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7 April 2008
MAIN FACTS IN ASIAN HISTORY ON 7 APRIL
1638 : Death of Shimazu Tadatsune, Japanese ruler of Satsuma, born on 27 November 1576 http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/shimazu-tadatsune/
1782 : After a rebellion, Taksin, King of Siam (Thailand) is executed. He was born on 17 April 1734 http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9071023/Taksin
1920 : Birth of Ravi Shankar http://www.ravishankar.org/bio.html
1934 : Birth of Swami Shantananda, Hindu saint and philosopher http://www.siddhayoga.org/biographies/Sw-Shantananda.htm
1942 : Birth of Jeetendra, Indian actor http://www.chakpak.com/celebrity/jeetendra/10468
1945 : The Japanese battleship Yamato, the largest ever constructed, is sunk 200 miles north of Okinawa while en-route on a suicide mission in Operation Ten-go http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_battleship_Yamato
1948 : In China, the communists launch a military action on the Yellow River
1948 : In Shanghai, a Buddhist monastery burns, leaving twenty monks dead
1954 : Birth of Jackie Chan (Sing Lung), Hong Kong actor and singer http://men.stareastasia.com/jackie-chan/
1956 : In Sri Lanka, general elections. The leftist opposition wins with a program demanding the withdrawal of the British bases
1957 : Birth of Kim Kap-su, South Korean actor http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0453448/
1963 : In Laos, Kieng-Khuang city is taken by Pathet Lao (communist guerilla) http://countrystudies.us/laos/18.htm
1971 : US president Richard Nixon announces his decision to increase the rate of American troop withdrawals from Vietnam
1976 : Following the 5 April demonstrations, Deng Xiaoping is fired from all his positions and Hua guofeng is nominated Prime Minister
1978 : In the Philippines, first legislative elections since the Martial Law has been proclaimed in 1972. Doubtful victory for the party of President Ferdinand Marcos
1998 : Death of Broery Marantika, Indonesian singer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broery_Marantika
1988 : Russia announces that it will withdraw its troops from Afghanistan
2006 : Ichiro Ozawa, 63 years old, is elected chairman of the Democratic Party of Japan prevailing on Naoto Kan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichir%C5%8D_Ozawa http://images.google.fr/images?q=Ichiro+Ozawa&hl=fr&lr=lang_en&safe=off&um=1&ie=UTF-8&
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2007 : Wu Poh-hsiung, 67 years old, Home Minister from 1991 to 1996, is elected chairman of Kuomintang, replacing Ma Ying-jeou who has resigned after he was indicted for corruption. http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2007/03/30/2003354485 http://taiwanjournal.nat.gov.tw/site/Tj/ct.asp?xItem=24087&ctNode=122
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8 APRIL 2008
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MAIN FACTS IN ASIA HISTORY ON 8 APRIL
563 BC : Gautama Buddha, founder of Buddhism, is supposed to be born that day http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=6861
1759 : Indian British troops chase French out of Masulipatam
1767 : In now Thailand, Ayutthaya kingdom falls to Burmese invaders http://www.thaiwebsites.com/ayutthaya.asp
1857 : Mangal Pandey, Indian Sepoy who launched the Sepoy mutiny is hanged http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangal_Pandey
1894 : Death of Bankim Chandra Chatterji, Indian author, born in June 1838 http://www.ceeby.com/people/bankimchandrachatterji.cfm
1913 : Opening of China’s first parliament in Beijing
1929 : At Delhi Central Assembly, Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dadutt throw handouts and bombes to court arrest http://www.kamat.com/kalranga/itihas/sbsingh.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batukeshwar_Dutt
1934 : Birth of Kisho Kurokawa, Japanese architect who died on 12 October 2007 http://www.greatbuildings.com/architects/Kisho_Kurokawa.html
1942 : The Japanese take Bataan, the last resistance strong point in the Philippines after MacArthur received the order to withdraw
1946 : Death of Ye Ting, general of the Chinese Red Army http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ye_Ting
1957 : In Cambodia Prince Sihanouk forms a new cabinet
1968 : End of the Battle of Khe Sanh in South Vietnam after two and half days of combat at mainy loss http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Khe_Sanh
1983 : Birth of Allu Argun, Indian film actor http://movies.propeller.com/story/2007/08/24/allu-arjun-biography-son-
in-law-of-chiranjeevi/
1984 : Long-March 3 rocket puts on orbit the first Chines geostationary satellite http://www.britannica.com/eb/art-51079/Long-March-3-launch-vehicle-
inside-a-test-building-at
