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16 NOVEMBER 2007
16 NOVEMBER 1997 : MOST FAMOUS CHINESE DISSIDENT WEI JINGSHENG IS FREED
Born on 20 May 1950 in Beijing, Wei Jingsheng has been very active in 1978 Beijing Spring in which he became famous for an article named “The fifth modernization” in which he said that the Four modernizations program of Deng Xiaoping is not enough and that China needs a fifth modernization : democracy.
In the last edition of an underground magazine called Exploration, he wrote an article named “Democracy or a new dictatorship ?” in which he said that Deng Xiaoping also will be a dictator. Three days later, on 29 March 1979, he was arrested and sentenced to 15 years.
Released on 14 September 1993, he is arrested again on 31 March 1994 and sentenced to 14 years under the charge of counter-revolution.
Under the pressure of president Bill Clinton, he was freed on 16 November 1997, officially for medical reasons and boarded in a plane to the USA http://www.weijingsheng.org/wei/en.html
OTHERS EVENTS IN ASIA HISTORY
1328 : Death of Prince Hisaaki, Japanese shogun, the 8th of the Kamakura shogunate
1892 : Birth of Guo Moruo, Chinese writer, who died in June 1978
1897 : Birth of Choudhary Rehmat Ali, Pakistani nationalist who is credited with creating the name « Pakistan »
1937 : Birth of Yan Yue, Chinese actor
1943 : Birth of Ho Wai Ching, Hong Kong actress
1972 : Birth of Ryu Jin, Korean actor
1981 : Birth of Lee Hye-mi, Korean actress
1987 : Death of Zubir Said, a Singapore composer who composed the national anthem
1988 : The Pakistan Peoples Party of Benazir Bhutto, daughter of former leader Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, wins the elections. She is ask to form a government.
1996 : Mother Teresa receives honorary US citizenship
Wei Jingsheng
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17 NOVEMBER 2007
17 NOVEMBER : MAIN EVENTS IN ASIA HISTORY
641 : Death of the 34th Japanese emperor Lomei (629-641)
1600 : Kuki Yoshitaka, Japanese naval commander, who launched an invasion of Korea in 1592, commits suicide
1612 : Birth of Dorgon (prince Rui), one of the most influential Manchu princes in the early Qing Dynasty
1846 : Pagan Min, enthroned king of Burma, up to 1853
1904 : Birth of Isamu Noguchi, Japanese sculptor who died in December 1988 http://www.designboom.com/portrait/noguchi/bio.html
1905 : Birth of Teru Shimada, Japanese actor who died in June 1988 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teru_Shimada
1905 : Eulsa treaty or Japan-Korea Protectorate treaty against the will of king Kojong http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eulsa_Treaty
1928 : Death of Lala Lajpat Rai, Indian author and leader in the fight for freedom from Great Britain, known as “Lion of Punjab” http://www.liveindia.com/freedomfighters/LalaLajpatRai.html
1929 : Birth of Goro Naya, Japanese actor http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=15629
1939 : Birth of Yuya Uchida, Japanese actor http://intnl.uchidayuya.com/biography/index.html
1942 : Birth of Khang khek leu (nicknamed Dutch) who has been the head of a torture center during the Khmer Rouge rule (1975-1979) and captured in 1999. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/340151.stm
1949 : Birth of Yashito Yashuhara, Japanese actor http://intnl.uchidayuya.com/biography/index.html
1949 : Birth of Nguyen Tan Dung, current Vietnam Prime Minister since June 2006
1950 : Tendzin Gyamtso est intrônisé à l’âge de 18 ans à peine
1967 : Birth of Chan Ka-lin (Charine Chan), Hong Kong actress
1969 : Birth of Ryotaro Okiayu, Japanese actor
1969 : Birth of Kazuya Kimura, Japanese actor
1971 : In Thailand, military coup d’état. Marshal Thanon Kittikachorn seizes power
1982 : General Prem is the first Thailand Prime Minister to go to China
1985 : Death of Lon Nol who overthroned Sihanouk in March 1970 and proclaimed the Republic
2003 : Death of Shuntaro Emi, Japanese actor
2005 : Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse, 60 ans, is elected the 5th president of Sri Lanka.
