ON 13 MAY IN ASIAN HISTORY

Updated on May 13, 2009

1127 : Song Emperor Qinzong, captured in January, is deported to faraway and bitter cold Northern Manchuria by the Jin where he will spend the last 34 years of his life in confinement
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/111797/Qinzong

1573 : Death of Takeda Shingen, Japanese warlord, born in 1521
http://www.zenstoriesofthesamurai.com/Characters/Shingen%20Takeda.htm

1648 : The construction of the Red Fort at Delhi completed
http://www.shubhyatra.com/delhi/red-fort.html

1652 : Ingen Ryuki is invited to become the abbot of Sufokuji temple in Nagasaki (Japan)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingen

1903 : Death of Apolinario Mabini, Filipino political theorician and first prime minister of the Philippines, born on 23 July 1864
http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Pool/1644/mabini.html

1905 : Birth of Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, 5th president of India (1974-1977), who died on February 11, 1977
http://pastpresidentsofindia.indiapress.org/ahmed.html

1918 : Birth of T. Balasaraswati, Bharatnatyam dancer who died on 9 February 1984
http://www.balasaraswati.com/

1945 : US troops conquer Dakeshi Okinawa

1952 : The Rajya Sabha, the Upper house of the parliament of India, holds its first sitting, Pandit Nehru becomes premier of India
http://www.rrtd.nic.in/jawaharlalnehru.htm

1954 : Anti-National Service Riots, a riot in Singapore by Chinese Middle School students
http://ourstory.asia1.com.sg/independence/ref/riot54.html

1957 : Birth of Koji Suzuki, Japanese writer
http://www.japanreview.net/interview_Koji_Suzuki.htm

1962 : Sarvepalli Radakrishna becomes the second president of India, till May 1967, replacing Rejendra Prasad
http://www.adhyapak.com/dadima/sarvepalli.html

1965 : China carries out its second nuclear test

1965 : Birth of Hikari Ota, Japanese comedian
http://www.spock.com/Hikari-Ota

1967 : Dr Zahir Hussain becomes 3rd president, and first Muslim one, of India till 3rd May 1969 when he died
http://www.geocities.com/stamparchive2/Presidents_PMs/ Zakir_Hussain.htm
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1968 : U.S. President Johnson initiated peace negotiations after the first phase of the Tet Offensive. Beginning in Paris on this day, the talks rapidly broke down over disagreements about the status of the North Vietnamese National Liberation Front (NLF), which the Saigon government refused to recognize

1969 : Ethnic riot in Malaysia (May 13 incident) between Malay and Chinese. At least 200 people are killed
http://politics101malaysia.blogsome.com/2007/05/11/the-may-13-another- view/

1971 : Vietnam negociations in Paris in standstill
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=1844

1978 : Death of Savang Vatthana, last king of Laos (1959-1975), date not sure
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savang_Vatthana

1980 : Birth of Waka Inoue, Japanese gravure idol and actress
http://www.wakainoue.com/
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1htig_waka-inoue_people

1980 : Birth of Mau Marcelo, Filipino singer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mau_Marcelo

1982 : Birth of Yoko Kumada, Japanese gravure idol
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoko_Kumada
http://www.yokokumada.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fqqDH15iUU&feature=related

1989 : In China, during the Tiananmen Square demonstrations, several hundred students begin a hunger strike

1992 : Li Hongzhi gives the first public lecture on Falun Gong in Changchun, People's Republic of China.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/1223317.stm

1996 : Severe thunderstorms and a tornado in Bangladesh kill 600 people

1998 : India carriesout two nuclear tests at Pokhran, in addittion of the three conducted on May 11

1998 : Race riots break out in Jakarta, capital of Indonesia, where shops onwned by Indonesian of Chinese descendants are looted and women gang raped
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakarta_riots_of_May_1998

2001 : Death of R.K. Narayan, Indian writer, born on 10 October 1907
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/14/obituaries/14NARA.html? ex=1210737600&en=d1579e1551fb6ea2&ei=5070

2004 : In India, following the unexpected victory of the Congress Party, led by Sonia Gandhi, the Prime Minister Vajpayee resigns
http://www.knowledgebase-script.com/demo/article-202.html

