ON 1st NOVEMBER IN ASIAN HISTORY
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Updated on November 1, 2019
1120: Fang La leads a farmers uprising against the Northern Song dynasty
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fang_La
http://history.04007.cn/en.php/HisMain/10408.html
1774: Wang Lun, leader of the White Lotus rebellion against the Qing dynasty, commits suicide
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Lun
https://books.google.fr/books?id=q7a5CAAAQBAJ&pg=PT271&lpg=PT271&dq=1774+Wang+Lun+leader+of+the+White+Lotus&source=bl&ots=h6cphVjUPW&sig=aluTXhvnWAAIWc2XVfW4PBgEk3s&hl=fr&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj275GA4pvXAhWLfhoKHcY9CRIQ6AEIWDAJ#v=onepage&q=1774%20Wang%20Lun%20leader%20of%20the%20White%20Lotus&f=false
1803: Battle of Laswari during the Second Anglo-Maratha War
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Laswari
http://www.indianetzone.com/42/battle_laswari.htm
http://www.ibiblio.org/britishraj/MallesonBattles/chapter10.html
http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924023646528#page/n315/mode/2up
1838: Birth of Khedrup Gyatso, 11th Dalai Lama who died on 31 January 1856, aged 17
https://www.revolvy.com/main/index.php?s=Khedrup%20Gyatso,%2011th%20Dalai%20Lama&item_type=topic
1847: Birth of Emperor Hiep Hoa, the sixth emperor of the Vietnamese Nguyễn Dynasty, who commited suicide on 23 November 1883
http://madmonarchist.blogspot.com/2012/08/monarch-profile-emperor-hiep-hoa-of.html
1886: Ananda College, a leading Buddhist school in Sri Lanka is established
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ananda_College
1886: Birth of Sakutaro Hagiwara, Japanese writer of free-style verse who died on May 11, 1942
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakutar%C5%8D_Hagiwara
https://www.poemhunter.com/sakutaro-hagiwara/biography/
1907: Birth of Wu Yonggang, Chinese director, who died on December 18, 1982
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_Yonggang
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0943202/
http://www.dianying.com/en/person/WuYonggang
1931: Birth of Shunsuke Kikuchi, Japanese composer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shunsuke_Kikuchi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhwCsvN3D24
1936: Birth of Katsuhisa Hattori, Japanese composer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katsuhisa_Hattori
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=9983
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTM3OPfHAsw
1936: Birth of Shizuka Kamei, Japanese politician
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shizuka_Kamei
1942: The October Matanikau action on Guadalcanal begins as United States Marine Corps forces attack Imperial Japanese Army units along the Matanikau River
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matanikau_Offensive
1943: Battle of Empress Augusta Bay, United States Marines, the 3rd Marine Division, land on in the Solomon Islands. In support of the landings on Bougainville, U.S. aircraft carrier forces attack the huge Japanese base at Rabaul
http://www.combinedfleet.com/btl_eab.htm
1945: The official North Korean newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, is first published under the name Chongro
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodong_Sinmun
1948: Off southern Manchuria, 6,000 people are killed as a Chinese merchant ship exploses and sinks
1954: French give back the territory of Pondicherry to the Indian sovereignty
http://claudearpi.blogspot.fr/2012/08/france-leaves-india-for-good.html
1956: Foundation of the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh (ex Nizam), Karnataka (ex Mysore) and Kerala
1959: Birth of Eriko Hara, Japanese voice actress
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0361662/
1963: In Saigon, coup d’état by General Duong Van Minh. President Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother Ngo Dinh Nhu are killed the following day
http://www.pbs.org/weta/reportingamericaatwar/reporters/halberstam/coup.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1963_South_Vietnamese_coup
http://biography.yourdictionary.com/duong-van-minh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmDXPiAUpGg
1966: Vietcong bombs Saigon
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/1/newsid_3188000/3188067.stm
1967: Beginning of a three-week offensive of the National Liberation Front in the Vietnamese high hills of Dakto
1967: During the China Cultural Revolution, founding of the first Revolutionary committee in Inner Mongolia. Others will be founded in all China
1968: End of the US bombings on North Vietnam which started on March 1965
1968: Birth of Park Shin-Yang, South Korean actor
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0661941/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWkeg9i3vcs
1973: Birth of Aishwarya Rai, Indian actress, Miss World 1994
http://www.webindia123.com/personal/beauty/aiswarya.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aishwarya_Rai
1978: Birth of Manju Warrier, Indian actress
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0913097/
1978: Birth of Hao Lei, Chinese actress
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1165040/
http://www.zimbio.com/Hao+Lei/articles/1/Welcome+wikizine+Hao+Lei
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttniOonZnL4
1984: China and the United Arab Emirates establish diplomatic relations
http://history.04007.cn/en.php/HisMain/10427.html
1984: Anti-Sikh riots after the assassination of Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/1/newsid_2537000/2537887.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8306420.stm
1987: End of the XIIIth congress of the Chinese communist party. Zhao Ziyang becomes officially general secretary of the party as Deng Xiaoping retires from China’s Communist Party’s Central Committee
1990: In Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif is appointed Prime Minister up to July 1993
http://storyofpakistan.com/nawaz-sharif-becomes-prime-minister/
1996: Death of Junius Richard Jayewardene, Sri Lanka president (1978-1989), born on September 17, 1906
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Jayewardene-4
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junius_Richard_Jayewardene
2008: Abu Jihad al-Masri, an Egyptian, Al-Qaeda terror network’s propaganda chief, is killed in a missile strike in Pakistan
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2008/11/senior_al_qaeda_lead_2.php
2008: Exiled former Thailand premier Thakin Shinawatra denounces his opponents in a telephone address to 90,000 loyal supporters packed into a Bangkok sports stadium
http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/politics/tens-of-thousands-attend-pro-government-rally-in-bangkok_100113971.html
2009: President Hamid Karzai’s rival in the second round of the Afghan presidential election, Abdullah, announces that he is withdrawing from the poll
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8336388.stm
2010: China kicks off its once-a-decade census, a whirlwind 10-day head count that will see 6 million census takers go door-to-door to document the massive demographic changes taking place in the world’s most populous country
http://www.china-briefing.com/news/2010/11/02/china-kicks-off-once-a-decade-population-census.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/8101368/China-starts-worlds-biggest-census.html
http://travel.cnn.com/shanghai/life/whos-knocking-my-door-chinese-census-908827
2010: Russian president’s visit to disputed islands draws protests from Japan, which says they are part of Japanese territory
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2010/11/201011111444517118.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11664434
2011: Nepal’s main political parties agree the last part of a landmark peace deal after years of wrangling. A spokesman for the prime minister says the deal revolves around the future of about 19,000 former Maoist fighters
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-15542959
2011: China launches the unmanned Shenzhou-8 spacecraft, marking the start of another key mission in the nation’s quest to assemble a permanent space station within a decade
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2011/10/2011103122199397339.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15562928
2018: Maldives ex-president Nasheed returns from exile
https://maldivesindependent.com/politics/nasheed-welcomed-back-by-jubilant-supporters-142392
https://www.voanews.com/a/maldives-ex-president-returns-from-exile/4638395.html
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