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18 NOVEMBER 2007
Thank you for your support. Today, more than 10,000 people have hit this forum since its creation 2 months and 3 weeks ago
Strangely, no main events happened in Asia on a 18th November
SOME EVENTS IN ASIA ON A 18th NOVEMBER
1901 : Birth of Rajaram Vankudre Shantaran, Indian film director, dead on October 1990
1943 : Birth of Osamu Dezaki, Japanese film director
1945 : Birth of Mahinda Rajapakse, current president of Sri Lanka since November 2005
1947 : Birth of Shinichi Mori, Japanese actor http://www.jvcmusic.co.jp/mori/
1949 : Birth of Shigera Saiki, Japanese actor
1964 : Birth of Wan Liu-lun, Hong Kong actor
1970 : At the United Nation Malaysia said it is for the PRC as China member
1980 : Birth of Jeon Hie-ju, South Korean actress
1984 : Death of Li Pingqian, Chinese film director
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19 NOVEMBER 2007
19 NOVEMBER 1917 : BIRTH OF INDIRA GANDHI
Indira Gandhi has no family link with the leader of India independence Mohandas Gandhi, but she was the daughter of the first Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru to whom she was a personnel assistant.
She has been Prime Minister twice. The first time was from 1966 to 1977. During this period she led India in a close relationship with Soviet Union, applied a socialist program and accelerated the national nuclear program.
She was accused of tendencies towards authoritarism after obtening from the president, a political ally, a State of Emergency on 26 June 1975. She ordered the arrest of all opposants, including from her own party and grant herself extraordinary powers.
She was Prime Minister again in January 1980 and was assassinated by two of her Sikh bodyguards on 31 October 1984 http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/1119.html
OTHER EVENTS IN ASIA HISTORY
1464 : Birth of Go-Kashiwabara, 104th emperor of Japan from 1500 up to 1526
1577 : Death of Matsugana Hisahide, Japanese warlord
1858 : Following the Cipayes’ revolt in India, the British East India Company is dissolved
1923 : Birth of Salil Chowdhury, Indian music composer, poet, writer, dramatist and filmmaker http://athomewriting.blogspot.com/2006/11/salil-chowdhury-awakening-
strains.html
1931 : Death of Xu Zhimo Chinese poet, born in 1897 http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/denton2/courses/c503/xzm.htm
1946 : Afghanistan joins the United Nations
1946 : A fight between a junk and customs officers in the Haiphong harbor is the pretext for France for the reconquest of North Vietnam
1951 : Birth of Zeenat Aman, Indian actress and sex symbol http://www.apunkachoice.com/people/act168/
1973 : An Air fighter, belonging to the national air forces bombs the presidential palace in Pnom Penh.
1978 : For the first time, a dazibao poster criticizes Mao Zedong, saying he has been manipulated by the Gang of four
1999 : From Jiuquan Satellite center, China launches its first unmanned Shenzhou spacecraft which landed in Inner Mongolia the following day.
1990 : Death of Sun Li-jen (Sun Liren) a Kuomintang (KMT) general, famous for his combats against Japanese troops
2001 : 600 partisans of Nur Misuari, leader of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) attack a barrack in Jolo, opposing 26 November local elections
2005 : Mahinda Rajapaksa becomes president of Sri Lanka, succeeding Chandrika Kumaratunga. Ratnasiri Wichramayake comes back as Prime Minister.
But do you know what it is the most important fact in Asia history on a 19 November? it is the birthday of Asia Oberver member Aabad (Philippines). Have an happy birthday.