2008 : Several blasts in the Jaipur city of Rajasthan state (India) kill at least 60 people
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7398989.stm

ON 14 MAY IN ASIAN HISTORY

Updated on May 14, 2009

1574 : Death of Guru Amar Das, third Sikh guru, born on 5 May 1479
http://www.srigurugranthsahib.org/guru-amar-das/index.htm

1868 : In Japan, during the Boshin War, end of the Battle of Utsunomiya Castle, former shoghunate forces withdraw northward to Aizu by way of Nikko
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Utsunomiya_Castle

1878 : Death of Ookubo Toshimichi, Japanese statesman, and one of the three great nobles who led the Meiji restoration, born on 10 August 1830
http://www.minc.ne.jp/kics/eng/eng/Kagoshima/famouspeople/okubo.html

1907 : Birth of Muhammad Ayub Khan, second president of Pakistan (October 1958-March 1969), who died on 19 April 1974
http://www.storyofpakistan.com/person.asp?perid=P017

1923 : Birth of Mrinal Sen, Indian film director
http://mrinalsen.org/

1935 : The Filipinos ratify an independence agreement with USA

1936 : Birth of Waheeda Rehman, Indian actress
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0716851/

1943 : Sinking of the Australian Hospital Ship Centaur off the coast of Queensland, by a Japanese submarine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AHS_Centaur
http://www.education.mcgill.ca/profs/milligan/centaur/A.HOME

1944 : British troops occupy Kohima
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kohima

1945 : Kamikaze-Zero strikes US aircraft carrier Entreprise during Okinawa Battle

1953 : Birth of Norodom Sihamoni, king of Cambodia since 14 October 2004
http://www.norodomsihanouk.info/royal_family/shmne.htm

1962 : Death of Silpa Birasri, Italian and the father of modern arts in Thailand
http://www.mahidol.ac.th/thailand/art-train.html

1965 : In Sri Lanka, Rohana Wijeweera, founds the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) or People’s Liberation Front
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janatha_Vimukthi_Peramuna
http://www.jvpsrilanka.com/

1965 : Second Chinese atom bomb explodes

1969 : US President Richard Nixon proposes a simultaneously of all the foreign troops from South Vietnam. Hanoi and National Liberation Front refuses
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=1845

1971 : Birth of Nasha Aziz, Malaysian actress & model
http://www.sinemamalaysia.com.my/main/index.php?mod=artist&p=info& id=3084&mode=profile

1975 : US forces raid Cambodian island od Koh Tang to free Mayaguez ship
http://www.usmm.org/mayaguez.html

1976 : India and Pakistan restore diplomatic relations cut in 1971

1985 : Death by suicide of Mei ling (Barbara Yung), Hong Kong actress, born on 7 May 1959
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Yung_Mei-ling
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoEyyRhOzS4
http://www.hkcinemagic.com/en/people.asp?id=4827

1985 : In Anuradhapura (Sri Lanka) saint Buddhist city, Tamil separatist open fire in the streets, killing at least 145 inhabitants

1991 : Jiang Qing, widow of Mao Zedong, commits suicide by hanging, born on 14 March 1914
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/CHINAjiang.htm

1992 : Death of Marshal Nie Rongzhen, PLA chief of the general staff (1950-1954), born in 1899
http://www.paulnoll.com/Korea/War/Marshal-Nie-Rongzhen.html

1995 : Tanzin Gyatso, the 14th and current Dalai Lama recognizes Gedhun Choekyi Nyima as the 11th reincarnation of the Panchen Lama
http://www.tibet.com/PL/may14a.html
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1998 : On Jakarta (Indonesia), end of three-day of firing of the army troops on students demonstrating against Suharto government causing officially 6 deads and dozens of wounded

1998 : Japan, main provider of aid, postpones its aid to India as a retaliation against its nuclear tests

1999 : US President Bill Clinton apologizes to Chinese president Jiang Zemin for the accidental Nato bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade (Yugoslavia) six days earlier

1999 - North Korea returned the remains of six U.S. soldiers that had been killed during the Korean War

