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ON 25 JULY IN ASIAN HISTORY
Created on July 25, 2008
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1562 : Birth of Kiyomasa Kato, Japanese warlord, who died on August 2, 1611 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiyomasa_Kato
1587 : Japanese strong-man Toyotomi Hideyoshi bans christianity in Japan and orders all Christians to leave http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2298.html http://www.samurai-archives.com/hideyoshi.html
1845 : China grants Belgium equal trading rights with Britain, France and the United States
1869 - The Japanese daimyō begin returning their land holdings to the emperor as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese Date: June 17, 1869).
1894 : The First Sino-Japanese War begins when the Japanese fire upon a Chinese warship. http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/representations/jiawu/
historicalbackground.htm
1907 : Korea becomes a protectorate of Japan.
1908 : Birth of Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, Indian musician, who died on October 31, 2003 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semmangudi_Srinivasa_Iyer
1908 : Ajinomoto is founded. Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovers that a key ingredient in Konbu soup stock is monosodium glutamate (MSG), and patents a process for manufacturing it. http://www.jpo.go.jp/seido_e/rekishi_e/kikunae_ikeda.htm http://www.glutamate.org/media/glutamate.htm
1927 : Birth of Sadiq Hussain Qureshi, Pakistani politician, who died on June 24, 2000 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadiq_Hussain_Qureshi
1928 : Birth of Mario Montenegro, Filipino actor, who died on August 27, 1988 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Montenegro http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlAmljp1Xlo&feature=related
1929 : Birth of Somnath Chatterjee, Indian communist leader http://www.calcuttayellowpages.com/somnathch.html http://www.hindu.com/2008/07/24/stories/2008072460760100.htm
1941 : The US government freezes all Japanese and Chinese assets
1954 : In retaliation for the British commercial plane shot down on July 23 off Hainan, the US air forces shot down two Chinese fighters
1964 : US Joint Chief of Staff propose air strike on North Vietnam http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=1986
1969 : US President Richard Nixon declares the Nixon Doctrine, stating that the United States now expects its Asian allies to take care of their own military defense. This was the start of the "Vietnamization" of the war. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=2739
1982 : Zail Singh, born on May 5, 1916, is sworn as seventh president of India (up to July 1987), who died on 25 December 1994 http://www.sikh-history.com/sikhhist/personalities/zail.html
1983 : In Sri Lanka, 37 Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada high security prison in Colombo are massacred by the fellow Sinhalese prisoners.
1988 : Jakarta Informal Meeting of the four Khmer factions, joined later by Vietnam and Asean countries
1992 : Shankar Dayal Sharma becomes President of India up to 1997 http://www.khabarexpress.com/Education/Information/view.asp?infoID=9
1997 : K.R. Narayanan is sworn-in as India's 10th president and the first Dalit— formerly called "untouchable"— to hold this office. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K._R._Narayanan
1998 : US State Department says again the US “Three No” policy on Taiwan : no to independence, no to one China, one Taiwan, no to Taiwan admission in international organizations
2001 : Phoolan Devi, the most woman outlaw in India is killed http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/1456441.stm
2002 : North Korea apologizes for the June 29 naval incident (first time since 1953) and asks the resumption of inter-Korean dialogue
2002 : Chinese actress Liu Xiaoqing, famous in the 1980’s, is arrested on tax evasion charge http://www.danwei.org/magazines/liu_xiaoqing_billionaire_actre.php
2007 : Pratibha Patil is the first woman to be elected president of India http://www.thepresident.in/php/showContent.php?linkid=2
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ON 26 JULY IN ASIAN HISTORY
Created on July 26, 2008
1380 : Death of Japanese emperor Komyo (1336-1348), born on January 11, 1322 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Komyo_of_Japan
1611 : Death of Horio Yoshiharu, Japanese warlord, born in 1542 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horio_Yoshiharu http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Horio_Yoshiharu_tomb.JPG
1928 : Birth of Ibn-e-Safi (Asrar Ahmad), Pakistani fiction writer and Urdu poet,who died on July 26, 1980 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn-e-Safi
1941 : World War II: In response to the Japanese occupation of French Indo-China, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the seizure of all Japanese assets in the United States. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=6531
1945 : Potsdam Declaration (USA, China, Great-Britain) defining terms for Japanese surrender http://www.ndl.go.jp/constitution/e/etc/c06.html
1945 : The US Navy cruiser Indianapolis arrives at Tinian with the warhead for the Hiroshima atomic bomb.
