com/2015/05/japan-philippines-hold-first-south-china-sea-naval-exercises/
http://www.manilatimes.net/philippines-japan-hold-unprecedented-naval-drills/183124/

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1127: Song Emperor Qinzong, captured in January, is deported to faraway and bitter cold Northern Manchuria by the Jin where he will spend the last 34 years of his life in confinement
http://ceramica.wikia.com/wiki/Emperor_Qinzong_of_Song

1573: Death of Takeda Shingen, Japanese warlord, born on December 13, 1521
http://www.zenstoriesofthesamurai.com/Characters/Shingen%20Takeda.htm

1648: The construction of the Red Fort at Delhi completed
http://www.rrindia.com/delhi/redfort-delhi.html
http://www.shubhyatra.com/delhi/red-fort.html

1652: Ingen Ryuki is invited to become the abbot of Sufokuji temple in Nagasaki
http://www.dhammaflavour.net/2009/07/ingen-ryuki-and-nembutsu-zen.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingen

1861: Pakistan Railways opens the country’s first railways line, from Karachi to Kotri
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_rail_transport_in_Pakistan

1903: Death of Apolinario Mabini, Filipino political theoretician and first prime minister of the Philippines, born on 23 July 1864
http://www.bookrags.com/biography/apolinario-mabini/

1905: Birth of Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, 5th president of India (1974-1977), who died on February 11, 1977
http://www.assams.info/people/fakhruddin-ali-ahmed
http://www.iloveindia.com/indian-heroes/fakhruddin-ali-ahmed.html

1918: Birth of T. Balasaraswati, Bharatnatyam dancer who died on 9 February 1984
http://www.balasaraswati.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibSmDqm-k3o

1945: US troops conquer Dakeshi Okinawa

1947: Death of Sukanta Bhattacharya, Indian Bengali poet, born August 15, 1926
http://www.poemhunter.com/sukanta-bhattacharya/biography/

1952: The Rajya Sabha, the Upper house of the parliament of  India, holds its first sitting, Pandit Nehru becomes premier of India
http://www.rrtd.nic.in/jawaharlalnehru.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/nehru_jawaharlal.shtml
http://www.mapsofindia.com/on-this-day/13-may-1952-the-first-of-rajya-sabha-was-held

1954: Anti-National Service Riots, a riot in Singapore by Chinese Middle School students
http://ourstory.asia1.com.sg/independence/ref/riot54.html
http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/infopedia/articles/SIP_1202_2006-07-28.html

1956: Birth of Sri Ravi Shankar, Indian spiritual leader
http://www.srisriravishankar.org/biography
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravi_Shankar_(spiritual_leader)

1957: Birth of Manuel « Mar » Araneta Roxas II, Philippine politician
http://en.wikipilipinas.org/index.php/Mar_Roxas

1957: Birth of Koji Suzuki, Japanese writer
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/14465.K_ji_Suzuki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koji_Suzuki

1962: Sarvepalli Radakrishna becomes the second president of India, till May 1967, replacing Rejendra Prasad
http://www.adhyapak.com/dadima/sarvepalli.html

1965: China carries out its second nuclear test
http://www.criticalpast.com/video/65675050399_second-nuclear-test_Lop-Nur_radioactive-zone_nuclear-explosion_protective-clothings

1965: Birth of Hikari Ota, Japanese comedian
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hikari_%C5%8Cta
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/12/world/asia/12ota.html

1967: Dr Zahir Hussain becomes 3rd president, and first Muslim one, of India till 3rd May 1969 when he died
http://www.gloriousindia.com/biographies/dr_zakir_hussain.html

1968: U.S. President Johnson initiated peace negotiations after the first phase of the Tet Offensive. Beginning in Paris on this day, the talks rapidly broke down over disagreements about the status of the North Vietnamese National Liberation Front (NLF), which the Saigon government refused to recognize

1969: Ethnic riot in Malaysia (May 13 incident) between Malay and Chinese. At least 200 people are killed


http://www.knowledgerush.com/kr/encyclopedia/May_13_Incident/
http://www.malaysianbar.org.my/echoes_of_the_past/the_tragedy_of_may_13_1969.html
http://blogs.crikey.com.au/culture-mulcher/2010/05/28/race-blood-and-blades-may-13-malaysias-longest-day/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtkDPvHyVm0&feature=endscreen

1971: Vietnam negociations in Paris in standstill
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/paris-peace-talks-at-standstill

1978: Death of Savang Vatthana, last king of Laos (1959-1975), date not sure
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savang_Vatthana

1980: Birth of Waka Inoue, Japanese gravure idol and actress
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waka_Inoue
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1htig_waka-inoue_people

1980: Birth of Mau Marcelo, Filipino singer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mau_Marcelo

1982: Birth of Yoko Kumada, Japanese gravure idol
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoko_Kumada

1988: Birth of Paulo Avelino, Filipino actor and singer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulo_Avelino

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNm5UGM7Umk

1989: In China, during the Tiananmen Square demonstrations, several hundred students begin a hunger strike

1992: Li Hongzhi gives the first public lecture on Falun Gong in Changchun, People’s Republic of China
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/1223317.stm

1996: Severe thunderstorms and a tornado in Bangladesh kill 600 people

1998: India carries out two nuclear tests at Pokhran, in addition of the three conducted on May 11
http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/India/IndiaShakti.html

1998: Race riots break out in Jakarta, capital of Indonesia, where shops onwned by Indonesian of Chinese descendants are looted and women gang raped
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakarta_riots_of_May_1998
http://www.ozy.com/flashback/remembering-the-may-1998-riots-in-indonesia/31732

2001: Death of R.K. Narayan, Indian writer, born on 10 October 1907
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/14/obituaries/14NARA.html?ex=1210737600&en=d1579e1551fb6ea2&ei=5070

2004: In India, following the unexpected victory of the Congress Party, led by Sonia Gandhi, the Prime Minister Vajpayee resigns
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_general_elections,_2004

2005: The Binh Bridge opens to traffic in Hai Phong, Vietnam

2008: Several blasts in the Jaipur city of Rajasthan state (India) kill at least 60 people
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7398989.stm

2011: The color of India’s eastern state of West Bengal turned from red to green on Friday, when the world’s longest-ruling elected communist government was decisively voted out of power
http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2011/05/2011513143311330487.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-13374646
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-13389312

2011: Twin bomb blasts targeting a paramilitary training centre in northwest Pakistan have killed at least 76 people, mostly paramilitary personnel, and wounded at least 106 others
http://www.english.rfi.fr/asia-pacific/20110513-double-suicide-attack-kills-80-revenge-bin-laden
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-13385597
http://www.france24.com/en/20110513-%20pakistan-bombs-revenge-osama-bin-laden-taliban-suicide-attack-violence
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-pakistan-bombing-20110514,0,3903546.story

2012: Dalai Lama reveals warning of Chinese plot to kill him
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/tibet/9261729/Dalai-Lama-reveals-warning-of-Chinese-plot-to-kill-him.html

2012: Former Bangladeshi opposition leader, Ghulam Azam, has been indicted by a special court for alleged atrocities including genocide and murder during the nation’s 1971 liberation struggle against Pakistan. http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2012/05/2012513125224311695.html

2013: The Taliban ends its war on polio vaccination workers and admits immunisation is the only way to protect children from the disease, its leadership said in a statement issued today
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/10053981/Taliban-renounces-war-on-anti-polio-workers.html

2013: North Korea has replaced its hard-line defense chief with a little-known army general in what outside analysts call an attempt to install a younger figure meant to solidify leader Kim Jong Un’s grip on the powerful military
http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/13/18224469-report-north-korea-axes-hard-line-defense-chief?lite
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/13/north-korean-defence-kim-jong-un

2014: Pakistani police charge 68 lawyers with blasphemy in what is thought to be the biggest ever case of its kind in the country
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-27391334 

2014: Suspected Muslim separatists in southern Thailand have launched a wave of more than 30 attacks including shootings, bombings and arson, killing one person and injuring more than 10
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2014/05/separatists-launch-series-attacks-201451291754228995.html

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Updated on May 14, 2016

1574: Death of Guru Amar Das, third Sikh guru, born on 5 May 1479
http://www.srigurugranthsahib.org/guru-amar-das/index.htm

1630: Birth of Katakura Kagenaga (2nd), Japanese samurai who died on, July 9, 1681
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katakura_Kagenaga_(2nd)

1657: Birth of Sambhaji, Indian emperor who was killed on April 11, 1689
http://www.hindujagruti.org/news/4404_dharmaveer-sambhaji-maharaj.html

1868: In Japan, during the Boshin War, end of the Battle of Utsunomiya Castle, former shoghunate forces withdraw northward to Aizu by way of Nikko
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Utsunomiya_Castle

1878: Assassination of Okubo Toshimichi, Japanese statesman, and one of the three great nobles who led the Meiji restoration, born on 10 August 1830
http://meijikeikanromantan.tumblr.com/post/50453823472/may-14th-1878-the-assassination-of-okubo
http://www.ndl.go.jp/portrait/e/datas/32.html

1879: The first group of 463 Indian indentured laborers arrives in Fiji aboard the  Leonidas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_indenture_system

1907: Birth of Muhammad Ayub Khan, second president of Pakistan (October 1958-March 1969), who died on 19 April 1974
http://www.storyofpakistan.com/person.asp?perid=P017

1923: Birth of Mrinal Sen, Indian film director
http://mrinalsen.org/
http://www.mapsofindia.com/on-this-day/14-may-1923-mrinal-sen-indian-director-and-screenwriter-was-born

1934: Death of Baikuntha Shukla, Indian nationalist and revolutionary, born on May 15, 1907 http://www.indianetzone.com/61/baikuntha_shukla.htm

1935: The Filipinos ratify the 1935 constitution after independence agreement with USA
https://kahimyang.com/kauswagan/articles/1128/today-in-philippine-history-may-14-1935-the-constitution-of-the-philippines-was-ratified
https://kahimyang.com/kauswagan/articles/1781/the-1935-philippine-constitution

1936: Birth of Waheeda Rehman, Indian actress
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0716851/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLwbln5QtHo

1943: Sinking of the Australian Hospital Ship Centaur off the coast of Queensland, by a Japanese submarine
http://www.ozatwar.com/ozatwar/centaur.htm
http://ww2today.com/14th-may-1943-australian-hospital-ship-centaur-torpedoed
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AHS_Centaur

1944: During Burma Campaign, British troops occupy Kohima
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kohima
http://www.burmastar.org.uk/burma-campaign/battle-histories/the-battle-of-kohima/

1945: Kamikaze-Zero strikes US aircraft carrier Entreprise during Okinawa Battle
http://www.navweaps.com/index_tech/tech-042.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Enterprise_(CV-6)

1953: Birth of Norodom Sihamoni, king of Cambodia since 14 October 2004
http://www.norodomsihamoni.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norodom_Sihamoni

1962: Death of Silpa Birasri, Italian and the father of modern arts in Thailand
http://www.journal.su.ac.th/index.php/suij/article/viewFile/40/40

1965: In Sri Lanka, Rohana Wijeweera, founds the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) or People’s Liberation Front
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohana_Wijeweera
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janatha_Vimukthi_Peramuna

1969: US President Richard Nixon proposes a simultaneously of all the foreign troops from South Vietnam. Hanoi and National Liberation Front refuses
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/president-nixon-responds-to-national-liberation-front-proposal

1971: Birth of Nasha Aziz, Malaysian actress & model
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasha_Aziz
http://dailylenglui.blogspot.com/2010/07/nasha-aziz-from-malaysia-lenglui-72.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsqu1Wdz9H0

1975: US forces raid Cambodian island of Koh Tang to free Mayaguez ship
http://www.usmm.org/mayaguez.html

1976: India and Pakistan restore diplomatic relations cut in 1971

1985: Death by suicide of Mei ling (Barbara Yung), Hong Kong actress, born on 7 May 1959
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Yung_Mei-ling
http://www.hkcinemagic.com/en/people.asp?id=4827

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-Vy1USTVBE

1985: In Anuradhapura (Sri Lanka) saint Buddhist city, Tamil separatist open fire in the streets, killing at least 145 inhabitants

1991: Jiang Qing, jailed widow of Mao Zedong, commits suicide by hanging, born on 14 March 1914
http://www.nytimes.com/1991/06/05/obituaries/suicide-of-jiang-qing-mao-s-widow-is-reported.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm
http://articles.latimes.com/1991-06-05/news/mn-211_1_jiang-qing
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1991-06-05/news/9102190915_1_jiang-qing-widow-of-mao-tse-tung-cultural-revolution

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DU2rAtrG1o

1992: Death of Marshal Nie Rongzhen, PLA chief of the general staff (1950-1954), born in 1899
http://www.paulnoll.com/Korea/War/Marshal-Nie-Rongzhen.html

1995: Tanzin Gyatso, the 14th and current Dalai Lama recognizes Gedhun Choekyi Nyima as the 11th reincarnation of the Panchen Lama
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gedhun_Choekyi_Nyima
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4551425.stm

1998: On Jakarta (Indonesia), end of three-day of firing of the army troops on students demonstrating against Suharto government causing officially 6 deads and dozens of wounded

1998: Japan, main provider of aid, postpones its aid to India as a retaliation against its nuclear tests

1999: US President Bill Clinton apologizes to Chinese president Jiang Zemin for the accidental Nato bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade (Yugoslavia) six days earlier

1999: North Korea returned the remains of six U.S. soldiers that had been killed during the Korean War

2000: Death of a stroke of Japanese Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/747915.stm