2000 : Death of a stroke of Japanese Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/747915.stm

2001 : In the Philippines, in the upper house, the candidates supporting Gloria Arroyo win 8 of the 13 seats in game, against 4 for Estrada candidates. Now, the Arroyo pro-Arroyo supporters have 13 of the 24 seats. During the campaign, around 80 people have been killed

2001 : To help reconciliation in Korean peninsula, European Union decides to have diplomatic relations with North Korea. Only Ireland and France have not established relations with Pyongyang

2002 : Marking the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations, for the first time, Chinese warships call in Japan

2002 : Malaysian Premier Mohamad Mahathir is received at the White House where he was persona non grata since 1994. Fighting international terrorism is a common concern

2004 : The Constitutional Court of South Korea overturns the impeachment of President Roh Moo-Hyun

2005 : Nauru Island (10.500 inhabitants), whitch has cut the diplomatic relations with Taipei at the benefice of Beijing in July 2003, restored it. Now Taiwan (ROC) have official diplomatic links with 26 countries

ON 15 MAY IN ASIAN HISTORY

Updated on May 15, 2009

1036 : Death of Go-Ichijo, 68th emperor of Japan (1016-1036), born on 12 October 1008
http://www.reference.com/search?q=Goichijo

1585 : Death of Niwa Nagahide, Japanese warlord, born on 16 October 1535
http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/niwa-nagahide/
http://www.spock.com/Niwa-Nagahide/pictures

1760 : Alaungpaya, king of Burma who founded the Kongbaung dynasty, is killed while invading Ayutthaya kingdom. Born in 1714
http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9005372/Alaungpaya

1817 : Birth of Debendranath Tagore, Indian religious reformer, who died on December 19, 1905
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debendranath_Tagore
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/580329/Debendranath-Tagore
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1851 : Mongkut, born on 18 October 1804, king of Siam since 1st April is crowned as Rama IV. He died on 1st October 1868
http://www.royalty.nu/Asia/Thailand/Mongkut.html
http://www.thaistudents.com/kingandi/thomson.html

1907 : Birth of Sukhdev Thapar, Indian freedom fighters, who died on 23 March 1931
http://www.mapsofindia.com/who-is-who/history/sukhdev.html

1922 : Birth of Jakucho Setouchi, Japanese writer and Buddhist nun
http://in.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idINIndia- 32546820080318

1923 : Birth of Johnny Walker, Indian actor who died on 29 July 2003
http://www.upperstall.com/people/johnny_walker.html

1932 : In what is called the May 15 Incident, in an attempted coup d’état, the Japanese Prime Minister Inukai Tsuyyoshi is killed by eleven young navy officers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_15_incident
http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9042651/Inukai-Tsuyoshi

1942 : Birth of Yusuf Kalla, vice-president of Indonesia and chairman of Golkar Party
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jusuf_Kalla

1962 : Responding to communist attacks in Laos, American President Kennedy orders an immediate build up of US troops in Thailand

1967 : In China, during the Cultural Revolution, the Foreign ministry is occupied by leftists who started to attack Prime Minister Zhou Enlai

1967 : Birth of Madhuri Dixit, Indian actress
http://www.apunkachoice.com/celebrities/madhuri_dixit/

1972 : The island of Okinawa and Senkaku (claimed by China under the name of Diaoyutai), under US military governance since 1945, are reverted to Japanese control

1973 : Birth of Shiney Ahuja, Indian actor
http://www.chakpak.com/celebrity/shiney-ahuja/34782

1982 : Birth of Tatsuya Fujiwara, Japanese actor
http://wiki.d-addicts.com/Fujiwara_Tatsuya

1987 : Birth of Jennylyn Mercado, Filipina actress and singer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennylyn_Mercado
http://www.fhm.com.ph/fhm-babes/profile?id=98

1988 : After more than eight years of fighting in Afghanistan, the Soviet army begins its withdrawal http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=2668

1989 : Visit of Soviet Union leader Gorbatchev to China, first of a Soviet head of state since 1959. Full normalization of the relations between the two countries

1991 : Nepal premier Bhattarai resigns
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krishna_Prasad_Bhattarai