1947 : Conference of the Commonwealth at Canberra working on treaty of peace with Japan
1954 : Visit of South Korean president Syngman Rhee to USA where he calls for powerful action against Communism
1961 : Birth of Keiko Matsui, Japanese musician and composer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keiko_Matsui
1965 : Independence of the Maldives (from Great-Britain)
1968 : South Vietnamese opposition leader Truong Dinh Dzu is sentenced to five years hard labor for advocating the formation of a coalition government as a way to move toward an end to the war. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=1989
1972 : South Vietnamese troops rise flag over Quang Tri http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=1988
1980 : Birth of Lee Dong-gun, South Korean actor http://wiki.d-addicts.com/Lee_Dong_Gun
1980 : Death of Ibn-e-Safi, Pakistani fiction writer and Urdu poet; born on July 26, 1928)
1988 : Tun Tin becomes Myanmar’s Prime Minister, replacing Maung Maung Kha http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maung_Maung_Kha http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maung_Maung_Kha
1988 : Death of Fazlur Rahman, Pakistani scholar, born on September 21, 1919 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fazlur_Rahman http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/531762/posts
1998 : General elections in Cambodia. 67 seats for the Cambodian People’s Party of Hun Sen, 43 for the FUNCINPEC of Norodom Ranariddh, and 15 pour Sam Rainsy Party
2001 : Hamzah Haz is elected vice-president http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/1457865.stm
2002 : Hutomo (Tommy) Mandala Putra Suharto, son of former Suharto, is condemned to 15 years in prison for having finance the killing of a judge http://edition.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/southeast/08/01/
indonesia.tommy/index.html
2002 : Death of Singaporean actor Tony Anholt http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,3604,767053,00.html
2003 : In the Philippines, mutiny of almost members of the armed forces who entrench in a mall. They surrender the following day.
2005 : Mumbai, in India receives 99.5cm of rain (39.17 inches) within 24 hours, bringing the city to a halt for over 2 days.
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ON 27 JULY IN ASIAN HISTORY
Created on July 27, 2008
1549 : Jesuit priest Francis Xavier's ship reached Japan, but it is only until August 15 that he went ashore at Kagoshima http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06233b.htm
1709 : Nakamikado ascends to throne as 114th emperor of Japan (1709-1735), born on 14 January 1702, died on 10 May 1737 http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Emperor-Nakamikado-of-Japan
1853 : Death of Tokugawa Ieyoshi, 12st shogun (1837-1853) of the Tokugawa shogunate, born in June 1793 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokugawa_Ieyoshi
1914 : Felix Manalo registers the Iglesia ni Cristo with the Filipino government. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iglesia_ni_Cristo
1923 : Birth of Masutatsu Oyama, founder of Japanese Kyokushin Karate, who died on 26 April 1994 http://www.masutatsuoyama.com/kyokushinkai.htm
1927 : Birth of Sat Mahajan, Indian politician http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Sat-Mahajan
1931 : Birth of Khieu Samphan, Khmer Rouge, president of the Democratic Kampuchea 1976-1979 (Cambodia) http://angkor1431.tripod.com/index/id30.html http://ezinearticles.com/?A-Biography-of-KHIEU-Samphan-(PhD)&id=233501
1953 : End of Korean War. The United States, People's Republic of China, and North Korea, sign an armistice agreement. Syngman Rhee, president of South Korea, refuses to sign but pledges to observe the armistice. http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0727.html#article http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=2741
1954 : Birth of G. S. Bali, Indian politician http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/G.S.-Bali
1963 : Birth of Donnie Yen, Hong Kong martial arts film actor http://www.donnieyen.com/biography.htm
1964 : Vietnam War: 5,000 more American military advisers are sent to South Vietnam bringing the total number of United States forces in Vietnam to 21,000. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=1990
1965 : US jets attack new North Vietnamese air defense sites http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=1991
1972 : Birth of Takako Fuji, Japanese actress http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takako_Fuji http://www.perfectpeople.net/celebrity-star/9380/takako-fuji.htm
1974 : Birth of Eason Chan, Hong Kong singer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eason_Chan
1976 : Former Japanese prime minister Kakuei Tanaka is arrested on suspicion of violating foreign exchange and foreign trade laws in connection with the Lockheed bribery scandals. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_bribery_scandals
1983 : In Sri Lanka, in what is called the Black July, 18 Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada high security prison in Colombo were massacred by the Sinhalese prisoners, the second such massacre in two days.
