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14 OCTOBER 2007

14 OCTOBER 1947 : D. S. SENANAYAKE FISRT PRIME MINISTER OF CEYLAN

Don Stephan Senanayake has been the first Prime Minister of Ceylan (Now Sri Lanka) from october 1947 to march 1952.

Born in 1884, he entered in politics and served as Minister of Agriculture under the British rule from 1931 to 1946 and founded the Sri Lanka United National Party.

The new 1946 constitution opened the way to the independence and the Singhaleses formed their first government after elections won by Sennayake Party. Ceylan became fully independent on 4 February 1948.

He died on 22 March 1952 from a riding accident


OTHER FACTS

1493 : Birth of Shimazu Tadayoshi, Japanese warlord

1643 : Birth Bahadur Shah I, Mughal emperor who rules briefly India

1867 : The 15th and last shogun of the Togugawa shogunate resigns

1882 : Foudation of the University of Punjab, today in Pakistan

1900 : Birth of Kyoko Chigusa, Japanese actor

1911 : Birth of Le Duc Tho, Vietnamese Foreign minister and 1973 Nobel Prize

1922 : Birth of Yumeiji Tsukioka, Japanese actress

1943 : Japan declare Philippines independance. José Laurel is president up to 14 August 1945

1958 : Birth of Kaoru Ikeya, Japanese film director

1960 : Birth of Takashi Ishihara, Japanese film producer

1963 : Birth of Kim Jae-beom, South Korea singer

1973 : A la suite de la répression sanglante de manifestations estudiantines en Thaïlande, les militaires doivent abandonner le pouvoir. http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/14/ newsid_2534000/2534347.stm

1980 : Birth of Oh Yun-a, Korean actress

1984 : From all parts of Bangladesh, 2 million people converge to Dacca demanding the end of the two and half year Martial Law

1991 : The Norvegian Nobel Committee decides to award the Nobel Price to Aung San Suu Kyi for her non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1991/press.html

2001 : Poussée par les partis politiques et associations musulmanes, Megawati Sukarnoputri condamne les frappes anglo-américaines sur l’Afghanistan.

2004 : The Council of the throne unanimously names prince Sihamoni as the new king of Cambodia to succeed his father Norodom Sihanouk.

2004 : Death of Yoneo Iguchi, Japanese actor.

2006 : The United Nations Security Council unanimously votes sanctions against North Korea for its nuclear test.


 
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15 OCTOBER 2007

15 OCTOBER 1957 : BIRTH OF MIRA NAIR INDIAN FILM DIRECTOR

Mira Nair is one of the most internationaly known Indian film director and producer who won several international rewards.

She studied sociology in Delhi University where she became involved in political streets theater and performed three years in an amateur drama company before going to study to the United States.

After some documentary she directed her first major film “Salaam Bombay” (1988) which won an Oscar at French Cannes festival.

Nair’s most popular film to date “Monsoon wedding” was awarded the Golden Lion award at the Venice Mostra film festival.

She is currently teaching in the United States and directing a new movie “Shantaram” (2008)

One of her more often topic is exile.


Her personnal webesite : http://www.mirabaifilms.com/bio.html

OTHERS FACTS

1542 : Birth of Akbar the Great who rule the Mughal empire in India from 1556 to 1605

1904 : The Russian Baltic Fleet leaves Estonia for Port Arthur (Lûshun) during the Russo-Japanese war.

1916 : Birth of admiral Liu Huaqing who modernized the PRC Navy

1931 : Birth of Aval Pakir Jainulabdeen Abduk Kalam, India President (2002-2007)

1932 : Tata Airlines (Now Air India) makes its first fly

1934 : Birth of N. Ramani, Indian flutist

1941 : Li Tung, Taiwanese actor

1942 : Kyoto Enami, Japanese actress

1948 : Shigeru Yoshida succeeds Hitoshi Ashida as 48th Prime minister (up to February 1949)

1949 : Canton (Guangzhou) is taken by the People Liberation Army.

