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11 OCTOBER 2007
11 OCTOBER 1967 : AFGHAN PRIME MINISTER MAIWANDWAL RESIGNS
Mohammad Hashim Maiwandwal has been Afghan prime minister since 2 November 1965 to his retirement for heath reason on 11 October 1967.
After graduating from high school, he became a journalist, then in the 1950s a diplomat as ambassador to UK, USA and Pakistan.
In October 1965, after rioting and students killings, he was chosed as prime minister and establissed good retations with the students.
In 1966, he have founded a leftist royalist party, the Jam’iat Demokrate-ye Mottaraqi (Progressive Democratic Party).
After the Daoud coup, on November 1, 1973, he was arrested and killed the next day.
Here is a bio : http://www.afghanan.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&
amp;id=82&Itemid=69
OTHER FACTS
1939 : Birth of general Khin Nyunt, Mynamar Prime Minister 2003-2004
1946 : The communist troops block the nationalist ones in Manchouria
1954 : One day after the return of Ho Chi Minh, the Vietminh takes control of North Vietnam
1958 : Birth of Kim Kujima, Japanese actress who died in 2004
1960 : Rioting in Tokyo after the assassination of Inejiro Asanuma
1962 : Jawaharlal Nehru give the order to retake the North-East Border Territories that Chinese troops are invading
1971 : The French delegation building in Hanoi is bombed by US Air Force planes. The French General delegate, Mr. Susini is killed.
1973 : Birth of Takeshi Kaneshiro, Japanese actor.
1979 : Birth of Bae Doona, Korean actress
1996 : Mgr Carlos Felipe Ximenes Belo, bishop of Dili, and José Ramos-Horta win Peace Nobel Prize for their work towards a just and peaceful solution to the conflict in East Timor http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1996/press.html
2002 : King Gyanendra names as Prime minister the chairman of the royalist party Lokenda Bahadur Chand, 63 ans, as head of a 9 members governement.
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12 OCTOBER 2007
12 OCTOBER 1976 : CHINA ANNOUNCES HUA GUOFENG IS ITS NEW LEADER
On that day, China announces that Hua Guofeng is the successor of the Late Mao Zedong as Chairman of the CPC. But he was already in charge since 7 October.
Born on 16 February 1921, he joined the CCP in 1938 and took part to the anti-Japanese war.
He was Security minister in 1975. The next year, he replaced Zhou Enlai as Prime Minister and some days before his dead (9 September 1976), Mao Zedong chosed him as his successor.
Hua Guofeng line was : To think as Mao, to speaks as Mao, to act as Mao.
For the reformists leaded by Deng Xiaoping it was a necessity to oust him.
In December 1978, the Deng faction took the control of the Central committee. Hua Guofen losed the premiership in 1980 and the presidence of the party in 1981. Expelled from the Central Committee, he quit the Central committee in 2002.
OTHERS FACTS
1008 : Birth of 68th Japanese Emperor Go-Ichjo
1590 : Death of Kano Eitoku, Japanese painter
1632 : Death of Kutsuki Mototsuna, Japanese samourai commander
1754 : Joseph François Dupleix, general governor of the French trading posts in India, ruined, embarks to France.
1904 : Birth of Ding Ling, famous modern Chinese female writer
1948 : Soviet Union recognizes North Korea
1953 : Signature of several agreements between Soviet Union and the PRC at Beijing. The Soviet Union withdraws its troops based in Port-Arthur
1954 : Publication at Pékin of eight declarations and agreements on sino-soviet relations
1960 : Death of Inejiro Asanuma, Japanese politician.
1962 : Start of border negociations between China and Pakistan.
1964 : Coup d’Etat against general Nguyen Khan in South Vietnam. The military takes the power
1967 : US Secretary of State Dean Rusk states during a news conference that proposals by the US Congress for peace initiatives were falled because of North Vietnam’s opposition
1970 : Canada establishes diplomatic relations with PRC
1970 : Death of Mustafa Zaide, Pakistanese poet
1970 : US president Richard Nixon announces that the US will withdraw 40,000 more troops from Vietnam before Chrismas
1970 : La Chine experiments a 3 megaton H bomb
1983 : Japan’s former Prime Minister Tanaka Kahuei is found guilty of taking a $2 million bride from Lockheed and is sentenced to 4 years in jail
1986 : Queen Elisabeth II is the first British monarch to visit China
1999 : General Musharraf take the power in a bloodless coup http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6960670.stm
2000 : Franco-Chinese writer Gao Xinjian wins Litterature Nobel Prize
2002 : Bomb attack on two night clubs in Bali : 202 deads, 300 woundeds. http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/12/
newsid_2543000/2543731.stm
2005 : China puts into orbit Shenzhou VI space capsule with two astronauts on board, Fei Junlong and Nie Haisheng) for a five-day successful mission.
Today is Spain national day : Hi, Candido, have a nice day
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14 OCTOBER 2007
14 OCTOBER 1947 : D. S. SENANAYAKE FISRT PRIME MINISTER OF CEYLAN
Don Stephan Senanayake has been the first Prime Minister of Ceylan (Now Sri Lanka) from october 1947 to march 1952.
Born in 1884, he entered in politics and served as Minister of Agriculture under the British rule from 1931 to 1946 and founded the Sri Lanka United National Party.
The new 1946 constitution opened the way to the independence and the Singhaleses formed their first government after elections won by Sennayake Party. Ceylan became fully independent on 4 February 1948.
He died on 22 March 1952 from a riding accident
OTHER FACTS
1493 : Birth of Shimazu Tadayoshi, Japanese warlord
1643 : Birth Bahadur Shah I, Mughal emperor who rules briefly India
1867 : The 15th and last shogun of the Togugawa shogunate resigns
1882 : Foudation of the University of Punjab, today in Pakistan
1900 : Birth of Kyoko Chigusa, Japanese actor
1911 : Birth of Le Duc Tho, Vietnamese Foreign minister and 1973 Nobel Prize
1922 : Birth of Yumeiji Tsukioka, Japanese actress
1943 : Japan declare Philippines independance. José Laurel is president up to 14 August 1945
1958 : Birth of Kaoru Ikeya, Japanese film director
1960 : Birth of Takashi Ishihara, Japanese film producer
1963 : Birth of Kim Jae-beom, South Korea singer
1973 : A la suite de la répression sanglante de manifestations estudiantines en Thaïlande, les militaires doivent abandonner le pouvoir. http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/14/
newsid_2534000/2534347.stm
1980 : Birth of Oh Yun-a, Korean actress
1984 : From all parts of Bangladesh, 2 million people converge to Dacca demanding the end of the two and half year Martial Law
1991 : The Norvegian Nobel Committee decides to award the Nobel Price to Aung San Suu Kyi for her non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1991/press.html
2001 : Poussée par les partis politiques et associations musulmanes, Megawati Sukarnoputri condamne les frappes anglo-américaines sur l’Afghanistan.
2004 : The Council of the throne unanimously names prince Sihamoni as the new king of Cambodia to succeed his father Norodom Sihanouk.
2004 : Death of Yoneo Iguchi, Japanese actor.
2006 : The United Nations Security Council unanimously votes sanctions against North Korea for its nuclear test.
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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/
newsid_2533000/2533131.stm
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.
Mira Nair picture
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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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