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15 OCTOBER 2007
15 OCTOBER 1957 : BIRTH OF MIRA NAIR INDIAN FILM DIRECTOR
Mira Nair is one of the most internationaly known Indian film director and producer who won several international rewards.
She studied sociology in Delhi University where she became involved in political streets theater and performed three years in an amateur drama company before going to study to the United States.
After some documentary she directed her first major film “Salaam Bombay” (1988) which won an Oscar at French Cannes festival.
Nair’s most popular film to date “Monsoon wedding” was awarded the Golden Lion award at the Venice Mostra film festival.
She is currently teaching in the United States and directing a new movie “Shantaram” (2008)
One of her more often topic is exile.
Her personnal webesite : http://www.mirabaifilms.com/bio.html
OTHERS FACTS
1542 : Birth of Akbar the Great who rule the Mughal empire in India from 1556 to 1605
1904 : The Russian Baltic Fleet leaves Estonia for Port Arthur (Lûshun) during the Russo-Japanese war.
1916 : Birth of admiral Liu Huaqing who modernized the PRC Navy
1931 : Birth of Aval Pakir Jainulabdeen Abduk Kalam, India President (2002-2007)
1932 : Tata Airlines (Now Air India) makes its first fly
1934 : Birth of N. Ramani, Indian flutist
1941 : Li Tung, Taiwanese actor
1942 : Kyoto Enami, Japanese actress
1948 : Shigeru Yoshida succeeds Hitoshi Ashida as 48th Prime minister (up to February 1949)
1949 : Canton (Guangzhou) is taken by the People Liberation Army.
1950 : First infiltrations of Chinese troops in North Korea
1952 : Birth of Kunibriko Yuyama, Pokemo series film director
1957 : Sino-Soviet agreement for military nuclear cooperation
1969 : Millions march in US to protest against the continuing war in Vietnam http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/15/
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1976 : Birth of Yoon San-ha, Korean actress and singer
1979 : Start of a travel of Hua guofeng to Occidental Europe
1982 : Birth of Yoko Maki, Japanese actress
2001 : Visit of Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to Seoul. As he did in Beijing, he expresses his remorse for the past.
2001 : Death of general Zhang Xueliang who forced Chiang Kai-shek to ally with the Communist for fighting the Japanese
2003 : China successfully send a first man in Space, the Lt-colonel Yang Yiwei.
2004 : All the small border problems between China and Russia are solved.
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16 OCTOBER 2007
16 OCTOBER 1866 : A FRENCH NAVY FLEET ATTACKS KOREA
Under French emperor Napoleon III, France was the protector of the catholic missionnaries in the world.
After the slaughter of nine French missionaries in Korea, the French chargé d’affaires to China decided to send a fleet under the command of amiral Roze to revenge the killed missionaries and to overthrow the king of Korea.
On 16 October they took the Kwang-Hwa island at the mouth of Han river which lead to Seoul. They looted the royal treasures in the island but never took Seoul and withdraw on 21 November.
The French ministry of Foreign condemned this action.
OTHER FACTS
1535 : Birth of Niwa Nagahide, Japanese wardlord
1840 : Birth of Kuroda Kiyotaka,
1841 : Birth of Prince Hirobumi Ito, four times Prime Minister and first Japanese governor of Korea
1905 : Partition of Bengal by the British authorities provoking high level unrest
1914 : Birth of Zaher Shah, the last king of Afghanistan
1934 : Start of the Chinese Communist Party Long March http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&
id=7052
1942 : A cyclone is the cause of 11,000 deds in Bengal
1951 : Murder of Liquat Ali Khan, the first PM of Pakistan
1953 : A National congress convened by Bao Daï refuses the adherence of Vietnam to the Union française « in its current form »
1964 : PRC detonates its first nuclear weapon http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/1016.html#article
1965 : Ransack of the Chinese commercial mission in Jakarta
1967 : John Baez arrested in Vietnam protest http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/16/
newsid_2535000/2535301.stm
1973 : Kissinger and Le Duc Tho Nobel Prize http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1973/press.html
1979 : First official visit to Moscow by Aghan président Babrak Karmal
1979 : Chinese dissident Wei Jingsheng, arrested at the end of March is sentenced to fifteen years in jail
1982 : Birth of Vincy Chan, Hong Kong singer
2002 : Five Japaneses, kidnapped in the 1970s and 1980s by North Koreans agents, are for the first time authorized to return to their country « for few days »
Admiral Roze on his ship
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17 OCTOBER 2007
17 OCTOBER 1967 : DEATH OF PU YI, THE LAST CHINESE EMPEROR
Pu Yi, under the name of Xuantong, selected by empress Cixi, became emperor as he has not yet three years old, with his father second Prince Chun as a regent.
