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7 MARCH 2008
MAIN FACTS IN ASIA HISTORY ON 7 MARCH
199 : Death of Lü Bu, Chinese warrior http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Lu+Bu
1924 : Birth of Kobo Abe, Japanese playwright http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/koboabe.htm
1952 : Death of Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian guru, born in January 1893 http://www.yogananda-srf.org/py-life/index.html
1959 : Japan, death of ex-Prime Minister Ichiro Hatoyama http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichiro_Hatoyama
1969 : Birth of Shin Ae Ra, Korean actress http://kpopvideo.com/star/Shin_Ae_Ra
1972 : Birth of Gerald Anderson, Filipino actor and model http://sexy-pinoy.blogspot.com/2007/07/no-6-gerald-anderson.html
1973 : First general elections since independence of Bangladesh http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&
id=4816
1977 : In Pakistan, Ali Bhutto Pakistan People’s Party wins election, but opposition denounces grave irregularities
1991 : Sri Lanka harliner, deputy Defense minister Ranjan Wijeratne is killed in a car explosion in Colombo http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/2/
newsid_4201000/4201675.stm
1998 : General elections in India, won by hardliner Hindus BJP (177 seats) and its allies.
2003 : Cambodia’s king Norodom Sihanouk, who will be 80 year old in October, suggests to to abdicate if the parliament asks him to do it
2005 : Jiang Zemin renounces to his last position as chairman of the Central Military Commission
2005 : The man who wounded Taiwan’s president Chen Shui-bian the day before his reelection in 2004 his identified as a depressive who committed suicide after his attack
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8 MARCH 2008
MAIN FACTS IN ASIA HISTORY ON 8 MARCH
1562 : Birth of Amago Haruhisa, Japanese warlord who died in January 1562 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amago_Haruhisa
1641 : Death of Xu Xiake, travel writer and geographer of the Ming dynasty, born in January 1587 http://www.chinaculture.org/gb/en_madeinchina/2005-09/02/
content_72439.htm
1722 : Afghan monarch Mir Mahmud occupies Persia http://www.afghan-web.com/bios/yest/mirmahmud.html
1854 : US Commodore Matthew Perry arrives for a second time in Japan to negiociate the opening of Japanese ports to the West
1930 : In India, Mahatma Gandhi begins the campaign of civil disobedience
1942 : The Dutch surrender to the Japanese forces on Java
1942 : In Burma, Japanese troops capture Rangoon
1943 : Japanese troops counter-attack American forces on Hill 700 in Bougainville, in a battle that wii last fives days http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-vetscor/1624442/posts
1949 : "Accord de l'Elysée", ratifié par le parlement le 3 juin. Le Viêt Nam devient un Etat indépendant dans le cadre de l'Union française
1954 : Signature of a mutual aid and mutual defense treaty between USA and Japan
1965 : The first United States combat troops, 3,500 Marines, arrive in Da Nang (South Vietnam) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War#Escalation_and_ground_war
1975 : Birth of Fardeen Khan, Indian actor http://bollywoodzone.wetpaint.com/page/Fardeen+Khan?t=anon
1988 : Amar Singh Chamkila, Punjabi folk singer, is gunned down. He was born in July 1961 http://www.sadapunjab.com/cv/Music_And_Entertainment/
Singer_Biographies/Amar_Singh_Chamkila/index0.html
1989 : Martial law in effect in Lhasa
1996 : China starts a campaign of missiles shooting in the Strait of Taiwan (up to 15). The purpose is to dissuade the Taiwanese to vote for Lee Teng-hui http://www.taiwan.com.au/Polieco/Symbols/report09.html
2005 : Tung Chee-hwa, refering health problem confirm his resignation as chief executive of Hong Kong and is replaced by Donald Tsang http://www.thestandard.com.hk/stdn/std/Front_Page/GC02Aa01.html
2007 : In Bangladesh, the Military arrest a lot of high level personnalities from all political parties for corruption, including Tarique Rahman, the son of ex Premier Khaledia Zia. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6428979.stm
But today, the main event in Asia history is the birthday of Asia Observer member CRASYAZN from Taiwan
From all of us have a happy birthday
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9 MARCH 2008
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MAIN FACTS IN ASIA HISTORY ON 9 MARCH
1285 : Birth of Go-Nijo, 94th Japanese emperor (1301-1308) who died in September 1308 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Go-Nij%C5%8D
1932 : Henri Pu Yi who reigned as the last emperor of China from 1908 to 1912 becomes regent of the Japanese puppet state Manchukuo http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&
id=4822
1945 : Japanese forces occupy French Indo-China.