1985 : After the Bhopal disaster, India files suit against Union Carbide for the disaster which killed an estimated 2,000 and injured another 200,000 http://www.bhopal.org/whathappened.html
1986 : Birth of Erika Sawajiri, Japanese actress, model and singer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erika_Sawajiri http://female.thedailymodel.com/erika-sawajiri/
1986 : Death of Yukoki Okada, Japanese idol singer, born on 22 August 1967 http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/yosha/suicide/Okada_Yukiko.html
1988 : Yang Shangkun président en remplacement de Li Xiannian http://www.nndb.com/people/971/000111638/
1989 : Birth of Hitomi Takahashi, Japanese singer http://wiki.theppn.org/Takahashi_Hitomi http://www.recherche.aol.fr/aol/image?query=Hitomi%20Takahashi&
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1990 : After violent protests, king Birendra of Nepal lift a 30-year ban on political parties
1994 : After only 8 months, Morihiro Hosokawa, the first noLDP Premier of Japan, resigns un der allegations that he had accecpted an illegal loan in 1982 http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9041157/Hosokawa-Morihiro
2001 : Unpopular Japanese Premier Yoshiro Mori resigns. http://www.perfectpeople.net/biography/5945/yoshiro-mori.htm
2003 : In India, after a stormy debate, the parliament condemns the US attack on Irak, demanding a prompt withdrawal of the coalition forces
2005 : Indonesian president Sulilo Bambang Yudhoyono on a two-day visit to East Timor.
2007 : Shintaro Ishihara is reelected for the third time reelected as governor of Tokyo http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200704/09/eng20070409_364785.html
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9 APRIL 2008
MAIN FACTS IN ASIAN HISTORY ON 9 APRIL
93 : Death of Yuan An, prominent scholar, administrator and stateman of the Chinese Han dynasty http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuan_An
1241 : Battle of Liegnitz. Mongols armies defeat Poles and Germans http://www.historynet.com/mongol-invasions-battle-of-liegnitz.htm
1783 : Tippu Sahib drives out English from Bednore, India http://www.answers.com/topic/tipu-sultan
1942 : US commander on Bataan, capitulates to the Japanese. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bataan
1942 : Japanese Navy launches air raid on Trincomalee, Ceylon (Sri Lanka). The British aircraft HMS Hermes, and Australian warship HMAS Vampire are sunk http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/21/a4171321.shtml http://www.awm.gov.au/atwar/remembering1942/vampire/index.htm
1956 : In South Vietnam, President Ngo Dinh Diem renounces to organize elections on reunification of Vietnam as planned in Geneve agreement in July 1954
1961 : Ngo Dinh Diem is reelected president of South Vietnam
1965 : India and Pakistan engage in border fighting
1973 : Netherlands recognizes North Vietnam
1984 : Birth of Linda Chung, Hong Kong actress and singer http://lindachung.ca/
1985 : Birth of Yamashita Tomohisa, Japanese singer http://yamapi.hatsukoi.org/info.php
2001 : In protest, after the Japanese government approved the publication of a new history textbook minimizing the Japanese acts of violence in Asia during WWII, Seoul call back its ambassador
2001 : In Pakistan, hundreds of thousands fundamentalists get together in Peshawar to condemn USA politics in the country
2005 : During two days, 20,000 demonstrate in Beijing against the reprint of a Japanese revisionist history textbook. They attack the Japanese embassy
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10 APRIL 2008
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MAIN FACTS IN ASIA HISTORY ON 10 APRIL
1883 : Birth of Nadir Shah, king of Afghanistan (1929-1933), assassinated on 8 November 1933 http://www.afghan-network.net/Rulers/nadir_shah.html
1942 : In the Philippines, Bataan March begins http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=4909
1948 : Birth of Jaya Bachchan, Indian actress http://www.chakpak.com/celebrity/jaya-bachchan/10225
1950 : Birth of Akiko Wada, Japanese singer and television performer http://www.japan-zone.com/modern/wada_akiko.shtml
1959 : Akihito, future emperor of Japan, weds Michiko Shoda http://www.nl.emb-japan.go.jp/government2/biography.htm
1965 : After border fighting, Pakistan and India sign a cease-fire
1971 : Sign of thaw in the relation between China and the USA, the PRC hosts the table tennis team for a weeklong visit http://usinfo.state.gov/eap/Archive_Index/Taiwan_Relations_Act.html
1973 : Pakistan adopts its third constitution, shifting the role of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto from president to prime minister http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9079077/Zulfikar-Ali-Bhutto?
