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ON 2 JANUARY IN ASIAN HISTORY
Updated on January 2, 2009
1757 : Robert Clive, who leads Madras for the East India Company retakes Calcutta http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/southasia/History/British/Clive.html
1900 : US stateman John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote trade with China. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Door_Policy
1905 : In the Russo-Japanese war, Port Arthur Russian garrison surrenders http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0102.html#article http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=4638 http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=64
1910 : Birth of Srirangam Srinivasaprao, Indian poet who died on June 15, 1983
1925 : Birth of Erano C. Manalo, executive minister of the Iglesia ni Cristo http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Erano-Manalo
1928 : Birth of Daisaku Ikeda, Japanese writer and president of the Soka Gakkai International, a Buddhist sect http://www.sgi.org/about/president/ikeda.html
1930 : Birth of Hossein Mohammed Ershad http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hossain_Mohammad_Ershad
1931 : Birth of Toshiki Kaifu, Japanese politician http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Kaifu-To.html
1933 : Birth of Morimura Seiichi, Japanese novelist http://www.answers.com/topic/seiichi-morimura
1938 : Birth of Goh Kun, twice South Korea’s prime minister http://www.speedylook.com/Goh_Kun.html
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1940 : Birth of S. R. S. Varadhan, Indian-American mathematician http://mutiny.wordpress.com/2007/04/11/prof-srs-varadhan-2007-abel-
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1942 : Manila is captured by Japanese forces
1944 : Birth of Prince Norodom Ranariddh, son of king Sihanouk and Prime Minister from 1993 through 1997 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norodom_Ranariddh http://www.norodomsihanouk.info/royal_family/rnre.htm
1951 : Birth of Tsui Hark, Hong Kong filmmaker http://www.geocities.com/yuenkat/tsui.html
1960 : Birth of Naoki Urasawa, Japanese manga author http://myhome.naver.com/fischer/Urasawa/UrasawaE.htm
1965 : Indonesia quits United Nations, the first country to do so
1965 : Ayub Khan wins the Pakistani presidential election with 62% of the vote http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistani_presidential_election%2C_1963
1967 : Heavy US bombing on North Vietnam through on 15
1978 : Birth of Toyoguchi Megumi, Japanese seiyuu (voice actress) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyoguchi_Megumi http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=794
1980 : In a strong reaction to the December 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, President Carter asks the Senate to postpone action on the Salt II nuclear treaty and recalls the US ambassador to Moscow http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=VideoArticle&
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1989 : Sri Lanka President Junius Richard Jayewardene is succeded by Prime Minister Ranasinghe Premadasa http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranasinghe_Premadasa
2006 : Rajnath Singh, 54 years old, former Chief minister of Uttar Pradesh (2000 à 2002) is elected chairman of the Bharatija Janata Party (BJP), succeeding Advani as leader of the opposition http://www.expressindia.com/news/fullstory.php?newsid=60401
2008 : Death of Princess Galyani Vadhana, the elder sister of king Rama IX, born on 6 May 1923 http://news.monstersandcritics.com/asiapacific/news/
article_1384154.php/Princess_Galyani_Vadhana_kings_elder_sister_dies http://www.soravij.com/galyani.html
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ON 3 JANUARY IN ASIAN HISTORY
Updated on January 3, 2009
1196 : Birth of Tsuchimikado, 83rd Japanese Emperor (1198-1210) who died in November 1231. Not to be confused with Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado (1442-1500) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Tsuchimikado
1836 : Birth of Sakamoto Ryoma, a Japanese revolutionary against the shogunat system who was assassinated in November 1867 http://www.ndl.go.jp/portrait/e/datas/89.html http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Pagoda/5770/ryomahis.htm
1852 : First Chinese arrives in Hawaii
1868 : Young Mutsuhito becomes Japanese Emperor. Meiji Restoration puts an end to the shogunate and gives back power to the Emperor http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=4640 http://www.jref.com/glossary/meiji_restoration.shtml http://www.jref.com/glossary/meiji_mutsuhito_emperor.shtml
