26 OCTOBER 2007

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

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

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

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

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

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


OTHER FACTS

1633 : Death of Horio Tadaharu, Japanese warlord

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

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

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

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

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

1971 : Birth of Fang Yu, Taiwanese actress

1972 : Birth of Miwako Kawai, Japanese actress

1974 : Birth of Raveena Tandon, Indian actress

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

1979 : Birth of Ai Nagase, Japanese actress

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

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

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

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27 OCTOBER 2007

27 OCTOBER 1937 : BIRTH OF KOICHI OSE, JAPANESE ACTOR

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

His picture is at the bottom of this page

OTHER FACTS

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

1934 : Birth of Arika Miyazaki, Japanese film writer.

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

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

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

1962 : Birth of Ikkei Watanabe, Japanese actor

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

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

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

Koichi Ose


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28 OCTOBER 2007

28 OCTOBER 1627 : DEATH OF NURRUDIN JAHANGIR, MUGHOL EMPEROR

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

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

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

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

His mausoleum is in Shahdara, Lahore (Pakistan)

He was succeded by his third son Prince Khurram

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

OTHER FACTS

1582 : Death of Ashikaga Yoshihide, 14th Japanase shogun

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

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

1928 : Birth of Yoko Sugi, Japanese actress

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

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

1964 : US officials deny any involvement in bombing North Vietnam

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

1982 : Birth of Yukari Fukui, Japanese actress

1982 : Birth of Mai Kuraki, Japanese singer

1983 : Birth of Shio Mizubara, Japanese actress

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

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

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

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

Jahangir


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29 OCTOBER 2007

Dear friends and viewers. Exacty two month ago, I launched ON THAT DAY on a trial basis because it is very time consumming. But during these two months, you have been 6609 to watch it. So I will continue it.

Asia Observer is the only website giving all the facts that happened in Asia on that day, and only on Asia

The system is to stress one fact that happened on a year finishing by 7 this year and 8 next year,and so on. and finely to give you all the main facts that happened in Asia history

29 OCTOBER 2004 CORONATION OF CAMBODIA's KING SIHAMONI

Born on 14 May 1953, he is the only one living child of king Sihanouk and his third wife Monique

His passed his childhood in Prague and then was in France four 20 years were he wa a classic dance teacher and Cambodia's ambassador to UNESCO.

After Sihanouk abdicated, he was elected kin on 14 October 2004.

His father, Sihanouk, dominated the country political life during 60 years

His official website : http://www.norodomsihamoni.org/

OTHER FACTS

1888 : Birth of Li Dazhao, Chinese intellectual

1935 : Birth of Takahata Isao, animated film director

1936 : Birth of Akiko Kojima, Japanese model

1941 : Birth of Hisayuki Toriumi, Japanese director

1951 : Murder of Jean de Raymond, French Republic commissioner at Phnom-Penh

1952 : Shigeru Yoshida modifies his gouvernment

1953 : Non official commercial agreement between China and Japan.

1954 : Birth of Tomoko Ai, Japanese actress

1956 : Birth of Etsuko Shihomi, Japanese actress

1959 : Death of the king of Laos Sisavang Vong

1965 : Birth of Masahiro Takashima, Japanese actor

1969 : Birth of Ha Hie-ra, South Korean actress

1971 : As a result of the vietnamization of the war by president Nixon, the total number of American troops still in Vietnam drops to a record low of 196,700, the mowest level since January 1966

1978 : Birth of Kumiko Higa, Japanese actress

1981 : Birth of Reema Sen, Indian actress

1988 : Pakistan’s general Rahimuddin Khan resigns from his post as governor of Sindh, following the effort by president Ghulam Ishaq Khan to limit the powers Rahimuddin had accumulated

1999 : Super-cyclone wreaks havoc in India http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/29/ newsid_3691000/3691573.stm

2001 : For the first time, the Japanese diet approuves a law which allows to send troops out of Japan for fighting international terrorism

2006 : Bangladesh’s president , Iajuddin Ahmed assumeshimself the charge of Prime Minister(up t to January 2007)and Khaleda Zia quits as PM

