ON 13 MAY IN ASIAN HISTORY
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Updated on May 13, 2016
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