1871 : Birth of Kuriakose Elias Chavara, Indian Saint, born on February 10, 1805 http://www.blessedchavara.org/life.asp
1901 : Birth of Ngo Dinh Diem, first president of South Vietnam (1955-1963) who died in November 1963 http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/VNngo.htm
1937 : Birth of Seri Wangnaitham, Thai choreographer, a National artist who died in February 2007 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seri_Wangnaitham http://www.watmiami.iirt.net/html/wat_en_06.html
1945 : Allies land on west coast of Burma and conquer Akyab
1945 : US aircraft carriers attack Okinawa as Gen. Douglas MacArthur is placed in command of all U.S. ground forces and Adm. Chester Nimitz is placed in command of all U.S. naval forces. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=6665
1966 : USA proposes a conference on South-East Asia aiming to solve Vietnamese problem
1958 : Birth of Shim Hyung-rae, South Korean filmmaker http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0405374/ http://www.hancinema.net/korean_Shim_Hyung-rae.php
1960 : Birth of Sandeep Marwah Founder of Film City, Noida, India http://www.sandeepmarwah.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandeep_Marwah
1972 : Birth of Yoon Chan, South Korean actor http://www.hancinema.net/korean_Yoon_Chan.php
1974 : Burma adopts its constitution of the Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma lead by dictator Ne Win http://www.moreorless.au.com/killers/win.html
1977 : Birth of Mayumi Iizuka, Japanese voice actress (seiyū http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayumi_Iizuka http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=522
1978 : Birth of Park Sol-mi, South Korean actress http://www.hancinema.net/korean_Park_Sol-mi.php
1980 : General elections in India (up to January 6). The Congress Party will win two third of the seats. Indira Ganghi will come back after 33 months in opposition
1980 : Installed by Soviet forces, new Afghan president Babrak Karmal mades his first appearance defending Soviet Invasion http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/3/
newsid_2492000/2492329.stm
2003 : The renting of small islets to private individuals in the Senkaku archipelago causes protests from Beijing and Taipei who claim sovereignty on this place named Diaoyudai by the Chinese
2005 : Death of Jyotindra Nath Dixit, Indian diplomat and politician born in January 1936 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jyotindra_Nath_Dixit
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ON JANUARY 4 IN ASIAN HISTORY
Updated on January 4, 2009
1077 : Birth of Zhezong, 7th Emperor of the Chinese Song dynasty (1085-1100) who died in November 1100 http://www.answers.com/topic/emperor-zhezong-of-song
1564 : Death of Hosokawa Ujitsuna, Japanese military commander, born in 1514 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosokawa_Ujitsuna
1823 : Birth of Otto van Rees, Governor-General of Dutch-Indies (1884-88) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor-
General_of_the_Dutch_East_Indies
1848 : Birth of Katsura Taro, Japanese prime minister who died in October 1913 http://www.jref.com/glossary/katsura_taro.shtml
1924 : Birth of Sebastian Kappen, Indian Jesuit theologian who died on November 30, 1993 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastian_Kappen
1929 : Birth of Yayoi Kusama, Japanese artist and sculptor http://www.fantasyarts.net/kusama_bio.html http://www.yayoi-kusama.jp/e/biography/index.html
1932 : The Indian Congress Party is declared illegal by the British. Mahatmat Gandhi and Nehru are arrested
1940 : Birth of Chinese-born French writer Gao Xingjian, Literature Nobel prize 2000 http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/gao.htm
1948 : Full Independence of Burma from Great Britain. U Nu is named Prime Minister up to June 1956 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_Nu
1948 : The territories occupied by the Dutch demand the foundation of the United States of Indonesia
1951 : Chinese and Korean Communist forces retake Seoul http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/4/
newsid_2494000/2494837.stm
1953 : Death of Prince Chichibu, younger brother of emperor Showa (Hirohito), born on June 25, 1902 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Chichibu
1959 : Birth of Yoshitomo Nara, Japanese pop artist http://sweatyfrog.com/nara.html http://www.assemblylanguage.com/reviews/Nara.html
