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ON 8 JANUARY IN ASIAN HISTORY
Updated on January 8, 2008
1324 : Death of Marco Polo, born in 1254 http://geography.about.com/cs/marcopolo/a/marcopolo.htm http://www.susqu.edu/history/medtrav/marcopolo/bio.htm
1556 : Birth of Uesugi Kagekatsu, Japanese samurai and warlord who died in March 1623 http://www.samurai-archives.com/kagekatsu.html
1761 : In India, the French garrison surrenders. Next February, Mahe will also do it
1899 : Birth of Solomon Bandaranaike, fourth Ceylon’s Prime minister (1956-1959), assassinated by a buddhist monk in September 1959 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Bandaranaike
1902 : In China, Imperial court comes back to the Fobidden City and empress Cixi retakes the power
1912 : Birth of Susumu Fujita, Japanese actor who died in March 1991 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susumu_Fujita http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0297843/filmoyear
1912 : Birth of Tadashi Imai, Japanese film director who died in November 1991 http://www.bookrags.com/biography/tadashi-imai/
1926 : Birth of Kelucharan Mohapatra, Indian odessi dancer who died in April 2004 http://academic.evergreen.edu/curricular/odissi/gurus/kelu.htm http://www.odissiniharika.com/guruji.html
1926 : Birth of Hanae Mori, Japanese fashion designer http://www.infomat.com/whoswho/hanaemori.html http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20080108jk.html
1929 : Birth of Kotoe Hatsui, Japanese actress who died in September 1990 http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0368969/
1929 : Birth of Saeed Jaffrey, Indian actor http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/J/htmlJ/jaffreysaee/jaffreysaee.htm http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006762/
1933 : Ko Un, Korean poet http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/koun.htm http://www.koun.co.kr/
1942 : Birth of Junichiro Koizumi, Japanese Prime Minister (2001-2006) http://www.japan-zone.com/modern/koizumi_junichiro.shtml
1947 : General Marshall named state secretary leaves China.
1948 : Birth of Hana Kino, Japanese actress http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0455816/ http://www.nipponcinema.com/tag/hana_kino/
1967 : In Vietnam war, Operation Cedar Falls is launched http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=1601
1972 : Freed by the Pakistani authorities, Mujibur Rahman, leader of Bangladesh, arrives in London and demands that his new State to be recognize
1973 : Vietnam peace talks resume in Paris http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=1600
1974 : The Khmers rouges intensify their pressure on Phnom Penh by attacks on North and South of the Cambodian capital
1975 : Deng Xiaoping is named vice-president Chinese communist party
1976 : Death of Zhou Enlai, Chinese Prime Minister since 1949 http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/COLDenlai.htm http://granitestudio.org/2008/01/08/this-date-in-history-the-death-of-
zhou-enlai/ http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=2540
1977 : Just one year after the death of Zhou Enlai, huge demonstrations in Beijing which will continue up to 16 January. The demonstrators demand the Deng Xiaoping return to power.
1977 : Birth of Lee Yoo-jin (Yu-jin), Korean actress http://www.koreanmovie.com/Lee_Yoo_jin_ka933/
1979 : After the Vietnamese troops have taken Phnom Penh, Khmer Rouge are retreating http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/8/
newsid_2506000/2506533.stm
1985 : Japan launches Sakigake space probe to Halley’s comet
1989 : Beginning of the Japanese Heise era (the current Japanese emperor one)
1991 : Birth of Asuka Hinoi, Japanese singer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinoi_Asuka http://bestuff.com/stuff/asuka-hinoi http://video.google.fr/videosearch?hl=fr&q=Asuka+Hinoi&lr=lang_en&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&
oi=video_result_group&resnum=4&ct=title#
1992 : George Bush gets ill and vomits on Japanese prime minister’s lap
1997 : In New York, Ramzi Ahmed Yussef is condemned to life for the organization of the February 1993 attack on the World Trade Center http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramzi_Yousef
2002 : Abolition of death penalty in Taiwan. The last ten years, 176 Taiwanese have been executed, 39 of them for kidnapping.
2008 : The president of the Maldives, Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, escapes unhurt after an attempted knife attack http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7176434.stm
2008 : Sri Lankan minister for nation-building dies in blast http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7176207.stm
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