1996 : In India, the BJP arrives first in the legislative elections with 160 seats. A. B. Vajpayee is charged to form a government (he will give up on May 28)

1996 : In Indonesia, a group of hostages, including several foreigners, kept by Irian Jaya, are freed

1998 : In Indonesia, around 470 are killed in arsons on malls set by demonstrators. The strong Fosgoro faction in the Golkar asks President Suharto to resign

2008 : In Bangladesh, six former cabinet ministers are arrested on corruption charges

ON 16 MAY IN ASIAN HISTORY

Updated on May 16, 2009

1898 : Birth of Kenji Mizoguchi, Japanese film director and screenwrityer, who died on August 24, 1956
http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/22/mizoguchi.html

1931 : Birth of Natwar Singh, Indian politician
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K._Natwar_Singh
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4414748.stm

1947 : Cambodia’s king Norodom Sihanouk establishes a parliamentary monarchy

1951 : In Korea, new communist offensive

1961 : In Geneva, opening of a conference on Laos with the participation of 14 countries including the Communist China

1961 : In South Korea, Park Chung-hee leads a bloodless military coup, called the 5.16 Revolution
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Park_Chung-hee

1966 : The Chinese Communist Party issues the May 16 Notice, marking the beginning of the Cultural Revolution
http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/cultrev.htm
http://www.iisg.nl/~landsberger/crc.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution#1966:_The_16_Points_and_the_Red_Guards

1968 : Birth of Chingmy Yau, Hong Kong actress
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chingmy_Yau
http://www.brns.com/pages3/chgmypc1.html

1975 : India annexes Sikkim after the mountain state held a referendum where popular wote was in favor of merging with india
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikkim
http://www.nepalitimes.com.np/issue/35/Nation/9621

1975 : Junko Tabei, a Japanese mountain-climbet, is the first female to reach the summit of Mount Everest, born on 23 May 1939
http://www.steponline.com/everest/junko_tabei.asp
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=5007

1982 : Birth of Joo Ji-hoon, South Korean actor and model
http://wiki.d-addicts.com/Joo_Ji_Hoon

1985 : In Afghanistan, seven of the main resistence opposition organizations form a common front to oppose the Kabul communist power

1985 : Birth of Okura Tadayoshi, Japanese singer
http://wiki.d-addicts.com/Okura_Tadayoshi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYjD1eVYrkQ

1991 : China and Russia sign a frontier treaty. Only a very small border dispute is unsolved

1995 : Six year old Gedhun Choekyi Myima is nominated by the Dalai Lama has the reincarnation of the 10th Panchen Lama
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4551425.stm

1996 : Shri Krishna Bihari Vajpayee becomes Indian prime minister, but will fail to get a majority and will resign on Mai 31

2008 : USA says it will resume food aid to North Korea
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/738525CE-F2EC-4E8C-8E40- 4B6449D29C58.htm

2008 : The 22-year-old 17th Karmapa visits USA
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/05/16/america/lama.php

ON 17 MAY IN ASIAN HISTORY

Updated on May 17, 2009

1155 : Birth of Jien, Japanese poet and historian who died on 28 October 1225
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jien

1189 : Birth of Minamoto no Yoshitsune, Japanese general, born in 1159
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minamoto_no_Yoshitsune

1336 : Death of Go-Fushimi, the 93rd emperor of Japan (1298-1301), born on 5 April 1288
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Go-Fushimi

1540 : Afghan chief Sher Khan defeated Mogul Emperor Humayun at Kanauj
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sher_Shah_Suri

1917 : Death of Charles Brooke, second White Rajah of Sarawak (Borneo) since 3 August 1868
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Anthoni_Johnson_Brooke

1940 : Birth of Reynato Puno, Filipino Supreme Court Chief Justice
http://en.wikipilipinas.org/index.php?title=Reynato_Puno

1954 : In the Philippines, Luis Taruc, who has been excluded from the Philippine Communist Party, surrenders
http://cityofsanfernando.blogspot.com/2005/05/ka-luis-m-taruc-june-21- 1913-may-4.html
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1964 : In Burma, all the 50 and 100 kyat banknotes are demonetized without compensation