2001: In the Philippines, in the upper house, the candidates supporting Gloria Arroyo win 8 of the 13 seats in game, against 4 for Estrada candidates. Now, the Arroyo pro-Arroyo supporters have 13 of the 24 seats. During the campaign, around 80 people have been killed

2001: To help reconciliation in Korean peninsula, European Union decides to have diplomatic relations with North Korea. Only Ireland and France have not established relations with Pyongyang

2002: Marking the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations, for the first time, Chinese warships call in Japan

2002: Malaysian Premier Mohamad Mahathir is received at the White House where he was persona non grata since 1994. Fighting international terrorism is a common concern

2004: The Constitutional Court of South Korea overturns the impeachment of President Roh Moo-Hyun

2005: Nauru Island (10.500 inhabitants), which has cut the diplomatic relations with Taipei at the benefice of Beijing in July 2003, restored it. Now Taiwan (ROC) have official diplomatic links with 26 countries

2007: Chang Chun-hsiung becomes Taiwan’s Prime Minister
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6652741.stm

2009: Myanmar’s military government charges Aung San Suu Kyi, the country’s opposition leader, with violating the terms of her house arrest after an American allegedly sneaked into her home
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/05/200951424352954276.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NArCy55sKA0&feature=related

2009: In Sri Lanka, the army thwarts what would have been one of the last LTTE counter attacks on troops now positioned south of the no firing zone
http://www.island.lk/2009/05/14/news1.html

2010: Death of Goh Keng Swee, former 2nd Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore (1973-1984), born on October 6, 1918
http://www.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne+News/Singapore/Story/A1Story20100514-216195.html

2011: Lee Kuan Yew and fellow former prime minister Goh Chok Tong said in a joint resignation statement that the « time has come for a younger generation »
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-13400296

2013: President Benigno Aquino secures big wins in midterm elections seen as vital to his ambitious reform agenda, but the success of famous, graft-tainted rivals raised alarm
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/409297/aquino-strengthened-after-midterm-élections

2013: Death of Asghar Ali Engineer, Indian , and author, born on March 10, 1939
http://www.rediff.com/news/special/asghar-ali-engineer-simple-fearless-straight-from-the-heart/20130514.htm
http://dawoodi-bohras.com/about_us/people/engineer/

2013: Joseph Estrada, the former Philippine president who was overthrown 12 years ago in a popular uprising, is elected mayor of the capital, Manila
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-22525032
http://asiancorrespondent.com/107633/philippines-former-president-estrada-wins-manila-mayor-race/
http://www.euronews.com/2013/05/14/philippines-estrada-elected-mayor-of-manila/

2013: The outspoken mayor of Osaka is under fire not only from the government but from members of his own party for saying that the use of “comfort women,” some of whom were forced into prostitution, during World War II was necessary for the morale of Japanese soldiers.
http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/14/18245613-japanese-mayor-wwii-comfort-women-sex-slaves-necessary-for-morale?lite
http://www.voanews.com/content/china-denounces-japanese-mayors-sex-slave-comment/1660665.html

2014: At least 500 people are arrested after protesters set more than a dozen factories on fire across Vietnam Tuesday amid an eruption of anti-China sentiment following Beijing’s deployment an oil rig in contested waters last week
http://www.france24.com/en/20140514-hundreds-arrested-vietnam-anti-china-protests-rig/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/vietnam/10830569/Vietnam-mobs-burn-factories-in-China-protests.html

2015 : Japan’s Cabinet endorses a set of defense bills allowing the country’s military to go beyond its self-defense stance and play a greater role internationally, a plan that has split public opinion
http://www.euronews.com/2015/05/14/japan-cabinet-approves-draft-laws-to-expand-military-role/
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-32735359

2015 : Iranian Revolutionary Guard forces fire warning shots at a Singapore-flagged commercial ship in the Gulf, before vessels from the United Arab Emirates came to the ship’s aid
http://thediplomat.com/2015/05/iranian-boats-fire-on-singapore-flagged-tanker-in-persian-gulf/

2015: Fourteen people including nine foreigners are killed in an attack on a Kabul hotel packed with foreigners awaiting a concert
http://www.euronews.com/2015/05/14/taliban-targets-foreigners-in-kabul-guest-house-attack/
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-32732083
http://www.france24.com/en/20150514-american-indians-dead-kabul-guesthouse-siege-taliban-afghanistan-pakistan

ON 15 MAY IN ASIAN HISTORY

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Updated on May 15, 2016

221: Liu Bei, Chinese warlord, proclaims himself emperor of Shu Han kingdom, the successor of the Han dynasty
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Bei#Establishing_the_Shu_regime
https://www.travelchinaguide.com/intro/history/three_kingdoms/liubei.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shu_Han

1036: Death of Go-Ichijo, 68th emperor of Japan (1016-1036), born on 12 October 1008
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Go-Ichij%C5%8D

1397: Birth of Sejong the Great, Korean (Joseon Dynasty) king, who died on April 8, 1450
http://asiasociety.org/countries/traditions/king-sejong-great

1585: Death of Niwa Nagahide, Japanese warlord, born on 16 October 1535
http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/niwa-nagahide/

1817: Ambonese uprising against Dutch authority (modern Indonesia), under Thomas Matulesia (aka Kapitan Pattimura)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattimura
https://books.google.fr/books?id=UbZiAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA110&lpg=PA110&dq=1817+Ambonese+uprising+against+Dutch+authority&source=bl&ots=YmGull14-E&sig=XXOfPXrgnpH9tT4Wlj0MMmjfCMY&hl=fr&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjphJCBqdrMAhWDshQKHUGNDFwQ6AEITjAI#v=onepage&q=1817%20Ambonese%20uprising%20against%20Dutch%20authority&f=false

1817: Birth of Debendranath Tagore, Indian religious reformer, who died on December 19, 1905
http://www.oshonews.com/2013/04/rabindranath-tagore-poet-and-mystic/
http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/debendranath-tagore-5816.php
http://www.thebrahmosamaj.net/founders/debendranath.html

1851: Mongkut, born on 18 October 1804, king of Siam since 1st April is crowned as Rama IV. He died on 1st October 1868
http://tudtu.tripod.com/rama4.html

1868: A last uprise of the shogunate forces take place at the site of today’s Ueno park in Tokyo. Two thousand adherents of the old Tokugawa order were devastatingly crushed by imperial troops under the leadership of Saigo Takamori, the head of the Satsuma forces, in the bloody battle of Ueno
http://wiki.samurai-archives.com/index.php?title=Battle_of_Ueno

1893 : Birth of Jose Nepomuceno, father of the Philippine cinema who died on December 1, 1959
http://pelikulaatbp.blogspot.fr/2008/09/jose-nepomuceno-father-of-rp-movies.html
https://kahimyang.com/kauswagan/articles/1129/today-in-philippine-history-may-15-1893-jose-nepomuceno-was-born-in-manila http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1046277/
http://su.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:200615/FULLTEXT01.pdf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVkLlnvUW84

1904: During the Russo-Japanese War, the Russian minelayer Amur lays a minefield about 15 miles off Port Arthur and sinks Japan’s battleships Hatsuse, 15,000 tons, with 496 crew and Yashima.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_battleship_Hatsuse

1907: Birth of Sukhdev Thapar, Indian freedom fighters, who died on 23 March 1931
http://www.mapsofindia.com/who-is-who/history/sukhdev.html

1911: Three hundred three Chinese and five Japanese immigrants are killed in the Torreón massacre when the forces of the Mexican Revolution take the city of Torreón
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torre%C3%B3n_massacre
http://www.fireinews.com/news-10012232.html
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/15225039

1922: Birth of Jakucho Setouchi, Japanese writer and Buddhist nun
http://www.booksfromjapan.jp/authors/item/909-jakucho-setouchi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy02WyAn1p8

1923: Birth of Johnny Walker, Indian actor who died on 29 July 2003
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Walker_(actor)

1932: In what is called the May 15 Incident, in an attempted coup d’état, the Japanese Prime Minister Inukai Tsuyoshi is killed by eleven young navy officers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_15_incident
http://www.ndl.go.jp/portrait/e/datas/17.html

1938: Death of Cao Kun, Chinese military leader of the Zhili clique in the Beiyang Army, born on December 12, 1862
http://history.cultural-china.com/en/47History7324.html

1942: Birth of Yusuf Kalla, vice-president of Indonesia and chairman of Golkar Party (2004-2009)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jusuf_Kalla

1946: Birth of Nguyen Van Ly, Vietnamese dissident priest
http://www.freedom-now.org/campaign/father-thadeus-nguyen-van-ly/

1962: Responding to communist attacks in Laos, American President Kennedy orders an immediate build up of US troops in Thailand

1966: Death of Titien Sumarni, Indonesian actress, born on December 28, 1932
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titien_Sumarni

1966: After a policy dispute, Prime Minister Nguyen Cao Ky of South Vietnam’s ruling junta launches a military attack on the forces of General Ton That Dinh, forcing him to abandon his command
http://www.vietnamwar.net/Ky.htm
http://nguyentin.tripod.com/ttdinh-2.htm

1967: In China, during the Cultural Revolution, the Foreign ministry is occupied by leftists who started to attack Prime Minister Zhou Enlai

1967: Birth of Madhuri Dixit, Indian actress
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madhuri_Dixit
http://madhuridixit-nene.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0RkPxC1XHg

1972: The island of Okinawa and Senkaku (claimed by China under the name of Diaoyutai), under US military governance since 1945, are reverted to Japanese control

1982: Birth of Tatsuya Fujiwara, Japanese actor
http://wiki.d-addicts.com/Fujiwara_Tatsuya

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEKVAzKiIvw

1987: Birth of Jennylyn Mercado, Filipina actress and singer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennylyn_Mercado

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tAHshDqNuo

1988: After more than eight years of fighting in Afghanistan, the Soviet army begins its withdrawal
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/soviets-begin-withdrawal-from-afghanistan

1989: Visit of Soviet Union leader Gorbatchev to China, first of a Soviet head of state since 1959. Full normalization of the relations between the two countries
http://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/16/world/gorbachev-meets-deng-in-beijing-protest-goes-on.html

1991: Nepal premier Bhattarai resigns
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krishna_Prasad_Bhattarai

1991: Jiang Zemin starts the first visit of a Chinese leader to the Soviet Union since the reconciliation between the two countries
http://articles.latimes.com/1991-05-18/news/mn-1671_1_soviet-official

1996: In India, the BJP arrives first in the legislative elections with 160 seats. A. B. Vajpayee is charged to form a government (he will give up on May 28)
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/elections-1996-bjp-will-add-substantially-to-its-1991-lok-sabha-tally-opinion-poll-shows/1/281179.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_general_election,_1996

1997: The United States government acknowledges the existence of the « Secret War » in Laos and dedicates the Laos Memorial in honor of Hmong and other « Secret War » veterans

1998: In Indonesia, around 470 are killed in arsons on malls set by demonstrators. The strong Fosgoro faction in the Golkar asks President Suharto to resign
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_1998_riots_of_Indonesia

1999 : Edmund Ho Hau Wah is elected by the Selection Committee for the Chief Executive for the Macau Special Administrative Region (SAR). He will be formally sworn in at the establishment of the Macau Special Administrative Region on 20 December
http://wong_a.tripod.com/1exe.htm

2011: Pakistan’s parliament demand an end to US drone strikes on its territory, as well as an independent probe into the May 2 raid by US forces that killed Osama bin Laden, the al-Qaeda leader, in Abbottabad
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2011/05/201151461340733845.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/14/world/asia/14pakistan.html?_r=1&ref=asia

2013: Taiwan has recalled its envoy to the Philippines and announced it has frozen the hiring of Philippine workers to protest against the killing of a Taiwanese fisherman, rejecting an apology over the incident as inadequate.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2013/05/201351544057410475.ht

2014: At least five Vietnamese people and 16 others described as Chinese have been killed in the latest incident of rioting as tension between Beijing and Vietnam escalates over the disputed territory in the South China Sea
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2014/05/dozens-killed-vietnam-anti-china-protests-201451524632499784.html
http://www.euronews.com/2014/05/15/vietnam-mobs-set-fire-to-foreign-factories-in-anti-china-protest/
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/15/chinese-nationals-vietnam-riots-cambodia

2014: Death of Norifumi Suzuki, Japanese director and screenwriter, born on November 26, 1933
http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Norifumi_Suzuki#
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0840651/

2014: Three people are killed and more than 20 others injured in an attack on an anti-government protest camp in the Thai capital
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-27419558
http://www.euronews.com/2014/05/15/thailand-interim-pm-flees-meeting-at-least-3-killed-in-bangkok-protests/

2015: Pich Tum Kravel, Cambodian Actor, Arts Patron, Dies at 71
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/pich-tum-kravel-actor-and-arts-patron-dies-at-71-83811/

ON 16 MAY IN ASIAN HISTORY

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Updated on May 16, 2016

1817: During the Ambonese uprising against Dutch authority of Thomas Matulesia (Kapitan Pattimura) the Fort of Duurstede is sized and all inhabitants killed
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattimura
http://www.swiss-belhotel.com/x,973,2063,2370/pattimura-park.html

1898: Birth of Kenji Mizoguchi, Japanese film director and screenwriter, who died on August 24, 1956
http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/22/mizoguchi.html

1910: Birth of Higashifushimi Kunihide, Japanese monk and educator who died on January 1,  2014
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higashifushimi_Kunihide

1931: Birth of Natwar Singh, Indian politician
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K._Natwar_Singh
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4414748.stm

