7 OCTOBER 2007
7 OCTOBER 1944 : BIRTH OF DONALD TSANG
Donald Tsang is the incumbent Chief Executive of Hong Kong since 2005 when he replaced the disgraced Tung Chee-hwa whose he was the deputy
A civil servant since 1967, he has been the first ethnic Chinese to be appointed Financial Secretary of Hong Kong in 1995 and a knight of the British Empire in 1997.
Elected in 2007, he has to find a solution for the political reforms of the Special administrative Region.
BBC Profile
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4335331.stm
Wikipedia biography
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Tsang
Authorized biography
http://www.ceo.gov.hk/eng/biography.htm
OTHER FACTS
1708 : Death of Guru Gobing Singhn the 10th Sikh guru
1942 : Birth of Hiroko Kibuchi, Japanese actress
1943 : Japanese execute nearly 100 American POW on Wake island http://www.history.com/tdih.do?action=tdihArticleCategory&id=6610
1946 : Birth of Yukiko Kobayashi, Japanese actress
1950 : Mother Teresa received permission from the Holy See to start her own order “The Missionaries for Charity”
1950 : Beginning of Tibet invasion by the Chinese PLA
1950 : In Korea, the United States forces cross the 38th parallel between South and North Korea
1951 : Malayan Races Liberation Army (MRLA) ambushes and kills British High Commissioner Sir Henry Gurney
1958 : President of Pakistan Iskander Zia with the support of Ayub Khan and the army, suspends the 1956 constitution, imposes martial law and cancels the elections scheduled for January 1959.
1958 : Birth of Yoshihiro Kato, Japanese actor
1961 : Conference of Ban Hin Heup (Laos) for the constitution of a union government
1966 : Soviet Union expels all the Chinese students
1970 : President Nixon discloses a 5-points plan to solve the Vietnam problem
1972 : Birth of Shinsuke Izutsu, Japanese actor
1973 : Visit of PM Tanaka to Moscow up to ten
1976 : Hua Guofeng elected president of the Central committee of the Chinese communist party
1979 : Birth of Xing Wang, Singaporean actress
1979 : Birth of Wei Tang, Chinese actress
1988 : Birth of Mai Saito, Japanese actress
2001 : First US air strikes angainst Taleban and Al Qaida training camps in Afghanistan http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/7/
newsid_2519000/2519353.stm
2004 : Abdication of Cambodia king Norodom Sihanouk
<br><br>Post edited by: Jacques, at: 2007/10/08 11:46
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