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11 MARCH 2008
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MAIN FACTS IN ASIA HISTORY ON 11 MARCH
1872 : The Meiji Japanese government officially annexes the Ryukyu kingdom into what would become the Okinawa prefecture http://www.uchinanchu.org/uchinanchu/history_early.htm
1922 : Birth of Abdul Razak, second Prime Minister of Malaysia from September 1970 to his death in January 1976 http://sejarahmalaysia.pnm.my/portalBI/detail.php?section=sm02&
spesifik_id=96&ttl_id=5
1942 : In the Philippines, General Douglas MacArthur abandons Gorregidor (Bataan), vowing “I will return” http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&
id=6833
1942 : Japanese troop land on North-Sumatra
1945 : Emperor Bao Dai, under Japanese influence proclaims the end of the French protectorate on Vietnam, proclaims independence and the adherence of his country to the Japanese « Great East Asia “ http://www.viettouch.com/philately/scst_baodai.html
1945 : The imperial Japanese Navy attempts a large-scale kamikaze attack on the US Pacific fleet anchored at Ulithi atoll in Operation Tan No 2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Tan_No._2
1966 : In Indonesia, President Sukarno is forced to give up his executive power to general Suharto, just keeping the without title of president
1970 : In Cambodia, demonstrators devastate the Hanoi ambassy and the South Vietnam Provisional Revolutionary Government
1977 : In Pakistan, violent confrontation between army forces and demontrators denouncing the result of the March 7 elections
1992 : The United Nations provisional Autority in Cambodia (Apronuc) is set up
1993 : North Korea withdraws from the Non-Proliferation Treaty in a harsh rebuff of Western demands to open suspected nuclear weapons development sites for inspection
1998 : In Indonesia, Yusuf Habibie is elected vice-president http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/events/indonesia/special_report/58602.stm
1999 : Indonesia and Portugal agree for the organization of a referendum in East Timor : self-government or independence.
2001 : End of several days of affrontment between Malay and Indian communities. At least five killed and dozens of wondeds among the Indian community
2003 : Li Peng quits as president of the National People’s Congress http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?
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12 MARCH 2008
MAIN FACTS IN ASIA HISTORY ON 12 MARCH
1374 : Death of Japanese Emperor Go-Kogon (1352-1371), born in April 1336 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Go-K%C5%8Dgon
1386 : Birth of Ashikaga Yoshimochi, 4th Shogun (1408-1423) of the Ashikaga shogunate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashikaga_Yoshimochi
1447 : Death of Shah Rukh, Mongol leader http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shah_Rukh_(Timurid_dynasty)
1608 : Death of Koriki Kiyonaga, Japanese warlord, born in 1530 http://wiki.samurai-archives.com/index.php?title=Koriki_Kiyonaga
1849 : The Sikh army surrenders to the British at the end of the second Sikh War, conceding yo the annexation of the Punjab in northwestern India http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9067731/Sikh-Wars?
source=ONTHISDAY
1872 : Death 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.tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/
m0038501.html
1905 : Birth of Takashi Shimura, Japanese actor who died in February 1982 http://www.tohokingdom.com/actors/takashi_shimura.htm
1910 : Birth of Masayoshi Ohira, Japanese Prime minister (December 1978- June 1980) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masayoshi_%C5%8Chira
1925 : Death of Sun Yat-sen, Chinese revolutionnary and polician, born in November 1866 http://library.thinkquest.org/26469/movers-and-shakers/sun.html
1925 : Birth of Leo Esaki, Japanese physicist, Nobel laurate http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1973/esaki-
bio.html
1929 : Birth of U Win Tin, jailed Burmese journalist http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=25685
1930 : Mahatma Gandhi leads a 200-mile march known as Dandi March to the sea in defiance of British to protest the British monopoly on salt http://www.reference.com/search?q=Mohandas%20Gandhi
1945 : Norodom Sihanouk, king of Cambodia to make null and void the French president and proclaims independence
1966 : The Communist party of Indonesia (PKI) is banned http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Indonesia
1967 : Sukarno is officially dismissed by the parliament and replaced by general Suharto http://www.asiasource.org/society/sukarno.cfm
1975 : Birth of Herman Li, Cantonese guitarist http://hermanli.com/
1976 : Birth at Wuhu (Anhui) of Chinese actress Vicki Zhao http://women.stareastasia.com/vicki-zhao/