1947: Cambodia’s king Norodom Sihanouk establishes a parliamentary monarchy

1947: Zhang Lingfu, Chinese general, born on August 20, 1903, is killed in action
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang_Lingfu

1951: In Korea, new communist offensive

1956: Egypt recognizes People’s Republic of China

1961: A second Geneva conference is convened by the PRC, Cambodia, France, Laos, the Soviet Union, Great Britain, the United States, South Vietnam, North Vietnam, India, Canada, Poland, Burma, and Thailand. The negotiations will lead to the 23 July 1962 accord on Laos

1961: In South Korea, Park Chung-hee leads a bloodless military coup, called the 5.16 Revolution
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Park_Chung-hee
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2054405,00.html

1965: In an accident, a bomb destroys USAF base Bien Hoa in South Vietnam
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/accident-at-bien-hoa-kills-27-u-s-servicemen
http://www.vspa.com/bh-b57-explosion-1965.htm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teHsjwXTrcU

1966: The Chinese Communist Party issues the May 16 Notice, marking the beginning of the Cultural Revolution
http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/cultrev.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution#1966:_The_16_Points_and_the_Red_Guards
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-36284297

1968: Birth of Chingmy Yau, Hong Kong actress
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chingmy_Yau

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unbNHQdcfSc

1975: India annexes Sikkim after the mountain state held a referendum where popular vote was in favor of merging with India
http://www.mapsofindia.com/on-this-day/16-may-1975-sikkim-was-annexed-into-india
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikkim

1975: Junko Tabei, a Japanese mountain-climber, is the first female to reach the summit of Mount Everest, born on 23 May 1939
http://www.everesthistory.com/tabei.htm

1982: Birth of Joo Ji-hoon, South Korean actor and model
http://wiki.d-addicts.com/Joo_Ji_Hoon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tTZYr99sWE

1982: Birth of Billy Crawford, Filipino-American Singer/Musician
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Crawford
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7wrr_billy-crawford-tracking_music

1985: In Afghanistan, seven of the main resistance opposition organizations form a common front to oppose the Kabul communist power

1985: Birth of Okura Tadayoshi, Japanese singer
http://wiki.d-addicts.com/Okura_Tadayoshi

1991: China and Russia sign a frontier treaty. Only a very small border dispute is unsolved
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Sino-Soviet_Border_Agreement

1993: Birth of Lee Ji-eun, Korean singer also known as IU
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IU_(singer)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBNKF4p6ScU

1995: Japanese police arrest cult leader Shoko Asahara & charged him with Nerve-gas attack on Tokyo’s subways two months earlier
http://articles.latimes.com/1995-05-16/news/mn-2520_1_shoko-asahara
https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1957&dat=19950516&id=6BQxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=T-AFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2501,3722032&hl=fr

1996: Shri Krishna Bihari Vajpayee becomes Indian prime minister, but will fail to get a majority and will resign on Mai 31
http://pmindia.gov.in/en/former_pm/shri-atal-bihari-vajpayee/
http://pib.nic.in/profile/bajpayee.html

2008: USA says it will resume food aid to North Korea

2008: The 22-year-old 17th Karmapa visits USA
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/24205991/ns/world_news-asia_pacific/t/dalais-heels-another-key-lama-visit-us/#.VzjezhFXrv8

2009: Sri Lankan troops capture the last patch of coastline held by the separatist Tamil Tigers
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/05/20095162495687972.html

2009: India’s Congress party wins an almost overwhelming victory in the general elections, leading by more than 60 seats in beating the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) has won 230 seats out of 525 seats counted so far. The BJP won 160 and Third Force 73. Eighteen seats are still being counted
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-05/16/content_11383721.htm
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/05/2009516111237578238.html

2009: Japan’s opposition Democratic Party has chosen Yukio Hatoyama, the grandson of a former prime minister, as leader ahead of elections later this year
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8053175.stm

2011: Kerry visits Pakistan in bid to repair ties, given the tense relations between the two countries following the killing of Osama bin Laden by US forces on Pakistani soil
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/17/world/asia/17kerry.html?_r=1&ref=asia
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2011/05/2011516151041909781.html

2012: In a rare sign of open opposition against two of China’s most powerful leaders, a group of retired Communist Party members have called for the resignation of the country’s security boss, Zhou Yongkang, and a top propaganda official, Liu Yunshan.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/17/world/asia/retired-communist-party-members-call-for-2-top-chinese-officials-to-resign.html?_r=1&ref=asia
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-18091298

2014: China says its oil rig will continue drilling in contested waters in the South China Sea, despite deadly anti-Beijing riots in Vietnam
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-27434945
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/16/china-vietnam-protests-territorial-dispute
http://www.voanews.com/media/video/1916188.html

2014: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) swept the Indian election on Friday with a landslide win of 283 seats, making it the largest single majority party in nearly 30 years
http://eciresults.nic.in/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=%2AAfPak%20Daily%20Brief&utm_campaign=2014_The%20South%20Asia%20Daily%2005.16.14
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/17/world/asia/india-elections.html?ref=asia&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=%2AMorning%20Brief&utm_campaign=2014_MorningBrief%2005%2016%2014&_r=0
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2014/05/india-modi-leads-bjp-historic-poll-win-2014516143751892711.html

ON 17 MAY IN ASIAN HISTORY

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Updated on May 17, 2016

290: Death of Sima Yan (Jin Wudi), Chinese emperor of the Jin Dynasty, born in 236
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Wu_of_Jin
http://koei.wikia.com/wiki/Sima_Yan

1155: Birth of Jien, Japanese poet and historian who died on 28 October 1225
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jien

1189: Birth of Minamoto no Yoshitsune, Japanese general, born in 1159
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minamoto_no_Yoshitsune

1336: Death of Go-Fushimi, the 93rd emperor of Japan (1298-1301), born on 5 April 1288
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Go-Fushimi

1540: Afghan chief Sher Khan defeats Mogul Emperor Humayun at Kanauj
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sher_Shah_Suri

1551: Death of Shin Saimdang, korean writer and artist, poet, born on October 29, 1504
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Shin_Saimdang

1782: Mahadaji Sindhia, defeated on February 16, 1781 at Sipri by Gal Camac, becomes an ally of the English by the Treaty of Salbai
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Salbai
http://www.astrojyoti.com/modern-history-18.htm

1824: A Burmese force invades Chittagong and drove a mixed Sepoy and police detachment from its position at Ramu, but did not follow up its success

1857 : Birth of Pascual Poblete, Filipino writer and activist who died on February 5, 1921
https://kahimyang.com/kauswagan/articles/1663/today-in-philippine-history-may-17-1857-pascual-poblete-was-born-in-naic-cavite

1868: Death of Isami Kondo, Japanese Shinsengumi Commander, born on November 9, 1834
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kond%C5%8D_Isami

1869: Imperial Japanese forces defeat the remnants of the Tokugawa shogunate in the Battle of Hakodate to end the Boshin War
http://wiki.samurai-archives.com/index.php?title=Battle_of_Hakodate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boshin_War

1900: In China, three villages within 100 miles of Peking are burned by Boxers and 60 Chinese Christians killed.

1917: Death of Charles Brooke, second White Rajah of Sarawak (Borneo) since 3 August 1868
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Anthoni_Johnson_Brooke

1940: Birth of Reynato Puno, Filipino Supreme Court Chief Justice
http://en.wikipilipinas.org/index.php?title=Reynato_Puno

1944: Chinese/US arm forces take Myitkyina Airport, Burma
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myitkyina_Airport

1953: Birth of Yoko Shimada, Kumamota Japan, author (Kir Royal)/actress (Shogun)
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0793577/
http://asianwiki.com/Yoko_Shimada

1954: In the Philippines, Luis Taruc, who has been excluded from the Philippine Communist Party, surrenders
http://cityofsanfernando.blogspot.com/2005/05/ka-luis-m-taruc-june-21-1913-may-4.html

1964: In Burma, all the 50 and 100 kyat banknotes are demonetized without compensation

1967: In Hong Kong, beginning of fights between police and Maoist demonstrators til December
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_1967_Leftist_riots
https://everydaylifeinmaoschina.wordpress.com/2015/05/24/a-huge-cache-of-photos-of-the-cultural-revolution-in-hong-kong-1967/
http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/67nov/hk1167.htm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJaoi0yTVoQ

1967: Birth of Mohamed Nasheed, Maldivian politician 4th President of the Maldives from 2008 to 2012
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_Nasheed

1980: General Chun Doo-hwan of South Korea declares martial law in order to suppress students demonstration
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-ChunDooH.html

1981: In Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina comes back after exile in India
http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Hasina,_Sheikh

1981: Birth of Lim Jeong Hee, Korean singer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lim_Jeong_Hee

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_yWIjzsK-I

1992: In Thailand, the so called Black May begins. Thai police and protestors start attacking one another. By midnight, the Thai government declares a state of emergency and military troops open fire
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_May_(1992)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QG4YhpJdPZw

1993: In Sri Lanka, Ranil Wickremasinghe becomes prime minister till August 1994
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranil_Wickremasinghe

1994: Birth of Julie Anne San Jose, Filipino singer and actress
http://www.julieannesanjose.com/about.html

1995: The Chinese authorities arrest the six year old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, recognized by the Dalai Lama as the successor of the 10th Panchen Lama, and his family. Since nobody knows what happened to them
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gedhun_Choekyi_Nyima
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4551425.stm
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dorjee-tseten/chinas-worst-kept-secret-_b_7308598.html

1997: In South Korea, Kim Hyung-chul, son of the President Kim Dae-jung is arrested as involved in the Hanbo scandal
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1309&dat=19970420&id=WLBOAAAAIBAJ&sjid=GBUEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4429,1559204

2000: In Indonesia, for the first time, 24 soldiers are jailed for massacres of civilians in Aceh

2004: In Myanmar, the National Convention, in charge to write a new constitution,  convened after more than eight years of suspension

2005: Death of Keiiti Aki, Japanese seismologist, born on March 3, 1930
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keiiti_Aki

2007: In Thailand, the Defense National Council orders three private radio stations to be closed because they gave interviews to former premier Thaksin Shinawatra

2007: Death of T. K. Doraiswamy, Indian poet and author, born on August 21, 1921
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._K._Doraiswamy

2007: A train, for the first time since 1953, cross the border between the two Koreas on few meters
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/korean-detente-trains-cross-border-for-the-first-time-in-over-fifty-years-a-483372.html

2008: Pakistan’s ambassador to Afghanistan abducted in February is freed
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7406083.stm

2009: The Indian National Congress wins the elections
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_general_election,_2009

2009: Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tiger rebels admit defeat in their 37-year battle for an independent ethnic homeland. « This battle has reached its bitter end, » the Tigers’ chief of international relations, Selvarasa Pathmanathan, said in a statement
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/05/200951751122621855.html

2009: Death of Jung Seung-hye, South Korean film producer, born in March 1965
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/special/2009/05/178_45062.html

2010: Death of Walasse Ting, Chinese/American painter, born on October 13, 1929
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walasse_Ting
https://www.google.fr/search?q=Wallace+Ting&hl=fr&rlz=1G1ACAW_FRFR414&prmd=imvnso&source=lnms&tbm=isch&ei=HJ6zT7GUKdSXhQf_jpX8CA&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&ved=0CBMQ_AUoAQ&biw=601&bih=536

2011: Myanmar’s new government releases thousands of prisoners and reduced others’ sentences in a token aimed at mending its international image. Activists said the vast majority of those released from prisons were common criminals and only a few were political prisoners
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2011/05/2011517181542379456.html
http://www.english.rfi.fr/asia-pacific/20110517-rights-groups-criticise-myanmar-prisoner-release

2012: In an effort to encourage reform, US President Barack Obama on Thursday eased bans on investment in Burma’s financial services industry and on doing business in the country but kept sanctions against « individuals associated with the former regime ».