Indira Gandhi
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20 NOVEMBER 2007
MAIN EVENTS ON 20 NOVEMBER IN ASIA HISTORY
762 : Bögü, khan of the Uyghurs, conquers Luoyang, capital of the Chinese empire
1750 : Birth of Tipu (or Tippu) Sultan, Indian ruler http://www.tipusultan.org/
1903 : Birth of Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi, Pakistani historian and educationist http://www.pakpost.gov.pk/philately/stamps2001/
dr_ishtiaq_husain_qureshi.html
1915 : Birth of Hu Yaobang, General Secretary of the China communist party from 1980 to 1987 http://www.learntoquestion.com/seevak/groups/2003/sites/tiananmen/
leftsidelinks/bios/hu_yao_bang.html http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/
m0018945.html
1915 : Birth of Kon Ichikawa, iconic Japanese film director http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0406728/bio http://www.filmref.com/directors/dirpages/ichikawa.html
1917 : Birth of Zhang Ping, Chinese actor
1938 : Death of Enzo Matsunaga, Japanese writer
1941 : Birth of Haseena Moin, Pakistani television drama writer and Urdu playwright
1950 : Birth of Kiyonobu Suzuki, Japanese actor http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0840618/
1950 : In Korea War, the 7th US division arrives on the Yalu river which is the border with China
1953 : French general Navarre order the chose of Dien Bien Phu as the main key point to stop Vietnamese offensive
1954 : Birth of Bin Shimada, Japanese actor
1960 : Victory of Prime Minister Hayate Ikeda in the legislative elections in Japan.
1962 : Beijing orders a cease-fire in the war with India and starts its withdrawal.
1963 : Birth of Wen Ming-na, Macau-born actress http://www.ming-na.com/
1963 : Phomh-Penh gives up the US aid and repeats its demand of the neutralization of the country.
1969 : The Cleveland Plain Dealer publishes explicit photographs of dead villagers from the My Lay massacre in Vietnam
1969 : Birth of Saori Yagi, Japanese actress
1970 : The majority of United Nations General assembly cote for given to Beijing the seat of China to Beijing, but din’t obtains the 2/3 majority required
1972 : Birth of Japanese actor Kazuo Yashiro http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0946589/
1980 : Opening of the trial of the Gang of four and of five generals closed to Marshal Lin Biao.
1980 : For the 2nd time, the General assembly of United Nations demands the withdraw of Soviet Union from Afghanistan
1985 : First visit of Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir to China
1991 : Cambodia Prince Sihanouk is proclamained head of state
1998 : A Taliban-controlled Afghanistan court declares that Osama Bin Laden is “a man without a sin” in regard to US embassy bombing in Kenya and Tanzania
2005 : North Korea expels 11 on 12 NGO in the country
But the more important facts in Asia history is the birth of Asia Observer members Booyaka (Philippines)
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21 NOVEMBER 2007
21 NOVEMBER 2006 : HISTORIC PEACE ACCORD BETWEEN NEPAL’s GOVERNMENT AND MAOIST GUERRILLA
An Historic Peace accord have been signed between Nepal’s Premier Girija Prasad Koirala and Prachanda, head of the maoist guerrilla on 21 November 2006.
This civil war caused more than 12,500 dead in ten years. Lead by Prachanda, the guerrilla with 10,000 to 15,000 fighters control large parts of the country, mainly in west rural areas.
They often paralyzed the country and particulary Katmandu with general strikes and they demand the abolition of Monarchy
21 NOVEMBER OTHER EVENTS IN ASIA HISTORY
1811 : Birth of Zeng Guofan, Chinese general who rised the Xiang Army to fight effectively against the Taiping Rebellion and restored the power of the Qing dynasty
1894 : In a decisive victory of the Sino-Japanese war, Port Arthur, today Lüshun (Mandchuria), falls to the Japanese. 20,000 servicemen and civilians are massacred
1933 : Birth Mikijiro Hira, Japanese actor
1959 : Birth of Yee Chin-yen, Taiwanese film director
1963 : The Liberal Democratic Party, in power since 1955, won the general elections.
1964 : Birth of Yumako Shibata, Japanese actress
1965 : Birth of Yuriko Yamaguchi, Japanese actress
1969 : US president Richard Nixon and Japanese Premier Eisaku Sato agree on the return of Okinawa to Japanese control in 1972 and that the US will keep bases there.
1969 : Birth of Hineko Mita, Japanese actor
1970 : Operation Ivory Coast : A joint Air force and Army team raids the Son Tay prison camp to free US pilots captured by communist Vietnamese, but failed.
1971 : Indian troops, partly aided by Mukti Bahini (Bengali guerrillas), defeat the Pakistan army in the battle of Garibput.