source=ONTHISDAY
1986 : Benazir Bhutto retuns to Pakistan after an exile in Great-Britain http://www.benazirbhutto.org/
1995 : Death of Morarji Desai, Indian Prime Minister (March 1977 to July 1979), born in February 1904 http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9030036/Morarji-Desai
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11 APRIL 2008
MAIN FACTS IN ASIAN HISTORY ON 11 APRIL
1241 : Bath Khan defeats Béla IV of Hungary at the Battle of Mohi (or Muhi) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Mohi http://home-4.worldonline.nl/~t543201/web-mongol/mongol-mohi.htm
1868 : The shogunate is abolished in Japan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shogunate
1869 : Birth of Kasturba Gandhi, wife of Mohandas Gandhi, who died on 22 February 1944 http://www.iloveindia.com/indian-heroes/kasturba-gandhi.html
1931 : Birth of Koichi Sugiyama, Japanese composer http://www.geocities.com/leergutdieb/
1945 : The US troops capture Tsugen Shima, near Okinawa (Japan)
1951 : General Douglas MacArthur is relieved by President Harry S. Truman of overall command in Korea and replaced by General Ridgway http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/11/
newsid_3708000/3708197.stm http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0411.html#article
1952 : Begining of the Battle of Nanri island between kuomintang and PRC forces, won by the nationalists on15 April http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Nanri_island
1953 : In Korea, signature of an agreement on repatriation of prisoners of war
1955 : An Indian plane explodes near Indonesia in a Taiwan attempt to kill Chinese premier Zhou Enlai, en route to Bandung conference http://www.namebase.org/ppost07.html
1957 : End of the Singapore Constitutional Conference. Britain agrees to Singapore self-rule http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/11/
newsid_2828000/2828903.stm
1968 : North Vietnam proposes Varsaw for meeting point with US representatives. Washington refuses and proposes a list of 18 cities, all refused by Hanoi
1969 : Birth of Chisato Moritaka, Japanese singer
1983 : Second series of indirect talks in Geneva on Afghanistan. Failure, due to the question of the Afghan refugees in Pakistan
1997 : In India, Congress Party (I) removes its support with no participation to the government of Deve Gowda of Janata who loses his majority in parliament. http://www.geocities.com/tamiltribune/97/0901.html
2007 : In Bangladesh, murder charges are filed against Sheikh Hasina, alleging she mastermined the killing of four supporters of a rival party in October 2006.