1967 : In Hong Kong, beginning of fights between police and Maoist demonstrators till May 23

1980 : General Chun Doo-hwan of South Korea declares martial law in order to suppress students demonstration
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-ChunDooH.html

1981 : In Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina comes back after exile in India
http://www.virtualbangladesh.com/biography/hasina.html

1981 : Birth of Lim Jeong Hee, Korean singer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lim_Jeong_Hee
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_yWIjzsK-I

1992 : In Thailand, the so called Black May begins. Thai police and protestors start attacking one another. By midnight, the Thai government declares a state of emergency and military troops open fire
http://angkor.com/2bangkok/2bangkok/blackmay/blackmay01.shtml

1993 : In Sri Lanka, Ranil Wickremasinghe becomes prime minister till August 1994
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranil_Wickremasinghe

1995 : The Chinese authorities arrest the six year old Gedhun Choekuyi Nyima, recognized by the Dalai Lama as the successor of the 10th Panchen Lama, and his family. Since nobody knows what happened to them
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20qndcB389A

1997 : In South Korea, Kim Hyung-chul, son of the President Kim Dae-jung is arrested as involved in the Hanbo scandal

2000 : In Indonesia, for the first time, 24 soldiers are jailed for massacres of civilians in Aceh

2004 : In Myanmar, the National Convention, in charge to write a new constitution, convened after more than eight years of suspension

2005 : Death of Keiiti Aki, Japanese seismologist, born on March 3, 1930
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keiiti_Aki

2007 : In Thailand, the Defense National Council orders three private radio stations to be closed because they gave interviews to former premier Thaksin Shinawatra

2007 : A train, for the first time since 1953, cross the border between the two Koreas on few meters

2008 : Pakistan's ambassador to Afghanistan abducted in February is freed
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7406083.stm

ON 18 MAY IN ASIAN HISTORY

Updated on May 18, 2009

1450 : Death of Sejong, 4th king (1418-1450) of the Joseon Korean dynasty, born on 6 May 1397
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sejong_the_Great_of_Joseon

1498 : Vasco de Gama reaches the port of Calicut (Khozhikoto) in India
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06374a.htm
http://www.calicut.net/

1584 : Death of Ikeda Motosuke, samurai commander, born in 1559
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikeda_Motosuke
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1869 : Surrender and dissolution of the Ezo Republic to Japan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezo_Republic

1913 : Birth of Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, 6th president on India (1977-1982) who died on 1st June 1996
http://pastpresidentsofindia.indiapress.org/reddy.html

1916 : In China, Chen Qimei is assassinated. Chiang Kai-shek succeeds him as leader of the Chinese Revolutionary Party in Shanghai
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen_Qimei

1916 : In Vietnam, Khai Dinh is the 12th emperor of the Nguyen dynasty
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khai_Dinh

1933 : Birth of Deve Gowda, Indian prime minister from June 1, 1996 to April 21, 1997

1948 : Birth of Yi Munyol, South Korean writer
http://www.bookbrowse.com/biographies/index.cfm?author_number=580

1951 : United Nations adopts a resolution on the boycott of strategic goods to Communist China

1955 : A security treaty is signed between Cambodia and the USA

1955 : Birth of Chow Yun-Fat, Hong Kong actor
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000334/
http://chowofhongkong.com/

1963 : birth of Mari Lijimia, Japanese actress
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mari_Iijima

1967 : In Vietnam, the US troops cross the demilitarized zone

1974 : India detonates its first nuclear weapon
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=5013

1980 : In South Korea, Gwangju uprising up to May 27
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwangju_Massacre

1988 : Birth of Koji Seto Japanese actor and singer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koji_Seto
http://bestuff.com/stuff/koji-seto

1989 : In Beijing one-million people demonstrate http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=2671

2001 : In Karachi, extremist Sunni Tekrik chief, Saleem Qadri, is shot
http://www.geocities.com/sipahisahaba/2001/05182001.htm
http://www.newsline.com.pk/NewsJune2001/coverstory4.htm

2002 : Kim Hong-gul, third son of South Korea president Kim Dae-jung is arrested on charge of corruption. One of his brothers is already in jail
http://www.iht.com/articles/2002/06/22/t5_46.php