1950 : First infiltrations of Chinese troops in North Korea

1952 : Birth of Kunibriko Yuyama, Pokemo series film director

1957 : Sino-Soviet agreement for military nuclear cooperation

1969 : Millions march in US to protest against the continuing war in Vietnam http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/15/ newsid_2533000/2533131.stm

1976 : Birth of Yoon San-ha, Korean actress and singer

1979 : Start of a travel of Hua guofeng to Occidental Europe

1982 : Birth of Yoko Maki, Japanese actress

2001 : Visit of Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to Seoul. As he did in Beijing, he expresses his remorse for the past.

2001 : Death of general Zhang Xueliang who forced Chiang Kai-shek to ally with the Communist for fighting the Japanese

2003 : China successfully send a first man in Space, the Lt-colonel Yang Yiwei.
2004 : All the small border problems between China and Russia are solved.


Mira Nair picture


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16 OCTOBER 2007

16 OCTOBER 1866 : A FRENCH NAVY FLEET ATTACKS KOREA

Under French emperor Napoleon III, France was the protector of the catholic missionnaries in the world.

After the slaughter of nine French missionaries in Korea, the French chargé d’affaires to China decided to send a fleet under the command of amiral Roze to revenge the killed missionaries and to overthrow the king of Korea.

On 16 October they took the Kwang-Hwa island at the mouth of Han river which lead to Seoul. They looted the royal treasures in the island but never took Seoul and withdraw on 21 November.

The French ministry of Foreign condemned this action.


OTHER FACTS

1535 : Birth of Niwa Nagahide, Japanese wardlord

1840 : Birth of Kuroda Kiyotaka,

1841 : Birth of Prince Hirobumi Ito, four times Prime Minister and first Japanese governor of Korea

1905 : Partition of Bengal by the British authorities provoking high level unrest

1914 : Birth of Zaher Shah, the last king of Afghanistan

1934 : Start of the Chinese Communist Party Long March http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&amp; id=7052

1942 : A cyclone is the cause of 11,000 deds in Bengal

1951 : Murder of Liquat Ali Khan, the first PM of Pakistan

1953 : A National congress convened by Bao Daï refuses the adherence of Vietnam to the Union française « in its current form »

1964 : PRC detonates its first nuclear weapon http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/1016.html#article

1965 : Ransack of the Chinese commercial mission in Jakarta

1967 : John Baez arrested in Vietnam protest http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/16/ newsid_2535000/2535301.stm

1973 : Kissinger and Le Duc Tho Nobel Prize http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1973/press.html

1979 : First official visit to Moscow by Aghan président Babrak Karmal

1979 : Chinese dissident Wei Jingsheng, arrested at the end of March is sentenced to fifteen years in jail

1982 : Birth of Vincy Chan, Hong Kong singer

2002 : Five Japaneses, kidnapped in the 1970s and 1980s by North Koreans agents, are for the first time authorized to return to their country « for few days »


Admiral Roze on his ship
 
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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

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19 OCTOBER 2007

I made a mistake, passing from 17 to 19 october. Il will put 18 october tomorrow

19 OCTOBER 1977 : PM TANIN THROWN OUT BY GENERAL KRIANGSAK CHOMANAN

After the 1976 unrests, Tanin Kraivixien, a lawer, had been call by the strong man, Admiral Sangad, to become Prime Minister. But after one year he decided to overthrow him and Kriangsack Chomanan, the supreme commander of the Army did the job.

Admiral Sangad, as head of the State Administration Council, named Kriangsak Prime Minister on 11 november 1977.

In an effort to restore a parliamentary democracy, Kriangsask set up a more mixed civilian and military government.

He lost the military’s support and then ran into fierce public opposition, with large street demonstrations when he increased prices for electricity and petrol.

He finally resigned on 29 February 1980


OTHER FACTS

1276 : Birth of Prince Hisaaki, Japanese Shogun

1851 : Birth of Empress Myeongseong of Korea

1904 : Polytechnic University of the Philippines founded as Manila Business School

1910 : Birth of Subrahmanyan Chandrasckhar, Indian-born physicist (Nobel Prize 1983)

1936 : Death of Lu Xun, Chinese writer

1944 : United States forces land on the Philippines

1950 : UN troops enter Pyongyang, capitale of North Korean

1950 : The military of the People’s Republic of China take control of the town of Chamdo, in eastern Tibet

1956 : Declaration nippo-soviet on the relations between the two countries puting an end at the state of war between the two countries.

