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11 NOVEMBER 2007
11 NOVEMBER IN HISTORY
1636 : Birth of Yan Ruoqu, great Chine scholar who died in 1904 http://english.huaian.gov.cn/english/jsp/withoutcontent.jsp?
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1865 : Treaty od Sinchula in which Bhutan gives up the areas east of the Teesta river to the British East India Company
1866 : Bombing of Seoul by the French feet of Admiral Roze, but the city is not taken ( See “On that day” 16 October)
1943 : Birth of Shunsuke Ikeda, Japanese actor
1944 : Death of Tenkaku Shokyokusai, Japanese actor
1944 : Continuing their advance in South China, the Japanese troops take Guilin.
1952 : Birth of Ho Lily, Taiwanese actress
1955 : Birth of Jigme Singye Wangchuck, king of Bhutan (1972-2006) http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1186840,00.html
1960 : Failed Putsch in Saigon against president Ngo Dinh Diem
1967 : President Lyndon Jhonson, said again that he is ready to meet North-Vietnameses
1968 : Biginning of Operation Commando Hunt. The goal is interdict men and supplies on the Ho Chi Minh trail throught Laos into South Vietnam
1968 : Failed coup d’état against Pakistan president Ayoub Khan
1968 : A Second Republic is declared in the Maldives
1971 : The USA give back Okinawa to Japan
1972 : The huge American military base of Long Bing is given to South Vietnam authorities. End of the direct engagement of the USA in Vietnam
1976 : Birth of Shin Tian, Taiwanese actress
1977 : General Kriangsak Chomanan is named Thai Prime Minister up to February 1980 ( See “On that day” 19 October)
1978 : Disclosure of the tragedy of the Haï Hong ship (2500 boat people) That Malaysia refuse to take in charge.
1987 : Birth of Yuga Tegoshi, Japanese actor
2001 : Abduction and killing of Theys Eluay, one of the main leaders of independence for Irian Jaya
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12 NOVEMBER 2007
MAIN EVENTS ON 12 NOVEMBER IN ASIA HISTORY
764 : Tibetan troops occupy Chang’an, the capital of the Chinese Tang dynasty, for fifteen days.
1528 : Birth of Qi Jiquang, Chinese general, famous for his fighting against Japanese pirates.
1866 : Naissance de Sun Yat-sen http://www.time.com/time/asia/asia/magazine/1999/990823/
sun_yat_sen1.html
1942 : Beginning of the three-day capital naval battle of Guadalcanal between Japanese and American forces
1948 : In Tokyo, an International war crimes tribunal sentences seven Japanese military and government officials to death, including Prime Minister Hideki Tojo, for their role during WW2.
1951 : General Ridway orders to stop all new offensive. The Korea War enters into its trenchers period.
1969 : Death in jail of president Liu Shaoqi, left without medical assistance by Maoist Red guards http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/CHINAliu.htm
1969 : An American journalist reveals the massacre of the population of the Vietnam village of My Lay on 16 March 1968
1970 : In Bangladesh, a giant tsunami devastates Chittagong areas, causing more than 400,000 victims
1978 : Deng Xiaoping in Singapore for a two-day visit
1990 : The current emperor of Japan Akihito is officially enthroned
1991 : In Dili (East-Timor), Indonesian forces open fire on demonstrators causing 271 deaths et 250 missing people http://www.etan.org/timor/SntaCRUZ.htm
1994 : Chandrika Kumaratunga takes her charge of president of Sri Lanka.
2001 : Taliban forces abandon Kabul, ahead of advancing Afghan Northern Alliance troops
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13 NOVEMBER 2007
13 NOVEMBER 1977 : BIRTH OF CHINESE ACTOR HUANG XIOAMING
Huang Xiaoming, born 13 November 1977 in Qingdao, China) is a Chinese actor and singer. He is best known for his portrayal of the lead character of "Yang Guo" in The Return of the Condor Heroes.
Xiaoming graduated from the Performance Institute of Beijing Film Academy in 2000.
He became popular in 2003 after attaining roles in three television series which were released in China.