1946 : Dutch troops land at Batavia
1947 : In Taiwan, KMT authorities start the repression of 28 February riots. In all Taiwan from 18;000 to 28,000 people are killed http://www.taiwandc.org/228-intr.htm
1956 : Birth of Shashi Tharoor, Indian diplomat, author and United Nations Under-Secretary General (2002-2007) http://www.shashitharoor.com/about.html
1974 : Last Japanese soldier, a guerilla operating in Philippines, surrenders, 29 years after World War II ended
1998 : In India, after the failure of his party at the general elections (141 seats), Keshri abandons the presidency ot the Congress Party and is succeded by Sonia Gandhi. http://www.soniagandhi.org/php/showContent.php?linkid=1
2002 : The son-in-law of ex Burmese president Ne Win (1962-1988) is arrested as while several generals for conspiracy. Ne Win, 92 years old is put under house arrest
2007 : In Taiwan, the vice Premier and Finance minister Han Duck-soo, 59 years old, becomes Prime Minister Premier, replacing Han Myeong-sook who retakes the leadership of presidential party Uri
2007 : According the Emperor Hirohito diary, just published, he was thinking that a general war against China could be an error because he thank that the Japanese military could under-estimate Chinese forces and that he was afraid that Soviet Union could intervene.
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10 MARCH 2008
MAIN FACTS IN ASIA HISTORY ON 10 MARCH
1846 : Prince Osahito, fourth son of deceased Emperor Ninko of Japan, born in July 1831, becomes 121st Emperor of Japan Komei up to his dead in January 1867 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_K%C5%8Dmei
1887 : Birth of Toshitsugu Takamatsu, grandmaster of Ninjutsu, who died in April 1972 http://www.angelfire.com/mi/budotaijutsu/Takamatsu.html
1905 : Japanese army captures Mukden (Shenyang)
1912 : Yuan Shikai is sworn in as the second provisional president of the Republic of China http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuan_Shikai
1922 : In India, Mahatma Gandhi is arrested. He will be tried for sedition and sentenced to six years in prison and released in 1924
1934 : Birth of Chine pianist Fou Ts’ong (Fu Cong) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fou_Ts'ong
1945 : The US Air Forces bomb Tokyo with napalm, causing fires that destroy a quarter of the city and kill than 100,000 civilians http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&
id=4823 http://www.thehistorychannel.co.uk/site/this_day_in_history/
this_day_March_10.php
1945 : Japan declares Vietnam independence
1948 : Tetsuo Katayama, Prime minister from May 1947, resigns and is replaced by Ashida Hitoshi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetsu_Katayama http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitoshi_Ashida
1948 : The Indian Union Muslim League is founded by remnents of the old Muslim League http://www.indianunionmuslimleague.com/track.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_League
1951 : Death of Kijuro Shidehara, Japanese Prime Minister from October 1945 to May 1946 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kij%C5%ABr%C5%8D_Shidehara
1959 : In Lhasa (Tibet), uprising against the Chinese occupation. Thousands will die http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=VideoArticle&
id=52437 http://www.tibet.com/Status/10march59.html
1962 : Birth of Seiko Matsuda, Japanese pop singer http://www.japan-zone.com/modern/matsuda_seiko.shtml
1970 : Captain Ernest Medina is charged with My Lai war crimes http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/mylai/MYLAI.HTM
1971 : Saigon announces that an South Vietnamese offensive in Laos in the purpose to cut the Ho Chi Minh track caused the death of 7,000 communist
1972 : Mashall Lon Nol takes all powers in Phnom Penh and becomes President of the Khmer Republic up to the Khmer Rouge victory in April 1975 http://www.mekong.net/cambodia/banyan2.htm
1972 : Birth of Takashi Fujii, Japanese television performer http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1029524/
1975 : North Vietnamese take the larger part of Ban Me Thuot, capital of High-Plateau in South Vietnam
1983 : General Suharto, only one candidate is reelected President of Indonesia for the fourth time for five years
1984 : Birth in Chengdu of Chinese singer Li Yuchen http://women.stareastasia.com/li-yuchun/
1998 : Suharto, only one candidate is reelected unanimously President of Indonesia for the seven time, but will be obliged to resign two months later..