2006 : In Nepal, the parliament, which has been restore, passes a law curtailing the power of the monarchy, making Nepal a secular country

2007 : Death of Yoyoy Villame, Filipino novelty singer and movie actor, born on 18 November 1932
http://showbizandstyle.inquirer.net/breakingnews/breakingnews/ view_article.php?article_id=66711

ON 19 MAY IN ASIAN HISTORY

Updated on May 19, 2009

1526 : Death of Go-Kashiwabara, 104th Japanese emperor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Go-Kashiwabara_of_Japan

1883 : French Commandant Rivière is killed in a battle against the Chinese Black Flags in Tonkin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Paper_Bridge

1890 : Birth of Ho Chi Minh, Vietnamese communist leader who died on 2nd September 1969
http://www.time.com/time/time100/leaders/profile/hochiminh.html
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/268300/Ho-Chi-Minh? source=ONTHISDAY

1904 : Death of Jamsetji Tata, Indian industrialist, born in March 1839
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamsetji_Tata

1921 : Birth of Yuri Kochiyama, Japanese American human rights activist
http://www.learntoquestion.com/seevak/groups/2004/sites/kochiyama/ main.html

1925 : Birth of Pol Pot, leader of the Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/78988.stm

1926 : Birth of Swami Kriyananda, Indian teacher and author
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swami_Kriyananda

1934 : Birth of Ruskin Bond, Indian author
http://www.iloveindia.com/literature/english/authors/ruskin-bond.html

1938 : Birth of Moisés da Costa Amaral, East Timorese leader who died on February 22, 1989
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mois%C3%A9s_da_Costa_Amaral
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1939 : Birth of Nancy Khan, Hong Kong actress
http://www.snappville.com/nhanz

1949 : Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek imposes Martial Law on Taiwan

1951 : US begins counter offensive in Korea

1954 : Signature of an mutual assistance treaty between USA and Pakistan

1964 : In Laos, US Air Force begins Operation Yankee Team
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=1855

1967 : US bombs Hanoi

1972: South Vietnamese fight to open road to An Loc
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=1854

1975 : Birth of Masanobu Ando, Japanese actor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masanobu_Ando
http://asianmediawiki.com/index.php?title=Masanobu_Ando

1981 : Birth of Bong Tae-gyu, South Korean actor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bong_Tae-gyu
http://www.hancinema.net/korean_Bong_Tae-gyu.php

1989 : A 4:50 am, Chinese communist Party General secretary Zhao Ziyang goes Tian’anmen Square to implore the students to leave
http://www.time.com/time/asia/features/heroes/zhao.html

1998 : Death of Sosuke Uno, 75th prime minister of Japan from June to August 1989 and obliged to resign after a sex scandal, born on 27 August 1922
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C5%8Dsuke_Uno
http://www.memoirs-of-a-geisha.info/Geisha_Code_of_Silence.html

2000 : China signs an agreement with Europe Union for its entry in WTO

2001 : In the Philippines, election in the senate. On the 13 seats, the People Power Coalition supporting President Arroyo wins 8 seats vis 4 for former president Estrada supporters (including his wife) and an independent

2002 : East-Timor independence ceremony, effective on 20 May, 0 :am with UN general secretary Kofy Annan, Bill Clinton and Indonesian president Megawati Sukarnoputri
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/1996673.stm

2002 : A new Vietnamese National Assembly is elected. All the candidates have been selected by the Communist Party of Vietnam

2008 : In Malaysia, Former Premier Mahathir quits UMNO
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/2D222036-EB65-4FF6-B921- 1287D5073FD7.htm

ON 20 MAY IN ASIAN HISTORY

Updated on May 20, 2009

1498 : Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama arrives at Kozhikode (previously known as Calicut), India
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=5016

1550 : Death of Ashikaga Yoshiharu, Japanese shogun, born on 21 April 1511
http://wiki.samurai-archives.com/index.php?title=Ashikaga_Yoshiharu

1619 : Coen, backed by a force of nineteen ships, storms the Jayakarta driving out the Banten forces, and from the ashes of Jayakarta, establishes Batavia (now Jakarta) as the VOC headquarters

