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.

24 OCTOBER 2007

24 OCTOBER 1944 : JAPANESE AIRCRAFT CARRIER ZUIKAKU IS SUNK

This day, the Japanese aircraft carrier Zhuikaku and the battleship Musashi are sunk in the Battle of Leyte Gulf (Philippines)

The Battle of Leyte Gulf, also known as the "Second Battle of the Philippine Sea", was the largest naval battle in modern history. It was fought in the Pacific Theater of World War II, in the seas surrounding the Philippine island
of Leyte from 23 October to 26 October 1944, between the Allies and the Empire of Japan.

The Allies commenced the invasion of Leyte in order to cut off Japan from her South East Asia colonies and hamper the source of crucial oil supplies for the Imperial Japanese Navy. The Japanese gathered all their remaining major
naval forces in an attempt to repel the Allied troops, but they failed to achieve their objective and suffered heavy losses. The battle was the last major naval engagement of World War II; the Imperial Japanese Navy never again sailed
to battle in such large force, being deprived of their fuel, returning to Japan to sit inactive for the remainder of the war.

The first use of kamikaze aircraft was during this battle. A kamikaze hit the Australian heavy cruiser HMAS Australia on 21 October, and organized suicide attacks by the "Special Attack Force" began on 25 October.

OTHER FACTS

1844 : Signature of the Whampoa (Huangpu) treaty by which China opens five ports for French traders and authorizes the Christian missionaries in China.

1860 : After Second Opium war, Kowloon peninsula is given up to the UK

1898 : Birth of Marshal Peng Dehuai, Chinese herald of the Korean war

1930 : Birth of sultan of Pahang Ahmad Shah ,7th king of Malaysia (1979-1984)

1930 : Chiang Kai-shek to become a Christian believer

1931 : Birth of Ken Utsui, Japanese actor

1934 : Mahatma Gandhi left from Indian National Congress

1936 : Birth of Ryuji Nakagi : Japanese actor

1945 : The Republic of China is a founding member of United Nations and a Security Council standing member

1948 : Local poll in French territories in India. Except Chandernagor, they chose to join the French Union.

1952 : Birth of Yoko Natsuki, Japanese actress

1953 : Birth of Hiroshi Takemura, Japanese actor

1953 : Birth of Hiroshi Takemura, Japanese actor

1954 : Dwight D. Eisenhower pledges United States support to South Vietnam

1960 : The Law chamber of Japan is dissolved. Start of the poll campaign.

1962 : China proposes a cease-fire to India.

1972 : Birth of Kim Ji-su, South Korean actress

1981 : Birth of Hablika Sherawat, Indian actress

1984 : The inquiry commission on the murder of Benigno Aquino refute the official version and accuses 25 soldiers including the chief of the general staff, general Fabian Ver.

1984 : Birth of Kaera Kimura, Japanese actress

1985 : Death of Masdishi Nagata, Japanese film producer

Zuikuda aircarft carrier sinking on 25 October 1944
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25 OCTOBER 2007

MAIN FACTS

1889 : Japanese Prime Minister Kuroda Kiyotaka forced to resign

1902 : Birth of Mitsuo Miura, cinematographer (+ 1956)

1919 : Birth of Wei Li, Chinese actor (+ 2005)

1921 : Birth of Yasuyoshi Tokuma, film producer (+ 2000)

1945 : In Taiwan, the Japanese forces lay down their arms to a Chinese military advance party. Taiwan is retroceded to China.

1947 : Birth of Shinya Owada, Japanese actor

1950 : First large scale offensive of the Chinese « volunteers » in Korea.

1951 : New round of negotiations between United Nation and North Korea in Panmunjom

1951 : Ratification of the Treaty of San Francisco by the Japanese Diet.

1958 : Completion of the Chinese troops withdrawal from North Korea.