After the establishment of the Republic by Sun Yat-sen on 1st January 1912, he abdicated on 12 February and authorized to leave in the Forbidden city up to he was expelled by warlord Feng Yuxiang in 1924.
After that, he resided in the Japanese concession in Tianjin. After Japan sized Manchuria in 1931 they named him as Chief of the Executive from 9 March 1932 , then as Mandchukuo emperor on 1st March 1934 with the name of Kangde.
After the collapse of Japan in 1945, he was captured by the Soviet army and bing to Siberia. But in 1950, Stalin decided on to give him to the new communist China where he was send for ten years in a reeducation camp where he applied to be a good communist.
After that he works and became a delegate to the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and encouraged by Zhou written his memories “From Emperor to citizen”, published in 1964.
But during the Cultural Revolution, he was again put in jail and died of kidney and heart deseases on 17 October 1967.
His live has been put on screen by Bertolucci in a film named “The last emperor” (1987)
Film : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Emperor
For joking, you have to know that there is, in exile, a Mandchukuo temporary government http://www.manchukuo.org/index28.htm#The%20information%20of%20Manchukuo%20Temporary%20Government
OTHER FACTS
1748 : British troops raise the siege of the French Indian city Pondichery, well defended by Dupleix.
1817 : Birth of Syed Ahmad Khan, Indian Musmim intellectual
1887 : Foundation of the French Indochina Union gathering Cochin china and the protectorates of Cambodia, Annam and Tonking
1919 : Birth of Zhao Ziyang, Prime Minister (1980), then General Secretary of the CCP (1987-1989). http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1018129,00.html
1947 : Second London anglo-Burman agreement on independence of Burma
1950 : Ngabo Ngawang Djimé surrenders to Chinese troops for the Chambo, one of the tree parts of Tibet (Today Qinhai)
1950 : Agreement of military support between Thailand and US
1953 : Signature of a Treaty of Friendship and Association between France and Laos.
1953 : Agreement between France and Cambodia for the transfer of responsibilities for defense matters
1972 : Korean President Park Chung-hee decrees Martial Law
1992 : Death of Herman Johannes, Indonesian professor, scientist and politician
2002 : In front of US Congress, James Kelly, in charge of US Asia diplomacy said that during his last trip to Pyongyang, the North Koreans acknowled that they were developping a military nuclear programme.
2003 : Eunuchs in the Indian State of Madhya Pradesh float the political party Jiti Jitayi Politics
2005 : Death of Ba Jin, famous Chinese writer
Pu Yi in 1934
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19 OCTOBER 2007
I made a mistake, passing from 17 to 19 october. Il will put 18 october tomorrow
19 OCTOBER 1977 : PM TANIN THROWN OUT BY GENERAL KRIANGSAK CHOMANAN
After the 1976 unrests, Tanin Kraivixien, a lawer, had been call by the strong man, Admiral Sangad, to become Prime Minister. But after one year he decided to overthrow him and Kriangsack Chomanan, the supreme commander of the Army did the job.
Admiral Sangad, as head of the State Administration Council, named Kriangsak Prime Minister on 11 november 1977.
In an effort to restore a parliamentary democracy, Kriangsask set up a more mixed civilian and military government.
He lost the military’s support and then ran into fierce public opposition, with large street demonstrations when he increased prices for electricity and petrol.