At the end of 2003, Huang was badly injured after his car turned over while he was driving through a mountainous area to a filming location. However, his immediate reappearance on the set with a neck brace impressed the media and his fans.
Other high-profile roles include that of Emperor Wu of Han in the TV series Da Han Tian Zi. He also played the role of the son of a military commander in the 2006 film The Banquet or the new version of Shanghai Bund is one of his best performance year todate. The ending theme song in the drama "Even If There is No Tomorrow" is beautifully sang by Huang Xiao Ming and Sun Li, the main actress in this heartfelt drama.
On 7 July, 2007, Xiaoming performed at the Chinese leg of Live Earth in Shanghai.
OTHER EVENTS IN ASIA HISTORY
1760 : Birth of Jiaqing, the sixth emperor of the Qing (Manchu) dynasty 1792-1820)
1899 : Birth of Iskander Mirza, first president of Pakistan (March 1956- october 1958)
1913 : Birth of Cambodia General Lon Nol, who in 1971 made a pro-USA coup d'état, and died on November 1985
1945 : Sukarno takes officially the charge in Indonesia Republic
1950 : At the United Nations Tibet accuses China of aggression
1968 : Les Etats-Unis mettent en demeure les autorités de Saïgon de participer à une conférence à quatre. Saïgon ne voulait pas discuter avec le FLN.
1972 : Birth of Takuyu Kimora, Japanese singer and actor
1981 : Birth of Yue Shawn, Hong Kong actor and singer
But for Asia Observer community, the most important event is the birthday of our member Goggles, from Canada : Happy birthday Goggles !!!
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14 NOVEMBER 2007
14 NOVEMBER 1947 : UNITED NATIONS NAMES A COMMISSION IN CHARGE TO ORGANIZE ELECTIONS IN KOREA
The kingdom of Korea was occupied in 1905, and annexed in 1910 by Japan
In February 1945, at the Yalta conference, it was decided that Soviet Union would attack the Japanese troops northern to the 38th parallel and the US south to it.
After the defeat of Japan, all the territories taken by force by Japan have been return to their prior owners (Taiwan to China, Hong Kong to the British…), but to whom return Korea ? So Korea was put under UN and on December 1945, the Great Powers decided that Korea would be reunified after five years.
It is under Korean people that, on 6 September 1947, the United Nations adopted a resolution for elections in the two parts of Korea and an only one government. The process begun on 14th November 1947
OTHER FACTS IN ASIA HISTORY
1691 : Death of Tosa Mitsuoki, Japanese painter http://en.easyart.com/art-prints/Tosa-Mitsuoki/Quails-And-Flowers-
11039.html http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/citi/images/standard/WebLarge/
WebImg_000006/4517_186266.jpg
1889 : Birth of Jawaharlal Nehru, first Prime Minister of India (1947-1954) http://www.harappa.com/sounds/nehru.html
1908 : Death of Chinese emperor Guangxu, born in August 1871. http://www.travelchinaguide.com/intro/history/known/guangxu.htm http://reproductions.chapitre.com/repro/non_precise/PORTRAIT-OF-
EMPEROR-GUANGXU-QING-DYNASTY.html
1935 : American president Roosevelt grants the Commonwealth status to the Philippines to which he promises independence before 1946
1945 : Sutan Sjahrir is the first Prime Minister of Indonesia (with Sukarno as president), up to June 1947
1946 : Agreement of Linggadjati (Cheribon). By this, Netherlands admit the de facto authority of the Republic of Indonesia on Java, Madura, and Sumatra.
1947 : Birth of Bharathan, a Malayalam Indian director who died in July 1998 http://www.cinemaofmalayalam.net/bharathan.html
1951 : Birth of Zhang Yimou, Chinese film director http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/02/zhang.html
1959 : Signature of a technical cooperation agreement between France and South Vietnam
1966 : The US Navy bombs the North Korea coast.
1979 : The United Nations General Assembly adopts a resolution demanding the withdrawal of all foreign forces in Cambodia (in fact, Vietnamese troops).
1971 : Promulgation of the constitution of Bhoutan
1991 : Prince Sihanouk comes back to Cambodia after 13 years in exile
1994 : Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (up to August 2000)
1999 : The United Nations General Assembly adopts a resolution asking all the world states to freeze the Taliban heaths in foreign countries.