1984 : Birth of Shreya Ghoshad, Indian singer http://www.shreyaghoshal.com/about-shreya/ http://www.shreyaghoshal.com/photo-album/
1993 : A series of bomb attack in Bombay.More than 350 are killed http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/12/
newsid_4272000/4272943.stm
1993 : North Korea says that it plans to withdraw from Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and refuses to allow inspectors access to nuclear sites
2001 : In India, the president of BJP Bangaru Laxmam resigns because he is involved in a corruption case http://www.india-today.com/itoday/20010326/c-nda5.shtml
2004 : Roh Moo-hyun, président of South Korea is empeached by the parliament (cf 3 March) and replaced by Prime Minister Goh Kun waiting the decision of the Constitutionnal Court http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/03/12/skorea.roh.vote/
index.html
But today, the main event in Asia history is the birthday of Asia Observer members ZRXK1098 from Singapore and Amit1237 from India (see front page, but also of CHUNGNUYENVAN from Vietnam
From all of us have an happy birthday <br><br>Post edited by: Jacques, at: 2008/03/12 20:15
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13 MARCH 2008
MAIN FACTS IN ASIA HISTORY ON 13 MARCH
1921 : Mongolia, under Baron Roman Ungern von Sternberg, declares its independence from China http://militaryhistory.suite101.com/article.cfm/themadbaronofmongolia
1943 : In Bougainville, Japanese troops end their assault on American forces at Hill 700 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-vetscor/1624442/posts
1954 : Vietminh forces launch a large scale attack on French troops entrenched in Dien-Bien-Phu
1955 : Death of Nepal King Tribhuvan and is succeded by Mahendra http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribhuvan
1963 : Indonesia and Netherlands recover diplomatic relations
1964 : Laos and South Vietnam restore their diplomatic relations
1965 : Thailand and Malaysia sign a defense cooperation agreement for fighting the communist guerilla
1970 : Cambodian government give to the Vietnamese National Liberation Front forces two days to leave its territory
1996 : After the death, in prison of Thomas Wapay Wainggai, 59 years, ex leader of the Papu separatist Organisasi Papua Merkeda (OPM), riots in Jayapura. http://www.hamline.edu/apakabar/basisdata/1996/03/20/0013.html
1997 : India’s Missionaries of Charity chooses Sister Nirmala to succed Mother Teresa as its leader http://home.comcast.net/~motherteresasite/nirmala.html
1997 : In South Korea the ex-Premier Lee Hoi-chang becomes the leader of the New Korea Party. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Hoi-chang
2000 : US Secretary for Defense in visit to Vietnam, the first time since 1975
2007 : Cambodian ex-Prime Minister Norodom Ranariddh is condamned in absence to 18 months in prison for embezzlement after a complain of Funcinpec, his ex-party
But today, the main event in Asia history is the birthday of Asia Observer member APPLEMEG from the Philippines
From all of us, have a nice birthday
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14 MARCH 2008
MAIN FACTS IN ASIA HISTORY ON 14 MARCH
1880 : Death of Pagan Min, king of Burma from 1846 to 1853 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagan_Min
1951 : In the Korean War, Seoul is taken back for the second time and definitively by United Nations forces
1953 : 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 http://edition.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/11/spotlight/
1969 : Start of two days fight between Chinese and Russian forces on Ussuri river http://www.cybergeo.eu/index4141.html
1965 : Birth of Aamir Khan, Indian actor http://www.apunkachoice.com/celebrities/aamir_khan/
1977 : Birth of Sun Mei-Ting, Chinese-born pianist http://www.meiting.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&
id=4&Itemid=9
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
1988 : Sino-vietnamese 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 upgrated to provincial level as Beijing, Tianjing 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 autorized 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
But today, the main event in Asia history is the birthday of Asia Observer members ANDERS.IVARSSON from Sweden and VIJAYESWARAN1985 from Malaysia
From all of us, have a nice birthday
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15 MARCH 2008
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MAIN FACTS IN ASIAN HISTORY ON 15 MARCH
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 http://library.thinkquest.org/C0126670/emperors/shunzhi_en.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shunzhi_Emperor
1874 : Treaty of peace and alliance between France and Annam kingdom (Vietnam) to which Hanoi is retroceded. France keeps Indo-China and gets religious freedom and navigation freedom