1964 : Resignation « for health reason » of Japanese Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda

1971 : By 76 votes against 35 and 17 abstentions, the People’s Republic of China joins the United Nations, replacing the nationalist government of Taiwan. http://www.taiwandocuments.org/un2758-XXVI.htm http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/1025.html

1972 : North Vietnam discloses the cease-fire agreement it had arranged with the United States in October in Paris negociations.

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26 OCTOBER 2007

26 OCTOBER 1947 : THE KASHMIR MAHARAJA ASKS TO JOIN INDIA UNION

[color=#008000]When, in 1947 summer, the British India empire had to be divided between India and Pakistan, each state had to chose to join one of these new countries.

For Kashmir, the situation was very particular. A large majority of the population was Muslim, but the ruler was the Hindu maharaja Hari Singh who, as his father kept all the leading posts to hindus. His dream was an an independent Kashmir, as Afghanistan.

As soon as the independence of Pakistan (whose K letter in its name means Kashmir) and India was proclaimed, a Muslim insurgency happened with Palistanese help.

On 24 October 1947, maharaja Hari Singh ask India to help him to crush this insurgency. New Delhi answered that it could only intervene in India territory saying that Kashmir has first to join the India Union.

So, on 26 October 1947, maharaja Hari Singh, officially asks to India that his kingdom to join Indian
http://www.jammu-kashmir.com/documents/harisingh47.html


OTHER FACTS

1633 : Death of Horio Tadaharu, Japanese warlord

1850 : Start of the Taiping insurgency in China lead by Hong Xiuquan

1909 : Assassinat of Prince Hirobumi Ito by an Korea independence militant

1955 : Proclamation of Republic of South Vietnam. Ngo Dinh Diem proclaims himself as president

1962 : After Chinese agression, India government proclaims State of emergency.

1965 : Birth of Aaron Kwok Fu-Shing, Hong Kong singer

1971 : Birth of Fang Yu, Taiwanese actress

1972 : Birth of Miwako Kawai, Japanese actress

1974 : Birth of Raveena Tandon, Indian actress

1979 : President of South Korea Park Chung-hee is assassinated by the Intelligence Agency head Kim Jae-kyu http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/26/ newsid_2478000/2478353.stm

1979 : Birth of Ai Nagase, Japanese actress

2001 : As a reward for their help in the fight against terrorism, Tokyo leaves all the applied sanctions on India and Pakistan after their nuclear 1998 tests.

2003 : Death of Kim Yong-sun, a North Korea leader, closed ally of Kim Jong-il http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200310/28/eng20031028_127048.shtml

2005 : Death of Rong Yiren, Chinese vice-president of the République (1993-1998), a friend of Deng Xiaoping and founder of the China Trust &amp; Investment Corp (CITIC). http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,3604,1645104,00.html

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27 OCTOBER 2007

27 OCTOBER 1937 : BIRTH OF KOICHI OSE, JAPANESE ACTOR

Koichi Ose was born in Yokoyama on 27 october 1937 and is always a famous actor in Japan.
Here is his biography http://imdb.com/name/nm0997681/bio

His picture is at the bottom of this page

OTHER FACTS

[color=#0000FF]1920 : Birth of Kocheril Raman Narayana, Indian president from 1997 to 2002.

1934 : Birth of Arika Miyazaki, Japanese film writer.

1944 : End of the naval battle of Leyte Gulf. Japan have lost half of its navy capability

1947 : India accepts Kashmir Maharadja request to join the Union and send troops to help him against Muslim insurgency. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7057694.stm

1958 : Iskander Mirza, the first president of Pakistan is deposed in a bloodless coup d’état by General Ayub Khan.

1962 : Birth of Ikkei Watanabe, Japanese actor

1966 : First launch of a China missile with a nuclear warhead.

1968 : In London, anti-Vietnam warm archers clash with police http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/17/ newsid_2818000/2818967.stm

1979 : Mother Teresa is rewarded by the Peace Nobel Prize http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1979/press.html

Koichi Ose


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28 OCTOBER 2007

28 OCTOBER 1627 : DEATH OF NURRUDIN JAHANGIR, MUGHOL EMPEROR

Son of Mughol Akbar, Jahangir, was born Salim on 31st August 1569, in the village of Sihri, near Agra in India.