2014: The Chinese government has evacuated more than 3,000 of its nationals from Vietnam following a wave of anti-Chinese riots
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-27458866
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/asia/410329/china-evacuates-its-nationals-from-vietnam

2014: A plane crash in northern Laos kills 17 people including the minister of Defense 2014 Douangchay Phichit
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-05-17/an-laos-plane-crash/5459886
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-27452919

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Updated on May 18, 2016

1388: During the Battle of Buyur Lake, General Lan Yu led a Chinese army forward to crush the Mongol hordes of Tögüs Temür, the Khan of Northern Yuan
http://en.webot.org/?search=Battle_of_Buyur_Lake
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lan_Yu_(general)

1450: Death of Sejong, 4th king (1418-1450) of the Joseon Korean dynasty, born on 7 May 1397
http://asianhistory.about.com/od/southkorea/p/Sejong-the-Great-of-Korea.htm?nl=1

1584: Death of Ikeda Motosuke, samurai commander, born in 1559
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikeda_Motosuke

1869: Surrender and dissolution of the Ezo Republic to Japan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezo_Republic

1895: Birth of Zhang Henshui, Chinese novelist, who died on February 15, 1967
http://paper-republic.org/authors/zhang-henshui/
http://history.cultural-china.com/en/59History7573.html

1904: Birth of Shunryu Suzuki, Japanese-American monk and educator who died on December 4, 1971
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shunryu_Suzuki

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHNyCAJXUXE

1912: The first Indian film, Shree Pundalik by Dadasaheb Torne is released in Mumbai
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shree_Pundalik
http://www.marathisanmaan.com/historical-heroes/dadasaheb-torne
http://www.mapsofindia.com/on-this-day/18-may-1912-shree-pundalik-the-first-indian-film-was-released

1913: Birth of Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, 6th president on India (1977-1982) who died on 1st June 1996
http://pastpresidentsofindia.indiapress.org/reddy.html

1916: In China, Chen Qimei is assassinated. Chiang Kai-shek succeeds him as leader of the Chinese Revolutionary Party in Shanghai
http://history.cultural-china.com/en/47History7197.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen_Qimei

1916: In Vietnam, Khai Dinh is the 12th emperor of the Nguyen dynasty, up to his death on November 6, 1925
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khai_Dinh

1918: Opening of the Voksraad (People’s Council in Batavia (Dutch East Indies)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volksraad_(Dutch_East_Indies)

1933: Birth of Deve Gowda, Indian prime minister from June 1, 1996 to April 21, 1997
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._D._Deve_Gowda

1946: Birth of Frank Hsieh, Taiwanese politician, 40th Premier of the Republic of China
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Hsieh

1948: The First Legislative Yuan of the Republic of China officially convenes in Nanking

1948: Birth of Yi Munyol, South Korean writer
http://www.bookbrowse.com/biographies/index.cfm?author_number=580

1951: United Nations adopts a resolution on the boycott of strategic goods to Communist China

1955: A security treaty is signed between Cambodia and the USA

1955: Operation Passage to Freedom, the evacuation of 310,000 Vietnamese civilians, soldiers and non-Vietnamese members of the French Army from communist North Vietnam to South Vietnam following the end of the First Indochina War, ends
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Passage_to_Freedom
http://www.ussskagit.org/optf.html

1955: Birth of Chow Yun-Fat, Hong Kong actor
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000334/

1963: birth of Mari Iijimia, Japanese actress
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mari_Iijima
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6bm1w_mari-iijima-macross-do-you-remembe_music

1967: In Vietnam, the US troops cross the demilitarized zone

1974: India detonates its first nuclear weapon
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/india-joins-the-nuclear-club
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smiling_Buddha

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ndcH8b3mfo

1980: In South Korea, Gwangju uprising up to May 27
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwangju_Massacre

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTcXBGibhhM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2p5g7QuijhA

1980: China launches its first intercontinental missile, a DF-5

1988: Birth of Koji Seto Japanese actor and singer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koji_Seto
http://kamenrider.wikia.com/wiki/Koji_Seto

1989: In Beijing one-million people demonstrate as members of the government meet with leaders of the student protests
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/one-million-protesters-take-to-the-streets-in-Beijing

1990: Birth of Heo Ga-yoon, South Korean singer, dancer, and actress
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heo_Ga-yoon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVIeHWAFxQI

2002: Kim Hong-gul, third son of South Korea president Kim Dae-jung is arrested on charge of corruption. One of his brothers is already in jail
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/1990530.stm

2002: Death in Moscow of Song Hye-rim, the former wife of Kim Jong-il, born on January 24, 1937
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/NB18Dg01.html

2006: In Nepal, the parliament, which has been restore, passes a law curtailing the power of the monarchy, making Nepal a secular country

2007: Death of Yoyoy Villame, Filipino novelty singer and movie actor, born on 18 November 1932
http://www.pep.ph/news/13289/yoyoy-villame-succumbs-to-heart-attack
http://en.wikipilipinas.org/index.php?title=Yoyoy_Villame

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSFqkuMvtRM

2009: The leader of the Tamil Tiger rebels, Velupillai Prabhakaran, is dead, the Sri Lankan military has said. May 18 will be proclaimed « Victory Day »
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8055015.stm

2011: China has blocked the release of a UN report accusing North Korea of sharing ballistic missile technology with Iran in violation of sanctions. The report said the material passed through a third country, which was later identified by diplomats as China
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-13440438

2012: Death of Jai Gurudev, Indian religious leader, born in 1895
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/lucknow/Chief-minister-condoles-demise-of-Baba-Jai-Gurudev/articleshow/13310149.cms
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jai_Gurudev

2013: Death of Nam Duck-woo, South Korean politician, 12th Prime Minister of South Korea (1080-1982), born on April 22, 1924
http://bambooinnovator.com/2013/05/20/former-korean-prime-minister-nam-duck-woo-who-led-the-nations-economic-development-in-the-1970s-died-of-complications-from-prostate-cancer-at-89/

Holidays and observances

Sri Lanka: Victory Day

ON 13 JULY IN ASIAN HISTORY

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Updated on July 13, 2016

716: Death of Rui Zong, Chinese emperor of the Tang Dynasty, born on June 22, 662
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tang_rui_zong

815: Chinese Chancellor Wu Yuanheng is assassinated, born in 758
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_Yuanheng

884: Death of Tang Dynasty 10 years long peasant uprising leader Huang Chao
http://totallyhistory.com/huang-chao-rebellion/
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Huang_Chao

1402: Death of Chinese emperor Jianwen, born on December 5, 1377 and enthroned on June 30, 1398
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jianwen_Emperor

1660: Battle of Pavan Khind, a rear guard battle that took place in the vicinity of fort Vishalgad, near the city of Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India, between the Maratha sardar Baji Prabhu Deshpande and Siddi Masud of Adilshah
http://hinduperspective.com/2013/05/04/hindu-resistance-baji-prabhu-the-battle-of-pavan-khind/
https://www.hindujagruti.org/articles/38.html

1761: Death of Tokugawa Ieshige, the ninth shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, born on January 28, 1712
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokugawa_Ieshige

1830: The General Assembly’s Institution, now the Scottish Church College, one of the pioneering institutions that ushered the Bengal Renaissance, is founded by Alexander Duff and Raja Ram Mohan Roy, in Calcutta, India
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Church_College
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_Renaissance

1892: Birth of Kesarbai Kerkar, Indian singer who died on September 16, 1977
http://www.indianmelody.com/kesarbaiarticle1.htm
https://harmoniummusicblog.wordpress.com/2013/10/11/out-of-this-world-kesarbai-kerkar/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1gepe8-XBY

1905: Birth of Alfredo M. Santos, Filipino military leader who died on February 7, 1990
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfredo_M._Santos

1905: Gandhi opposes the Bengal Partition (which will be effective in october) and supports boycott of British-made goods
http://gandhiking.ning.com/profiles/blogs/partition-of-bengal-and-mahatma-gandhi-1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_of_Bengal_(1905)
http://pakgeotagging.blogspot.fr/2015/02/partitions-of-bengal-in-1905-and-1947.html

1908: Birth of Taiwan painter Lee Shih-chiao who died on July 7, 1995
http://culture.teldap.tw/culture/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&catid=154:arts-and-illustrations&id=159:in-memory-of-an-old-painter-in-taiwan-shih-chiao-lee
http://taiwaninfo.nat.gov.tw/ct.asp?xItem=80868&CtNode=124&htx_TRCategory=&mp=4
https://www.google.fr/search?q=Lee+Shih-chiao&sa=X&biw=1138&bih=523&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&ei=y5GiVYfCCcP3ULHpjqAH&ved=0CDAQsAQ&dpr=1.2

1909: Birth of Souvine Souphanouvong, first president of Laos (1975-1991) who died on January 9, 1995
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Souphanouvong

1911: Great Britain and Japan renew their alliance of 1902 for another four years; one reason why Japan will join WWI on the Allies side

1915: Birth of Kaoru Ishikawa Japanese university professor and influential quality author, who died on April 16, 1989
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaoru_Ishikawa
http://www.skymark.com/resources/leaders/ishikawa.asp

1939: Birth of Prakash Mehra, Indian director and producer who died on May 17, 2009
http://www.gomolo.com/prakash-mehra-biography/10287/718685
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0576488/

1950: Birth of Ma Ying-jeou, president of the Republic of China (Taiwan) from 2008 to 2016
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma_Ying-jeou
http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/ma-ying-jeou-6910.php

1953: Beginning of the Kumsong battle, one of the last ones during the Korea War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kumsong
http://www.flickriver.com/photos/tags/kumsongsalient/interesting/

1954: In Geneva, the US, Great-Britain and France reach an accord on Indochina which divides Vietnam into two countries North and South along the 17th parallel, leading to the 21 July general accord

1968: Governor Nelson Rockefeller of New York, a Republican presidential candidate, reveals a four-stage peace plan that, he argues, could end the war in six months if North Vietnam assented to it
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/rockefeller-announces-new-peace-proposal

1970: Death in Taiwan of warlord Sheng Shicai, governor of Xinjiang from 1933 to 1944 under Soviet Union protection
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheng_Shicai

1976: Birth of Tang Jiali, Chinese dancer and model
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tang_Jiali
http://maxur.livejournal.com/607440.html

1978: Albania drops its diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China

1981: In New York, international conference on Cambodia, boycotted by Vietnam and Soviet Union. China opposes an Asean suggestion for a disarmament of the Khmer Rouge before elections in Cambodia

1989: Birth of Sayumi Michishige, Japanese singer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayumi_Michishige

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjtVy1na-Dw

1998: Japanese prime minister Ryutaro Hashimoto resigns after stunning election loss https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/1998/07/jap-j13.html

2003: Salamat Hashim, chairman of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (Milf) is killed by armed forces
http://www.islamweb.net/emainpage/articles/43161/leader-of-moro-islamic-liberation-front-dies
http://www.arabnews.com/node/235305

2008: Battle of Wanat begins when Taliban & al-Qaeda guerrillas attack US Army & Afghan National Army troops in Afghanistan. The U.S. deaths were, at that time, the most in a single battle since the beginning of operations in 2001
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Wanat
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/world/battle-of-wanat/
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/9-us-troops-killed-in-bold-afghan-attack/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vJXqDhfTaA

2010: The United States and Laos pledge to step up cooperation after their highest level governmental talks since the end of the Vietnam War in the mid-1970s
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2010/07/201071452036961990.html

2012: Days of heated diplomacy at Southeast Asian talks have ended in failure, as deep splits over China prevented the ASEAN grouping from issuing its customary joint statement for the first time
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2012/07/201271381350228798.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/13/world/asia/asian-leaders-fail-to-resolve-disputes-on-south-china-sea-during-asean-summit.html?_r=1&ref=asia 

2012: Two days after President Obama formally lifted prohibitions on U.S. investment in Burma, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton meets with Burmese President Thein Sein, marking another step in the administration’s rapid normalization
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/clinton-meets-with-burmas-president-thein-sein-discusses-investment-human-rights/2012/07/13/gJQAwMKHiW_story.html

2013: Bhutan’s opposition party People’s Democratic Party storms to power after winning 32 seats out of 47 in nation’s second parliamentary elections http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2013/07/2013713125727754144.htmlhttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/bhutan/10178571/Bhutan-opposition-sweeps-to-power.html

ON 14 JULY IN ASIAN HISTORY

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Updated on July 14, 2016

756: Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty China flees the capital Chang’an as An Lushan’s forces advance toward the city during the An Lushan Rebellion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Lushan_Rebellion
http://asianhistory.about.com/od/ancientchina/f/What-Was-The-An-Lushan-Rebellion.htm

1636 : Aurangzeb is appointed the Viceroy of Deccan by his father and Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan
http://www.mapsofindia.com/on-this-day/july-14-1636-aurangzeb-is-appointed-viceroy-of-deccan-by-shah-jahan

1853: US commodore Matthew Perry lands at Kurihama (Yokosuka) and gives the shogun one letter from USA’s president asking for trade relations
http://www.navyandmarine.org/ondeck/1800perryjapan.htm

1885: Birth of Laos king Sisavang Vong (1904-1959) who died on October 29, 1950
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisavang_Vong

1893: Birth of Garimella Satyanarayana, Indian poet and Freedom fighter who died on December 18, 1952
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garimella_Satyanarayana

1897: Birth of Plaek Pibulsonggram, twice prime minister of Thailand  (1938-1944 and 1948-1957), who died on June 11, 1964
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaek_Pibulsonggram

1900: During the Boxer Rebellion, the Eight-Power Allied Forces occupy Tianjin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tientsin
http://www.china.org.cn/e-8guo/3/0.htm

1908: In Japan, second government Katsura Taro (up to August 1911)
http://www.jref.com/glossary/katsura_taro.shtml

1920: Birth of Shankarrao Chavan, Indian politician who died on February 26,  2004
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shankarrao_Chavan

1937: Birth of Yoshiro Mori, Japanese Prime Minister from April 5, 2000 to April 26, 2001
http://www.kantei.go.jp/foreign/moriprofile/index_e.html
http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/yoshiro-mori-98.php

1943: Birth of Rohana Wijeweera, founder of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) or People’s Liberation Front, in Sri Lanka, killed on 13 November 1989
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohana_Wijeweera

1946: Following the independence, Americano-Philippine agreement on US military bases in the Philippines

1950: Korean War: North Korean troops initiate the Battle of Taejon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Taejon
http://jeffreymillerwrites.com/battle-of-taejon-july-14-1950/
http://www.criticalpast.com/video/65675058233_United-States-troops_ruins-of-city_tanks-take-up-positions_laying-rocks-on-a-stream-bed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-el7kNnWvo

1963: Relations between the Soviet Union and China reach the breaking point as the two governments engage in an angry ideological debate about the future of communism
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/rupture-between-ussr-and-china-grows-worse

1963: Death of Indian religious leader Swami Shivanand Saraswati, born on September 8, 1887
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sivananda_Saraswati
http://www.sivananda.org/teachings/swami-sivananda.html

1964: US military intelligence publicly charges that North Vietnamese regular army are fighting in South Vietnam
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/north-vietnamese-regulars-are-fighting-in-south-vietnam

1968: Birth of Kazushi Sakuraba, Japanese mixed martial artist/professional wrestler
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazushi_Sakuraba
http://www.sherdog.com/fighter/kazushi-sakuraba-84