But as you know, the most important fact on an 29 October in Asia is the birthday of our Asia Observer member Anumpashaa, from Pakistan

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30 OCTOBER 2007

SOME FACTS

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

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

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

1951 : In China, end of the counterrevolutionaries campaign

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

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

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

2006 : Death of Juni Kinoshita, Japanese playwright

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

31 OCTOBER 2007

31 OCTOBER 1887 : BIRTH OF CHIANG KAI-SHEK

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

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

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

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

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

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

OTHER FACTS

1817 : Japanese emperor Ayahito (Ninko) enthroned

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

1922 : Birth of Cambodia king Norodom Sihanouk

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

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

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

1949 : Birth of Kenichi Kato, Japanese actor

1951 : Birth of Liu Xiaoqing, Chinese actress

1952 : Death of U Chit Hlaing, Burmanese politician

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

1969 : Birth of Linda Lee, South Korean actress

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

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

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

1990 : Death of Aya Koda, Japanese writer

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

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

1st NOVEMBER 2007

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

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

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

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

OTHERS FACTS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1973 : Birth of Aishwarya Rai, Indian actress

1978 : Birth of Manju Warrior, Indian actress

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

1990 : Nawaz Sharif Prime Minister up to July 1993

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

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


Zhao Ziyang and Deng Xiaoping : the good time
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2 NOVEMBER 2007

2 NOVEMBER 1877 : BIRTH OF MOHAMMED SHAH AGA KHAN III

Aga Khan III was born on November 2, 1877 in Karachi (today in Pakistan) and succeeded to his father in 1885.

As the leader of the 48th Imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims since 1885 (he was at the young age of 7) he was a founder and first president of the All-India Muslim League, being its first president, founding the Aligarh University in 1910.

He worked for the British cause in both World wars et was elected of the presidency of the League of Nations Assembly on 1937

Well known as a horse racecource enthousiast, he died on July 11, 1957.

OTHER FACTS

1082 : Birth of Huizhong , emperor of China (1100-1126)

1841 : Akbar Khan successfully revolts against Shah Shuga in Afghanistan

1868 : Birth of Yokoyama Taikan, Japanese painter

1890 : Birth of Kunio Kishida, Japanese writer (+ March 1954)

1929 : Birth of Muhammad Rafiq Tarar, president of Pakistan 1998-2001) http://www.storyofpakistan.com/person.asp?perid=P028

1936 : Birth of Haruko Machuchi, Japanese actress

1945 : Birth of Mitsuo Yanagimachi, film director

1946 : Post war new Japanese constitution is promulgated.

1947 : Start of the armed conflict between India and China on Kashmir.

1949 : Reelection of the Philippines president Quirino amid heavy violences

1949 : La Hague agreement for the foundation of the Indonesia United States Federation

1957 : Birth of Ayosuke Miki, Japanese actor

1963 : Assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem, Vietnamese president overthrowned the day before

1965 : Mohammad Hishim HashimMaiwandwal is Afhganistan’s Prime Minister up to october 1967

1965 : Birth of Rukh Khan, Indian actor

1973 : The Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the Communist Party of India form an « United Front » in the state of Tripura

1976 : Birth of Kumi Sakuma, Japanese actress

1980 : Birth of Kim So-yeou, South Korean actress

1982 : Birth of Kyoko Fukada, Japanese actress

1983 : Death of Janiro Tamura, Japanese writer

But what is the main fact in Asia today, it is the birthday of Asia Observer member MAY. Hi May Zaw, have a nice bithday

Hi May have a nice day

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3 NOVEMBER 2007

3 NOVEMBER 1967 : BIGINNING OF THE BATTLE OF DAK TO

By late October 1967, the North Vietnam People’s Army Of Vietnam (PAVN) 1st division was tasked with the capture od Dak To, in the central Highlands of South Vietnam.

A North Vietnam soldier who defected to South was able to provide U.S. forces with detailed information. This Intelligence prompted the launching of Operation MacArthur

The battles that erupted on the hill masses south and southeast of Dak To have been some of the most hard fought and bloody battles in the Vietnam War and finished on 22 November.

