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ON THIS DAY IN ASIA HISTORY

Each day I will give the main facts that happened on this day in Asia

9 SEPTEMBER 2007

9 SEPTEMBER 2001 :AFGHAN NATIONAL HERO MASSOUD KILLED

The northern Afghan coalition leader Ahmed Shah Massoud was killed by two fake journalists (in fact two Algerian Al-Qaida members). He has been an anti-soviet occupation hero and the main force against the Taliban. His killing was just two days before the September 11 attack on US. The reason of this killing is that he was the only one capable to fight the Taliban who were the protectors of Ben Laden and his,Al-Qaida members in Afghanistan.

Books on Massoud http://hometown.aol.com/mbeve10258/Massoud.html

OTHER FACTS

1948 : Proclamation of the Popular Democratic Republic of Korea

BIRTH

1949 : Sulilo Bambang Yudhoyono, président of Indonesia since october 2004

DEATH

1976 : Mao Zedong http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/9/ newsid_3020000/3020374.stm

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10 September 2007

10 SEPTEMBER 1980 : HUA GUOFENG OBLIGED TO QUIT AS PRIME MINISTER

After the death of Zhou Enlai in January 1976, Mao named Hua Guofeng as Prime Minister, and his heir few days before his death on 9th September 1976. Hua a strong maoist was both President of the Communist party and Prime Minister. After that Deng Xiaoping and the reformists took the control of the Central Comity in December 1978, he was slowy pushed out of power.

The first move was to oblige him to give up his Prime Minister function to Zhao Ziyang who had implimented a lot of reforms in Guangdong then in Sichuan, on 10th September.
The following year he was forced to give up the presidency of the CCP to Hu Yaobang, then expelled from the politbureau

OTHER FACT :

1948 : Communist uprising in Indonesia

BIRTHS:
1895 : Viswanatha Satyanaeayana, Indian writer
1896 : Ye ting, famous general of the Chinese communist Red Army
2000 : Zaib-un-Nissa hamidullah, Pakistanese female journalist and writer

DEATHS:

210 BC : Qin Shi Huangdi, first China emperor
1308 : Go-Nijo Japanese emperor (1301-1308)

11 SEPTEMBER 2007

11 SEPTEMBER 1917 : BIRTH OF FERDINAND MARCOS, PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES (1965-1986)

Today, Ferdinand Marcos would be 90 years old if he was always on life. He has been president of the Philippines for 21 years after defeating president Macapagal on 30 December 1965 elections.

On 21st September 1972, under the excuse of the leftist and muslim insurgencies, he declares the martial law. His regime becomes more and more authoritarian and corrupted. At that time he is supported by the US as an ally in the Vietnam war. On July 1973, he mades a new constitution who authorizes him to stay president all his life

His main mistake has been the murder of Ninoy Aquino, the opposition leader coming back from exile, on the tarmac of Manila airport on 21st August of 1983. That was the starting of mass demonstrations leaded by Aquino widow, Cory Aquino, supported by the very influent Filipina catholic church.

On 25 February 1986, he abandons the presidential palace and flies to Hawaii with an huge amount of gold bares and dollars. He dies there on September 28, 1989

OTHERS FACTS

1906 : Gandhi launches the Satyagraha (non violence resistance) rule of conduct

1955 : Elections in Cambodge, big success for prince Sihanouk

1960 : In Laos, Prince Boun Oum joines general Phoumi trying a counter revolution to count the state coup by general Kong-lé who bring prince Souvanna Phouma to power

1965 : The US 1st Cavalry Division arrives in Vietnam

1982 : End of the Chinese Communist Party XIIe congress. Hua Guofeng is expelled from the Politbureau. Hu Yaobang becomes general secretary of the CCP (new title replacing the one of president). Founding of the Central conseillors commission headed by Deng Xiaopeng.

2005 : Triumph of Junichiro Koisumi in the legislative elections

BIRTHS :

1182 : Minamoto no Yorii, Japanese shogun (1202-1203)

1917 : Ferdinand Marcos

DEATHS

1921ubamanya Barathi, a Tamil poet

1926 : Death of Japanese emperor Matsunosuke Onoe

1948 :Jinnah Muhammad Ali, Father of Pakistan indépendance.