At twelve he was commanding a regiment in the Kabul campaign and on 13 February 1585 (At 16 years old) he married his cousin Man Bai

He succeded to the throne on 3 November 1605, eight days after his father’s death.

During his reign, he has to crush revolts including someones organized by his sons.

His mausoleum is in Shahdara, Lahore (Pakistan)

He was succeded by his third son Prince Khurram

Here is his biography
http://www.boloji.com/history/012.htm

OTHER FACTS

1582 : Death of Ashikaga Yoshihide, 14th Japanase shogun

1860 : Birth of Jigoro Kano, founder of judo Kodokan (dead in May 1938)

1924 : Birth of Saryakantham, Indian actress (dead in December 1996)

1928 : Birth of Yoko Sugi, Japanese actress

1950 : Deuxième protestation de l’Inde contre l’invasion du Tibet par la Chine

1958 : Replacing U Nu, general Ne Win becomes head of the caretaker government up to 4 April 1960

1964 : US officials deny any involvement in bombing North Vietnam

1979 : Chairman Hua arrives in London http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/28/ newsid_4114000/4114964.stm

1982 : Birth of Yukari Fukui, Japanese actress

1982 : Birth of Mai Kuraki, Japanese singer

1983 : Birth of Shio Mizubara, Japanese actress

1988 : Birth of Ko Eun-ah, South Korean actress

1998 : An Air China jet is hijacked and flown to Taiwan by a pilot upset with his pays and working conditions. He was taken into custody.

1988 : Birth of Ko Eun-ah, South Korean actress

2001 : Christians killed in Pakistan massacre http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/28/ newsid_2478000/2478093.stm

Jahangir


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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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30 OCTOBER 2007

SOME FACTS

1218 : Birth of the 85th Japanese emperor Chukyo (+ 18 June 1234)

1654 : Death of the 110th Japanese emperor Go-Komyo

1911 : The Chinese emperor, Pu Yi, aged five, granted a new constitution and officially ended three centuries of the Manchu dynasty

1951 : In China, end of the counterrevolutionaries campaign

1963 : First important National Liberation Front against Bien-Hoa American base in Vietnam

1965 : Just miles from Da Nang, United States Marines repel an intense attack by wave of the wave of Vietcong forces.

1988 : Sun Myung Moon, head of the Unification Church, consecrats the marriage of 6,516 couples in Seoul

2006 : Death of Juni Kinoshita, Japanese playwright

But the main fact in Asia history is our Asia observer members birthday of Mizan1968 (Qatar), and Choco (Indonesia) : Happy birthday to you my friends

31 OCTOBER 2007

31 OCTOBER 1887 : BIRTH OF CHIANG KAI-SHEK

Chiang Kai-shek (Jiang Jieshi) was born in Zhejiang and started a military career. After studying in a Japanese military academy, he served in the Imperial Japanese Army from 1909 to 1911.

When he learned the 10 October 1911 Wuchang republican uprising, he came back to China and joined the Republican forces, becoming the next year a founding member of the Kuomintang (KMT) and a closed ally of Sun Yat-sen who gave him the command of the Whampoa (Huangpu) Military Academy in 1924.

When Sun Yat-sen died in 1925, Chiang succeeded him as leader of the KMT and the following year launched the Northern Expedition to defeat the warlords controlling northern China and unify the country under the KMT.

On 12 April 1927, he ordered the killing of all of the Communists in Shanghai who, up to this date, were his allies. In December of the same year he married Soong May-ling, the younger sister of Soong Ching-ling, the widow of Sun Yat-sen.

In 1936, after being kidnapped by general Zhang Xueliang at Xi’an, he was obliged to stop his campaigns against the communist bases and to make an United Front with them for fighting the Japanese invaders.