1975: Death of Madan Mohan, Indian Bollywood film director, born on July 25, 1924
http://www.rediff.com/movies/2004/oct/06madan.htm

1978: Kampuchea Khmer Rouge Vice Premier Ieng Sary, pays a visit to Bangkok

1980: Birth of Jed Madela, Filipino singer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jed_Madela

1984: In a telegram to Khieu Samphan, Prince Sihanouk threatens to resign as chairman of the coalition government of Democratic Kampuchea if Khmer Rouges forces don’t stop its attacks against his National Army

1985: Khmer Rouge announce that a future Cambodia government should be « liberal on economy and parliamentary in politics »

1987: In Taiwan, the martial law in in force since 1949 is lift and the family links with Communist China are now authorized
http://www.nytimes.com/1987/07/15/world/taiwan-ends-4-decades-of-martial-law.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martial_law_in_Taiwan

1998: Zhu Lilan, Minister of Technologies, is the first member of Beijing government to go to Taiwan for an international seminar
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/default.aspx?pageid=438&n=first-china-minister-sets-foot-in-rival-taiwan-1998-07-15

2001: First day of a three-day summit in Agra between Indian premier Vajpayee and Pakistani president Musharraf
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/1430367.stm

2001: In Nepal, after the kidnapping of 71 policemen, the Nepali army is send for the first against the communist rebellion. 160 guerrillas are killed

2003: Indonesian Fathur Rahman al-Ghozi, member of Jemaah Islamiyah, who planned deadly attacks in the Philippines, escapes from jail with the complicity of Philippine officers
http://www.voanews.com/content/a-13-a-2003-07-14-36-confessed-66322782/543674.html
http://www.arabnews.com/node/234344

2004: Giving in to the blackmail of the kidnappers of a Filipino in Irak, Manila starts to withdraw its 51 soldiers in that country

2004: In Cambodia, following an agreement between Funcipec and PPC parties signed on June 30, king Sihanouk reappoints Hun Sen as Premier, putting an end to an 11 months crisis. Hun gets 60 % of the members of the cabinet

2007: North Korea closes its Yongbyon nuclear reactor, but the total end of its nuclear programme has to be discussed
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/07/18/nkorea.iaea/
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2007-07/17/content_5437879.htm

2008: Indonesia is blamed by a joint commission for 1999 violence in East Timor
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2008/07/200871435822219786.html

2011: After revealing that Arroyo and her husband Jose Miguel had ordered the rigging of the 2007 senatorial elections in Maguindanao, Zaldy Ampatuan also claimed that the former president got some P200 million in kickbacks from road projects in the ARMM.
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/24062/zaldy-ampatuan-has-more-exposes-against-arroyo-says-justice-sec-de-lima
http://www.gmanews.tv/story/226319/nation/malacaang-dares-arroyo-answer-poll-fraud-allegations

ON 15 JULY IN ASIAN HISTORY

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Updated on July 15, 2016

756: While fleeing An Lushan Rebellion, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang is ordered by his Imperial Guards to execute chancellor Yang Guozhong by forcing him to commit suicide or face a mutiny. He permits his consort Yang Guifei to be strangled by his chief eunuch. General An Lushan has other members of the emperor’s family killed
http://sacrificeworldwide.com/yang-guozhong/
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/An_Lushan

756: Yang Guifei, concubine of emperor Xuanzong and one of the most famous women in China history, is forced to commit suicide
http://journeyeast.tripod.com/yang_guifei.html
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Yang_Guifei
http://www.taleofgenji.org/yang_kwei-fei.html

1571: Death of Shimazu Takahisa, Japanese samurai and warlord, born on May 28, 1514
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimazu_Takahisa

1613: Birth of Gu Yanwu, Chinese philologist and geographer who died on February 15, 1682 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gu_Yanwu
http://www.china.org.cn/english/features/beijing/31028.htm
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/f/frag/9772151.0001.006/–returning-the-gaze-an-experiment-in-reviving-gu-yanwu-1613?rgn=main;view=fulltext

1871: Birth of Kunikida Doppo, Japanese writer who died on June 1908
http://www.ndl.go.jp/portrait/e/datas/262.html

1888: In Japan, the stratovolcano Mount Bandai erupts killing approximately 500 people
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1888_Eruption_of_Mount_Bandai

1893: Birth of Nurul Amin, a prominent Bengali leader of Pakistan’s Muslim League, Chief Minister of East-Pakistan, Prime Minister and vice-president of Pakistan who died on October 2, 1974
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurul_Amin
http://bangladeshcanadaandbeyond.blogspot.com/2009/03/villains-of-bangla-bengali-language_20.html

1903: Birth of Kumaraswami Kamaraj, Indian politician, who died on October 20, 1975
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K._Kamaraj
http://www.perunthalaivar.org/english/life-history/
http://www.iloveindia.com/indian-heroes/k-kamaraj.html

1904: The first Buddhist temple in the US is established in Los Angeles

1905: Birth of Chaudhry Muhammad Ali, Prime Minister of Pakistan from August 1955 to September 1956, who died on December 2, 1980
http://pakistanweb.com/html/muhammad.htm

1907: Death of Qiu Jin, born on November 8, 1875, a Chinese anti-Qing Empire revolutionary, feminist and writer. Executed after a failed uprising and today considered a hero in China.
http://history.cultural-china.com/en/48History7365.html

1913: Birth of Noor Muhammad Taraki, Afghanistan Prime Minister (1978-1979)
http://www.afghanland.com/history/taraki.html

1914: Birth of  Akhtar Hameed Khan, pioneer of Microcredit in developing countries who died on October 9 1999
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Akhtar_Hameed_Khan

1917: Birth of Nur Muhammad Taraki, Afghan president killed on September 14, 1979
http://www.historyinanhour.com/2012/07/15/nur-mohammad-taraki-summary/

1922: Foundation of the Japanese Communist Party
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Communist_Party

1935: Birth of Thilakan, Indian actor, who died on September 24, 2012
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thilakan

1942: The first supply flight from India to China over the «hump» was carried to help China’s war effort

1942: Wenceslao Vinzons, Filipino politician and resistance leader, is bayoneted to death, born on September 28, 1910
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wenceslao_Vinzons

1946: Birth of Hassanal Bolkiah, Sultan of Brunei
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hassanal_Bolkiah

1946: Assassination of Wen Yiduo, Chinese scholar and poet, born on November 24, 1899
http://hua.umf.maine.edu/China/HistoricBeijing/Babaoshan/pages/026_Babaoshan.html
http://history.cultural-china.com/en/59History7489.html

1963: Death of Muhammad Ali Bogra, Pakistan PM (1953-1955), born on August 12, 1909
 http://www.bogra.org/bogra1.html

1966: The United States and South Vietnam begin Operation Hastings to push the North Vietnamese out of the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Hastings
http://libertyyes.homestead.com/Operations/Operation-Hastings-1966.htm

1968: Death of Cai Chusheng, Chinese film director, born on January 12, 1906 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cai_Chusheng
http://www.dianying.com/en/person/CaiChusheng

1971: A Sino-American communiqué announces the visit of President Nixon to China
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/nixon-announces-trip-to-china

1971: The United Red Army is founded in Japan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Red_Army

1974: Birth of Chot Ulep, Filipino musician
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chot_Ulep

1975: The Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) and the Provisional Revolutionary Government (South Vietnam communists) ask their admission to the United Nations

1979: Morarji Desai resigns as Indian Prime Minister
http://www.boloji.com/people/04006.htm

1982: Nguyen Co Tach announces the beginning of the first Vietnamese troops withdrawal from Cambodia

1992: Birth of Koharu Kusumi, Japanese singer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koharu_Kusumi
http://www.chickipedia.com/koharu-kusumi/
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x13hpf_koharu-kusumi-koi-kana_music

1993: First meeting between Nepalese Home minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and his Bhutanese counterpart  Dago Tshring on the refugees question

2001: In Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina resigns as prime minister

2002: Anti-Terrorism Court of Pakistan hands down the death sentence to British born Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and life terms to three others suspected of murdering The Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk/1804710.stm
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2561145/Briton-serving-life-beheading-U-S-reporter-Daniel-Pearl-attempts-commit-suicide-Pakistani-prison.html

2002: US citizen John Walker Lindh pleads guilty supplying services to Afghanistan’s former Taliban government and for carrying explosives
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/1779455.stm
http://edition.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/people/shows/walker/profile.html

2009: The foreign secretaries of India and Pakistan  meet on the sidelines of a summit in Egypt to discuss terrorism
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8151066.stm

2010: North Korea’s military holds its first talks with the US-led UN Command over the sinking of a South Korean warship in March
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2010/07/20107156236772599.html

2010: India’s foreign minister arrives in the Pakistani capital Islamabad to hold talks with his counterpart and resume a tentative cross-border dialogue that was derailed by the 2008 Mumbai attacks
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2010/07/201071552659734556.html
http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/asia/Indian-Pakistani-Foreign-Ministers-Meet-in-Islamabad–98494764.html

2011: Three U.S. Navy ships are welcomed by former foe Vietnam for joint training, despite China’s irritation following weeks of fiery exchanges between the communist neighbors over disputed areas of the South China Sea
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43766185/ns/world_news-asia_pacific/

2011: The first batch of departing U.S. soldiers left Afghanistan this week, beginning a drawdown of 10,000 American troops scheduled to leave by year’s end
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/07/15/afghanistan.drawdown/index.html

2012: In Vietnam, more than 10 thousand Catholics marched in different areas of the diocese of Vinh to demand respect for religious freedom against threats and violence of the government. On the eve of the marches, to intimidate the Catholics, the authorities deployed tanks outside the bishop’s residence, with patrols by gangs of thugs and soldiers
http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Government-deploys-tanks-as-over-10-thousand-Vinh-diocese-faithful-march-for-religious-freedom.-25293.html

2012: Former Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed is charged with illegally ordering the arrest of a senior judge
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-18856456

2012: Death of Yoichi Takabayashi, Japanese director, born on April 29, 1931
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoichi_Takabayashi

2013: In Bangladesh, Deadly clashes erupt after Ghulam Azam, spiritual head of Jamaat-e-Islami, given 90 years over war of independence role
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2013/07/201371575422931245.html
http://www.euronews.com/2013/07/15/bangladesh-islamist-leader-found-guilty-of-war-crimes/

2015: Death of Wan Li, a major Chinese Communist political figure who served as vice premier and who was seen as a liberal voice in the Communist leadership. He was 98.
http://www.chinadailyasia.com/nation/2015-07/16/content_15290927.html

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Updated on July 16, 2016

1324: Death of Go-Uda, 91st emperor of Japan (1274-1287), born on December 1267
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Go-Uda

1683: Chinese Qing dynasty naval force, under Admiral Shi Lang, defeats the Taiwan kingdom of Tungning (founded by Koxinga) in the Battle of Penghu near the Pescadores Islands
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Tungning
http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20060403_2.htm

1863: Battle of Shimonoseki Straits a naval engagement by a warship of the US Navy, the USS Wyoming, against the powerful feudal Japanese warlord or daimyo Lord Mori Takachika of the Choshu clan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_battle_of_Shimonoseki
http://www.maritimeprofessional.com/blogs/post/battle-of-the-shimonoseki-straits-13595

1894: The British Treaty of commerce and navigation with Japan, or Treaty of Aoki-Kimberley, is signed in London
http://www.kyotodreamtrips.com/historical-events-today-1894-treaty-of-aoki-kimberley-signed-between-japan-and-england/

1900: Russia launch an offensive against the Chinese in Manchuria

1909: Birth of Anura Asaf Ali, social worker and heroine of Indian independence who died on July 29, 1996
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aruna_Asaf_Ali
http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/aruna-asaf-ali-5422.php
http://www.iloveindia.com/indian-heroes/aruna-asaf-ali.html

1918: Birth of Bayani Casimiro, Filipino dancer and actor who died on January 27, 1989
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayani_Casimiro

1919: Birth of Choi Kyu-ha, prime minister, then shortly president of South Korea (1979-1980) who died on October 22, 2006
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choi_Kyu-ha

1920: China joins the League of Nations
http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/League_of_Nations.aspx

1935: Death of Zheng Zhengqiu, Shanghai screenwriter, director and playwright, born on January 25, 1889
http://www.chinesemirror.com/index/2007/03/rebel_with_a_ca.html
http://www.dianying.com/en/person/ZhengZhengqiu

1936: Birth of Yasuo Fukuda, Japanese Prime Minister from September 2007 to September 2008
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7006285.stm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasuo_Fukuda

1945: Draft of constitution for the Republic of Indonesia completed by Sukarno

1948: The storming of the cockpit of the Miss Macao passenger seaplane, marks the first skyjacking of a commercial plane
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Macao

1954: French rule ends in Mahe with de facto power being transferred to the people and the Indian flag hoisted.