1784 : In a Treaty signed in Paris, Netherlands cedes to Britain the port city of Nagappattinam in India and allows the British free navigation rights in the Duch-held Mollucas

1883 : The eruption of Krakatoa (Indonesia) begins, leading ultimaly to the volcano’s destruction
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krakatoa
http://video.cityvox.fr/video/iLyROoaftusS.html

1894 : Birth of Chandrashekarendra Saraswati, Indian Hindu sage, who died in 1994
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramacharya

1908 : In Netherlands Indies, Foundation of the Boedi Oetomo (Noble Conduct), organization led by Dr Soetomo. Educational movement which turned to politics
http://www.indonesialogue.com/destinations/boedi-oetomo-national- awakening-indonesia.html
http://www.indonesia-ottawa.org/page.php?s=1000history

1941 : Birth of Goh Chok Tong, former Singaporian Premier and currently Senior Minister
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goh_Chok_Tong

1942 : Japan completed the conquest of Burma

1946 : Birth of Xanana Gusmao, former president of East-Timor and current Prime Minister
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/342145.stm

1946 : In Japan, formation of Yoshida cabinet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shigeru_Yoshida

1948 : Chiang Kai-shek is formally elected President of the Republic of China
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_Republic_of_China

1954 : Chiang Kai-shek is reelected president of the Republic of China (Taiwan)

1959 : Japanese-Americans regain their citizenship

1963 : Sukarno is reelected president of Indonesia

1967 : In USA, 10,000 demonstrate against Vietnam War

1967 : Birth of Ramzi Yousef, Kuwaiti-born Pakistani terrorist
http://www.fas.org/irp/world/iraq/956-tni.htm

1969 : End of the Battle of Hambuger (Aptia Mountain) one of the bloodiest battles of the Vietnam War
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=5019

1970 : 100,000 march in New York supporting US policy in Vietnam

1978 : Chiang Ching-kuo, son of Chiang Kai-shek, is elected president of the Republic of China (Taiwan), till his death on January 13, 1988

1982 : In the Afghanistan war, first exchange of prisoners closed of the Pakistani border

1982 : Sir Edward Youde takes office as Governor of Hong Kong

1983 : Birth of Jr. NTR, Indian film actor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jr._NTR
http://movies.indiainfo.com/gallery/view_album.php? set_albumName=album84
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6284988653157988375

1986 : In a joint communiqué Lisbon and Beijing announce the beginning of talks on Macao

1988 : Birth of Carla Humphries, Filipina actress
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carla_Humphries
http://www.geocities.com/carla_fans/News.htm

1989 : Chinese Premier Li Peng proclaims the Martial Law in Beijing

1992 : India launches its first satellite independently

1993 : Xanana Gusmao, leader of the East-Timor separatist insurgency (arrested in 1992) is condemned to life sentence, changed later to 20 years in prison
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanana_Gusm%C3%A3o

2000 : In Taiwan, Chen Shui-bian becomes the first non KMT president
http://www.who2.com/chenshuibian.html
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2002 : East-Timor is officially independent from Indonesia

2004 : Chen Shui-bian starts his second mandate as president of the Republic of China (Taiwan)

2007 : The China State Space Administration director announces that China will soon proceed on to the launching of a satellite which will turn around the moon

2007 : In Vietnam, legislative elections. 83 % of the candidates are members of the Vietnam Communist Party. In the final, more than 90 % of the members of the parliament are members of the CPV

2008 : Ma Ying-jeou is sworn in as president of Taiwan
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/E6750AE6-9AFB-4845-9DA0- FF3E068854D8.htm
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/JE21Ae01.html

2008 : India and Pakistan resume talks
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7409672.stm

ON 21 MAY IN ASIAN HISTORY

Updated on May 21, 2009

1260 : The Mongol Emperor Kublai Khan send his envoy Hao Jing to the Chinese Song Emperor Lizong. Hao Jing is kept in prison

1951 : In Korea, the United Nations forces repel Communist forces that have cross the 38th parallel

1960 : Birth of Mohanlal, Indian actor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohanlal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_51FhosiVY