1973 : Birth of Alice Chan (Chan Wai), Chinese actress
1975 : The governments of Hanoi and Saigon agree on the a quick fusion to assure the unification of Vietnam
1979 : A mob, the Pakistani capital Islamabad burns the US embassy to the ground of a five-hour attack in which a US is killed http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/21/
newsid_4187000/4187184.stm
1980 : Birth of Elaine Yiu, Hong Kong actress
1992 : Death of Kaysone Phomvihana, president of Laos
2001 : Death of the king of Malaysia, sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz shah (75 years old). His successor is the sultan of Terengganu, Mizan Zainal Abidin, 39 years old.
2002 : After the USA stopped the delivering of fuel to Pyongyang, North Korea declares that the nuclear pact signed in 1994 with Washington is null and void.
2004 : In Singapore, the People Action Party celebrates its 50th anniversary of its creation in the presence of Lee Kuan Yew its founder.
2006 : Hu Jintao is the first Chinese head of state to visit India.
But in all Asia history, the main fact is today is the birthday of Asia Observer member of Puccayan (China)
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22 NOVEMBER 2007
MAIN EVENTS ON 22 NOVEMBER IN ASIA HISTORY
1884 : Birth of Syed Sulaiman Nadvi, Pakistani biographer of Muhammad http://www.renaissance.com.pk/novletf94.html
1939 : Birth of Mulayan Sigh Yadav, Indian politician who have been chief minister of Uttar Pradesh three times http://uplegassembly.nic.in/mulayamsinghyadav.html
1940 : Birth of Hachiro Tako, Japanese actor, dead in 1985
1940 : Birth of Eiichi Yamamoto, Japanese film director
1949 : China president Chiang Kai-shek meets with Franklin Roosvelt and Winston Churchill in Cairo to discuss joint operations against the Japanese
1953 : Death of Syed Sulaiman Nadvi, Pakistani biographer of Muhammad
1962 : Birth of Aoi Hiragi, Japanese writer
1962 : End of the military conflit between Indai and China
1963 : Birth of Yumiko Kumashiro, Japanese actress http://www.donsworld.com/Yumiko_Kumashiro.html
1972 : the US president Richard Nixon lifts the 22 year old interdiction for US citizens to visit China
1973 : Japanese government asks Israel to evacuate all the territories it sized. The Philippines support this demand
1988 : Laos says that all the Vietnamese troops have left its territory
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23 November 2007
MAIN FACTS ON 23 NOVEMBER IN ASIA HISTORY
1897 : Birth of Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Indian writer http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~naras/ncc/ http://banglapedia.search.com.bd/HT/C_0159.htm
1926 : Birth of Sathya Sai Baba, Indian guru and philosopher http://www.sathyasai.org/intro/message.htm http://www.srisathyasai.org.in/
1943 : The US forces defeat Japanese forces in the South Pacific Tarawa atoll, opening the way to Marshall Island, US objective http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/tarawa.htm
1946 : The Workers Party of South Korea is founded through the merger of the Communist party of South Korea and a fraction of the People’s party of Korea. It merged with the workers Party of North Korea, forming the Workers party of Korea on June 30, 1949.
1966 : In the China Cultural revolution, the Red Guards launch attacks against the presidentLiu Shaoqi and the party secretary Deng Xiaoping
1970 : Death of Yusof bin Ishak, first Singapore president http://www.polymernotes.org/biographies/SGP_bio_binishak.htm
1971 : State of emergency is proclaimed in Pakistan while Indian forces enter East Pakistan.
1971 : The representatives of the Popular Republic of China officially attend the United Nations as the only one representatives of China in lieu of The Taipei delegates
1998 : Agreement between Cambodian prime minister Hun Sen and his rival prince Norodom Ranariddh, ending an year and half crisis that blocked the institutions. Hu Sen will lead a government coalition
2003 : Elections for Hong Kong districts. Victory of the democrats on DAB (supporting chief executive Tung Chee-hwa and Beijing) whick go down from 83 to 64 representatives while Democratic party rises to 93.