2005 : Tung Chee-hwa, Chief Executive, hated be the majority of the population of Hong Kong and who lost the favor of Beijing is provisionally replaced by by his deputy Donald Tsang. http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/GC23Ad05.html http://www.ceo.gov.hk/eng/biography.htm
2007 : In Taiwan, KMT expulses from its ranks the Defense Minister, General Lee Jye, its highest member in the government because he carried out the order of President Chen Shui-bian to withdraw all Chiang Kai-shek statues from military places. http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2007/03/10/2003351657
[color=#FF0000]But today, the main event in Asia history is the birthday of Asia Observer members WORLDHERITAGETREAK from Nepal and AHURA from India
From all of us, have a happy birth day 
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11 MARCH 2008
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MAIN FACTS IN ASIA HISTORY ON 11 MARCH
1872 : The Meiji Japanese government officially annexes the Ryukyu kingdom into what would become the Okinawa prefecture http://www.uchinanchu.org/uchinanchu/history_early.htm
1922 : Birth of Abdul Razak, second Prime Minister of Malaysia from September 1970 to his death in January 1976 http://sejarahmalaysia.pnm.my/portalBI/detail.php?section=sm02&
spesifik_id=96&ttl_id=5
1942 : In the Philippines, General Douglas MacArthur abandons Gorregidor (Bataan), vowing “I will return” http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&
id=6833
1942 : Japanese troop land on North-Sumatra
1945 : Emperor Bao Dai, under Japanese influence proclaims the end of the French protectorate on Vietnam, proclaims independence and the adherence of his country to the Japanese « Great East Asia “ http://www.viettouch.com/philately/scst_baodai.html
1945 : The imperial Japanese Navy attempts a large-scale kamikaze attack on the US Pacific fleet anchored at Ulithi atoll in Operation Tan No 2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Tan_No._2
1966 : In Indonesia, President Sukarno is forced to give up his executive power to general Suharto, just keeping the without title of president
1970 : In Cambodia, demonstrators devastate the Hanoi ambassy and the South Vietnam Provisional Revolutionary Government
1977 : In Pakistan, violent confrontation between army forces and demontrators denouncing the result of the March 7 elections
1992 : The United Nations provisional Autority in Cambodia (Apronuc) is set up
1993 : North Korea withdraws from the Non-Proliferation Treaty in a harsh rebuff of Western demands to open suspected nuclear weapons development sites for inspection
1998 : In Indonesia, Yusuf Habibie is elected vice-president http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/events/indonesia/special_report/58602.stm
1999 : Indonesia and Portugal agree for the organization of a referendum in East Timor : self-government or independence.
2001 : End of several days of affrontment between Malay and Indian communities. At least five killed and dozens of wondeds among the Indian community
2003 : Li Peng quits as president of the National People’s Congress http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?
res=9A04EFDA173EF932A25750C0A9659C8B63&n=Top/Reference/Times%
20Topics/People/L/Li%20Peng
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12 MARCH 2008
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MAIN FACTS IN ASIA HISTORY ON 12 MARCH
1374 : Death of Japanese Emperor Go-Kogon (1352-1371), born in April 1336 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Go-K%C5%8Dgon
1386 : Birth of Ashikaga Yoshimochi, 4th Shogun (1408-1423) of the Ashikaga shogunate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashikaga_Yoshimochi
1447 : Death of Shah Rukh, Mongol leader http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shah_Rukh_(Timurid_dynasty)
1608 : Death of Koriki Kiyonaga, Japanese warlord, born in 1530 http://wiki.samurai-archives.com/index.php?title=Koriki_Kiyonaga
1849 : The Sikh army surrenders to the British at the end of the second Sikh War, conceding yo the annexation of the Punjab in northwestern India http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9067731/Sikh-Wars?