1960: Soviet Union breaks off with China and calls back all its experts in China while suspending all cooperation agreements
https://www.marxists.org/subject/stalinism/origins-future/ch3-1.htm
http://countrystudies.us/china/128.htm

1965: South Vietnamese Colonel Phạm Ngọc Thảo, an undetected communist spy—was hunted down and killed after being sentenced to death in absentia for a February 1965 coup attempt against Nguyễn Khánh
http://indochine.uqam.ca/vi/t-in-chin-tranh/1165-phm-ngc-tho-albert-19221965.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ph%E1%BA%A1m_Ng%E1%BB%8Dc_Th%E1%BA%A3o

1970: Birth of Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thai film director
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apichatpong_Weerasethakul
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x51ula_apichatpong-weerasethakul-interview_shortfilms

1981: Mahathir Mohamad becomes the fourth Prime Minister of Malaysia, replacing Tun Hussein Onn, until October 31, 2003
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/2059518.stm

1984: Birth of Katrina Kaif, Indian actress
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_Kaif
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x88fw8_katrina-kaif-zara-zara-touch-me_music

1990: The Luzon Earthquake strikes in Benguet, Pangasinan, Nueva Ecija, La Union, Aurora, Bataan, Zambales and Tarlac, Philippines, with an intensity of 7.7 Killing over 1600 people
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luzon_Earthquake
https://kahimyang.com/kauswagan/articles/1235/today-in-philippine-history-july-16-1990-an-earthquake-with-epicenter-near-cabanatuan-city-jolted-a-wide-area-of-luzon

1999: Hiromi Yanagihara, Japanese singer, dies in a car accident. She was born on October 19, 1979
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=61082031

2001: End of the Indo-Pakistani Agra summit between Indian Vajpayee and Pakistani Musharraf : Failure
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agra_summit
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/1430367.stm

2001: Chinese president Jiang Zemin and his Russian counterpart Putin sign a Treaty of Amity, the second one in history
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/17/world/russia-and-china-sign-friendship-pact.html
http://edition.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/07/16/missile.treaty/index.html?eref=sitesearch

2001: For the first time, Aung San Suu Kyi, don’t attend  the Martyrs’ Day ceremony in memory of the assassination of her father in 1947

2004: Brunei sultan announces the restoration of the Legislative Council suspended since 1984

2004: Retired Air Force Gen. Charles W. Sweeney, who piloted the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki dies at age 84
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60638-2004Jul18.html

2004: Beginning of the withdrawal of 3,600 US soldiers from South Korea to send them in Iraq

2005: In Taiwan, Ma Ying-jeou, Mayor of Taipei is elected chairman of the KMT, up to February 2007

2005: Death of Prince Yi Gu, born in 1931 and a claimant to the throne of Korea
http://english.donga.com/srv/service.php3?bicode=040000&biid=2005072528898
http://www.arirang.co.kr/News/News_Print.asp?type=news&nseq=54271

2009: India said formal peace talks with Pakistan could not resume until those behind last year’s Mumbai attacks were brought to justice
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8150989.stm

2010: Sri Lankan police have filed a new case against Sarath Fonseka, the former army chief and defeated presidential candidate, for allegedly employing military deserters, according to his political party
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2010/07/20107145210410411.html

2010: The Bangladeshi government has ordered mosques and libraries across the country to remove all books written by a controversial Islamic scholar, Syed Abul Ala Maududi who encouraged « militancy and terrorism ». Mr Maududi – who died in 1979 – is the founder of the Jamaat-e-Islami party
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-10661454

2011: A Chinese bishop ordained without papal approval is excommunicated for accepting his new post. The Rev. Joseph Huang Bingzhang, was ordained as bishop of the Diocese of Shantou by China’s state-run Catholic Church. He is the third bishop to be appointed without papal approval in recent months
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/17/world/asia/17vatican.html?_r=1&ref=asia

2011: U.S. President Barack Obama stress the importance of protecting the human rights of Tibetans in a meeting at the White House with the Dalai Lama
http://www.voanews.com/english/news/asia/Obama-Meets-Dalai-Lama-Despite-Opposition-from-China-125688798.html
http://www.voanews.com/english/news/asia/China-Formally-Protests-Obama-Meeting-With-Dalai-Lama-125710273.html
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2011/07/2011716191248291319.html

2012: Marking what may be the beginning of a purge of older officials, North Korean military chief Ri Yong-ho has been removed from his post
http://www.euronews.com/2012/07/16/north-korea-military-boss-removed-from-his-post/
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2012/07/201271601152925587.html 

2012: In East Timor protesters angry that their party was shut out of the incoming government have thrown stones at officers, burned or destroyed 58 cars and damaged some houses. The protesters are supporters of the Fretilin party, which finished second to Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao’s party in July 7 parliamentary elections
http://asiancorrespondent.com/85899/violence-erupts-in-east-timor-over-new-government/

2013: Panama launches a major investigation after drugs agents raided a ship travelling from Cuba to North Korea and discovered “missile components” stashed beneath a cargo of sugar
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/10181736/North-Korean-ship-caught-smuggling-weapons-and-missile-material-through-Panama-Canal.html
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2013/07/201371662915540217.html
http://www.voanews.com/content/nkorean-ship-carrying-undeclared-weapons-seized-in-panama-canal/1702557.html

2015 : Japan’s House of Representatives approves of a package of 11 security bills that would allow its Self-Defense Forces to assist its allies abroad, even if there is no direct threat to Japan, for the first time since the end of World War II
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-33546465
http://www.euronews.com/2015/07/16/japan-lawmakers-approve-contentious-bills-to-bolster-military-presence-abroad/
http://english.chinamil.com.cn/news-channels/today-headlines/2015-07/17/content_6589202.htm

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Updated on July 17, 2016

1402: Coronation of Yongle, third emperor of the China Song dynasty, born on 2 May 1360 and died on August 12, 1424
http://asianhistory.about.com/od/china/p/Biography-Of-The-Yongle-Emperor.htm
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-563688/Revenge-evil-emperor-Mass-slaughter-Beijings-Forbidden-City.html

1489 : Sikandar Lodi (Nizam Khan) is crowned Sultan of Delhi
http://www.importantindia.com/9060/sikandar-lodi/
http://www.historydiscussion.net/history-of-india/15-main-achievements-of-sikandar-lodis/2716

1531: Death of Hosokawa Takakuni, the most powerful Japanese military commander in the Muromachi period under Ashikaga Yoshiharu shogun
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosokawa_Takakuni

1708: Amangkurat III, sultan of Mataram, surrenders himself at Surabaya, after receiving a false VOC (Dutch Indies Company) promise of lands and freedom in exchange for surrender
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mataram_Sultanate

1831: Birth of Xianfeng, eighth emperor of the Chinese Qing dynasty (1850-1861) who died on August 22, 1861
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xianfeng_Emperor
http://history.cultural-china.com/en/46History4205.html

1883: Death of Tu Duc, emperor of the Nguyễn Dynasty of Vietnam since 1847, born on September 22, 1829
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_Duc

1929: USSR breaks diplomatic relations with China

1941: Birth of Bharathiraja, Indian film director
http://www.filmibeat.com/celebs/bharathiraja/biography.html
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0707300/

1948: Proclamation of the constitution of the Republique of Korea (South Korea)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_Republic_of_Korea
http://www.servat.unibe.ch/icl/ks00000_.html

1958: Birth of Wong Kar Wai, Hong Kong director and screenwriter
http://sensesofcinema.com/2002/great-directors/wong/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wong_Kar-wai

1960: Birth of Robin Shou, Hong Kong actor
http://uk.imdb.com/name/nm0795225/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7y1ks66zMY

1966: Ho Chi Minh orders a partial mobilization of North Vietnam forces to defend against American air strikes

1970: Birth of Jang Hyeong-seong (Hyun-sung), South Korean actor
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1486994/

1973: Afghan Premier, Sardar Mohammed Daoud Khan, seizes power from his cousin and brother-in-law, the king Zahir Shah  and establishes the Republic with him as president
http://www.afghan-web.com/bios/yest/daoud.html
http://www.khaama.com/mohammad-daud-khan

1976: Annexed East Timor becomes the 27th province of Indonesia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_invasion_of_East_Timor

1977: Birth of Lehmber Hussainpuri, Famous Indian Singer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lehmber_Hussainpuri

1980: Birth of Tokio Sasaki, Japanese actor
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2067962/

1980: Zenko Suzuki becomes the 70th Prime Minister of Japan until November 1982
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenko_Suzuki

1984: Birth of Asami Kimura, Japanese singer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asami_Kimura
 http://helloproject.wikia.com/wiki/Kimura_Asami

1987: Death of Yujiro Ishihara, Japanese actor, born on December 28, 1934
http://shishido0.tripod.com/ishihara.html

1996 : M. Karunanidhi, the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, announces in the state assembly that the state capital of Madras would from then on be known as Chennai
http://www.mapsofindia.com/on-this-day/july-17-1996-madras-came-to-be-known-as-chennai
http://madrastochennai.blogspot.fr/2006/09/meaning-of-madras.html

1998: A violent tsunami hits Papua New Guinea causing more than 2,000 deads

2009: At least nine people have been killed and scores injured in near simultaneous bomb blasts at two luxury hotels in the Indonesia’s capital, Jakarta
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8155084.stm
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/07/200971712713953274.html

2009: Pakistani former prime minister Nawaz Sharif. is found not guilty of « hijacking » then army chief Pervez Musharraf’s plane, by not allowing it to land in October of 1999
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/jul/17/nawaz-sharif-hijack-conviction-overturned
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/5850595/Pakistan-opposition-leader-Nawaz-Sharif-cleared-of-hijacking-charge.html

2010: Hong Kong passes its first-ever minimum wage law, a rare departure from the wealthy Chinese financial hub’s free-market philosophy

2011: NATO hands over responsibility for security to local forces in the peaceful Afghan province of Bamiyan , in the first step of a gradual transition process due to be completed by 2014 and paving the way for foreign forces to return home

2014: Malaysian jet MH17 is ‘shot down’ over Ukraine killing all 298 people abord
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/2014/07/report-malaysian-jet-crashes-near-ukraine-2014717151147473508.html
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-28357880
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/07/15/politics/mh17-pro-russian-missile-crash-Ukraine/

2014: Death of J. Sasikumar, Indian actor, director, and screenwriter, born on October 14, 1928
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-kerala/film-director-sasikumar-dead/article6223146.ece
http://movies.ndtv.com/regional/malayalam-film-director-j-sasikumar-dies-at-86-640913

2014: Heavily-armed Taliban militants attack the Kabul International Airport, firing rockets and occupying two unused buildings before they were gunned down by Afghan security forces
http://www.france24.com/en/20140717-afghanistan-kabul-airport-attack-taliban/ http://www.euronews.com/2014/07/17/afghan-forces-repel-taliban-attack-on-kabul-airport/

Holidays and observances

South Korea: Constitution Day

Kyoto, Japan: Gion Matsuri

ON 18 JULY IN ASIAN HISTORY

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Updated on July 18, 2016

155: Birth of famous Chinese general Cao Cao who died on March 13, 220
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cao_Cao
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-12/27/content_12712471.htm

645: Chinese forces under general Li Shiji besiege the strategic fortress city of Anshi (Liaoning) during the Goguryeo–Tang War.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_campaign_in_the_Goguryeo%E2%80%93Tang_War
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Goguryeo

707: Death of Emperor Monmu of Japan, born in 683
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Monmu
http://www.mustlovejapan.com/subject/kofun_emperor_monmu/

715: Death of Muhammad bin Qasim, Syrian General who conquered the Singh and Punjab regions (now in Pakistan) beginning the Islamic era in South Asia, born on December 31, 695
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_bin_Qasim

912: Death of Zhu Wen, Emperor Taizu of Later Liang, Born on December 5, 852
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhu_Wen

1391: During the Tokhtamysh–Timur war, Battle of the Kondurcha River. Timur defeats Tokhtamysh of the Golden Horde in present day southeast Russia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Kondurcha_River

1392: Yi Seong-gye, founder of the Korean Joseon (Yi) dynasty becomes king of Korea
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Taejo_of_Joseon

1695: Death of Johannes Camphuys, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (1684-1691), born on July 18, 1634
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Camphuys

1871: Birth of Sada Yacco, stage actress and singer, who died on December 7, 1946
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sada_Yacco

1875 : Birth of Marina Dizon y Bartolome, heroine of the Philippine revolution
https://kahimyang.com/kauswagan/articles/1475/today-in-philippine-history-july-18-1875-marina-dizon-was-born-in-trozo-in-manila
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina_Dizon

1889: Birth of Kōichi Kido, Japanese politician, 13th Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal of Japan who died on April 6, 1977
http://www.doug-long.com/kido.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%8Dichi_Kido

1907: Japan forces Korean emperor Gojong to abdicate in favor of his son Sunjong
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunjong_of_Korea

1909: Birth of Mohammad Daoud Khan, first president of Afghanistan (1973-1978)
http://www.afghan-web.com/bios/yest/daoud.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDmoiz0nOmc

1935: Birth of Jayendra Saraswathi, Hindu religious leader
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayendra_Saraswathi

1944: Hideki Tojo resigns as Prime Minister of Japan due to numerous setbacks in the war effort
http://www.world-war-2.info/figures/hideki-tojo.php
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Tojo.html

1947: Birth of Wang Jin, Chinese film director
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0910945/

1947: King George VI signs Indian Independence Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Independence_Act_1947
http://www.mapsofindia.com/on-this-day/july-18th-1947-the-india-independence-act-1947-comes-into-force
http://www.quora.com/Why-does-the-Indian-Independence-Act-1947-mention-the-word-dominion-for-India-and-Pakistan

1960: Premier Kishi of Japan resigns and escapes an assassination attempt

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1928&dat=19600716&id=RlApAAAAIBAJ&sjid=QGoFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5567,4138645&hl=fr

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_NPi6WyTjE

1974: Death of S.V. Ranga Rao, Indian actor, born on July 3, 1918
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0710036/bio
http://kapunaidus.blogspot.fr/2012/08/s-v-rangarao-garu-biography.html

1977: Signature of a Treaty of Amity and Cooperation between Laos and Vietnam

1980: Birth of Ryōko Hirosue, Japanese actress and singer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ry%C5%8Dko_Hirosue
http://asianwiki.com/Ryoko_Hirosue

