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ON NOVEMBER 22 IN ASIAN HISTORY
Updated on November 22, 2008
1848 : During the Second Sikh War, Battle of Ramnagar which leads to the death of British general Cureton http://britishbattles.com/second-sikh-war/ramnagar.htm
1884 : Birth of Syed Sulaiman Nadvi, Pakistani biographer of Muhammad http://www.renaissance.com.pk/novletf94.html
1904 : Birth of Fumio Niwa, Japanese novelist, who died on 20 April 2005 http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=9,1068,0,0,1,0
1913 : Death of Tokugawa Yoshinobu, who had been the last Japanese shogun http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokugawa_Yoshinobu
1935 : The China Clipper takes off from Alameda, California in an attempt to deliver the first airmail cargo across the Pacific Ocean (the airplane later reached its destination, Manila, and delivered over 110,000 pieces of mail). http://www.sfmuseum.net/hist8/35clipper.html
1938 : Birth Henry C. Lee, Chinese-born American criminologist http://criminalistics.suite101.com/article.cfm/profile_dr_henry_c_lee
1939 : Birth of Mulayan Sigh Yadav, Indian politician who have been chief minister of Uttar Pradesh three times http://uplegassembly.nic.in/mulayamsinghyadav.html
1940 : Birth of Hachiro Tako, Japanese actor, dead in 1985 http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0847717/
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1940 : Birth of Eiichi Yamamoto, Japanese film director http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0945412/ http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=5556
1943 : U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chinese leader Chiang Kai-Shek meet in Cairo, Egypt, to discuss ways to defeat Japan http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0809820.html
1947 : Birth of Son Hak-gyu, South Korean politician, chairman of the United Democratic Party http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son_Hak-Gyu
1953 : Death of Syed Sulaiman Nadvi, Pakistani biographer of Muhammad (See November 22, 1984)
1962 : Birth of Aoi Hiragi, Japanese writer http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0383707/
1962 : End of the Sino-Indian war, that started on October 20 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Indian_War
1963 : Birth of Yumiko Kumashiro, Japanese actress http://www.donsworld.com/Yumiko_Kumashiro.html
1965 : D.N. Aidit, head of the Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI) is captured and killed by the Indonesian military in the aftermath of the G30S coup attempt.
1971 : India launches full-scale attack on East Pakistan to help the Bangladeshi to get their independance
1972 : the US president Richard Nixon lifts the 22 year old interdiction for US citizens to visit China
1972 : During the Vietnam War, the United States loses its first B-52 Stratofortress of the war.
1973 : The Japanese government asks Israel to evacuate all the territories its took. The Philippines takes the same position
1982 : Birth of Charlene Choi Cheuk Yin, Hong Kong singer (Twins) http://alexandraseno.blogspot.com/2007/06/iht-charlene-choi-cheuk-yin-
profile.html http://www.hkcinemagic.com/en/people.asp?id=1620
1988 : Laos says that all the Vietnamese troops have left its territory
1988 : Birth of Suresh Guptara and Jyoti Guptara, British-Indian twin novelists http://www.twins.guptara.net/
2001 : Pakistan closes the Afghan ambassy under Taleban control
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