source=ONTHISDAY
1872 : Death of Zeng Guofan, Chinese general who rised the Xiang Army to fight effectively against the Taiping Rebellion and restored the power of the Qing dynasty http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/
m0038501.html
1905 : Birth of Takashi Shimura, Japanese actor who died in February 1982 http://www.tohokingdom.com/actors/takashi_shimura.htm
1910 : Birth of Masayoshi Ohira, Japanese Prime minister (December 1978- June 1980) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masayoshi_%C5%8Chira
1925 : Death of Sun Yat-sen, Chinese revolutionnary and polician, born in November 1866 http://library.thinkquest.org/26469/movers-and-shakers/sun.html
1925 : Birth of Leo Esaki, Japanese physicist, Nobel laurate http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1973/esaki-
bio.html
1929 : Birth of U Win Tin, jailed Burmese journalist http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=25685
1930 : Mahatma Gandhi leads a 200-mile march known as Dandi March to the sea in defiance of British to protest the British monopoly on salt http://www.reference.com/search?q=Mohandas%20Gandhi
1945 : Norodom Sihanouk, king of Cambodia to make null and void the French president and proclaims independence
1966 : The Communist party of Indonesia (PKI) is banned http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Indonesia
1967 : Sukarno is officially dismissed by the parliament and replaced by general Suharto http://www.asiasource.org/society/sukarno.cfm
1975 : Birth of Herman Li, Cantonese guitarist http://hermanli.com/
1976 : Birth at Wuhu (Anhui) of Chinese actress Vicki Zhao http://women.stareastasia.com/vicki-zhao/
1984 : Birth of Shreya Ghoshad, Indian singer http://www.shreyaghoshal.com/about-shreya/ http://www.shreyaghoshal.com/photo-album/
1993 : A series of bomb attack in Bombay.More than 350 are killed http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/12/
newsid_4272000/4272943.stm
1993 : North Korea says that it plans to withdraw from Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and refuses to allow inspectors access to nuclear sites
2001 : In India, the president of BJP Bangaru Laxmam resigns because he is involved in a corruption case http://www.india-today.com/itoday/20010326/c-nda5.shtml
2004 : Roh Moo-hyun, président of South Korea is empeached by the parliament (cf 3 March) and replaced by Prime Minister Goh Kun waiting the decision of the Constitutionnal Court http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/03/12/skorea.roh.vote/
index.html
But today, the main event in Asia history is the birthday of Asia Observer members ZRXK1098 from Singapore and Amit1237 from India (see front page, but also of CHUNGNUYENVAN from Vietnam
From all of us have an happy birthday <br><br>Post edited by: Jacques, at: 2008/03/12 20:15
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13 MARCH 2008
MAIN FACTS IN ASIA HISTORY ON 13 MARCH
1921 : Mongolia, under Baron Roman Ungern von Sternberg, declares its independence from China http://militaryhistory.suite101.com/article.cfm/themadbaronofmongolia
1943 : In Bougainville, Japanese troops end their assault on American forces at Hill 700 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-vetscor/1624442/posts
1954 : Vietminh forces launch a large scale attack on French troops entrenched in Dien-Bien-Phu
1955 : Death of Nepal King Tribhuvan and is succeded by Mahendra http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribhuvan
1963 : Indonesia and Netherlands recover diplomatic relations
1964 : Laos and South Vietnam restore their diplomatic relations
1965 : Thailand and Malaysia sign a defense cooperation agreement for fighting the communist guerilla
1970 : Cambodian government give to the Vietnamese National Liberation Front forces two days to leave its territory
1996 : After the death, in prison of Thomas Wapay Wainggai, 59 years, ex leader of the Papu separatist Organisasi Papua Merkeda (OPM), riots in Jayapura. http://www.hamline.edu/apakabar/basisdata/1996/03/20/0013.html
1997 : India’s Missionaries of Charity chooses Sister Nirmala to succed Mother Teresa as its leader http://home.comcast.net/~motherteresasite/nirmala.html
1997 : In South Korea the ex-Premier Lee Hoi-chang becomes the leader of the New Korea Party. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Hoi-chang
2000 : US Secretary for Defense in visit to Vietnam, the first time since 1975
2007 : Cambodian ex-Prime Minister Norodom Ranariddh is condamned in absence to 18 months in prison for embezzlement after a complain of Funcinpec, his ex-party
But today, the main event in Asia history is the birthday of Asia Observer member APPLEMEG from the Philippines
From all of us, have a nice birthday
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14 MARCH 2008
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MAIN FACTS IN ASIA HISTORY ON 14 MARCH
