29 OCTOBER 2007

Dear friends and viewers. Exacty two month ago, I launched ON THAT DAY on a trial basis because it is very time consumming. But during these two months, you have been 6609 to watch it. So I will continue it.

Asia Observer is the only website giving all the facts that happened in Asia on that day, and only on Asia

The system is to stress one fact that happened on a year finishing by 7 this year and 8 next year,and so on. and finely to give you all the main facts that happened in Asia history

29 OCTOBER 2004 CORONATION OF CAMBODIA's KING SIHAMONI

Born on 14 May 1953, he is the only one living child of king Sihanouk and his third wife Monique

His passed his childhood in Prague and then was in France four 20 years were he wa a classic dance teacher and Cambodia's ambassador to UNESCO.

After Sihanouk abdicated, he was elected kin on 14 October 2004.

His father, Sihanouk, dominated the country political life during 60 years

His official website : http://www.norodomsihamoni.org/

OTHER FACTS

1888 : Birth of Li Dazhao, Chinese intellectual

1935 : Birth of Takahata Isao, animated film director

1936 : Birth of Akiko Kojima, Japanese model

1941 : Birth of Hisayuki Toriumi, Japanese director

1951 : Murder of Jean de Raymond, French Republic commissioner at Phnom-Penh

1952 : Shigeru Yoshida modifies his gouvernment

1953 : Non official commercial agreement between China and Japan.

1954 : Birth of Tomoko Ai, Japanese actress

1956 : Birth of Etsuko Shihomi, Japanese actress

1959 : Death of the king of Laos Sisavang Vong

1965 : Birth of Masahiro Takashima, Japanese actor

1969 : Birth of Ha Hie-ra, South Korean actress

1971 : As a result of the vietnamization of the war by president Nixon, the total number of American troops still in Vietnam drops to a record low of 196,700, the mowest level since January 1966

1978 : Birth of Kumiko Higa, Japanese actress

1981 : Birth of Reema Sen, Indian actress

1988 : Pakistan’s general Rahimuddin Khan resigns from his post as governor of Sindh, following the effort by president Ghulam Ishaq Khan to limit the powers Rahimuddin had accumulated

1999 : Super-cyclone wreaks havoc in India http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/29/ newsid_3691000/3691573.stm

2001 : For the first time, the Japanese diet approuves a law which allows to send troops out of Japan for fighting international terrorism

2006 : Bangladesh’s president , Iajuddin Ahmed assumeshimself the charge of Prime Minister(up t to January 2007)and Khaleda Zia quits as PM

But as you know, the most important fact on an 29 October in Asia is the birthday of our Asia Observer member Anumpashaa, from Pakistan

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