OTHER FACTS

1605 : Eight days after his father’s death, Jahangir succeded to the throne as Mughol emperor

1618 : Birth of Aurangzel, Mughal emperor of India (1658-1707)

1838 : The Times of India, the world’s largest circulated English language daily broadsheet newspaper is founded as the Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce

1839 : The first Opium war between China and Britain breaks out

1852 : Birth of emperor Mutsuhito (Meiji) who was on the throne from 1897 to 1912

1856 : A british fleet bombs Ca nton

1924 : Birth of Toyoko Yamazaki, Japanese writer

1928 : Birth of Osamu Tezuka, Japanese film writer (+ February 1989)

1931 : Birth of Yong Hyong-muk, North Korea Prime Minister (1989-1992)

1931 : Birth of Fu Tieshan, head of the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Church (+ 2007)

1933 : Birth of Amartya Sen, Indian economist Nobel Prize laureate

1936 : Birth of Wei Hung, Taiwanese actor

1946 : Japanese emperor Hirohito loses all his power for an elected assembly

1948 : Birth of Akira Emoto, Japanese actor

1950 : The French troops leave the Vietnam northern border

1954 : The first in the Godzilla series of films is released in Japan

1955 : Birth of Yikihito Tsutsumi, Japanese film director

1961 : The United Nation General Assembly unanimously elects Burmese U Thant Interim General Secretary.


1969 : Nixon appeals the nation, asking the « silent majority » to join him in solidarity on the Vietnam war effort and to support his policy

1978 : Deng Xiaoping starts a three-day visit to Thailand

1978 : Signature of a Treaty of Amity and Cooperation between Soviet Union and Vietnam

1980 : Birth of Kim Ji-Hye, South Korean actress

1982 : The Salang tunnel fire in Afghanistan kills up to 2000 + people

1984 : Funeral of Indira Gandhi, whose killing caused anti-Sikh violence with officially 1277 victims including 651 in New-Delhi

1984 : Birth of Ryo Nishikido, Japanese actor

1988 : Sri Lankan mercenaries try to overthrow the Maldivian government. At president Gayoom request, the Indian military suppresses the coup attempt

2001 : In Taiwan, president Chen Shui-bian lifts the interdiction of investing more than 50 billion on each projet in main China et authorizes direct commerce.

2003 : In Kabul, a post-Taliban draft constitution is unveiled

2004 : Hamid Karzai is declared the winner of Afghanistan first ever presidential election

Dak To battle

4 NOVEMBER 2007

MAIN FACTS

1873 : Birth of Kyoka Izumi, Japanese writer who died in September 1939

1921 : Japanese Prime Minister Hara Takashi stabbed to death in Tokyo rail station http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&amp; res=9500E4D9103EEE3ABC4D53DFB767838A639EDE&amp;oref=slogin

1931 : The League of Nations accuses Japan of aggression in Manchuria

1932 : Birth of Ali Alasa, Foreign Minister of Indonesia from 1988 to 1998 http://www.gramedia.com/author_detail.asp?id=EBIP2358 http://www.tokohindonesia.com/ensiklopedi/a/ali-alatas/index.shtml

1974 : The chiefs of the Army take control of Bangladesh and order the arrest of the young officers who made the 15th August coup d’état in which Mujibur Rahman was killed

1981 : Birth of Machito Ono, Japanese actress

1983 : Burma breaks off diplomatic relations with North Korea because the 9 October bombing against an South Korean delegation in 21 people have been killed including 4 ministers.

1991 : Imelda Marcos returns to the Philippines after five years of exile in the United States of America

1999 : The United Nations imposes economic sanctions against the Taliban, that control most of Afghanistan, because they refuse to turn over Osama bin Laden, who had been charged with masterminding the 1998 bombing of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania

2002 : Chinese authorities arrest cyber-dissident He Depu for signing pro-democracy letter to the 16th Communist Party Congress

2005 : Death of Nadia Anjuman, Afghan poet and journalist http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20051107-081412-4601r<br><br>Post edited by: Jacques, at: 2007/11/04 23:20