He finally resigned on 29 February 1980
OTHER FACTS
1276 : Birth of Prince Hisaaki, Japanese Shogun
1851 : Birth of Empress Myeongseong of Korea
1904 : Polytechnic University of the Philippines founded as Manila Business School
1910 : Birth of Subrahmanyan Chandrasckhar, Indian-born physicist (Nobel Prize 1983)
1936 : Death of Lu Xun, Chinese writer
1944 : United States forces land on the Philippines
1950 : UN troops enter Pyongyang, capitale of North Korean
1950 : The military of the People’s Republic of China take control of the town of Chamdo, in eastern Tibet
1956 : Declaration nippo-soviet on the relations between the two countries puting an end at the state of war between the two countries.
1956 : Birth of Sunny Deol, Indian actor
1962 : Incidents between Indian and Chinese troops
1993 : Benazir Bhutto, Prime Minister for the second time, until November 1996
2001 : First US ground commandos actions in Afghanistan
2001 : Opening of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), at Shanghai. First political statement condemning the international terrorism
But today, the most important event in Asia is that it is Asia Observer members Cymbalrocks from Pakistan, and Asesh from India, birthday. Happy birthday to you!!!!
General Kriangsak
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20 OCTOBER 2007
20 OCTOBER 1967 : DEATH OF SHIGERU YOSHIDA
Yoshida was a diplomat and two times Prime Minister of Japan. He was the one who on 8 September 1951, signed the San Francisco Peace Treaty (see this date)
The illegitimate son of a samourai and a geisha, he studied political sciences and became a diplomat. He has been vice-minister of Foreign Affairs, then ambassador to Italy and Great Britain. In 1944, we was jailed for his pacifist positions.
But, after the war, he was Prime Minister two times, doing a lot to develop Japanese economy ans establishing closed relations with the United States.
He died on 20 october 1967, 89 years old.
See one of his biography http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Yoshida.html
OTHER FACTS
1928 : Birth of Zhu Rongji, Chinese Prime Minister (1998-2003)
1934 : Birth of Mikito Empress, wife othe reigning emperor Akihito
1935 : End of the Long March. Mao Zedong arrives to Yenan
1951 : Opening of negociations between Japan and South Korea for puting an end to the WW2 contentious
1958 : Sarit Thanarat proclaims Martial Law and takes the power in Thailand.
1962 : China launchs an counter-offensive against India in the NEFA and in Laddakh (up to 22 november
1967 : Birth of Marco Ngai, Hong Kong actor
1967 : Thousand of demonstrators in Oakland, California, hold the biggest protest yet against the Vietnam war http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/20/
newsid_3153000/3153144.stm
1969 : Resumption, at Beijing, of negociations with the Soviet Union for the borders contentious.
1971 : Second trip of Kissinger à Pékin to prepare Nixon visit (up to 26)
1973 : Dalai Lama makes first UK visit http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/20/
newsid_2489000/2489855.stm
1977 : Military coup d’état in Bangkok by the three commanders of the three Arms
1982 : Julius Jayewardene relected president of Sri Lanka with 52,9 % of vote
1993 : Death of Sugiyama Yasushi, Japanese painter
2004 : General Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono take his charge of Indonesia president.
Shigoru Yoshida in 1945
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21 OCTOBER 2007
21 OCTOBER 1987 : DEATH OF GENERAL HO YING-CHIN
General Ho Ying-chin (He Yingqin)attended the Wuchang Third Army Middle School then the Tokyo Shinbu Military Academy where he met Chiang Kai-shek.
In 1924, when Chiang Kai-shek made preparation for the establishment of the Whampoa Military Academy he was proposed to be the general instructor of the academy where he gave its full support to Chiang and took a main role in the massacre of the communists in Shanghai in April 1927
In 1930, he was named Minister of War up to 1944 when he was obliged to resign under the pressure of the USA because of his “wait and see” position in the anti-Japan war. But Chiang Kai-shek named him as General Commander of the Chinese Military Area.
In this position, he was the Chinese representative for the surrender of Japanese troops in China on 9th September 1945.
After Chiang Kai-shek fled to Taiwan, he served as Taiwan Defense Minister from 1949 to 1958.