1996 : In Indonesia, supporters of Suryadi, with the help of police, take the headquarters of the Democratic Party of Indonesia, held by the ones of Megawati Sukarnoputri. Two-day violence erupt in Jakarta.
2002 : Death of Krishan Kant, vice-president of the Republic of India and president of the National Assembly http://www.hinduonnet.com/2002/07/28/stories/2002072804410100.htm
2003 : Elections in Cambodia. The Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) of Prime Minister Hun Sen gets 73 of the 123 seats but not the two-third necessary to govern alone. Funcipec gets 26 seats, and the SRP 24.
2003 : Japanese premier Junichiro Koizumi gets a bill that authorizes him to send 1000 soldier for the reconstruction of Iraq
2005 : Death of Swami Shantanand, Indian Saint and Philosopher, born on April 7, 1934 http://templeoffinearts.org/sg/AboutFounder.htm
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ON 28 JULY IN ASIAN HISTORY
Created on July 28, 2008
1757 : Treaty between Alungpaya, king of Burma, and the British East Indian Company http://web.soas.ac.uk/burma/pdf/Treaty1.pdf
1938 : Birth of Chuan Leekpai, twice times Prime Minister of Thailand http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuan_Leekpai http://www.thaiembdc.org/bio/pms/chuan.htm
1941 : Birth of Susan Roces, Filipina actress http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Roces http://www.susanroces.com/
1946 : Birth of Fahmida Riaz, Pakistani writer and feminist http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahmida_Riaz http://www.urdustudies.com/auinfo/riazF.html
1952 : Birth of Yoshitaka Amano, Japanese artist http://www.amanosworld.com/
1952 : Birth of Vajiralongkorn, Crown Prince of Thailand http://everything2.com/index.pl?node=Vajiralongkorn
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Vajiralongkorn.jpg
1960 : Birth of Yōichi Takahashi, Japanese mangaka of Captain Tsubasa and Hungry Heart Wild Striker http://digilander.libero.it/sicchan/yoichi_en.htm
1965 - Vietnam War: US President Lyndon B. Johnson announces his order to increase the number of United States troops in South Vietnam from 75,000 to 125,000. http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/28/
newsid_2754000/2754033.stm http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=1992
1965 : Birth of Priscilla Chan, Hong Kong singer http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/Satellite/9494/priscilla.html
1965 : Death of Edogawa Ranpo, Japanese author and critic, born on October 21, 1894 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rampo_Edogawa
1966 : Birth of Shikao Suga, Japanese singer and songwriter http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=18818
1972 : Death of Charu Majumdar, Indian Maoist revolutionary leader, born in 1918 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charu_Majumdar http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mazumdar/index.htm
1972 : Birth of Yeom Jeong-ah, South Korean actress http://wiki.d-addicts.com/Yeom_Jung-Ah http://www.koreanmovie.com/Yeom_Jeong_ah_ka1237/
1976 : The Tangshan earthquake measuring between 7.8 and 8.2 magnitude flattens Tangshan, the People's Republic of China, killing 242,769 and injuring 164,851. http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/28/
newsid_4132000/4132109.stm http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=6972
1978 : Birth of : Hitomi Yaida, Japanese singer and songwriter http://wiki.theppn.org/Yaida_Hitomi
1979 : Birth of Lee Minwoo, Korean singer (Shinhwa) http://www.ampedasia.com/hunks/Lee-Min-Woo/ http://gallery.asianfanatics.net/index.php?act=thumbs&aid=2101
1981 : Birth of China Fukunaga, Japanese gravure model and actress http://www.babebio.com/babe/china_fukunaga/
1981 : Birth of Jo In Sung, South Korean actor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo_Insung http://gallery.asianfanatics.net/index.php?act=thumbs&aid=455
1986 : Soviet Union Presisent Gorbatchev makes his Vladivostock adress, marking the beginning of a new Asian policy
1993 : Singapore deputy prime minister Ong Teng Cheong is elected president http://www.answers.com/topic/ong-teng-cheong
1997 : Death of Seni Pramoj, three timesThai Prime Minister, born onMay 26, 1905 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seni_Pramoj
2002 : Meeting at London between Sri Lankan minister Milinda Moragada and LTTE negociator Anton Balasingham.