1956 : Birth of Sunny Deol, Indian actor

1962 : Incidents between Indian and Chinese troops

1993 : Benazir Bhutto, Prime Minister for the second time, until November 1996

2001 : First US ground commandos actions in Afghanistan

2001 : Opening of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), at Shanghai. First political statement condemning the international terrorism


But today, the most important event in Asia is that it is Asia Observer members Cymbalrocks from Pakistan, and Asesh from India, birthday. Happy birthday to you!!!!

General Kriangsak

 
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20 OCTOBER 2007

20 OCTOBER 1967 : DEATH OF SHIGERU YOSHIDA

Yoshida was a diplomat and two times Prime Minister of Japan. He was the one who on 8 September 1951, signed the San Francisco Peace Treaty (see this date)

The illegitimate son of a samourai and a geisha, he studied political sciences and became a diplomat. He has been vice-minister of Foreign Affairs, then ambassador to Italy and Great Britain. In 1944, we was jailed for his pacifist positions.

But, after the war, he was Prime Minister two times, doing a lot to develop Japanese economy ans establishing closed relations with the United States.

He died on 20 october 1967, 89 years old.

See one of his biography
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Yoshida.html

OTHER FACTS

1928 : Birth of Zhu Rongji, Chinese Prime Minister (1998-2003)

1934 : Birth of Mikito Empress, wife othe reigning emperor Akihito

1935 : End of the Long March. Mao Zedong arrives to Yenan

1951 : Opening of negociations between Japan and South Korea for puting an end to the WW2 contentious

1958 : Sarit Thanarat proclaims Martial Law and takes the power in Thailand.

1962 : China launchs an counter-offensive against India in the NEFA and in Laddakh (up to 22 november

1967 : Birth of Marco Ngai, Hong Kong actor

1967 : Thousand of demonstrators in Oakland, California, hold the biggest protest yet against the Vietnam war http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/20/ newsid_3153000/3153144.stm

1969 : Resumption, at Beijing, of negociations with the Soviet Union for the borders contentious.

1971 : Second trip of Kissinger à Pékin to prepare Nixon visit (up to 26)

1973 : Dalai Lama makes first UK visit http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/20/ newsid_2489000/2489855.stm

1977 : Military coup d’état in Bangkok by the three commanders of the three Arms

1982 : Julius Jayewardene relected president of Sri Lanka with 52,9 % of vote

1993 : Death of Sugiyama Yasushi, Japanese painter

2004 : General Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono take his charge of Indonesia president.


Shigoru Yoshida in 1945

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21 OCTOBER 2007

21 OCTOBER 1987 : DEATH OF GENERAL HO YING-CHIN

General Ho Ying-chin (He Yingqin)attended the Wuchang Third Army Middle School then the Tokyo Shinbu Military Academy where he met Chiang Kai-shek.

In 1924, when Chiang Kai-shek made preparation for the establishment of the Whampoa Military Academy he was proposed to be the general instructor of the academy where he gave its full support to Chiang and took a main role in the massacre of the communists in Shanghai in April 1927

In 1930, he was named Minister of War up to 1944 when he was obliged to resign under the pressure of the USA because of his “wait and see” position in the anti-Japan war. But Chiang Kai-shek named him as General Commander of the Chinese Military Area.

In this position, he was the Chinese representative for the surrender of Japanese troops in China on 9th September 1945.

After Chiang Kai-shek fled to Taiwan, he served as Taiwan Defense Minister from 1949 to 1958.


He died on 21st October 1987, 96 years old

Two biographies : http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html? res=9B0DE1DB153FF931A15753C1A961948260 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He_Yingqin

OTHER FACTS

1500 : Death of Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado (1464-1500)

1760 : Birth of Katsushika Hokusai, Japanese painter

1860 : Treaty of Beijing, putting an end to the Second Opium war

1895 : The Japanese troops take Tinan, capitale of a short life Republic of Taiwan proclaimed by pro-Qing cadrees

1938 : The Japanese troops take Canton (Guangzhou)

1950 : The People Liberation Army enters in Tibet

1950 : India protests for the China invasion of Tibet.