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12 SEPTEMBER 2007

12 SEPTEMBER 1997 : OPENING OF THE CCP XVth CONGRESS

This congress was important because it was the first one since the death of Deng Xiaoping. There was two big questions.

1)Is the general secretary Jiang Zemin, protégé of Deng Xiaoping capable to keep his position? Can the old guard with Qiao Shi (number 3 in the Party and president of the National Assembly) put him aside ?

2)What to do with the Prime Minister Li Peng who is number 2 in the Party hierarchy, but cannot be reelected for a third term as PM ? He is the head of an important faction : the sons of founders of the party sent to Soviet Union for learning. Too unpopular, he cannot take the place of Jiang Zemin. The only one suitable position for him is to become president of the NPA, but Qiao Shi don’t want to give up.

The XVth congress ended on September 18. So you will have the result on that day.

The below picture is the hierarchy of the CCP that was in charge between 1992 and 1997. For my 18th September comment, note that Qiao Shi is number 3 and admiral Liu Huaqing number 6.

OTHERS FACTS

1999 : Indonesia agrees to allow UN forces in East Timor

2005 : Early general elections in Japan who result in an overwhelming majority in favour of the Prime Minister Koizumi party who won 296 seats on 480. It got an an absolute majority for the first time since 1986.

BIRTH :

1875 : Matsunosuke Onoe, emperor of Japan

1986 : Yang Mi, Chinese actress
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13 SEPTEMBER 2007

13 SEPTEMBER 1997 : FUNERALS SERVICES FOR NOBEL PEACE LAUREATE MOTHER TERESA

I know that on 5th september, my &quot;On that day&quot; was on &quot;the Mother Teresa death&quot;. But in this period of hate, mainly between religions, we have to remember that she was fighting for the dignity of destitute in a foreign land and she gave the world a morale exemple that bridged divideds of culture, class and religion.

Ben Laden and his followers could take a lesson from her
http://www.time.com/time/time100/heroes/profile/teresa01.html
http://www.motherteresacause.info/

OTHERS FACTS

1900 : Filipino resistance fighters defeat a small American column in the battle of Pulang Leipa, during the Philippine-American war

1943 : Chiang Kai-sheh (Jiang Jieshi) president of Republic of China

1971 : Lin Biao died in an air crash on Extern Mongolia, trying to escape from China after an attempt of coup against Mao Zedong

1992 : Thailand : general elections. Chuan Leekpai, président of the Democratic Party is named Prime Minister.

BIRTHS

1951 : Linda Wong, in Hawwaii, the first Asian porno star

1980 : Han Chae Young, South Korean actress

1985 : Emi Suzuki, sino-japanese famous model and actress

1989 : Natsuki Okamato, Japanese actress

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14 SEPTEMBER 2007

14 SEPTEMBER 1897 : THE USA ANNEX SANDWICH ISLANDS

It is not a joke. This archipelargo was discovered in 1778 by Captain Cook who give them the name of Sandwich. In fact Sandwich was the name of the British Lord of the Amiralty. Cook was killed there by local peoples on 14th February the following year.

The Americans sailors came often and finely the USA annexed these islands on 14th September 1897. You better know them as Hawaii, with Honolulu as a capital. On 21 September 1959, they became the 50th State of the USA.

Hawaii today population is a melting pot of Polynesians, Chineses and Japaneses

OTHER FACTS:

1180 : Battle of Ishibashiyama between the Minamoto and Tairan clans

1946 : After the failure of the Fontainebleau Conference, a motus vivendi is signed in Paris between Marius Moutet, the French Minister of Colonies et Hô Chi Minh

1988 Liu Huaqing promoted admiral

1993 : Wei Jingsheng in jail since 1979 is freed fort the first time (again arrested the following year)

DEATHS:

585 : Bidatsu, 30th emperor of Japan (572-585)

1164 : Sutoku, 75th emperor of Japan (1123-1142)

15 SEPTEMBER 2007

15 SEPTEMBER 1950 : LANDING OF UN FORCES ON INCHON

This landing of United Nations forces on Inchon beach, under the command of general Douglas MacArthur, taking the North Korean communist invaders by rear was the start of UN reaction to North Korea Invasion.

Strongly military equiped by Soviet Union, Kim Il-sung North Korea forces invaded the Republic of Korea in late June and quickly seized all the peninsula except a small resistance pouch around Pusan.