2007 : In Thailand, the 300 members of parliament from disolved Thai Rak Thai joint the very small People Power Party to be eligible
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ON 29 JULY IN ASIAN HISTORY
Created on July 29, 2008
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1590 : Naresuan is enthroned as king of Siam, up to his dead on 25 April 1605 http://www.tonyjaa.org/sword_king.shtml
1858 : In Shimoda, signature of the Treaty of Amity and Commerce between Japan and USA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States-
Japan_Treaty_of_Amity_and_Commerce http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Harris_Treaty
1937 : Tongzhou Incident between Chinese and Japanese http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongzhou_Incident
1959 : Birth of Indian actor Sanjay Dutt http://www.chakpak.com/celebrity/sanjay-dutt/10849
1965 : The first 4,000 101st Airborne Division paratroopers arrive in Vietnam, landing at Cam Ranh Bay. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=1994
1965 : Birth of Chang-Rae Lee, Korean-born author http://biography.jrank.org/pages/4525/Lee-Chang-rae.html
1967 : Off the coast of North Vietnam the USS Forrestal catches on fire in the worst U.S. naval disaster since World War II, killing 134. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Forrestal_%28CV-59%29
1982 : Death of Harold Sakata, Japanese-American actor, born on July 1, 1920 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Sakata
1987 : Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi and Sri Lankan President J. R. Jayawardene sign the Indo-Lankan Pact on ethnic issues that authorizes the sending of an Indian Peace-Keeping Force(IPKF)in Tamil eras of Sri Lanka
1987 : Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay, Bengali author, born on October 24, 1894 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibhutibhushan_Mukhopadhyay
1996 : Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto pays a visit to the Yasukuni memorial where are buried all the Japanese soldiers since Meiji era. He is the second Japanese PM to do that since Nakasone in 1985
1998 : In Cambodia, the constitution imposing the support of 2/3 of the members of the parliament for forming a government, Hun Sen proposes an union government to Funcipec leader Ranariddh.
1998 : First meeting Sharif-Vajpayee, since the Indian and Pakistani nuclear tests, during a SAARC conference,
1999 : Death of Indian actor Rajendra Kumar, born on July 20, 1929 http://www.chakpak.com/celebrity/rajendra-kumar/biography/9687
2001 : Election of 121 of the seats of the Japanese Upper House. DLP gets 64 seats, the Komeito 12 and the New Conservative Party 1
2003 : Death of Indian actor Johnny Walker, born on 15 May 1923 http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0907888/
2007 : For the first time since its foundation, DLP loses the majority in the Upper House. It is a big blow for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
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ON 30 JULY IN ASIAN HISTORY
Created on July 30, 2008
1893 : Birth of Fatima Jinnah, sister of Ali Jinnah and an active figure in movement for independence of Pakistan (Mother of the Nation), who died on July 8, 1967 http://www.jazbah.org/fatima.php
1912 : Death of Emperor Mutsuhito (Meiji) http://www.jref.com/glossary/meiji_mutsuhito_emperor.shtml
1945 : At 00.14 Japanese sink the USS Indianpolis, killing 883 seamen in the worst loss in the US Navy http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=52739 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Indianapolis_%28CA-35%29
1963 : In Malina, Summit between Indonesia, the Philippines and Malaya on the project of Great Malaysia
1964 : South Vietnamese boats raid islands in the Tonkin Gulf http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=1997
1965 : Death of Junichiro Tanizaki, Japanese novelist, born on July 24, 1886 http://www.artandculture.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/ACLive.woa/wa/artist?