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laUIK6p2z4A

1980: Rohini 1, the first Indian satellite, is launched into orbit
http://www.csre.iitb.ac.in/isro/rohini.html
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraftDisplay.do?id=1980-062A
http://indiainspaceworld.blogspot.fr/2012/02/first-indian-satellite-launch-vehicle.html

1982: Birth of Priyanka Chopra, Indian miss world 2000
http://www.webindia123.com/personal/beauty/priyanka.htm

1985: The second son of Ali Bhutto, Shahnawaz, dies of poisoning in an hotel room in Cannes (France)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shahnawaz_Bhutto
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CEFD91E3FF936A1575AC0A966958260

1985: Death of Toyoko Takechi, Japanese actress, born on August 25, 1908
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0847464/
http://eiga.wikia.com/wiki/Toyoko_Takechi

1990: Death of Yoon Bo-seon (Yun Po-sun), President of South Korea (1960-1962), born on August 26, 1897
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yun_Bo-seon
http://www.nytimes.com/1990/07/19/obituaries/yun-po-sun-92-dies-ex-president-of-korea.html

1993: In Pakistan, Prime minister Nawaz Sharif is forced to resign

1993: In Japan, for the first time since its foundation in 1955, DLP loses the majority in the House of Représentatives
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_general_election,_1993

1993: In Pakistan, to solve the political crisis between Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and President Ghulam Ishaq Khan, both resign. Wsim Sajjad becomes president by interim prior to elections (up to November

1995: Death of Srinagarindra, Mother of King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand, born in 1900
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinagarindra

1996: Battle of Mullaitivu, Tamil Tigers carried out this attack killing over 1200 Sri Lankan Army soldiers and capturing the base, biggest single lost to Sri Lankan Army ever
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Mullaitivu_(1996)

1996: An flag operation by Japanese extreme right militants relaunches the sovereignty dispute with China on Diayu islands (Senkaku for the Japanese)

1997: In Taiwan, the National Assembly (Legislative Yuan) pass a bill extending the power of the president and announces the end of the Taiwan provincial government

1999: In Kashmir, after the withdrawal of the Pakistanis, end of the Indian military operations in Kargil era
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/kargil-99.htm
http://www.quora.com/India-Pakistan-Rivalry/What-is-the-truth-behind-the-Kargil-War-1

2000: Visit of Vladimir Putin in China. Common opposition to the American Theatre Missile Defence system (TMD) project

2002: Abdul Kalam is elected president of India (up to July 2007)
http://www.mapsofindia.com/who-is-who/government-politics/a-p-j-abdul-kalam.html

2005: Indo-US civilian nuclear agreement, first public joint statement by Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the then U.S. President George W. Bush
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-US_civilian_nuclear_agreement

2007: Death of Kenji Miyamoto, Japanese communist politician, born on October 17 1908
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/20/world/asia/20miyamoto.html
http://www.japannewsreview.com/society/national/20070718page_id=805

2008: South Korea rejects a Japanese proposal to hold bilateral talks on disputed islands (Dokdo or Takeshima)

2008: Philippine government and the Milf agree to extend the Muslim region in Mindanao
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2008/07/20087187101832600.html

2010: William Burns, US Under-Secretary of State for political affairs, said military aid from the United States to Cambodia was intended to boost a civil-military relationship that was essential to a « healthy political system »
http://news.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews/Asia/Story/A1Story20100718-227549.html

2011: The Vatican and Malaysia have agreed to establish diplomatic ties, following a meeting between Pope Benedict XVI and Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-14181314
http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Malaysian-Prime-Minister’s-visit-to-the-Pope-launches-diplomatic-relations-22131.html
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2011/7/19/nation/9128577&sec=nation

2011: The UN’s highest court orders Thailand and Cambodia to immediately withdraw their troops from a disputed area around an ancient temple on the border between the two Asian neighbours
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2011/07/19/national/Demilitarised-zone-30160588.html

2012: North Korea says its leader Kim Jong-un has been promoted to marshal, cementing his status at the top of the nation’s military. North Korean state media made the announcement in a special bulletin.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2012/07/201271834458949728.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-18881524

2012: Death of Bollywood actor Rajesh Khanna at 69                                       http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2012/07/201271892023889660.html                                          http://asiancorrespondent.com/86099/bollywood-superstar-rajesh-khanna-dies/

2012: Cambodia and Thailand pulled hundreds of soldiers out of a disputed border area, a year after a ruling by the UN’s highest court, replacing them with police and security guards. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on July 18 last year ordered the neighbours to demilitarise a strip of land adjacent to the Preah Vihear temple which was the scene of deadly clashes in 2011
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2012/07/201271845840265105.html

2013: Death of Samar Mukherjee, Indian marxist politician, born on November 7, 1913
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/veteran-cpim-leader-samar-mukherjee-dies-at-100/article4928216.ece
http://www.frontline.in/other/obituary/man-of-the-masses/article4995292.ece

ON 19 JULY IN ASIAN HISTORY

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Updated on July 19, 2016

806: Death of Li Shigu, Chinese general, born in 778
http://www.snipview.com/q/Li%20Shigu

931: Death of Uda, Emperor of Japan, on May 5, 867
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Uda

1688: Birth of Giuseppe Castiglione, Italian missionary to China, famous for his paintings who died on July 17, 1766
https://vmfa.museum/learn/activities/giuseppe-castiglione-in-china-imperial-painter-humble-servant/
http://www.visiontimes.com/2013/07/10/giuseppe-castigliones-chinese-painting-part-1.html
https://www.google.fr/search?q=Giuseppe+Castiglione+in+China&biw=1138&bih=523&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAmoVChMIvcPvlJzlxgIVS2kUCh105wfd

1827: Birth of Mangal Pandey, Indian freedom fighter, hanged on April 8, 1857
http://www.iloveindia.com/indian-heroes/mangal-pandey.html
http://www.mapsofindia.com/who-is-who/history/mangal-pandey.html

1864: During the Taiping Rebellion, by the Third Battle of Nanking the Qing Dynasty finally defeats the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom
http://noitesfolk.blogspot.fr/2008/10/third-battle-of-nanking.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Battle_of_Nanking

1868: Death of Soji Okita, Japanese samurai, born in 1842
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okita_S%C5%8D

1894: Birth of Khawaja Nazimuddin, 2nd Governor general of Pakistan then Prime Minister (October 1951 to April 1953), who died on October 22, 1964)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khawaja_Nazimuddin
http://www.storyofpakistan.com/person.asp?perid=P011

1895: Birth of Xu Beihong, Chinese painter, who died September 26, 1953
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xu_Beihong
http://www.xubeihong.org/
http://www.google.fr/search?q=Xu+Beihong&hl=fr&rlz=1G1ACAW_FRFR414&prmd=ivns&source=lnms&tbm=isch&ei=vg8lTuueJsyp-ga468ThCw&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&ved=0CCEQ_AUoAQ&biw=1058&bih=498

1909: Birth of Balamani Amma, Indian poet and author who died on September 29, 2004
http://www.veethi.com/india-people/balamani_amma-profile-2225-25.htm
http://profkurakar.blogspot.fr/2011/11/nalappat-balamani-amma.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPF-1iLBWII

1943: Birth of Han Sai Por, Singaporean sculptor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_Sai_Por
 http://www.hansaipor.com/

1944: During the Philippine Sea War, in the Marianas, Japanese aircraft carriers Taiho, Shokaku and Zuikatu are sunk by US submarines
http://www.combinedfleet.com/shoksink.htm
http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=

1947: Prime minister of shadow Burma government, Bogyoke Aung San and 6 of his cabinet and 2 non-cabinet members are assassinated on order of Galon U Saw
http://www.executedtoday.com/tag/galon-u-saw/

1947: Death of Aung San, Burmese nationalist (assassinated), born on February 13, 1915)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aung_San
http://www.aungsan.com/

1947: Death of U Razak, Burmese politician (assassinated), born on January 20, 1898
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_Razak
http://www.ibiblio.org/obl/docs4/U_Razak_of_Burma.pdf

1947: The king of Tehri Garhwal, Manvendra Shah, announces a merger with the Indian Union
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garhwal_Kingdom
http://organiser.org/archives/historic/dynamic/modules13d0.html?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=167&page=20
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1549372/Manvendra-Shah.html

1947: Korean politician Yuh Woon-Hyung is assassinated
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuh_Woon-Hyung

1949: Laos becomes associated state within French Union

1958: Establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Cambodia

1961: Birth of Hideo Nakata, Japanese film director
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hideo_Nakata
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0620378/

1962: Birth of Aya Kito, Japanese child writer who died on May 23, 1988
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aya_Kit%C5%8D
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_Litre_no_Namida

1964: At a rally in Saigon, South Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Khanh calls for expanding the war into North Vietnam
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/president-khanh-calls-for-expanding-the-war

1964: Birth of Masahiko Kondo, Japanese singer, actor and racing driver
http://asianmediawiki.com/Masahiko_Kondo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHwG7a2yMzM

1965: Death of Syngman Rhee, first President of South Korea, born on March 26, 1875
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/19/newsid_2984000/2984314.stm

1968: Birth of Aya Sugimoto, Japanese singer and actress
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aya_Sugimoto
http://www.japantoday.com/category/arts-culture/view/sexpot-aya-sugimoto-dishes-it-out-on-sex-tango-and-cowardly-japanese-men
http://www.google.fr/search?q=Aya+Sugimoto&hl=fr&rlz=1G1ACAW_FRFR414&prmd=ivnsol&source=lnms&tbm=isch&ei=sxUlTt-NJMme-wa2p_DeCw&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&ved=0CCAQ_AUoAQ&biw=1058&bih=498

1972: Birth of Naohito Fujiki, Japanese actor and singer
http://wiki.d-addicts.com/Fujiki_Naohito

1976: Sagarmatha National Park in Nepal is created
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagarmatha_National_Park

1984: Birth of Alessandra De Rossi, Filipino actress
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alessandra_De_Rossi
http://www.mahalo.com/alessandra-de-rossi-photos

2004: Death of Zenko Suzuki, Prime Minister of Japan (1980-1982), born on January 11, 1911
http://wn.com/zenko_suzuki?orderby=relevance&upload_time=this_week
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenko_Suzuki

2007: Death of A. K. Faezul Huq, Bangladeshi lawyer, politician, and freelance journalist, born on March 15, 1945
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._K._Faezul_Huq

2012: Russia and China veto a United Nations Security Council resolution that threatened sanctions against Syrian authorities
http://www.euronews.com/2012/07/19/russia-and-china-veto-un-over-syria/

2012: Death of Humayun Ahmed, Bangladeshi director and author, born on November 13, 1948
http://beta.dawn.com/news/735857/bangladesh-mourns-death-of-cultural-legend-humayun-Ahmed
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humayun_Ahmed

2013: Myanmar is set to profit from a preferential trade agreement with the European Union (EU) starting on July 19, according to an EU press release.

2013: Thousands of cheering supporters greeted Cambodian opposition leader Sam Rainsy as he returned from self-imposed exile to spearhead his party’s election campaign against well-entrenched Prime Minister Hun Sen.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2013/07/201371935844248784.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-23358326

2013: Myanmar President Thein Sein is not preparing himself at the moment to contest the 2015 presidential election and has « no objections » to Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi running, he said in an interview aired on Friday.
http://www.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne%2BNews/Asia/Story/A1Story20130719-438670.html

2014: Thousands of cheering supporters greet Cambodian opposition leader Sam Rainsy on his return from a trip abroad, at a time when political tensions are high because of the arrests of eight of his party colleagues
http://asiancorrespondent.com/124911/cambodian-opposition-leader-sam-rainsy-returns-amid-tension/
http://www.ndtv.com/world-news/cambodia-opposition-chief-urges-end-to-deadlock-590599

2014: Prime Minister Hun Sen said he will block the establishment of a Taiwanese trade office in Cambodia because of the government’s rigid observance of the One-China policy, despite business leaders calling for more practical steps to boost investment from Taiwan
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-quashes-plans-for-a-trade-office-with-taiwan-64494/
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/taiwan-set-open-trade-office http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/taiwan-responds-pm%E2%80%99s-remarks

Holidays and observances

Burma: Burmese Martyrs’ Day

ON 20 JULY IN ASIAN HISTORY

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Updated on July 20, 2016

1156: Death of the 74th Japanese emperor Toba (1107-1123), born on February 24, 1103
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Toba

1296: Alauddin Khilji declares himself as King of Delhi after assassinating his uncle Jalaluddin Khilji
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alauddin_Khilji
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jalal_ud_din_Firuz_Khilji

1402: During the Ottoman-Timurid Wars in the  Battle of Ankara , Timur, ruler of Timurid Empire, defeats forces of the Ottoman Empire sultan Bayezid I
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Ankara

1592: The Japanese capture the Korean capital Pyongyang, causing King Seonjo to request the assistance of Ming Dynasty Chinese forces, who recapture the city a year later.
http://madmonarchist.blogspot.fr/2012/12/monarch-profile-king-seonjo-of-korea.html

1905 : The first partition of Bengal along religious lines is approved in London by the Secretary of State of India
http://www.mapsofindia.com/on-this-day/july-20th-1905-first-partition-of-bengal-is-approved-in-london-by-the-secretary-of-state-of-india

1929: Soviet troops attempt to cross the Amur River into Manchuria near Blagoveschensk as tensions mount between the Soviet Union and the Republic of China

1929: birth of Rajendra Kumar, Indian actor, who died on July 29, 1999
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006348/
http://stationhollywood.blogspot.com/2007/12/jubilee-kumar-rajender-kumar.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZnKuXO0oAk

