ON 16 JULY IN ASIAN HISTORY
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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