21 SEPTEMBER 2007

21 SEPTEMBER 1987 : THE DALAI LAMA INTRODUCES HIS FIVE POINTS PEACE PLAN FOR TIBET

The Dalai Lama, speaking in front of the United States Congress introduces his Five Points Peace Plan for Tibet, asking for a large autonomy, as Hong Kong, inside People Republic of China, that he called a medium way, with Tibetans really in charge of the region for internal affairs, including education, religious, cultural and environment affairs while Beijing could keep Foreign Affairs and Defense.

OTHER FACTS

1746 : The French Army takes Madras in India

1860: In the Second Opium war, an anglo-French force defeats Chinese troop at the battle of Baliqiao (Pa-Li-Kao)

1998: Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power and ends the Hundred Days’s Reform in China

1949 : First meeting of the China People Consultating Conference aiming to reconstruct China under the leadership of the Communist Party

1957 : Pote Sarazin, General secretary of Seato, becomes caretaker Prime Minister of Thailand

1963 : Soviet Union denounces the China will to obtain at all cost the nuclear weapon.

1965 : Singapore admitted as part of the United Nations

1971 : Bhutan admitted to United Nations

1972 : Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines signs Proclamation N° 1081 placing the entire country under the martial law, starting his dictatorship on the country under the excuse of communist and Muslim separatist threat.

1993: The Constitutional Assembly of Cambodia restores the parliamentary monarchy abolished in 1970.

1996 : Sitaram Kesri takes the leadership of the Indian Congress (I) from Narasimha Rao,accused of fraud.

1999 : Chi-Chi earthquake occurs in central Taiwan, leaving about 2,400 people dead

2001 : The first East Timor government, lead by Alkari, leader of Fretilin, sworned.


BIRTHDAYS

1328 : Zhu Yuanzhang (Hongwu) Founder of the Ming Dynasty

1949: Yusaku Matsuda, Japanese actor

1954 : Shinzo Abe, Japanese Prime Minister

1980: Kareena Kapoor, India actress

1981 : Asia Observer member Gmalik from India

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<br><br>Post edited by: Jacques, at: 2007/09/21 01:25