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Re:On that day 10 Months, 2 Weeks ago
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17 OCTOBER 2007
17 OCTOBER 1967 : DEATH OF PU YI, THE LAST CHINESE EMPEROR
Pu Yi, under the name of Xuantong, selected by empress Cixi, became emperor as he has not yet three years old, with his father second Prince Chun as a regent.
After the establishment of the Republic by Sun Yat-sen on 1st January 1912, he abdicated on 12 February and authorized to leave in the Forbidden city up to he was expelled by warlord Feng Yuxiang in 1924.
After that, he resided in the Japanese concession in Tianjin. After Japan sized Manchuria in 1931 they named him as Chief of the Executive from 9 March 1932 , then as Mandchukuo emperor on 1st March 1934 with the name of Kangde.
After the collapse of Japan in 1945, he was captured by the Soviet army and bing to Siberia. But in 1950, Stalin decided on to give him to the new communist China where he was send for ten years in a reeducation camp where he applied to be a good communist.
After that he works and became a delegate to the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and encouraged by Zhou written his memories “From Emperor to citizen”, published in 1964.
But during the Cultural Revolution, he was again put in jail and died of kidney and heart deseases on 17 October 1967.
His live has been put on screen by Bertolucci in a film named “The last emperor” (1987)
Film : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Emperor
For joking, you have to know that there is, in exile, a Mandchukuo temporary government http://www.manchukuo.org/index28.htm#The%20information%20of%20Manchukuo%20Temporary%20Government
OTHER FACTS
1748 : British troops raise the siege of the French Indian city Pondichery, well defended by Dupleix.
1817 : Birth of Syed Ahmad Khan, Indian Musmim intellectual
1887 : Foundation of the French Indochina Union gathering Cochin china and the protectorates of Cambodia, Annam and Tonking
1919 : Birth of Zhao Ziyang, Prime Minister (1980), then General Secretary of the CCP (1987-1989). http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1018129,00.html
1947 : Second London anglo-Burman agreement on independence of Burma
1950 : Ngabo Ngawang Djimé surrenders to Chinese troops for the Chambo, one of the tree parts of Tibet (Today Qinhai)
1950 : Agreement of military support between Thailand and US
1953 : Signature of a Treaty of Friendship and Association between France and Laos.
1953 : Agreement between France and Cambodia for the transfer of responsibilities for defense matters
1972 : Korean President Park Chung-hee decrees Martial Law
1992 : Death of Herman Johannes, Indonesian professor, scientist and politician
2002 : In front of US Congress, James Kelly, in charge of US Asia diplomacy said that during his last trip to Pyongyang, the North Koreans acknowled that they were developping a military nuclear programme.
2003 : Eunuchs in the Indian State of Madhya Pradesh float the political party Jiti Jitayi Politics
2005 : Death of Ba Jin, famous Chinese writer
Pu Yi in 1934
 <br><br>Post edited by: Jacques, at: 2007/10/17 22:25
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