1932: Birth of Nam June Paik, American Korean-born artist, who died on January 29, 2006
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nam_June_Paik
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5x0ir_nam-june-paik-by-me-by-paik_creation
http://www.paikstudios.com/

1937: Birth of Ken Ogata, Japanese actor who died on October 5, 2008
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0644523/
http://wiki.d-addicts.com/Ogata_Ken
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x71l4t_wonderful-spaceship-and-the-earth_travel

1944: Japanese aircraft carrier Hijo is sunk by US air attack in Guam area

1946: The US Congress’s Pearl Harbor Committee says Franklin D. Roosevelt is completely blameless for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and calls for a unified command structure in the armed forces

1947: Police in Burma arrest former Prime Minister U Saw and 19 others on charges of assassinating Prime Minister U Aung San and six members of his cabinet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_Saw

1947: The Duch cancel the Linggadjati agreement signed with the Indonesian on the creation of the United States of Indonesia. Dutch troops occupy West Java, East Java, Madura, Semarang, Medan, Palembang, Padang, bomb many cities

1947: The Viceroy of India says the people of the Northwest Frontier Province overwhelmingly voted the previous day to join Pakistan rather than India

1948: In South Korea, Syngman Rhee is elected first president
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Korean_presidential_election,_1948

1950: Birth of Naseeruddin Shah, Indian actor
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/southasia/Culture/Cinema/Naseer.html
http://www.aceshowbiz.com/celebrity/naseeruddin_shah/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYYslo8BkVs

1952: Birth of Keiko Matsuzaka, Japanese actress
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keiko_Matsuzaka
http://jdorama.com/artiste.925.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uDUHRboGBk

1954: The General Conference on Indochina declares a demilitarized zone at the 17th parallel with the North under communist rule and the South under the leadership of Prime Minister Ngo Dinh Diem. Officially signed on 21

1954: Birth of Taiwanese singer Lo Ta-yu (Luo Dayou)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lo_Ta-yu
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0516340/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bb0WwLsMpoU

1956: Birth of Ryo Ishibashi, Japanese actor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryo_Ishibashi
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0410903/

 1960: In Ceylon (Sri Lanka), Sirimavo Bandanaranaike is the first Asian woman to become Prime Minister
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/20/newsid_2784000/2784527.stm

1961: In Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew expels his opponents inside his People’s Action Party

1962: In South Vietnam, the National Liberation Front publishes its manifesto

1964: During the Vietnam War, Viet Cong forces attack the capital of Dinh Tuong Province, Cai Be, killing 11 South Vietnamese military personnel and 40 civilians (30 of which are children)
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/viet-cong-troops-overrun-town

1965: General Li Tsung-jen (Li Zongren), rival of Chiang Kai-sheik, in exile in the USA since 1949, come to back to Beijing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Zongren

1965: Death of Batukeshwar Dutt, Indian activist, born on November 18, 1910
http://arunsundar1710.blogspot.fr/2015/07/batukeshwar-dutt-forgotten-freedom.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batukeshwar_Dutt

1966: Birth of Agot Isidro, Filipino actress
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agot_Isidro

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QD9DN92lRYc

1969: Muhammad Hidayatullah becomes the first acting President of India for one month
http://www.informationhubindia.com/presidents-of-india-/1525_justice-mohd-hidayatullah.html
http://www.mapsofindia.com/who-is-who/government-politics/muhammad-hidayatullah.html

1971: Birth of Sandra Oh, Korean Canadian actress
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0644897/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKqW_zuoQ08

1972: Death of Geeta Dutt, Indian singer, born on November 23, 1930
http://www.geetadutt.com/about.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtpBWIf1WZY

1973: In testimony by Assistant Secretary of Defense Jerry Friedheim to the US Senate Committee on Armed Services, the US Defense Department admits it lied to US Congress about bombing Cambodia

1973: Death of Bruce Lee, American Hong Kong born actor and martial artist, born on November 27, 1940
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000045/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Lee
http://www.allbrucelee.com/article/mystery_of_bruce_lee.htm
http://www.findadeath.com/Deceased/l/brucelee/bruce.htm

1975: India expels three reporters from The Times, The Daily Telegraph, and Newsweek because they refused to sign a pledge to abide by government censorship
http://www.nytimes.com/1975/07/22/archives/controls-over-foreign-newsmen-tightened-3-are-expelled-india.html?_r=0

1976: After the Vietnam War, the US military completes its troop withdrawal from Thailand

1979: Birth of Claudine Barretto, Filipino actress
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudine_Barretto

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ng8fb5MpSM

1989: Burma’s ruling junta puts opposition leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest for the first time

1989: Birth of Witwisit Hirunwongkul, Thai actor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witwisit_Hiranyawongkul

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAgwuqs48ds

1999: Falun Gong is banned in the People’s Republic of China, and a large scale persecution of the practice is launched
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falun_Gong

2006: Security Council unanimously condemns the July 5 North Korean ballistic missiles tests, but with no sanctions because Chinese and Russian opposition

2009: An accord between India and the United States is reached in New Delhi clearing the way for the sale of US-made weapons to India
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/07/20097203375638188.html
http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=15832&size=A

2009: Taiwan, restores former president Chiang Kai-shek’s name to a Taipei memorial hall housing a statue of him – the latest salvo in a partisan battle over the former Nationalist leader’s legacy
http://news.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews/Asia/Story/A1Story20090720-155947.html

2010: Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, has received international backing for plans that would see Afghan forces to take over security across the country in four years
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2010/07/201072052634402987.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/21/world/asia/21afghan.html?_r=1&ref=asia

2011: South China Sea dispute: Philippine MPs visit Spratlys. The politicians landed on Pagasa island, the only island in the Spratlys chain populated by Filipinos, and sang the national anthem with residents
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-14212130

2012: Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei lost his lawsuit against the Beijing tax bureau in a local court hearing Friday, leaving him still subject to tax evasion charges and more than $2 million in fines.
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/07/20/world/asia/ai-weiwei-tax-evasion-appeal/index.html?hpt=ias_c1
http://www.france24.com/en/20120720-china-court-rejects-dissident-artist-ai-weiwei-appeal-against-tax-evasion-fine
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-18919834

2012: North Korea has said it was being forced to « re-examine » its nuclear programme because of fresh signs the US remains hostile towards the country, indicating it will step up defiant efforts to boost its nuclear arsenal.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2012/07/201272011434388132.html

2013: Taiwan’s President Ma Ying-jeou was overwhelmingly reelected chairman of the ruling party Saturday, amid corruption scandals involving top officials and public anger at his government.
http://www.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne%2BNews/Asia/Story/A1Story20130720-438837.html

2014: Death of Panna Rittikrai, Thai actor, director, and stuntman, born on February 17, 1961
http://www.filmbiz.asia/news/panna-rittikrai-1961-2014
http://kungfukingdom.com/farewell-panna-rittikrai/

2015: As Japan prepares to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, one of its largest corporations, Mitsubishi, apologizes to WWII Japanese prisoners of war
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/07/19/asia/mitsubishi-japan-pow-apology/index.html
http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/international/2015-07-20/mitsubishi-apologises-for-using-us-prisoners-of-war-as-slave-labourers-during-world-war-ii/1471862

ON 21 JULY IN ASIAN HISTORY

To see another date, on Internet (Google…), type “On (day + month) in Asian history »

Updated on July 21, 2016

541: Birth of Emperor Wen, founder of the Sui dynasty who died on August 13, 604
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Wen_of_Sui

628: Birth of Emperor Gaozong of Tang, the third emperor of the Tang Dynasty in China, ruling from 649, who died on December 27, 683
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Taizong_of_Tang
http://history.cultural-china.com/en/46History9684.html

1645: Qing Dynasty regent Dorgon issues an edict ordering all Han Chinese men to shave their forehead and braid the rest of their hair into a queue identical to those of the Manchus.

1786: Tay Son rebellion leader Ngyuyen Hue captures the capital of Dai Viet (Vietnam), Thang Long (Hanoi)
http://countrystudies.us/vietnam/13.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguyen_Hue

1906: Birth of Taiwan musician Teng Yu-hsien who died on June 11, 1944
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teng_Yu-hsien

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qflbyptHSlQ

1911: Birth of Umashankar Joshi, Indian author, poet, and scholar who died on December 19, 1988
http://www.umashankarjoshi.in/index.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umashankar_Joshi

1920: Birth of Anand Bakshi, Indian poet and songwriter who died on March 30, 2002
http://www.santabanta.com/bollywood/1463/anand-bakshi/
http://www.iloveindia.com/indian-heroes/anand-bakshi.html

1926: Birth of Rahimuddin Khan, Pakistani general, governor of Balochistan from 1978 to 1984
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rahimuddin_Khan

1944: American troops land on Guam, under Japanese occupation since December 1941, starting a battle that will end on August 10
http://www.stamfordhistory.org/ww2_guam.htm
http://www.history.army.mil/news/2014/140721a_guam.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=549AEkdXEM8

1945: Birth at Shanghai of Hong Kong actress Lydia Shum who died from liver cancer on February 19, 2008
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_Shum

1947: In Indonesia, Dutch troops launch the Operation Product, aiming to take control of the more useful eras of Java and Sumatra
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operatie_Product

1951: Beginning of the negotiations between United Nations and North Korea in the border town of Panmunjom

1953: Birth of Jeff Fatt, Chinese Australian actor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Fatt

1954: End of the Conference of Geneva on Indochina. Vietnam is cut in two eras separated by the 17th parallel. Hanoi signs but Saigon refuses
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/21/newsid_3894000/3894175.stm
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/inch003.asp

1955: Birth of Taco Ockerse, Indonesian singer
http://www.taco.tc/Biography.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taco_(musician)

1960: In Sri Lanka, Sirimavo Bandaranaike takes the oath as Prime Minister up to 1977
http://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2013/jul/22/bandaranaike-first-woman-prime-minister

1960: Birth of Amar Singh Chamkila, Punjabi folk singer, gunned down on March 8, 1988
http://www.chamkila.org/home/history

1963: End of Sino-Soviet talks in Moscow to discuss the widening split between Moscow and Beijing over ideological differences. Both countries issue a joint statement that the talks have ended, and that the delegations have failed to reach any agreement except to recess

1964: Riots in Singapore by Malays demanding the same privileges as in the other parts of the Federation of Malaysia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_Race_Riots
http://singaporerebel.blogspot.fr/2005/07/1964-fighting-in-streets-of-singapore.html
http://www.google.fr/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=10&ved=0CFkQFjAJahUKEwjtrsaUyerGAhXBXBQKHY_3C8M&url=http%3A%2F%2Fscholarbank.nus.edu.sg%2Fbitstream%2Fhandle%2F10635%2F51957%2FJasminF.pdf%3Fsequence%3D1&ei=JV2tVa2IL8G5UY_vr5gM&usg=AFQjCNHTWAG8NKsDMs6jkGk__Eir2Pyk6Q&sig2=ntpyHT9UXg8IZgSZjlckkQ

1964: Birth of Akira Yasuda, Japanese illustrator
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1448771/

1969: USA lifts some restrictions in its business with communist China

1972: Death of Jigme Dorji Wangchuck, king of Bhutan since 1952 (born on May 2, 1929). Jigme Singye Wangchuck, 17 years old becomes the new kind
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jigme_Dorji_Wangchuck
http://countrystudies.us/bhutan/12.htm

1978: Sino-Japanese talks for a Treaty of Peace and Amity resume

1995: Third Taiwan Strait Crisis. The People’s Liberation Army begins firing missiles into the waters north of Taiwan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Taiwan_Strait_Crisis
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/taiwan_strait.htm

2001: Death of Sivaji Ganesan, South Indian Tamil actor, born on October 1, 1927
http://www.iloveindia.com/indian-heroes/sivaji-ganesan.html

2005: In Myanmar, former PM Khin Nyunt is sentenced to 41 years in prison
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4708435.stm

2006: Death of Mako Iwamatsu, Japanese-born American actor, born on December 10, 1933
http://articles.latimes.com/2006/jul/23/local/me-mako23

2006: Death of Ta Mok, Khmer Rouge leader “The Butcher”, born in 1930
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/5201770.stm

2007: For the first time since independence, 60 years ago, a woman, Pratibha Patil, is elected president of the republic of India
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6910097.stm

2008: Ram Baran Yadav, from the Nepalese Congress, is elected first president of the Republic of Nepal
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-07/21/content_8741639.htm

2009: Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso dissolves parliament’s lower house for an August 30 election
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8160900.stm

2012: Japan launches a rocket with an unmanned cargo transporter to the International Space Station.
http://www.euronews.com/2012/07/21/japan-sends-rocket-to-space-station/

2013/ Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s ruling bloc has won majority of seats in the upper house of parliament in elections, giving it control of both chambers for the first time in six years, according to exit polls.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2013/07/2013721113616975336.htm
lhttp://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/07/22/national/one-party-rule-back-but-abe-could-blow-it-2/#.UexRYMtOLmQ

2013: In Cambodia, Sam Rainsy, who was greeted by huge crowds on Friday after his return from self-imposed exile in France, was removed from the electoral register late last year and is unable to run as a candidate in the July 28 polls.

2015 : Eleven Cambodian opposition members and activists are sentenced to prison on insurrection charges, including three who received 20-year sentences
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/07/cambodia-jails-opposition-activists-insurrection-150721123023451.html
http://news.asiaone.com/news/asia/cambodia-opposition-activists-jailed-20-years-insurrection

Holidays and observances

Singapore: Racial Harmony Day

Guam: Liberation Day