ON 14 MARCH IN ASIAN HISTORY

Updated on March 14, 2010

1457: Death of Jingtai, Emperor of China in 1449, born on September 22, 1428)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingtai_Emperor

1880: Death of Pagan Min, king of Burma from 1846 to 1853
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagan_Min

1914: Birth of Jiang Qing, last wife of Mao Zedong, who committed suicide on May 14, 1991
http://www.answers.com/topic/jiang-qing
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1947: The U.S. signed a 99-year lease on naval bases in the Philippines

1951: In the Korean War, Seoul is taken back for the second time and definitively by United Nations forces

1953: PM Shigeru Yoshida dissolves the Japanese Diet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shigeru_Yoshida

1954: Vietminh forces take the vital Gabrielle Hill in Dien Bien Phu against the French

1965: Birth of Aamir Khan, Indian actor
http://www.apunkachoice.com/celebrities/aamir_khan/

1965: In Vietnam War, second set of raids in Operation Rolling Thunder and the first in which U.S. planes used napalm.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/allies-launch-second-wave- of-rolling-thunder

1969: Start of two days fight between Chinese and Russian forces on Ussuri River
http://www.cybergeo.eu/index4141.html

1975: Birth of Rico Yan, Filipino actor, who died on March 29, 2002
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rico_Yan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYPNbzuhMcY

1977: After March 7, elections won by the Pakistan People’s Party, but was accused by their opponents, Pakistan National Alliance, of rigging the elections, the Alliance starts a series of nationwide protests.

1977: Birth of Aki Hoshino, Japanese men’s magazines model
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aki_Hoshino
http://www.weirdasianews.com/2009/08/25/aki-hoshino/

1978: In the Netherlands, police free 71 hostages captured by Mullocas terrorists

1980: Death of Mohammad Hatta, Indonesian politician, vice president of Indonesia (August 1945-December 1956), born in August 1902
http://www.myhero.com/myhero/hero.asp?hero=hatta_bandung

1981: Birth of Sun Mei-Ting, Chinese-born pianist
http://www.meiting.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4& Itemid=9

1988: Sino-Vietnamese conflict in the Spratly . Three Vietnamese ships are sunk and 74 are missing
http://www.american.edu/TED/SPRATLY.htm

1997: The Chinese city of Chongqing is elevated to provincial level as Beijing, Tianjin and Shanghai
http://www.chongqing.org/

1998: Sonia Gandhi, widow of the assassinated ex-Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi is elected president of the Congress Party
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3546851.stm

2001: End of the VIIth Pathet Lao congress. The old guard is maintained to lead Laos
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/laos.htm

2002: Kim Hong-gul, the third son of south Korean president Kim Dae-jung is arrested on corruption charge
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/2440243.stm

2005: Chinese National People Congress votes an anti-secession law aiming Taiwan which authorized China to go on war if Taiwan proclaims independence
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200503/14/eng20050314_176746.html

2006: South Korea’s Prime Minister Lee Hae-chan is forced to quit
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4804018.stm

2008 : Beginning of the unrest in Tibet
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23629811/

Holidays and observances

Japan and Korea: White Day, similar to Valentine's Day (men give gifts to women)
Sikhism: Nanakshahi New Year, first day of month of Chet

ON 15 MARCH IN ASIAN HISTORY

Updated on March 15, 2010

220: Death of Cao Cao, king of Wei State (China), born in 155
http://www.yutopian.com/go/gowinds/caocao.html

221: Liu Bei, a Chinese warlord and member of the Han royal house, declares himself emperor of Shu-Han and claims his legitimate succession of the Han dynasty
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Bei

1638: Birth of the Chinese Emperor Shunzhi, who died on February 5, 1661
http://library.thinkquest.org/C0126670/emperors/shunzhi_en.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shunzhi_Emperor

1818: Birth of Filipino general Mariano Alvarez, who died on August 25, 1924
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariano_%C3%81lvarez
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1874: Treaty of peace and alliance between France and Annam kingdom (Vietnam) to which Hanoi is ceded back. France keeps Indochina and gets religious freedom and navigation freedom

1897: Birth of Kikou Yamata, female Nippon-French writer who died in March 1975
http://www.speedylook.com/Kikou_Yamata.html

1904: Birth of Yu kwan-sun, Korean independence fighter who died on October 20, 1920
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yu_Gwan-sun

1934: Birth of Kanshi Ram, Indian Dalit leader who died on October 9, 2006
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1275961/Kanshi-Ram

1943: Allied reconnaissance flight over Java

1944 : Birth of Chi Cheng, Taiwanese athlete and politician
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi_Cheng

1945: Birth of A. K. Faezul Huq, Bengali lawyer and politician who died on July 19, 2007
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._K._Faezul_Huq

1946: Birth of Masaharu Sato, Japanese seiyu (voice actor)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masaharu_Sat%C5%8D

1947: In the Philippines, a referendum gives the same rights to US and Filipino citizen

1960: Syngman Rhee is reelected president of South Korea by election fraud, sparking unrest
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/COLDsyngman.htm

1967: Birth of Naoko Takeuchi, Japanese artist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naoko_Takeuchi
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=82

1968: Birth of Kahimi Karie, Japanese singer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahimi_Karie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Dbz4BpiPmU

1969: End of two-day fighting between Soviet Union and China on Issuri river. Moscow says that its forces have killed at least 800 Chinese, conceading 60 deads

1973: President Nixon hints that the United States might intervene again in Vietnam to prevent communist violations of the truce. A cease-fire under the provisions of the Paris Peace Accords had gone into effect on January 27, 1973, but was quickly and repeatedly violated by both sides
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/president-nixon-hints-at- reintervention

1981: The passengers and crew of a Pakistan Airways plane held hostage for nearly two weeks are released
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/15/ newsid_2818000/2818437.stm

1985: Death of Radha Krishna Choudhary, Indian historian, thinker and writer, born in February 1921
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radha_Krishna_Choudhary

1897: Birth of Kikou Yamata, French-Japanese writer who died on March 12, 1975.
http://www.speedylook.com/Kikou_Yamata.html

1989: Death of Muhammad Jameel Didi, Maldivian poet, born in May 1915
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Jameel_Didi

1991: Birth of Kii Kitano, Japanese actress
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kii_Kitano

1998: In India, the nationalist BJP Atal Bihari Vajpayee forms a new government

2002: In Burma, the son-in-law of ex-president Ne Win (1962-1988) and several generals are arrested on plot charge and Ne Win, 92 years old, is put in arrest house
http://www.time.com/time/asia/covers/1101021216/newin.html

2002: Sharia becomes officially in force at Aceh (Indonesia)

2003: CCP General secretary Hu Jintao succeeds Jiang Zemin as president of the PRC
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/zhuanti/Zhuanti_403.html

2005: Death of Shoji Nishio Sensei, Japanese martial artist, born in December 1927
http://www.aikidojo.info/html/shoji_nishio_sensei.html