After the defeat of Japan, begun the Civil War which was won by the communist forces in 1949. Chiang fled to Taiwan where he died on 5 April 1975.
A biography : http://www.bookrags.com/research/chiang-kai-shek-ema-01/

OTHER FACTS

1817 : Japanese emperor Ayahito (Ninko) enthroned

1876 : A monster cyclone ravages India, resulting in over 200,000 human deaths

1922 : Birth of Cambodia king Norodom Sihanouk

1925 : Birth of Kotayya Pratyagatma, Indian film director (+ 2001)

1929 : Birth of Yoshiki Iwama, Japanese writer (+ 1999)

1929 : Birth of Fumio Watanabe, Japanese actor (+ 2004)

1949 : Birth of Kenichi Kato, Japanese actor

1951 : Birth of Liu Xiaoqing, Chinese actress

1952 : Death of U Chit Hlaing, Burmanese politician

1968 : Dong Biwu : President of PRC, replacing Liu Shaoqi

1969 : Birth of Linda Lee, South Korean actress

1970 : Birth of Nicky Wu, Taiwanese actor and martial arts expert

1975 : In a joint-communiqué Thailand and the Khmers Rouges proclaim their will of a pacific coexistence..

1984 : Indira Gandhi PM since 1966 is assassinated by two of her Sikh security guards http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/31/ newsid_2464000/2464423.stm

1990 : Death of Aya Koda, Japanese writer

2003 : Death of Semmangudi Srinivasa lyer, one of the greatest Carnatic vocalists of the twentieth century

2003 : Abdullah Ahmad Badawi becomes Malaysia Prime Minister, after 22 years of Mohamad Mahathir rule. http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/31/ newsid_3722000/3722980.stm

1st NOVEMBER 2007

1st NOVEMBER 1987 : ZHAO ZIYANG ELECTED GENERAL SECRETARY OF CCP

The 13th congress of the Chinese Communist Party, that had opened on 25 October 1987, closed on 1st November.

The biggest event has been the eviction of Deng Liqun, the hard leftist fighting against the Deng Xiaoping policy.

The Prime Minister Zhao Ziyang who was also acting general secretary of the CCP since the forced resignation of Hu Yaobang is officially elected and replaced as Prime Minister by vice-premier Li Peng.

OTHERS FACTS

1592 : At the battle of Pusan, the outnumbered Korean navy defeats a larger Japanese army

1886 : Ananda College, a leading Buddhist school in Sri Lanka is established

1945 : The official North Korean newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, is first published under the name Chongro

1948 : Off southern Mandchuria, 6,000 people are killed as a Chinese merchant ship exploses and sinks

1956 : Foundation of the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh (ex Nizam), Karnataka (ex Mysore) and Kerala

1962 : Krishn Menon gives up to Jawaharlal Nehru the ministry of Defense

1963 : In Saigon, coup d’Etat by général Duong Van Minh against president Ngo Dinh Diem

1966 : Vietcong bombs Saigon http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/1/ newsid_3188000/3188067.stm

1967 : Biginning of a three-week of the National Liberation Front in the Vietnamese high hills of Dakto

1967 : Founding of the first Revolutionnary committee in Inner Mongolia. Others bill be founded in all China.

1968 : End of the US bombings on North Vietnam which started on March 1965

1968 : Birth of Park Shin-Yang, South Korean actor

1973 : Birth of Aishwarya Rai, Indian actress

1978 : Birth of Manju Warrior, Indian actress

1984 : Violences anti-sikh after the assassination of Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/1/ newsid_2537000/2537887.stm

1990 : Nawaz Sharif Prime Minister up to July 1993

1996 : Death of Junius Richard Jayewardene, Sri Lanka president (1978-1989)

But for Asia Oserver friends, the most important fact is that today is the birthday of our members Cinosluar (Brazil) and Hongseek (Malaisie)


Zhao Ziyang and Deng Xiaoping : the good time
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