He died on 21st October 1987, 96 years old
Two biographies : http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?
res=9B0DE1DB153FF931A15753C1A961948260 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He_Yingqin
OTHER FACTS
1500 : Death of Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado (1464-1500)
1760 : Birth of Katsushika Hokusai, Japanese painter
1860 : Treaty of Beijing, putting an end to the Second Opium war
1895 : The Japanese troops take Tinan, capitale of a short life Republic of Taiwan proclaimed by pro-Qing cadrees
1938 : The Japanese troops take Canton (Guangzhou)
1950 : The People Liberation Army enters in Tibet
1950 : India protests for the China invasion of Tibet.
1959 : Border clash between Indian and Chinese troops in Laddakh (Kashmir)
1959 : Birth of Ken Watanake, Japanese actor
1959 : The United Nation general assembly passed a resolution (1353-XIV) in which it said to be « deeply worry” by the situation in Tibet
1970 : Japon publishes its first defence white paper
1972 : North Vietnam Phan Van Dong saids he is ready to accept a cease-fire as a first step towards a settlement to the Vietnam war .
1972 : Resumption of belateral negociations in Moscow between Soviet Union and Japan (up to 24)
1994 :The United States and North Korea sign an agreement puting an end to the first North Korea nuclear crisis.
Ho Ying-chin
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22 OCTOBER 2007
22 OCTOBER 1986 : DEATH OF MARSHAL YE JIANYING
Ye Jianjing was one of ten marshals of the PRC
Born in 1897 in a wealthy merchant Hakka family in Guangdong, he attended the Yunnan Military Academy , then joined the Sun Yat-sen founded Whampao Military Academy as an instructor.
In 1927, he left the Kuomintang and joined the Communist Party. He took part of the Nanchang military uprising (Birth of the Red Army) and after that was obliged to flee abroad.
He came back to China in 1932 and joined Mao Zedong Soviet Republic in Jiangxi. Chief of Staff of Zhang Guotao, he came on Mao Zedong side when the two leaders went at odds. Its why during the Cultural Revolution, Mao protected him and in this period, he was vice-chairman of the CCP from 1973 to 1982
In 1976, he took an active part to oust Jiang Qing and the Gang of Four and Deng Xiaoping named him as Defense Minister (1975-1978)
Here are two biographies http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/data/people/yejianying.shtml http://www.iisg.nl/~landsberger/yjy.html
OTHERS FACTS
794 : Emperor Kanmu relocates Japanesese capital to Heiankyo (Kyoto)
1197 : Birth of Juntoku, 84th emperor of Japan (1210-1221)
1913 : Birth of Vietnamese emperor Bao Dai
1946 : Birth of Yuko Maruyama, Japanese actress
1953 : Laos gains independence from France. Signature of a friendship and association treaty.
1957 : Vietnam war first United States casualties in Vietnam
1965 : End of the Second Kashmir
1969 : Birth of Lee Seung-shin, Korean actress
1970 : Tunkun Abdul Rahman resign from Prime Minister of Malaysia
1972 : Henry Kissinger proposes to Nguen Van Thieu a cease-fire, but the Vietnamese president rejects it as a treason
1980 : In South Korea, by a referendum, 92 % of the voters approve the new constitution which includes the dissolution of the National Assembly and of all the political parties.
1984 : Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, accuses « foreign powers » to help Sikh activists in Punjab.
1998 : Indian actor Ajit dies from a cardiac arrest.
1999 : China ends its first-ever human rights conference in which it defied western definitions of civil liberties
2006 : Death of Choi Kyu-ha, president of South Korea (1979-1980)
2006 : Death of Indian film director Manoj Punj
But the most important fact in Asia history is that today is the birthday of your dear Asia Observer members Kangdingyi (from China) and John Ye (from Australia): Happy birthday !!!!!
Ye Jianying
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22 OCTOBER 2007
22 OCTOBER 1986 : DEATH OF MARSHAL YE JIANYING
Ye Jianjing was one of ten marshals of the PRC
Born in 1897 in a wealthy merchant Hakka family in Guangdong, he attended the Yunnan Military Academy , then joined the Sun Yat-sen founded Whampao Military Academy as an instructor.
In 1927, he left the Kuomintang and joined the Communist Party. He took part of the Nanchang military uprising (Birth of the Red Army) and after that was obliged to flee abroad.