2007 : Kim Yong-il is appointed Prime Minister of North Korea replacing Pak Pong-ju who has been dismissed http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Yong-il
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12 APRIL 2008
MAIN FACTS IN ASIAN HISTORY ON 12 APRIL
1868 : Birth of Akiyama Saneyuki, Japanese naval commander, who died on 4 February 1988 http://www.ndl.go.jp/portrait/e/datas/222.html
1912 : Birth of Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono IX, second vice president of Indonesia, who died on 1st October 1988 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Sultan_Hamengkubuwono_IX
1927 : Koumintang starts massacre of Communists in Shanghai http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_12_Incident http://www.earnshaw.com/shanghai-ed-india/tales/t-purge.htm
1932 : Birth of Lakshman Kardirgamar, Sri Lanka politician, who died on 12 August 2005 http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/lakshman-kadirgamar/early-life.html
1956 : SWRD Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Ceylon up to September 1959 http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9012124/SWRD-Bandaranaike
1973 : Establishment of diplomatic relations between Paris and Hanoi
1975 : In Cambodia, , evacuation of the last Americans. France recognizes the National Union Government (Khmer Rouge and prince Sihanouk)
1985 : Birth of Hitomi Yoshizawa, Japanese singer http://wiki.theppn.org/Yoshizawa_Hitomi
1986 : Qiao Shi becomes vice Premier minister http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9115401/Qiao-Shi
1988 : President Hossein Mahammed Ershad lifts the Martial Law in place since November 1987
1987 : In Cambodia, Hun Sen says he is ready to meet prince Sihanouk
1991 : In Nepal, after a new constitution providing a multiparty system was adopted, Nepalese Congress Party wins general elections http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepali_Congress
2001 : In China, the crew of the American plane kept in hostage since 1st April in Hainan island is freed
2001 : In Indonesia, President Wahid authorizes the resumption of military operations against the separatists in Aceh
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13 APRIL 2008
MAIN FACTS IN ASIAN HISTORY ON 13 APRIL
1912 : Death of Ishikawa Takuboku, Japanese author, born on April 1886 http://www.library.pref.iwate.jp/english/intro-t.html
1939 : In India, the Hindustani Lal Sena (Indian Red Army) is formed and vows to engage in armed struggle against the British http://www.expressindia.com/news/ie/daily/19970807/21950463.html
1941 Neutrality pact is signed by Soviet Union and Japan http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=4916
1976 : Birth of Yu Ji-tae, South Korean actor http://koreanfilm.org/actors.html#yoojt http://www.hancinema.net/korean_Yoo_Ji-tae.php
1981 : Death of Prince Asaka Yasuhiko, born on 2Ooctober 1887 http://everything2.com/e2node/Asaka%2520Yasuhiko
1987 : les deux pays annonce dans une « Déclaration commune sur la question de Macao » du 13 avril 1987 que Macao va revenir sous souveraineté chinoise comme une Région administrative spéciale le 20 décembre 1999.
2006 : Ex Kuomintang chairman Lien Chan arrives in China, leading a 100 businessmen delegation for a first economic forum and largely welcomed by Beijing authorities http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/661500.stm
2006 : For the first time since the PRC was founded, China welcomes the Word Buddhist Forum. Gyaltsen Norbu, the 16 years old Panchen Lama takes part bus is snubbed by a large part of the participants at the congress
2007 : In Singapore, the government bans a forum which purpose was to criticize the 80 % increase of its members making them the politicians the most paid in the world
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14 APRIL 2008
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MAIN FACTS IN ASIAN HISTORY ON 14 APRIL
1336 : Birth of Japanese Emperor Go-Kogon (1352-1371) who died in 1374 http://www.babylon.com/definition/Emperor_Go-Kogon_of_Japan/English
1699 : Founding of Khalsa, the brotherhood of the Sikh religion, in northern India, in accordance with the Nanakshahi calendar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalsa
1741 : Birth of Momozono, 116th emperor of Japan (June 1747 to August 1762) who died on 31 August 1762 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Momozono
1861 : Death of Japanese painter Utagawa Kuniyoshi, born in 1797 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utagawa_Kuniyoshi
1872 : Birth of Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Pakistani Islamic scholar who translated the Quran in English and died on 10 December 1953 http://www.renaissance.com.pk/jabore96.html