2001 : In Afghanistan, the Northern Alliance fighters, backed by the US, enter in Kabul
2002 : Hu Jintao takes over from Jiang Zemin as General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party
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15 NOVEMBER 2007
15 NOVEMBER IN ASIA HISTORY
1544 : Death of Jungjong, king of Joseon (Korea)
1706 : Death of Tsangyang Gyatso, the 6th dalai lama (born in 1683)
1887 : Birth of Hitoshi Ashida, Japanese Prime Minister from March to October 1948
1908 : Death of empress Cixi. Pu Yi (two years old) becomes emperor
1935 : Manuel Quezon president of the Republic of Philippines (up to August 1944)
1949 : Nathuram Godse who assassinated Gandhi is executed
1951 : Communist rebels kill 11 people in an attack on a rubber plantation in Malaya http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/15/
newsid_3172000/3172022.stm
1956 : Birth of Ong Ka Ting, president of the Malaysian Chinese Association
1967 : Hanoi rejects the 11 November offer of a summit meeting
1969 : 250,000 war protesters stage a peaceful march and rally in heart of Washington http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/1115.html#article
1978 : Beginning of Beijing Spring (Wall of Democracy)
1981 : Abdus Sattar, acting head of state since 30 May, is elected president of Bangladesh
1999 : Representatives from China and the United States sign a major trade agreement that involves China’s membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO)
2002 : End of the 16e Chinese communist party. Jiang Zemin gives up to Hu Jintao the position of general secretary of the party, but keeps for himself the presidence of the Central commission of military affairs.
2005 : Princess Sayako, only daughter of emperor Akiyito, spouses a man from common birth and so losing her royal status
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16 NOVEMBER 2007
16 NOVEMBER 1997 : MOST FAMOUS CHINESE DISSIDENT WEI JINGSHENG IS FREED
Born on 20 May 1950 in Beijing, Wei Jingsheng has been very active in 1978 Beijing Spring in which he became famous for an article named “The fifth modernization” in which he said that the Four modernizations program of Deng Xiaoping is not enough and that China needs a fifth modernization : democracy.
In the last edition of an underground magazine called Exploration, he wrote an article named “Democracy or a new dictatorship ?” in which he said that Deng Xiaoping also will be a dictator. Three days later, on 29 March 1979, he was arrested and sentenced to 15 years.
Released on 14 September 1993, he is arrested again on 31 March 1994 and sentenced to 14 years under the charge of counter-revolution.
Under the pressure of president Bill Clinton, he was freed on 16 November 1997, officially for medical reasons and boarded in a plane to the USA http://www.weijingsheng.org/wei/en.html
OTHERS EVENTS IN ASIA HISTORY
1328 : Death of Prince Hisaaki, Japanese shogun, the 8th of the Kamakura shogunate
1892 : Birth of Guo Moruo, Chinese writer, who died in June 1978
1897 : Birth of Choudhary Rehmat Ali, Pakistani nationalist who is credited with creating the name « Pakistan »
1937 : Birth of Yan Yue, Chinese actor
1943 : Birth of Ho Wai Ching, Hong Kong actress
1972 : Birth of Ryu Jin, Korean actor
1981 : Birth of Lee Hye-mi, Korean actress
1987 : Death of Zubir Said, a Singapore composer who composed the national anthem
1988 : The Pakistan Peoples Party of Benazir Bhutto, daughter of former leader Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, wins the elections. She is ask to form a government.