1959 : Border clash between Indian and Chinese troops in Laddakh (Kashmir)

1959 : Birth of Ken Watanake, Japanese actor

1959 : The United Nation general assembly passed a resolution (1353-XIV) in which it said to be « deeply worry” by the situation in Tibet

1970 : Japon publishes its first defence white paper

1972 : North Vietnam Phan Van Dong saids he is ready to accept a cease-fire as a first step towards a settlement to the Vietnam war .

1972 : Resumption of belateral negociations in Moscow between Soviet Union and Japan (up to 24)

1994 :The United States and North Korea sign an agreement puting an end to the first North Korea nuclear crisis.


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22 OCTOBER 2007

22 OCTOBER 1986 : DEATH OF MARSHAL YE JIANYING

Ye Jianjing was one of ten marshals of the PRC

Born in 1897 in a wealthy merchant Hakka family in Guangdong, he attended the Yunnan Military Academy , then joined the Sun Yat-sen founded Whampao Military Academy as an instructor.

In 1927, he left the Kuomintang and joined the Communist Party. He took part of the Nanchang military uprising (Birth of the Red Army) and after that was obliged to flee abroad.

He came back to China in 1932 and joined Mao Zedong Soviet Republic in Jiangxi. Chief of Staff of Zhang Guotao, he came on Mao Zedong side when the two leaders went at odds. Its why during the Cultural Revolution, Mao protected him and in this period, he was vice-chairman of the CCP from 1973 to 1982

In 1976, he took an active part to oust Jiang Qing and the Gang of Four and Deng Xiaoping named him as Defense Minister (1975-1978)

Here are two biographies http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/data/people/yejianying.shtml http://www.iisg.nl/~landsberger/yjy.html

OTHERS FACTS

794 : Emperor Kanmu relocates Japanesese capital to Heiankyo (Kyoto)

1197 : Birth of Juntoku, 84th emperor of Japan (1210-1221)

1913 : Birth of Vietnamese emperor Bao Dai

1946 : Birth of Yuko Maruyama, Japanese actress

1953 : Laos gains independence from France. Signature of a friendship and association treaty.

1957 : Vietnam war first United States casualties in Vietnam

1965 : End of the Second Kashmir

1969 : Birth of Lee Seung-shin, Korean actress

1970 : Tunkun Abdul Rahman resign from Prime Minister of Malaysia

1972 : Henry Kissinger proposes to Nguen Van Thieu a cease-fire, but the Vietnamese president rejects it as a treason

1980 : In South Korea, by a referendum, 92 % of the voters approve the new constitution which includes the dissolution of the National Assembly and of all the political parties.

1984 : Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, accuses « foreign powers » to help Sikh activists in Punjab.

1998 : Indian actor Ajit dies from a cardiac arrest.

1999 : China ends its first-ever human rights conference in which it defied western definitions of civil liberties

2006 : Death of Choi Kyu-ha, president of South Korea (1979-1980)

2006 : Death of Indian film director Manoj Punj


But the most important fact in Asia history is that today is the birthday of your dear Asia Observer members Kangdingyi (from China) and John Ye (from Australia): Happy birthday !!!!!

Ye Jianying
 
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22 OCTOBER 2007

22 OCTOBER 1986 : DEATH OF MARSHAL YE JIANYING

Ye Jianjing was one of ten marshals of the PRC

Born in 1897 in a wealthy merchant Hakka family in Guangdong, he attended the Yunnan Military Academy , then joined the Sun Yat-sen founded Whampao Military Academy as an instructor.

In 1927, he left the Kuomintang and joined the Communist Party. He took part of the Nanchang military uprising (Birth of the Red Army) and after that was obliged to flee abroad.