1962 : Agreement between USA and the government of South Vietnamese president Ngo Dinh Diem : pacification, democratization, liberalization
1964 : French Prime Minister Pierre Messmer offers a military aid to Cambodia
1966 : Conference Indo-Pakistani in Tachkent (Soviet Union), up to 10. The two countries reestablish their diplomatic relations
1971 : Birth of Junichi Kakizaki, Japanese sculptor http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Junichi-Kakizaki http://the-artists.org/artist/Junichi_Kakizaki.html http://www.kuruizaki.com/
1974 : South Vietnamese president Thieu announces that war has resumed http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=1592
1974 : The Union of Burma is renamed the Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma
1975 : The first Communist China delegation arrives to Malaya
1980 : President Jimmy Carter announces economic sanctions against Soviet Union which invaded Afghanan on 27 December 1979
1988 : Birth of Nabila Jamshed, Indian writer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabila_Jamshed http://www.wishuponatime-thelegendaryscimitar.blogspot.com/
1994 : Death of Rahul Dev Burman, Indian composer and actor, born on June 27, 1939 http://www.panchamonline.com/
2004 : Four policemen are killed, a military depot is looted and eighteen schools burned in the Muslim deep south of Thailand, starting a long bloody unrest
2004 : Beginning of a diplomatic warming between India and Pakistan a meeting of the two leaders in Islamabad
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2004 : Afghans approves a new constitution
2005 : Death of Taiwan’s main negotiator with China, Koo Chen-fu http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2005/01/04/2003217943
2008 : North Korea pledges to strength its “war deterrent” , days after it missed a year-end deadline for declaring its nuclear activities http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7171096.stm
2008 : Death of Jimmy Nah, Singapore comedian and actor, born on April 13, 1968 http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/entertainment/view/320685/1/
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ON 5 JANUARY IN ASIAN HISTORY
Updated on January 5, 2009
1587 : Birth of Xu Xiake, China traveler and geographer who died in March 1641 http://www.chinaculture.org/gb/en_madeinchina/2005-09/02/
content_72439.htm
1588 : Death of Chinese General Qi Jiguang, famous for his success against Japanese pirates, born on November 12, 1528 http://www.cctv.com/english/TouchChina/GloryofChineseCivilization/
HistoricalCelebrities/MilitaryLeaders/20020326/100037.html
1592 : Birth of Shah Jahan, ruler of the Mughal Empire (1628-1658) who died in January 1666 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shah_Jahan
1655 : Go-Sai, becomes 111th Japanese Emperor (up to1663). He will die in March 1685 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Go-Sai
1893 : Birth of Paramahansan Yogananda, Indian guru who died in March 1952 http://www.yogananda-srf.org/py-life/index.html
1899 : Separatist Filipino general Aguilnado demands the independence of the Philippines from USA
1926 : Birth of Joshua Benjamin Jeyaretnam, the veteran opposition leader in Singapore who died on September 30, 2008 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Benjamin_Jeyaretnam http://www.jbjeya.org/
1928 : Birth of Ali Bhutto, President (1971-1973), then Prime Minister (1973-1977) of Pakistan, hanged in April 1979 http://www.storyofpakistan.com/person.asp?perid=P019
1941 : Birth of Hayao Miyazaki, cartoons filmmaker http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayao_Miyazaki
1941 : The communist New Fourth Army is surrounded by KMT forces http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Fourth_Army_Incident
1945 : Kamikaze pilots get first order http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=50402
1946 : China recognizes the independence of Outer Mongolia
1948 : Communist offensive aiming to cut Manchuria from the rest of China
1950 : Pakistan recognizes the People’s Republic of China
1952 : China launches the « anti-five movement » (Wufan) mainly against national bourgeoisie and traders
1955 : Opening of talks between United Nations General Secretary Hammarskjoeld and Chinese Prime Minister Zhou Enlai on the question of US pilots detained in China
1963 : Birth of Jiang Wen, Chinese film actor and director http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0422638/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiang_Wen
1966 : The United States ask the United Nations members to use their influence for solving the Vietnamese conflict.