1880 : Death of Pagan Min, king of Burma from 1846 to 1853 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagan_Min
1951 : In the Korean War, Seoul is taken back for the second time and definitively by United Nations forces
1953 : Shigeru Yoshida dissolves the Japanese Diet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shigeru_Yoshida
1954 : Vietminh forces take the vital Gabrielle Hill in Dien Bien Phu against the French http://edition.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/11/spotlight/
1969 : Start of two days fight between Chinese and Russian forces on Ussuri river http://www.cybergeo.eu/index4141.html
1965 : Birth of Aamir Khan, Indian actor http://www.apunkachoice.com/celebrities/aamir_khan/
1977 : Birth of Sun Mei-Ting, Chinese-born pianist http://www.meiting.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&
id=4&Itemid=9
1980 : Death of Mohammad Hatta, Indonesian politician, vice president of Indonesia (August 1945-December 1956), born in August 1902 http://www.myhero.com/myhero/hero.asp?hero=hatta_bandung
1988 : Sino-vietnamese in the Spratly . Three Vietnamese ships are sunk and 74 are missing http://www.american.edu/TED/SPRATLY.htm
1997 : The chinese city of Chongqing is upgrated to provincial level as Beijing, Tianjing and Shanghai http://www.chongqing.org/
1998 : Sonia Gandhi, widow of the assassinated ex-Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi is elected president of the Congress Party http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3546851.stm
2001 : End of the VIIth Pathet Lao congress. The old guard is maintained to lead Laos http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/laos.htm
2002 : Kim Hong-gul, the third son of south Korean president Kim Dae-jung is arrested on corruption charge http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/2440243.stm
2005 : Chinese National People Congress votes an anti-secession law aiming Taiwan which autorized China to go on war if Taiwan proclaims independence http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200503/14/eng20050314_176746.html
2006 : South Korea’s Prime Minister Lee Hae-chan is forced to quit http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4804018.stm
But today, the main event in Asia history is the birthday of Asia Observer members ANDERS.IVARSSON from Sweden and VIJAYESWARAN1985 from Malaysia
From all of us, have a nice birthday
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15 MARCH 2008
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MAIN FACTS IN ASIAN HISTORY ON 15 MARCH
220 : Death of Cao Cao, king of Wei State (China), born in 155 http://www.yutopian.com/go/gowinds/caocao.html
221 : Liu Bei, a Chinese warlord and member of the Han royal house, declares himself emperor of Shu-Han and claims his legitimate succession of the Han dynasty http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Bei
1638 : Birth of the Chinese Emperor Shunzhi http://library.thinkquest.org/C0126670/emperors/shunzhi_en.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shunzhi_Emperor
1874 : Treaty of peace and alliance between France and Annam kingdom (Vietnam) to which Hanoi is retroceded. France keeps Indo-China and gets religious freedom and navigation freedom
1897 : Birth of Kikou Yamata, female nippo-french witer who died in March 1975 http://www.ne.jp/asahi/birades/home/english.html
1943 : Allied reconnaissance flight over Java
1947 : In the Philippines, a referendum gives the same rights to US and Filipino citizen
1960 : Syngman Rhee is reelected president of South Korea http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/COLDsyngman.htm
1969 : End of two-day fighting between Soviet Union and China on Issuri river. Moscow says that its forces have killed at least 800 Chinese, conceading 60 deads
1981 : The passengers and crew of a Pakistan Airways plane held hostage for nearly two weeks are relased http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/15/
newsid_2818000/2818437.stm
1985 : Death of Radha Krishna Choudhary, Indian historian, thinker and writer, born in February 1921 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radha_Krishna_Choudhary
1989 : Death of Muhammad Jameel Didi, Maldivian poet, born in May 1915 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Jameel_Didi
2002 : In Burma, the son-in-law of ex-president Ne Win (1962-1988) and several generals are arrested on plot charge and Ne Win, 92 years old, is put in arrest house http://www.time.com/time/asia/covers/1101021216/newin.html
2002 : Sharia becomes officially in force at Aceh (Indonesia)
2003 : CCP General secretary Hu Jintao succeds Jiang Zemin as president of the PRC
2005 : Death of Shoji Nishio Sensei, Japanese martial artist, born in December 1927 http://www.aikidojo.info/html/shoji_nishio_sensei.html
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