1996 : Mother Teresa receives honorary US citizenship
Wei Jingsheng
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17 NOVEMBER 2007
17 NOVEMBER : MAIN EVENTS IN ASIA HISTORY
641 : Death of the 34th Japanese emperor Lomei (629-641)
1600 : Kuki Yoshitaka, Japanese naval commander, who launched an invasion of Korea in 1592, commits suicide
1612 : Birth of Dorgon (prince Rui), one of the most influential Manchu princes in the early Qing Dynasty
1846 : Pagan Min, enthroned king of Burma, up to 1853
1904 : Birth of Isamu Noguchi, Japanese sculptor who died in December 1988 http://www.designboom.com/portrait/noguchi/bio.html
1905 : Birth of Teru Shimada, Japanese actor who died in June 1988 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teru_Shimada
1905 : Eulsa treaty or Japan-Korea Protectorate treaty against the will of king Kojong http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eulsa_Treaty
1928 : Death of Lala Lajpat Rai, Indian author and leader in the fight for freedom from Great Britain, known as “Lion of Punjab” http://www.liveindia.com/freedomfighters/LalaLajpatRai.html
1929 : Birth of Goro Naya, Japanese actor http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=15629
1939 : Birth of Yuya Uchida, Japanese actor http://intnl.uchidayuya.com/biography/index.html
1942 : Birth of Khang khek leu (nicknamed Dutch) who has been the head of a torture center during the Khmer Rouge rule (1975-1979) and captured in 1999. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/340151.stm
1949 : Birth of Yashito Yashuhara, Japanese actor http://intnl.uchidayuya.com/biography/index.html
1949 : Birth of Nguyen Tan Dung, current Vietnam Prime Minister since June 2006
1950 : Tendzin Gyamtso est intrônisé à l’âge de 18 ans à peine
1967 : Birth of Chan Ka-lin (Charine Chan), Hong Kong actress
1969 : Birth of Ryotaro Okiayu, Japanese actor
1969 : Birth of Kazuya Kimura, Japanese actor
1971 : In Thailand, military coup d’état. Marshal Thanon Kittikachorn seizes power
1982 : General Prem is the first Thailand Prime Minister to go to China
1985 : Death of Lon Nol who overthroned Sihanouk in March 1970 and proclaimed the Republic
2003 : Death of Shuntaro Emi, Japanese actor
2005 : Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse, 60 ans, is elected the 5th president of Sri Lanka.
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18 NOVEMBER 2007
Thank you for your support. Today, more than 10,000 people have hit this forum since its creation 2 months and 3 weeks ago
Strangely, no main events happened in Asia on a 18th November
SOME EVENTS IN ASIA ON A 18th NOVEMBER
1901 : Birth of Rajaram Vankudre Shantaran, Indian film director, dead on October 1990
1943 : Birth of Osamu Dezaki, Japanese film director
1945 : Birth of Mahinda Rajapakse, current president of Sri Lanka since November 2005
1947 : Birth of Shinichi Mori, Japanese actor http://www.jvcmusic.co.jp/mori/
1949 : Birth of Shigera Saiki, Japanese actor
1964 : Birth of Wan Liu-lun, Hong Kong actor
1970 : At the United Nation Malaysia said it is for the PRC as China member
1980 : Birth of Jeon Hie-ju, South Korean actress
1984 : Death of Li Pingqian, Chinese film director
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19 NOVEMBER 2007
19 NOVEMBER 1917 : BIRTH OF INDIRA GANDHI
Indira Gandhi has no family link with the leader of India independence Mohandas Gandhi, but she was the daughter of the first Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru to whom she was a personnel assistant.
She has been Prime Minister twice. The first time was from 1966 to 1977. During this period she led India in a close relationship with Soviet Union, applied a socialist program and accelerated the national nuclear program.
She was accused of tendencies towards authoritarism after obtening from the president, a political ally, a State of Emergency on 26 June 1975. She ordered the arrest of all opposants, including from her own party and grant herself extraordinary powers.
She was Prime Minister again in January 1980 and was assassinated by two of her Sikh bodyguards on 31 October 1984 http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/1119.html
OTHER EVENTS IN ASIA HISTORY
1464 : Birth of Go-Kashiwabara, 104th emperor of Japan from 1500 up to 1526
1577 : Death of Matsugana Hisahide, Japanese warlord
1858 : Following the Cipayes’ revolt in India, the British East India Company is dissolved
1923 : Birth of Salil Chowdhury, Indian music composer, poet, writer, dramatist and filmmaker http://athomewriting.blogspot.com/2006/11/salil-chowdhury-awakening-
strains.html
1931 : Death of Xu Zhimo Chinese poet, born in 1897 http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/denton2/courses/c503/xzm.htm
1946 : Afghanistan joins the United Nations
1946 : A fight between a junk and customs officers in the Haiphong harbor is the pretext for France for the reconquest of North Vietnam
1951 : Birth of Zeenat Aman, Indian actress and sex symbol http://www.apunkachoice.com/people/act168/
1973 : An Air fighter, belonging to the national air forces bombs the presidential palace in Pnom Penh.