1968 : A soviet cargo is hit during an US air raid on North Vietnam
1971 : Birth of Mayuko Takata, Japanese actress http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0847030/ http://www.ken-on.co.jp/takata/index.html
1976 : Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot renames Cambodia to Democratic Kampuchea as a new constitution is promulgated http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=52302 http://www.dccam.org/Archives/Documents/DK_Policy/
DK_Policy_DK_Constitution.htm
1979 : Vietnamese troops occupy Phom Penh and the Cambodian ruler Pol Pot is ousted
1985 : Birth of Yoon So-yi, South Korean actress http://wiki.d-addicts.com/Yoon_So_Yi
1986 : Birth of Deepika Padukone, Indian model and actress http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepika_Padukone http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2138653/
1986 : Birth of Teppei Koike, Japanese actor and singer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teppei_Koike http://www.fanpop.com/spots/teppei-koike
2000 : The 17th Karmapa, Orgyen Trinley Dorge who escaped from his Tsurphu monastery in Tibet in December 1999, arrives in India at Dharamsala where is living the XIV Dalai-Lama http://www.kagyuoffice.org/karmapa.india.escape.html
2004 : During SAARC summit, in Islamabad, general Musharraf and Indian Prime Minister Vajpayee have long talks and decide to have discussions on Kashmir
2007 : Death of Chih Ree Sun, Chinese-American physicist and poet, born on May 6, 1923 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chih_Ree_Sun
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ON 6 JANUARY IN ASIAN HISTORY
Updated on January 6, 2009
1393 : Death of Japanese Emperor Go En’yu (1371-1382), born in January 1359 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Go-En'y%C5%AB
1725 : Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Japanese dramatist, born in 1653 http://www.answers.com/topic/chikamatsu-monzaemon http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/clsc62.html
1842 : British troops (4500 British and 12,000 Indians) under the command of William Elphinstone leave Kabul where they were based since 1939 and are butchered during their retreat. Just one man survived http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre_of_Elphinstone%27s_army
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1847 : Death of Tyagaraja, composer of Indian classical Carnatic music, born on 4 May 1767 http://www.iloveindia.com/indian-heroes/tyagaraja.html
1917 : Birth of Koo Chen-fu, Taiwan’s main negotiator with China, who died in January 2005 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koo_Chen-fu
1920 : Birth of Sun Myung Moon, Korean evangelist http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Sun_Myung_Moon
1929 : Birth of Babrak Karmal, president of Afghanistan (1979-1986) http://www.sabawoon.com/afghanpedia/Personalities.BabrakKarmal.shtm http://www.afghanland.com/history/karmal.html
1929 : Mother Teresa arrives in Calcutta to begin her work amongs India’s poorest and diseased people http://www.motherteresa.org/
1941 : In the Southern Anhui incident, Chinese Nationalist troops attack the headquarters of the Communist New Fourth Army. The Nationalist assault results in thousands of casualties, obliterating the Communist force http://knows.jongo.com/res/article/10802
1946 : Ho Chi Minh wins the first universal suffrage elections in Vietnam http://www.moreorless.au.com/heroes/ho.html
1950 : Great-Britain and Norway recognize Communist China
1953 : Gathering in Rangoon of an Asian socialist conference
1966 : Colonel Bokassa who has taken power in Republic of Central Africa break diplomatic relations with People’s Republic of China
1967 : United States and South Vietnamese forces launch a major offensive in Mekong Delta
1971 : US Army drops charges of My Lai cover-up http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=1596
1972 : Death of Chinese Marshal Chen Yi http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-ChenYi.html
1975 : Phuoc Binh falls to the North Vietnamese http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=1597
1975 : Birth of Hong Kong actress Bernice Liu http://women.stareastasia.com/bernice-liu/
1976 : People’s Republic of China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor nuclear testing center
1980 : Birth of Hiromi Oshima, Japanese adult model http://www.hiromioshima.com/ http://glam0ur.com/gals/hiromi_oshima/hiromi_oshima.htm http://www.hiromioshima.org/pictures/album/hiromi-oshima-playboy-
playmate/
1981 : Musa bin Ahmad, president of Communist Party of Malaya, who came from China in November 1980, express his regret in a TV show.
1981 : Birth of Rinco Kikuchi, Japanese actress http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rinko_Kikuchi http://www.anore.co.jp/rinko/english.html
1989 : Vietnam announces the complete withdrawal of its troops in Cambodia before September
1999 : In Bangladesh, aiming to return to power, the BNP forms a four-party opposition alliance with the Jatiya Party, the Jamaat-e-Islami and the Islami Oikya Jote and launched several agitation programs against the ruling Awami League.
2002 : In Singapore, thirteen Muslim Singaporean are arrested because they were ready to launch attacks against US citizens and interests in Singapore. Eight of them had been trained in Al-Qaida in Afghanistan.
