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ON 21 NOVEMBER IN ASIAN HISTORY
Updated on November 21, 2008
1787 : Signature of the Treaty of Versailles, an alliance signed between the French king Louis XVI and the Vietnamese Prince Nguyen Anh, the future Emperor Gia Long. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Versailles_(1787)
1811 : Birth of Zeng Guofan, Chinese general who rised the Xiang Army to fight effectively against the Taiping Rebellion and restored the power of the Qing dynasty http://www.answers.com/topic/zeng-guofan
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1878 : During the Second Afghan War, Battle of Ali Masjid, won by the British http://britishbattles.com/second-afghan-war/ali-masjid.htm
1894 : In a decisive victory of the Sino-Japanese war, Port Arthur, today Lüshun (Manchuria), falls to the Japanese. 20,000 servicemen and civilians are massacred http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Arthur_massacre_%28China%29
1933 : Birth Mikijiro Hira, Japanese actor http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0386179/ http://www.jdorama.com/artiste.2041.htm
1951 : Prince Souvanna Phouma, Prime Minister for the first time, up to April 1952 http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Souvanna.html
1959 : Birth of Yee Chin-yen, Taiwanese film director http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0947140/
1963 : The Liberal Democratic Party, in power since 1955, wins the general elections in Japan
1965 : Birth of Yuriko Yamaguchi, Japanese actress http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuriko_Yamaguchi_(voice_actor) http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=1072
1969 : US president Richard Nixon and Japanese Premier Eisaku Sato agree on the return of Okinawa to Japanese control in 1972 and that the US will keep bases there. The official agreement will be signed on December 2 http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0XPQ/is_/ai_74493364
1969 : Birth of Hineko Mita, Japanese actor
1970 : Operation Ivory Coast : A joint Air force and Army team raids the Son Tay prison camp to free US pilots captured by communist Vietnamese, but failed.
1970 : Death of Chandrasekhar Venkata Raman, born in November 1888 http://www.ceeby.com/people/cvraman.cfm
1971 : Indian troops, partly aided by Mukti Bahini (Bengali guerrillas), defeat the Pakistan army in the battle of Garibput.
1973 : Birth of Alice Chan (Chan Wai), Hong Kong actress http://www.geocities.com/choiwong2001/alice.html http://gallery.asianfanatics.net/index.php?act=thumbs&aid=92
1975 : The governments of Hanoi and Saigon agree on the a quick fusion to assure the unification of Vietnam
1979 : A mob, the Pakistani capital Islamabad burns the US embassy to the ground of a five-hour attack in which a US is killed http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/21/
newsid_4187000/4187184.stm
1980 : Birth of Elaine Yiu, Hong Kong actress http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaine_Yiu http://www.hkcinemagic.com/en/people.asp?id=13520
1992 : Death of Kaysone Phomvihane, president of Laos since 1991 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaysone_Phomvihane
1998 : In Bangkok, death of Filipino General Fabian Ver, responsible for the assassination of opposition leader Nino Aquino http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabian_Ver
2001 : Death of the king of Malaysia, sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz shah (75 years old). His successor is the sultan of Terengganu, Mizan Zainal Abidin, 39 years old. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/761033/Salahuddin-Abdul-
Aziz-Shah
2002 : Death of Japanese Prince Takamato (Norihito), born in 1954 http://www.kunaicho.go.jp/e03/ed03-11.html
2002 : After the USA stopped the delivering of fuel to Pyongyang, North Korea declares that the nuclear pact signed in 1994 with Washington is null and void.
2004 : In Singapore, the People Action Party celebrates its 50th anniversary of its creation in the presence of Lee Kuan Yew its founder.
2006 : Historic Peace accord between Nepal’s Premier Girija Prasad Koirala and Prachanda, head of the maoist guerrilla. The civil war caused more than 12,500 dead in ten years.
2006 : Hu Jintao is the first Chinese head of state to visit India.
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