1978 : For the first time, a dazibao poster criticizes Mao Zedong, saying he has been manipulated by the Gang of four
1999 : From Jiuquan Satellite center, China launches its first unmanned Shenzhou spacecraft which landed in Inner Mongolia the following day.
1990 : Death of Sun Li-jen (Sun Liren) a Kuomintang (KMT) general, famous for his combats against Japanese troops
2001 : 600 partisans of Nur Misuari, leader of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) attack a barrack in Jolo, opposing 26 November local elections
2005 : Mahinda Rajapaksa becomes president of Sri Lanka, succeeding Chandrika Kumaratunga. Ratnasiri Wichramayake comes back as Prime Minister.
But do you know what it is the most important fact in Asia history on a 19 November? it is the birthday of Asia Oberver member Aabad (Philippines). Have an happy birthday.
Indira Gandhi
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20 NOVEMBER 2007
MAIN EVENTS ON 20 NOVEMBER IN ASIA HISTORY
762 : Bögü, khan of the Uyghurs, conquers Luoyang, capital of the Chinese empire
1750 : Birth of Tipu (or Tippu) Sultan, Indian ruler http://www.tipusultan.org/
1903 : Birth of Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi, Pakistani historian and educationist http://www.pakpost.gov.pk/philately/stamps2001/
dr_ishtiaq_husain_qureshi.html
1915 : Birth of Hu Yaobang, General Secretary of the China communist party from 1980 to 1987 http://www.learntoquestion.com/seevak/groups/2003/sites/tiananmen/
leftsidelinks/bios/hu_yao_bang.html http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/
m0018945.html
1915 : Birth of Kon Ichikawa, iconic Japanese film director http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0406728/bio http://www.filmref.com/directors/dirpages/ichikawa.html
1917 : Birth of Zhang Ping, Chinese actor
1938 : Death of Enzo Matsunaga, Japanese writer
1941 : Birth of Haseena Moin, Pakistani television drama writer and Urdu playwright
1950 : Birth of Kiyonobu Suzuki, Japanese actor http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0840618/
1950 : In Korea War, the 7th US division arrives on the Yalu river which is the border with China
1953 : French general Navarre order the chose of Dien Bien Phu as the main key point to stop Vietnamese offensive
1954 : Birth of Bin Shimada, Japanese actor
1960 : Victory of Prime Minister Hayate Ikeda in the legislative elections in Japan.
1962 : Beijing orders a cease-fire in the war with India and starts its withdrawal.
1963 : Birth of Wen Ming-na, Macau-born actress http://www.ming-na.com/
1963 : Phomh-Penh gives up the US aid and repeats its demand of the neutralization of the country.
1969 : The Cleveland Plain Dealer publishes explicit photographs of dead villagers from the My Lay massacre in Vietnam
1969 : Birth of Saori Yagi, Japanese actress
1970 : The majority of United Nations General assembly cote for given to Beijing the seat of China to Beijing, but din’t obtains the 2/3 majority required
1972 : Birth of Japanese actor Kazuo Yashiro http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0946589/
1980 : Opening of the trial of the Gang of four and of five generals closed to Marshal Lin Biao.
1980 : For the 2nd time, the General assembly of United Nations demands the withdraw of Soviet Union from Afghanistan
1985 : First visit of Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir to China
1991 : Cambodia Prince Sihanouk is proclamained head of state
1998 : A Taliban-controlled Afghanistan court declares that Osama Bin Laden is “a man without a sin” in regard to US embassy bombing in Kenya and Tanzania
2005 : North Korea expels 11 on 12 NGO in the country
But the more important facts in Asia history is the birth of Asia Observer members Booyaka (Philippines)
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