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