id=1055
1969 : Vietnam War: US President Richard M. Nixon makes an unscheduled visit to South Vietnam and meets with President Nguyen Van Thieu and with U.S. military commanders. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=1998
1973 : Birth of Sonu Nigam, Indian singer/actor http://www.bollywoodgate.com/bollywood-pop/sonu-nigam.html http://www.geocities.com/worldofsonunigam/
1996 : Mochtar Pakpahan, leader of the Workers for Prosperity Trade Union (SBSI), the only one free but not recognised trade union in Indonesia is accused of subversion http://www.driftline.org/cgi-bin/archive/archive_msg.cgi?file=spoon-
archives/marxism.archive/marxism_1996/96-08-marxism/96-08-07.145&
msgnum=7&start=735&end=855
1997 : Death of Bao Dai, king of Annam (1926-1945) and last emperor of Vietnam (1945-1949), born on October 22, 1913 http://vnlisting.homelinux.com/vietnam/index.php?option=com_content&
task=view&id=45&Itemid=41
1998 : Keizo Obuchi est élu 54e Premier ministre par la Diète. Sur 494 députés ayant voté à la Chambre basse, il a obtenu 268 votes et Naoto Kan 164. Par contre, à la Chambre haute, Kan l'a emporté par 142 voix contre 103. Il nomme un gouvernement de 20 membres (voir liste dans "politique"
1998 : Obuchi Keizo becomes the 84th Japanese prime minister till April 5, 2000 http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-ObuchiK.html
2002 : Birth of Prince Hridayendra of Nepal, Nepalese royal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Hridayendra_of_Nepal
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ON 31 JULY IN ASIAN HISTORY
Created on July 31, 2008
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1143 : Birth of Emperor Nijo, 78th emperor of Japan (1158-1165) who died on September 5, 1165 http://www.123exp-biographies.com/t/00031129783/
1658 : Former governor of Gujarat and Balk (Afghanistan) becomes emperor of India http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurangzeb http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/islam/history/
mughalempire_5.shtml
1916 : Birth of Sibte Hassan, Pakistani communist activist who died on April 1986 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibte_Hassan
1936 - The International Olympic Committee announces that the 1940 Summer Olympics will to be held in Tokyo. However, the games are given back to the IOC after the Second Sino-Japanese War breaks out, and are eventually cancelled altogether because of World War II http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1940_Summer_Olympics
1941 : Birth of Amarsinh Chaudhary, Indian politician who died on August 15, 2004 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amarsinh_Chaudhary
1943 : Birth of Sab Shimono, Japanese-American actor http://www.sabshimono.com/
1956 : Talks on the normalization of relations between Japan and Soviet Union resume in London
1958 : Mao Zedong and Soviet Union Khrushchev meet in Beijing
1960 : En of the state of emergency in Malaya http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malayan_Emergency
1961 : Foundation in Bangkok of the South-East Asia Association
1962 : Preliminary agreement between Netherlands and Indonesia on Western New Guinea
1964 : USA and South Vietnam reach agreement on war against North Vietnam http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=1999
1967 : Birth of Minako Honda, Japanese singer and musical actress, who died on November 5, 2005 http://nippop.com/artist/artist_id-136/artist_name-minako_honda/
1967 : The People’s Republic of China recognizes the borders and the neutrality of Cambodia
1967 : Birth of Mitsuo Iwata, Japanese voice actor http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=1045
1973 : Canada quits the Commission of control in Vietnam, replaced by Iran
1979 : Birth of Jade Kwan, Hong Kong singer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jade_Kwan http://gallery.asianfanatics.net/index.php?act=thumbs&aid=252
1986 : Death of Chiune Sugihara, Japanese diplomat who helped thousands of Jews leave the Soviet Union while serving as Japanese consul to Lithuania http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/sugihara.html
1988 : 32 people are killed and 1,674 injured when a bridge at the Sultan Abdul Halim ferry terminal collapses in Butterworth, Malaysia.