He came back to China in 1932 and joined Mao Zedong Soviet Republic in Jiangxi. Chief of Staff of Zhang Guotao, he came on Mao Zedong side when the two leaders went at odds. Its why during the Cultural Revolution, Mao protected him and in this period, he was vice-chairman of the CCP from 1973 to 1982

In 1976, he took an active part to oust Jiang Qing and the Gang of Four and Deng Xiaoping named him as Defense Minister (1975-1978)

Here are two biographies http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/data/people/yejianying.shtml http://www.iisg.nl/~landsberger/yjy.html

OTHERS FACTS

794 : Emperor Kanmu relocates Japanesese capital to Heiankyo (Kyoto)

1197 : Birth of Juntoku, 84th emperor of Japan (1210-1221)

1913 : Birth of Vietnamese emperor Bao Dai

1946 : Birth of Yuko Maruyama, Japanese actress

1953 : Laos gains independence from France. Signature of a friendship and association treaty.

1957 : Vietnam war first United States casualties in Vietnam

1965 : End of the Second Kashmir

1969 : Birth of Lee Seung-shin, Korean actress

1970 : Tunkun Abdul Rahman resign from Prime Minister of Malaysia

1972 : Henry Kissinger proposes to Nguen Van Thieu a cease-fire, but the Vietnamese president rejects it as a treason

1980 : In South Korea, by a referendum, 92 % of the voters approve the new constitution which includes the dissolution of the National Assembly and of all the political parties.

1984 : Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, accuses « foreign powers » to help Sikh activists in Punjab.

1998 : Indian actor Ajit dies from a cardiac arrest.

1999 : China ends its first-ever human rights conference in which it defied western definitions of civil liberties

2006 : Death of Choi Kyu-ha, president of South Korea (1979-1980)

2006 : Death of Indian film director Manoj Punj


But the most important fact in Asia history is that today is the birthday of your dear Asia Observer members Kangdingyi (from China) and John Ye (from Australia): Happy birthday !!!!!

Ye Jianying

 
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23 OCTOBER 2007

23 OCTOBER 1954 : BIRTH OF ANG LEE, TAIWANESE FILM DIRECTOR

Born in Pingtung (Taiwan), Ang Lee started to learn dramatics, then he went to the United States to continue studying dramatic art. After that, he established in the US, keeping closed relations with Taiwan.

In 1993, his gay-themed film “The wedding banquet” was rewarded at the Berlin Festival. In 2005, Lee’s film “Brokeback Mountain” won the Golden Lion award at the Venice International Festival. In January 2006, “Brokeback” scored a leading eight Academy Award nominations including Best picture and Best director, which Lee won. He is the first Asian director to do so.

His film “Lust Caution” won again the Golden Lion in Venice Biennale in 2007, but had some problems for its distribution in the United due to several strongly explicit sex scenes.

http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800025608/bio

OTHER FACTS

1868 : In Japan, by a decree, the Meiji era is set up. The emperor recovers the full power from the shogun.

1910 : Death of the Thai king Chulalongkorn (Rama V)

1924 : Birth of Chi Hsin, Taiwan film director

1955 : Referendum in South Vietnam : Monarchy is abolished and Republic established.

1955 : Birth of Ryoko Sakaguchi, Japanese actor

1958 : After a visit of Foster Dulles (arrived on 20), Chiang Kai-shek officially renounces to use force to recover mainland China

1965 : In Vietnam, the 1st Cavalry division (US) and South Vietnamese forces launch a new operation seeking to destroy North Vietnamese forces in Pleku province.

1966 : In the Cultural Revolution, Chinese president Liu Shaoqi makes his first public self-critic.

1973:Birth of Vivian Bang, South Korean actress

1978 : China and Japan exchange treaty ratification documents in tokyo, formely ending 40 years of hostility

1981 : Birth of Lee Li-woo, South Korean actress

1983 : Birth of Sayaka Isoyama, Japanese actress

1991 : Birth of Princess Mako of Akishino of Japan

1992 : Emperor Akihito becomes the first emperor of Japan to stand on Chinese soil

1996 : The forces of Commandant Massoud, launch a large scale offensive against Taliban in northern of Kabul.

2003 : In New York, death of Soon Mei-ling, the widow of Chiang Kai-shek, 105 years old.
 
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