2005 : China announces that on this day it has 1,3 billion inhabitants
2008 : Lt Gen Orakzai, governor of Pakistan restive North West Frontier Province, resigns http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7173324.stm
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ON 7 JANUARY IN ASIAN HISTORY
Updated on January 7, 2008
1761 - Afghans defeat Mahrattas at Paniput in India. http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/LUP_MAL/MAHRATTAS.html
1906 : End of the first Katsura Taro’s Japanese government http://www.jref.com/glossary/katsura_taro.shtml
1937 : Birth of Tang Chia, Chinese martial art choreographer and movie director http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0849271/ http://www.hkcinemagic.com/en/people.asp?id=1079
1938 : Birth of Shohei Yamamoto, Japanese actor http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0945490/
1942 : Japan begins successful siege of Bataan Peninsula during World War II, routing American and Philippine troops.
1944 : Birth of Hideko Yoshida, Japanese actress http://eiga.wikia.com/wiki/Hideko_Yoshida http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=Hideko%20Yoshida
1946 : France recognizes Cambodia autonomy in the frame of the French Union.
1947 : Birth of Shobha De, Indian writer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shobha_De http://www.imagesfashion.com/shobha_de.html
1950 : Ceylon (Sri Lanka) recognizes the People’s Republic of China
1950 : Birth of Johnny Lever, Indian actor http://www.bollywoodgate.com/indian-actors/johnny-lever.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h26BiPZNDds
1952 : Birth of Sammo Hung, Hong Kong actor http://www.sammohung.com/
1957 : Birth of Reena Roy, Indian actress http://www.chakpak.com/celebrity/reena-roy/biography/10880 http://reena-roy.tripod.com/
1961 : Birth of Supriya Pathak, Indian actress http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supriya_Pathak http://www.chakpak.com/celebrity/supriya-pathak/11927
1962 : Assassination attempt on Indonesian president Sukarno, fails
1965 : Civilian government is restored in Saigon http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=1598
1967 : Fighting is reported between Chinese Red Guards and workers in Nanjing.
1972 - India resists U.S. pressure and grants full diplomatic recognition to China.
1973 - Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos suspends scheduled plebiscite on new constitution, saying his country is slipping back into subversion and corruption.
1975 : For the first time, the Vietnamese communist forces take the administrative center of a province (Phuoc-Binh, 125 km North of Saigon)
1979 : Fall of Phnom-Penh, attacked by invading Vietnamese force. Fall of Pol Pot Khmer Rouge regime http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=6769 http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0107.html#article
1979 : Birth of Bipasha Basu, Indian model http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bipasha_Basu http://www.apunkachoice.com/celebrities/bipasha_basu/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7N7mLbMxWc
1980 : The Congress (Indira) Party of Indira Gandhi wins 351 of the 525 contested seats. Indira Gandhi comes back after losing the power in 1977 http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/7/
newsid_2506000/2506387.stm
1984 : After getting its independence from Britain, Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN)
1986 : The National Assembly of the People’s Republic of Kampuchea ratifies the border treaty signes with Vietnam on December 27, 1985
1989 : Death of Japanese Emperor Hirohito (Showa). He is succeeded by his son Akihito http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=4655 http://cidc.library.cornell.edu/dof/japan/captioned/funerals.htm http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0429.html
1996 : Death of Taro Okamoto, Japanese avant-garde artist, born in February 1911 http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Okamoto-Taro http://www.japanvisitor.com/index.php?cID=416&pID=1435 http://www.taromuseum.jp/english/index_english.html
2000 : News agencies unveil that the 17th Karmapa, Orgyen Trinley Dorje, 15 years old, leader of one of the most important buddhist school in Tibet has fled to India and arrived on January 5 http://www.speedylook.com/Karmapa.html http://www.karmapa.org/
2001 : US Foreign Affairs magazine publishes extracts of “The Tiananmen Paper” on who, in the tops China leaders wanted, and the ones who din’t want troop to crush the students movement on Tiananmen square http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?