1997 : Death of Bao Dai, last emperor of Vietnam http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?
res=980DE6DE153DF931A3575BC0A961958260
1998 : In Cambodia, Ranariddh and Sam Rainsy reject Hun Sen offer of a coalition cabinet because grave ballot rigging
2002 : Asean and USA sign a pact to fight terrorism in South-East Asia
2002 : For the first time, Taiwanese president alludes to a referendum on the future if the island
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ON 1 AUGUST IN ASIAN HISTORY
Created on August 1, 2008
607 : Ono no Imoko is dispatched as envoy to the Sui court in China (Traditional Japanese date: July 3, 607) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ono_no_Imoko
1227 : Death of Shimazu Tadahisa, Japanese warlord, born in 1179 http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Shimazu-Tadahisa
1313 : Birth of Japanese Emperor Kogon (1331-1333), who died on August 5 1364 http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Emperor-Kogon-of-Japan
1377 : Birth of Japanese 100th Emperor Go-Komatsu (1382-1412, who died on December 1, 1433 http://www.bambooweb.com/articles/E/m/Emperor_Go-
Komatsu_of_Japan.html
1813 : Birth of Évariste Huc, French missionary in China and explorer in Mongolia and in Tibet, who died on March 31, 1860 http://home.newadvent.org/cathen/07510a.htm
1894 - The First Sino-Japanese War erupts between Japan and China over Korea. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Sino-Japanese_War
1905 : Birth of Yakeo Muzutani, Japanese actress who died on October 1, 1979
1918 : Birth of Zhou Xuan, Chinese actress and singer who died in September 1957 http://californiadream.com/personal/ZhouXuan/
1920 : In India, Mahatma Gandhi launches a civilian disobedience campaign
1920 : Birth of Asao Uchida, Japanese actor http://cherryblossomeiga.blogspot.com/2006/08/happy-birthday-asao-
uchida.html
1927 - The Nanchang Uprising, led by Zhu De, marks the first significant battle in the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and Communist Party of China. This day is commemorated as the anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanchang_Uprising
1929 : Birth od Hafizullah Amin, second president of Afghanistan, who died on December 27, 1979 http://www.afghanland.com/history/amin.html
1932 : Birth of Meena Kumari, Indian film actress, who died on March 31, 1972 http://www.idlebrain.com/mumbai/legends/meenakumari/
1942 : Occupied by the Japanese, Burma proclaims it independence from Great-Britain with General Aung San as defense minister and U Nu as foreign affairs minister
1944 : Death of Manuel Quezon, president of the Philippines (1935-1944), born on August 19, 1878 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Quezon
1944 : Sergio Osmena becomes president of the Philippines, until May 28, 1946 http://philippines-archipelago.com/people/presidents/
sergio_osmena.html
1946 : The conference of Fontainebleau between France and communist Vietnamese end on a failure.
1947 : United Nations calls for ce ceasefire in Indonesia. The Netherlands accept the US mediation
1949 : In Indonesia, general agreement for the end of hostilities
1955 : Opening in Geneva of US-Chinese talks on Taiwan. Eleven American pilots are freed by the Chinese
1959 : Birth of Otomo Yoshihide, Japanese musician http://www.japanimprov.com/yotomo/
1962 : Agreement at London on the foundation of Great Malaysia
1964 : North Vietnam accuses South Vietnam and the United states of attack http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=1236
1966 - Purges of intellectuals and imperialists becomes official People's Republic of China policy at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.