The US forces, who where occupying Japan, have been in charge of an international force for helping South Korea to recover its freedom. That has been the first United Nation military action in its history.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/15/ newsid_3633000/3633301.stm

OTHERS FACTS

1894 : Battle of Pyongyang during the first sino-japanese war for the control of Korea kingdom

1954 : First Popular Republic of China is adopted. Mao Zedong elected president of the PRC

1956 : Opening of the VIIIth congress of the Chinese communist party, the first since it take the power in China.

1958 : China announces that the popular communes system on trial in five provinces will be etended to all the country.

BIRTHS :

1892 : Silpa Barasri an Italian man who was the father of modern arts in Thailand

1909 : Conjeevaram Natarajan Annadurai, Tamil Nadu first non Congress chief minister (1967-1969)

1926 : Shohei Imamura, a famous Japanese film-maker

16 SEPTEMBER 2007

16 SEPTEMBER 1507 : BIRTH OF CHINESE EMPEROR JIAJING

Born Zhu Houcong, he was the Zhende Emperor cousin to whom he succeded to the throne at the age of 14 years. He was emperor from 1521 to 1567 as the 11th emperor of the Ming dynasty.

He was known to be a cruel and self-aggrandizing emperor who chosed to reside outside of the Forbidden City in Beijing so he could live in isolation.

He was a devote follower of Taoism and attempted to suppress Buddhism

He died 23 January 1567

OTHER FACTS

1598 : Naval victory of the Korean admiral at Myong-yang on Japanese fleet

1932 : Gandhi begins fast in protest of caste separation in votes by the British authorities

1945 : Japan surrendered Hong Kong

1963 : Birth of the Federation of Malaysia with Malaya, Singapore, Sarawak and Sabah

1965 : Beijing demand to India to dismantle in the next three days its military posts on the Sikkim border

1969 : President Richard Nixon announces the withdraw of 35 000 Américan soldiers from Vietnam before 15 December.

1978 : Général Zia Ul-Haq president of the new Islamic Republic

2002 : Start of the talks between Sri Lanka government and the Tamil separatists of the LTTE under Norwegian mediation

OTHER BIRTHS

1782 : Chinese emperor Daoguang (1820-1850)

1923 : Lee Kuan Yew, father of Singapore independance

1981 : Chang Yu-chen, taiwane actress

DEATHS

1957 : Qi Baishi, famous Chinese painter


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17 SEPTEMBER 2007

17 SEPTEMBER 1957 MARSHAL SARIT THANARAT SIZES POWER IN THAILAND

This day, the Field Marshal Sarit, from Lao origin, overthrew the more and more unpopular Marshal Pibun Songkhram who is obliged to go on exil.

Sarit deputy, Thanon Kittikachorn, took the charge of Prime Minister for a while Sarit went to the US for medical reasons.

When he came back, he decided of a “Revolution”. On 20 October 1958, he declared martial law and on 9 February 1959, he took for himself the Prime Minister position that he keep up to his death in 1962.

He is credited of having improved the status of the king and the Thai economy situation, but his new regime was the most repressive and authoritarian in Thai history. He abrogated the constitution and dissolved the parliament.

OTHERS FACTS

1894 : Battle of Yalu River, the largest naval engagement in the first Sino-Japan war

1900 : Battle of Mabitac. Filipino fighters outmaneuver and rout Americain forces on Luzon

1935 : Manuel L. Quezon elected first President of the Commonwealth of the Philipines

1959 : Lin Piao become Defence Minister, replacing Peng Dehuai

1977 : Ali Bhutto, the Pakistan Prime Minister is arrested and accused of crime by general Zia-ul Haq who had overthrow him

1980 : Kim Dae-jung, leader of the South Korea opposition is condamned to death by a Martial Court.

1991 : South Korea and North Korea become members of the United Nations

1995 : Hong Kong last election under British rule

1999 : President Bill Clinton lifts restrictions on trade, travel and banking imposed on North Korea a half-century earlier

2001 : World Trade Organisation votes for China enter

2002 : Junichiro Koizumi is the first Japanese Prime Minister to visit North Korea

BIRTH :

1973 : Ada Choi, Hong Kong actress
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