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