1982 : Birth of Ai Tominaga, Japanese model and actress http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai_Tominaga http://supermodels.nl/aitominaga
1993 : In Cambodia, end of the elections organized by the United Nations. Number of seats : 58 Funcipec, 51 Prachéachon, 10 Buddhist Liberal democratic Party, 1 Molinaka.
1999 : Death of Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Indian writer, born in 1897 http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~naras/ncc/ http://banglapedia.search.com.bd/HT/C_0159.htm
2003 : North Korea agrees on six-party talks, with South Korea, USA, China, Japan and Russia with bilateral talks with USA
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1611 : Death of Kato Kiyomasa, Japanese warlord and samurai, born on July 25, 1562 http://www.samurai-archives.com/kiyomasa.html
1869 - Japan's samurai, farmer, artisan, merchant class system (Shinōkōshō is abolished as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese date: June 25, 1869).
1907 : Naissance de Le Pho, Vietnamese painter http://www.anne-french.com/Paintings%20by%20Le%20Pho.htm http://www.artnet.com/artist/655746/le-pho.html
1918 - Japan announces that it is deploying troops to Siberia in the aftermath of World War I.
1943 - World War II: PT-109 rammed by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri and sinks. Lt. John F. Kennedy, future US President, saves all but two of his crew. http://www.jfklibrary.org/Historical+Resources/JFK+in+History/John+F.+Kennedy+and+PT109.htm
1959 : Opening of the Lushan Conference in which Mao Zedong will be criticized for his economic error in the « Great Leap”
1961 : Birth of Cui Jian, Chinese rocker http://wiki.rockinchina.com/index.php?title=Cui_Jian
1964 - Vietnam War: Gulf of Tonkin Incident - North Vietnamese gunboats allegedly fires on U.S. destroyers, USS Maddox and the USS Turner Joy. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=1237
1971 : Nixon administration acknowledges secret army in Laos http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=1238
1995 : China orders the expulsion of two US Air Force officers saying they have been caught spying on military sights
1999 : Death of Thai General Sunthorn Kongsompong who lead a coup in February 1991 http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?
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1635 - The third of the Tokugawa shoguns, Iemitsu, establishes the system of alternate attendance (sankin kotai) by which the feudal daimyō are required to spend one year at Edo Castle in Tokyo and one year back home at their feudal manor, while their families remained in Tokyo as virtual political hostages. (Traditional Japanese Date: June 21, 1635).
1767 : Invasion of Siam by the Burmese
1868 : Charles Brooke becomes second white rajah of Sarawak (Borneo) up to his death on 17 May 1917 http://www.rajahbrooke.com/datescha.htm http://monarchs.suite101.com/article.cfm/
charles_brooke_rajah_of_sarawak
1916 : Birth of Shakeel Badayuni, Indian poet and lyricist, who died on April 20, 1970 http://www.hindilyrix.com/lyricists/lyricist-shakeel-badayuni.html
1956 : Birth of Abhisit Vejjajiva, Thai politician, leader of the Democrat Party http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abhisit_Vejjajiva
1957 : Tunku Abdul Rahman is chosen to be first Prime Minister of soon independent Malaya http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/3/
newsid_2943000/2943390.stm
1957 : Birth of Mani Shankar, Indian film maker http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mani_Shankar http://www.indiafm.com/news/2008/06/13/11553/index.html
1959 : Birth of Koichi Tanaka, Japanese scientist, Chemistry Nobel laureate in 2002 http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2002/tanaka-
autobio.html
1966 : Supreme Soviet asks the soviet government to give more aid to North Vietnam
1993 : Birth of Yurina Kumai, Japanese singer http://wiki.theppn.org/Kumai_Yurina
2001 : In Thailand, the Constitutional Court decides that Prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra is cleared of the charge of cheating on his assets declaration in 1997. If convicted he would have been forced to resign
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