1897 : Birth of Kikou Yamata, female nippo-french witer who died in March 1975 http://www.ne.jp/asahi/birades/home/english.html
1943 : Allied reconnaissance flight over Java
1947 : In the Philippines, a referendum gives the same rights to US and Filipino citizen
1960 : Syngman Rhee is reelected president of South Korea http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/COLDsyngman.htm
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
1981 : The passengers and crew of a Pakistan Airways plane held hostage for nearly two weeks are relased 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
1989 : Death of Muhammad Jameel Didi, Maldivian poet, born in May 1915 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Jameel_Didi
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 succeds Jiang Zemin as president of the PRC
2005 : Death of Shoji Nishio Sensei, Japanese martial artist, born in December 1927 http://www.aikidojo.info/html/shoji_nishio_sensei.html
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17 MARCH 2008
MAIN FACTS IN ASIAN HISTORY ON 17 MARCH
927 : Birth of Zhao Kuangyin who will be first Song dynasty Emperor (960-976) http://melanconent.com/lib/knowl/history/china/song/north.html
1231 : Birth of the 87th Japanese emperor Shijo in 1232, who died in an accident in February 1242 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Shij%C5%8D
1272 : Death of Go-Saga, the 88th emperor of Japan (1232-1246), born in April 1220 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Go-Saga
1425 : Death of Ashikaga Yoshikazu, 5th shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate from 1423 to 1425 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashikaga_Yoshikazu
1920 : Birth of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, father of Bangladesh independence (1971), assassinated in August 1975 http://www.bangabandhu.org/
1942 : General MacArthur arrives in Australia to become supreme commander of Allied forces in the southwest Pacific theater during World War II http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0317.html#article
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1939 : The Battle of Nanchang, between the Kuomintang and the Japanese breaks out
1957 : Death of the Philippines président Ramon Magsaysay in an airplane crash http://www.rmaf.org.ph/Ramon-Magsaysay/ramon-magsaysay.htm
1959 : Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, flees Lhasa to India http://www.tibet.com/DL/biography.html
1968 : Anti-Vietnam demo turns violent in London http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/17/
newsid_2818000/2818967.stm
1973 : Birth of Rico Blanco, Filipino singer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rico_Blanco
1980 : Death of Prince Boun Oum, twice Laos’ prime minister : 1948-1950 and 1960-1962 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boun_Oum
But today, the main event in Asia history is the birthday of Asia Observer founder SANDWAND from Norway
From all of us, have a nice birthday <br><br>Post edited by: Jacques, at: 2008/03/18 00:26
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18 MARCH 2008
MAIN FACTS IN ASIAN HISTORY ON 18 MARCH
1910 : Birth of Chiang Ching-kuo, son of Chiang Kai-shek and president of the ROC (Taiwan) from May 1978 to his death in January 1988 http://www.taiwan.com.au/Polieco/Symbols/report08.html
1922 : In India, Mohandas Gandhi is sentenced to six years in prison for civil disbedience. He would serve only 2 years
1928 : Birth of Fidel Ramos, president of the Philippines from June 1992 to June 1998 http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Pool/1644/ramos.html
1966 : In Indonesia, General Suharto forms his first government as president
1969 : Beginning of heavy US bombing on Cambodia
1970 : In Cambodia, coup d'état by rightist factions led by prince Sirik Matak and general Lon Nol with US support. Beginning of Lon Nol’s military regime. Sihanouk flees to China. http://www.edwebproject.org/sideshow/history/coup.html
1974 : Former Cambodian capital Oudong is captured by the Khmer Rouge. The 20,000 inhabitants are killed or deported http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oudong
1978 : Pakistan former Prime Minister Ali Bhutto is sentenced to death http://www.biographybase.com/biography/Bhutto_Ali.html
2000 : In Taiwan, for the first time, an opposant to Kuomintang, Chen Shui-bian is elected president http://www.gio.gov.tw/taiwan-website/5-gp/president.htm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/2172980.stm
2001 : India gets a one billion population
2001 : In Afghanistan, the Mollah Mohammad Omar, leader of the Talibans order the destruction of all the Buddha statues http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1161617