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24 NOVEMBRE 2007
24 NOVEMBER 1987 : LI PENG IS NAMED CHINA PRIME MINISTER
After that the reformist general secretary of the China Communist Party has been forced by Deng Xiaoping to resign, the Prime Minister Zhao Ziyang was in charge of the two functions
Li Peng, who was vice-prime minister was elected by the 13th CCP Congress member of the Standing committee of the Political Bureau in November 1987 and on 24 November named acting premier
He was confirmed as Prime minister by the seven National People’s Congress in March 1988 and kept this position up to March 1998 http://chinavitae.com/biography/Li_Peng/full
OTHER EVENTS IN ASIA HISTORY
1898 : Naissance de Liu Shaoqi http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/CHINAliu.htm
1903 : Opening of the trade harbour of Port Arthur to foreigners
1926 : Birth of Lee Tsung-dao (Li Zhengdao), physicist, 1957 Nobel Prize laureate http://tdlee.ccast.ac.cn/eindex.html http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1957/lee-
bio.html
1936 : Signature of the anti-Komintern Pact between Germany and Japan
1946 : Bombing of Haiphong harbour by French forces, killing 6,000 people
1963 : Newly sworn-in president Lyndon B. Jhonson confirms that the US intend to continue supporting South Vietnam both military and economically
1965 : Birth of Kim Roe-ha, South Korean actor
1974 : Birth of Taro Yamamoto, Japanese actor http://www.yamamototaro.com/ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0945500/
1989 : Australia proposes to put Cambodia under UN administration up to general elections
2001 : Filipino dismissed head of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) who failed a coup is arrested as he tries to enter Malaysia by boat. http://www.seasite.niu.edu/Tagalog/Modules/Modules/Separatist_Groups/
nur_misuari.htm
2001 : Taliban soldiers surrender their last stronghold in northern Afghanistan, the city of Kunduz
But the main fact in world history is the birthday of Asia Observer member Birthday of Pixelpainter from Germany
Li Peng
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25 NOVEMBER 2007
25 NOVEMBER IN ASIA HISTORY
1501 : Birth of Yi Hwang, Korean confucian scholar http://concise.britannica.com/ebc/article-9383156/Yi-Hwang
1839 : A cyclone slams India, destroying the port city of Coringa, 20,000 ships and taking the life of 300,000 people
1904 : Birth of Chinese novelist Ba Jin http://www.smh.com.au/news/obituaries/a-giant-of-chinese-literature/
2005/10/20/1129775897723.html http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/bright/bajin/
bajintimeline.html
1910 : Birth of Chinese poet Ai Qing http://www.thefileroom.org/documents/dyn/DisplayCase.cfm/id/784
1911 : Bombing of Nanjing by Chinese revolutionnaries
1920 : Birth of Syed Hassan Jamalullail, king of Malaysia (1960-1965) http://www.malaysianmonarchy.org.my/portal_bi/rk3/rk3a.php?id=rk3_3
1924 : Birth of Takaaki Yoshimoto, Japanese poet, critic and philosopher http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takaaki_Yoshimoto
1924 : Naissance de Qiao Shi, Chinese politician http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qiao_Shi
1936 : Anti-Komintern Pact signed by Japan and Germany
1938 : The Japanese troops take Hankou
1939 : Birth of Lalita Ahmed, Indian actress
1950 : The PRC sends thousands of troops across the Yalu River to fight the UN forces in Korea
1952 : Birth of Imran Khan, Pakistani cricket player turned politician http://www.imrankhanno1.20m.com/profile.html
1970 : Japanese author Yukio Mishima commits ritualistic suicide after an unsuccessful coup attempt http://www.members.tripod.com/dennismichaeliannuzz/finalDay.html http://www.vill.yamanakako.yamanashi.jp/bungaku/mishima/index-e.html
1974 : Resignation of Japanese Prime Minister Kakuci Tanaka.
1974 : Death of U Thant, Burmanese diplomat who was UN Secretary general from 1961 to 1971 http://www.un.org/Overview/SG/sg3bio.html
2003 : On a pakistani offer, a cease-fire is applied on the Line of control in Kashmir.
But in all Asia history on a 25 November, the main event is the birth of Asia Observer member Bjoern (Thailand)
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