He came back to China in 1932 and joined Mao Zedong Soviet Republic in Jiangxi. Chief of Staff of Zhang Guotao, he came on Mao Zedong side when the two leaders went at odds. Its why during the Cultural Revolution, Mao protected him and in this period, he was vice-chairman of the CCP from 1973 to 1982
In 1976, he took an active part to oust Jiang Qing and the Gang of Four and Deng Xiaoping named him as Defense Minister (1975-1978)
Here are two biographies http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/data/people/yejianying.shtml http://www.iisg.nl/~landsberger/yjy.html
OTHERS FACTS
794 : Emperor Kanmu relocates Japanesese capital to Heiankyo (Kyoto)
1197 : Birth of Juntoku, 84th emperor of Japan (1210-1221)
1913 : Birth of Vietnamese emperor Bao Dai
1946 : Birth of Yuko Maruyama, Japanese actress
1953 : Laos gains independence from France. Signature of a friendship and association treaty.
1957 : Vietnam war first United States casualties in Vietnam
1965 : End of the Second Kashmir
1969 : Birth of Lee Seung-shin, Korean actress
1970 : Tunkun Abdul Rahman resign from Prime Minister of Malaysia
1972 : Henry Kissinger proposes to Nguen Van Thieu a cease-fire, but the Vietnamese president rejects it as a treason
1980 : In South Korea, by a referendum, 92 % of the voters approve the new constitution which includes the dissolution of the National Assembly and of all the political parties.
1984 : Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, accuses « foreign powers » to help Sikh activists in Punjab.
1998 : Indian actor Ajit dies from a cardiac arrest.
1999 : China ends its first-ever human rights conference in which it defied western definitions of civil liberties
2006 : Death of Choi Kyu-ha, president of South Korea (1979-1980)
2006 : Death of Indian film director Manoj Punj
But the most important fact in Asia history is that today is the birthday of your dear Asia Observer members Kangdingyi (from China) and John Ye (from Australia): Happy birthday !!!!!
Ye Jianying
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23 OCTOBER 2007
23 OCTOBER 1954 : BIRTH OF ANG LEE, TAIWANESE FILM DIRECTOR
Born in Pingtung (Taiwan), Ang Lee started to learn dramatics, then he went to the United States to continue studying dramatic art. After that, he established in the US, keeping closed relations with Taiwan.
In 1993, his gay-themed film “The wedding banquet” was rewarded at the Berlin Festival. In 2005, Lee’s film “Brokeback Mountain” won the Golden Lion award at the Venice International Festival. In January 2006, “Brokeback” scored a leading eight Academy Award nominations including Best picture and Best director, which Lee won. He is the first Asian director to do so.
His film “Lust Caution” won again the Golden Lion in Venice Biennale in 2007, but had some problems for its distribution in the United due to several strongly explicit sex scenes.
http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800025608/bio
OTHER FACTS
1868 : In Japan, by a decree, the Meiji era is set up. The emperor recovers the full power from the shogun.
1910 : Death of the Thai king Chulalongkorn (Rama V)
1924 : Birth of Chi Hsin, Taiwan film director
1955 : Referendum in South Vietnam : Monarchy is abolished and Republic established.
1955 : Birth of Ryoko Sakaguchi, Japanese actor
1958 : After a visit of Foster Dulles (arrived on 20), Chiang Kai-shek officially renounces to use force to recover mainland China
1965 : In Vietnam, the 1st Cavalry division (US) and South Vietnamese forces launch a new operation seeking to destroy North Vietnamese forces in Pleku province.
1966 : In the Cultural Revolution, Chinese president Liu Shaoqi makes his first public self-critic.
1973:Birth of Vivian Bang, South Korean actress
1978 : China and Japan exchange treaty ratification documents in tokyo, formely ending 40 years of hostility
1981 : Birth of Lee Li-woo, South Korean actress
1983 : Birth of Sayaka Isoyama, Japanese actress
1991 : Birth of Princess Mako of Akishino of Japan
1992 : Emperor Akihito becomes the first emperor of Japan to stand on Chinese soil
1996 : The forces of Commandant Massoud, launch a large scale offensive against Taliban in northern of Kabul.
2003 : In New York, death of Soon Mei-ling, the widow of Chiang Kai-shek, 105 years old. 
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