1891 : Birth of Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar http://www.ceeby.com/people/ambedkar.cfm
1936 : Birth of Ivan Dias, Indian cardinal, prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples http://www.vatican.va/news_services/press/documentazione/documents/
cardinali_biografie/cardinali_bio_dias_i_en.html
1944 : A ship carrying tons of explosives explodes in Bombay, killing around 800 people http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombay_Explosion_%281944%29
1945 : Massive bombing of Tokyo by the US Air forces
1950 : Death of Sri Ramona Maharshi, Indian philosopher, born on 30 December 1879 http://www.angelfire.com/realm/bodhisattva/ramana.html
1965 : As USA and Indonesia are deteriorating, Peace Corpd volunteers begin their withdrawing
1967 : In the US Vietnam war, US planes bomb Haiphong for the first time
1976 : In Cambodia, Khieu Sampan is nominated as president of the Democratic Kampuchea Presidium, replacing Prince Sihanouk who resigned on 5 April, with Pol Pot as the government leader http://www.seasite.niu.edu/khmer/ledgerwood/biographies.htm
1979 : Opening of sino-vietnamese negociations in Hanoi (broken on 18)
1980 : The head of the Italian communist party, Enrico Berlinger, is the first western communist leader making an official visit to Beijing since twenty years
1982 : François Mitterand makes the first official visit of a French president to Japan
1986 : Birth of Anne Watanabe, Japanese model http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Watanabe http://www.style.com/peopleparties/modelsearch/thumb/person3557
1988 : In Geneva, the Soviet Union signs an agreement paving the way for pulling Russian troops out of Afghanistan http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/14/
newsid_4419000/4419833.stm http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=4921
2001 : In China, the underground bishop of Yixian (Hebei) Mgr Shi Enxiang, 79 years old, who was hiding since 1996, is arrested http://www.cardinalkungfoundation.org/press/010422.html
2001 : Death of Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japanese director, born on 28 April 1927 http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/03/teshigahara.html
2002 : In East Timor, in the first presidential election since independence, Xanana Gusmao is elected with 82,69 % of the votes
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15 APRIL 2008
MAIN FACTS IN ASIAN HISTORY ON 15 APRIL
1469 : Birth of Guru Nanak Dev, founder of Sikhism, who died on 7 May 1539 http://www.sikhs.org/guru1.htm
1912 : Birth of Kim Il-sung, died in July 1994 http://www.asiasource.org/society/kimilsung.cfm
1946 : Soviet forces withdraw from Manchuria . Chinese Nationalists et Communists chinois compete for the conquest of the region
1948 : Death of Manuel Roxas, president of the Philippines. Elpidio Quirino becomes président http://philippines-archipelago.com/people/presidents/
manuel_roxas.html
1959 : Birth of Fruit Chan, Hong Kong film director http://www.pardo.ch/1997/filmprg/r006.html
1960 : Visit of Chinese Prime Minister Zhou Enlai to Burma, India and Nepal, up to 30 April
1962 : Birth of Surjit Bindrakhia, Punjabi Bhangra singer http://www.bindrakhia.org/
1964 : France refuses to vote the SEATO declaration on the defense of South Vietnam http://www.alumni.hbs.edu/bulletin/1998/june/salute/ling.html
1976 : China and India restablish their diplomatic relations
1989 : The death of Hu Yaobang, former General secretary of the Communist party of China, born on 20 November 1915, starts the Tiananmen Square protest of 1989 http://www.learntoquestion.com/seevak/groups/2003/sites/tiananmen/
leftsidelinks/bios/hu_yao_bang.html
1992 : The National Assembly of Vietnam adopts the 1992 Constitution on of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~vern/van_kien/constit.html
1993 : Death of Leslie Charteris, Singapore-born author, born on 12 May 1907 http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/charteri.htm
1998 : Death of Pol Pot, born on 19 May 1925 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/78981.stm http://www.wsws.org/news/1998/apr1998/plpt-a18.shtml
2004 : General elections in South Korea. Uri party, supporting President Roh Moo-Hyun wins 152 of the 299 seats. GNP is reduced to 121 MP.
2006 : In Thailand, elections for the upper house. Onn the 200 senators, at least 106 are relative or members of the Thai Rak Thai
2007 : More than 100 000 people demonstrate in Karachi against the leaders of one Islamabad mosque who launch Taliban style action againts shops
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