res=9E02E7DB173AF935A35752C0A9679C8B63&n=Top/Reference/Times%20Topics/
People/L/Li%20Peng http://edition.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/east/04/22/
tiananmen.document/index.html
2002 : Akbar Tanjung, president of Golkar and of the Representatives House is officially accused of misappropriation of public property for embezzlement used for Golgar electoral campaign in 1999. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/1759481.stm
2002 : Extradition, from Malaysia where he fled, of Nur Misuari, ex-governor of the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), who tried an armed riot. http://www.seasite.niu.edu/Tagalog/Modules/Modules/Separatist_Groups/
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ON 8 JANUARY IN ASIAN HISTORY
Updated on January 8, 2008
1324 : Death of Marco Polo, born in 1254 http://geography.about.com/cs/marcopolo/a/marcopolo.htm http://www.susqu.edu/history/medtrav/marcopolo/bio.htm
1556 : Birth of Uesugi Kagekatsu, Japanese samurai and warlord who died in March 1623 http://www.samurai-archives.com/kagekatsu.html
1761 : In India, the French garrison surrenders. Next February, Mahe will also do it
1899 : Birth of Solomon Bandaranaike, fourth Ceylon’s Prime minister (1956-1959), assassinated by a buddhist monk in September 1959 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Bandaranaike
1902 : In China, Imperial court comes back to the Fobidden City and empress Cixi retakes the power
1912 : Birth of Susumu Fujita, Japanese actor who died in March 1991 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susumu_Fujita http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0297843/filmoyear
1912 : Birth of Tadashi Imai, Japanese film director who died in November 1991 http://www.bookrags.com/biography/tadashi-imai/
1926 : Birth of Kelucharan Mohapatra, Indian odessi dancer who died in April 2004 http://academic.evergreen.edu/curricular/odissi/gurus/kelu.htm http://www.odissiniharika.com/guruji.html
1926 : Birth of Hanae Mori, Japanese fashion designer http://www.infomat.com/whoswho/hanaemori.html http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20080108jk.html
1929 : Birth of Kotoe Hatsui, Japanese actress who died in September 1990 http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0368969/
1929 : Birth of Saeed Jaffrey, Indian actor http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/J/htmlJ/jaffreysaee/jaffreysaee.htm http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006762/
1933 : Ko Un, Korean poet http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/koun.htm http://www.koun.co.kr/
1942 : Birth of Junichiro Koizumi, Japanese Prime Minister (2001-2006) http://www.japan-zone.com/modern/koizumi_junichiro.shtml
1947 : General Marshall named state secretary leaves China.
1948 : Birth of Hana Kino, Japanese actress http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0455816/ http://www.nipponcinema.com/tag/hana_kino/
1967 : In Vietnam war, Operation Cedar Falls is launched http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=1601
1972 : Freed by the Pakistani authorities, Mujibur Rahman, leader of Bangladesh, arrives in London and demands that his new State to be recognize
1973 : Vietnam peace talks resume in Paris http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=1600
1974 : The Khmers rouges intensify their pressure on Phnom Penh by attacks on North and South of the Cambodian capital
1975 : Deng Xiaoping is named vice-president Chinese communist party
1976 : Death of Zhou Enlai, Chinese Prime Minister since 1949 http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/COLDenlai.htm http://granitestudio.org/2008/01/08/this-date-in-history-the-death-of-
zhou-enlai/ http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=2540
1977 : Just one year after the death of Zhou Enlai, huge demonstrations in Beijing which will continue up to 16 January. The demonstrators demand the Deng Xiaoping return to power.
1977 : Birth of Lee Yoo-jin (Yu-jin), Korean actress http://www.koreanmovie.com/Lee_Yoo_jin_ka933/
1979 : After the Vietnamese troops have taken Phnom Penh, Khmer Rouge are retreating http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/8/
newsid_2506000/2506533.stm
1985 : Japan launches Sakigake space probe to Halley’s comet
1989 : Beginning of the Japanese Heise era (the current Japanese emperor one)
1991 : Birth of Asuka Hinoi, Japanese singer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinoi_Asuka http://bestuff.com/stuff/asuka-hinoi http://video.google.fr/videosearch?hl=fr&q=Asuka+Hinoi&lr=lang_en&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&
oi=video_result_group&resnum=4&ct=title#
1992 : George Bush gets ill and vomits on Japanese prime minister’s lap
1997 : In New York, Ramzi Ahmed Yussef is condemned to life for the organization of the February 1993 attack on the World Trade Center http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramzi_Yousef
2002 : Abolition of death penalty in Taiwan. The last ten years, 176 Taiwanese have been executed, 39 of them for kidnapping.
2008 : The president of the Maldives, Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, escapes unhurt after an attempted knife attack http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7176434.stm
2008 : Sri Lankan minister for nation-building dies in blast http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7176207.stm
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