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19 MARCH 2008
MAIN FACTS IN ASIAN HISTORY ON 19 MARCH
1279 : In China, a Mongol victory in the naval Battle of Yamen ends the Song dynasty. In the battle, Chine Emperor Bing is drown http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Yamen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Bing_of_Song
1434 : Birth of Ashikaga Yoshikatsu, 7th shogun (1442-1443) of the Ashikaga Shogunate, who died in a riding accident in August 1443 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashikaga_Yoshikatsu http://www.japan-photo.de/e-yoshikatsu.htm
1623 : Death of Uesugi Kagekatsu, Japanese samurai and warlord, born in January 1556 http://www.samurai-archives.com/kagekatsu.html
1853 : In China, Taiping rebels capture Nanjing
1947 : The Nationalists troops of Chiang Kai-shek capture Yan’an (Yenan), the communist capital of Mao Zedong http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-4/
mswv4_18.htm
1955 : Ichiro Hatoyama is elected Japan Prime Minister and forms a Liberal government http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichir%C5%8D_Hatoyama http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19550314,00.html
1960 : General elections in Sri Lanka after PM Bandaranaike was shot by a buddhist monk
1972 : India and Bangladesh sign a friendship treaty
1973 : Opening at La celle-Saint-Cloud (France) of long negociations between the Provisional Revolutionary Government (PRG) of the Vietcong and a delegation of the Saigon government http://facultystaff.richmond.edu/~ebolt/history398/PRG(1969-1975)TVT.html
1975 : Birth of Vivian Hsu (Hsu Shu-juan), Taiwanese actress, model and singer http://women.stareastasia.com/vivian-hsu/
1981 : Birth of Kim Rae Won, South Korean actor and model http://wiki.d-addicts.com/Kim_Rae_Won
1998 : In Cambodia, Ousted Prime Minister Norodom Ranariddh, is condemned in ansentia at thirty years in prison, accused of having fomented a coup d’état with the Khmer Rouge in July 1997
1998 : In India, the Hindu nationalist Atal Bihari Vajpayee forms a new government http://www.bjp.org/leader/atalji.htm
2002 : In Afghanistan, end of Operation Anaconda (Started March 2) after killing 500 Taliban and Al-Qaeda fighters with 11 allied troop fatalities http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101020318/popup/
2004 : Taiwanese President Chen Shuibian vice-president Annette Lu are lightly wounded in an pistol attack, the day before new presidential elections http://www.tzengs.com/News/Assasin/photos_.htm
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20 MARCH 2008
MAIN FACTS IN ASIAN HISTORY ON 20 MARCH
1602 : The Dutch East India Company (VOC) is established http://www.reference.com/search?q=Dutch%20East%20India%20Company
1737 : Birth of Chao Phraya Chakri who founded the current Chakri dynasty in Thailand in April 1782 (Rama I) and died in September 1809 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rama_I
1739 : Nader Shah occupies Delhi and sacks the city, stealing the jewel of the Peacock Throne. 30,000 civilians are killed http://www.iranchamber.com/history/afsharids/afsharids.php http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takht_e_Taus
1913 : Song Jiaoren (Sung Chiao-jen), a founder of the Kuomintang is wounded in an assassination attempt and dies two days later http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9070370/Sung-Chiao-jen
1923 : Birth of Shaukat Siddiqui, Pakistani author, Journalist and political activist who died in December 2006 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaukat_Siddiqui
1945 : The British, with the 19th Indian Division retake Mandalay in Burma http://www.iwm.org.uk/upload/package/1/burma/summary.htm
1973 : Birth of Jung Woo-sung, Korean actor http://men.stareastasia.com/jung-woo-sung/
1977 : The Indian Congress Party loses the general elections against the newly founded Janata Party. Morarji Desai is charged to form a new government.
1980 : Birth of Ock Ju-Hyun, South Korean singer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ock_Ju-Hyun http://gallery.asianfanatics.net/index.php?act=thumbs&aid=2198
1990 : Ferdinand Marcos’s widows, Imelda Marcos, goes on trial for bribery, embezzlement and racketing http://www.who2.com/imeldamarcos.html
1991 : Khaleda Zia first women to become PM in Bangladesh up to March 1996 http://www.virtualbangladesh.com/biography/khaleda.html
1995 : A sarin gaz attack on the Tokyo subway kills 12 and wounds 1,300 persons http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0320.html#article http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=6842
2004 : Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian is reelected with less than 30,000 votes (50,11 %) more than Lien Chan (49,89 %)
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