1968 : Birth of Julie Vega, Filipina actress who died on 6 May 1985
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Vega
http://video48.blogspot.com/2007/09/remembering-julie-vega.html

1969 : Birth of Masayo Kurata, Japanese voice actress
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=387

1991 : Former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated by a female LTTE suicide bomber near Madras
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/21/ newsid_2504000/2504739.stm

1998 : Indonesian president Suharto resigns, succeeded by vice-president B.J. Habibie
http://www.wsws.org/news/1998/may1998/ined-m21.shtml
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgEKsnfOASw

2005 : In Indonesia, Nazaruddin Sjamsuddin, chairman of the Election National Election, is arrested on charges of corruption
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4569151.stm

2006 : Death of Cherd Songsri, Thai film director, born on September 20, 1931
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherd_Songsri
http://www.thaicinema.org/Essays09cherd1.asp

2007 : Chang Chun-hsiung becomes Taiwan prime minister for a second time replacing Su Tseng-chang
http://www.gio.gov.tw/taiwan-website/5-gp/yearbook/biographies-3.html

ON 22 MAY IN ASIAN HISTORY

Updated on May 22, 2009

748 : Death of Empress Gensho, 44th ruler of Japan (715-724), born in 680
http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/empress-gensho/

1068 : Death of Go-Reizei, 70th emperor of Japan (1045-1068), born on 28 August 1025
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Go-Reizei

1545 : Death of Sher Shah Suri, founder of the short lived Suri Dynasty in India, born in 1486
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sher_Shah_Suri

1772 : Birth of Raja Ram Mohan Roy, Hindu reformer who died on 27 September 1833
http://www.boloji.com/people/04003.htm

1885 : Birth of Japanese Admiral Soemu Toyoda who died on 22 September 1957
http://ww2db.com/person_bio.php?person_id=45

1908 : Birth of Rattana Pestonji, Thai film director, who died on August 17, 1970
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rattana_Pestonji

1927 : In Xining (China) an earthquake causes more than 200,000 casualties

1946 : Shigeru Yoshida replaces Kijuro Shidera as prime minister of Japan till May 24, 1947
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shigeru_Yoshida

1958 : Start of Sri Lankan riots of 1958 (end on May 27), this riot was a watershed event in the race relationship of the various ethnic communities of Sri Lanka. The total number of deaths is estimated to be 300, mostly Sri Lankan Tamils
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Lankan_riots_of_1958

1960 : Birth of Hideaki Anno, Japanese director
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=15

1966 : Birth of Wang Xiaoshuai, Chinese film director
http://archive.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/03/wang.html

1969 : Bejing reasserts its hostility on unequal treaties which establish the borders with Russia

1972 : Birth of Annabel Chong, Singaporian actress
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annabel_Chong
http://www.freeones.com/html/a_links/Annabel_Chong/

1972 : Ceylon adopts a new constitution becoming a republic, changes its name for Sri Lanka and joins the Commonwealth of Nations

1981 : Birth of Hara Fumina, Japanese actress
http://wiki.theppn.org/Hara_Fumina
http://www.babebio.com/babe/hara_fumina/

1989 : Seven retired military leaders in China denounce the imposition of martial law

1998 : In Indonesia, President Jusuf Habibie forms his cabinet keeping the majority of the ministers, except the one too closed with his predecessor ousted general Suharto
http://www.bookrags.com/biography/bacharuddin-jusuf-habibie/

2000 : In South Korea, Lee Han-dong, defector from Grand National Party becomes prime minister
http://english.people.com.cn/english/200005/22/eng20000522_41324.html

2002 : Khmer Rouge leader Sam Bith, 69, is arrested. He is responsible for the kidnapping and murder of three western tourists in 1994
http://www.foreignminister.gov.au/releases/2002/fa076_02.html

2004 : In India, Manmohan Singh forms his cabinet after Sonia Gandhi renounced to be Prime Minister
http://www.indian-elections.com/dr-manmohan-singh.html

2006 : Death of Lee Jong-wook, Korean Director-General of the World Health Organization
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/dr-lee-jongwook- 479449.html