ON 6 JUNE IN ASIAN HISTORY
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Updated on 6 June 2019
1236: Birth of Wen Tianxiang, Chinese Song premier who was executed on January 9, 1283
http://www.chinaknowledge.de/History/Song/personswentianxiang.html
1393: Death of Japanese emperor Go-En’yu (1371-1382), born January 11, 1359
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Go-En’yu
1583: Death of Nakagawa Kiyohide, Japanese warlord, born in 1556
http://wiki.samurai-archives.com/index.php?title=Nakagawa_Kiyohide
1584: Birth of Yuan Chonghuan, Ming General, executed on September 22, 1630
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuan_Chonghuan
1644: The Qing dynasty Manchu forces led by the Shunzhi Emperor capture Beijing during the collapse of the Ming dynasty
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Shunzhi_Emperor
http://history.04007.cn/en.php/HisMain/5553.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shunzhi_Emperor
1674: Shivaji Bhosle crowns himself and founds the Maratha Empire
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shivaji
1807: Birth of Thieu Tri, the third emperor of the Nguyen Dynasty of Vietnam, who died on November 4, 1847
http://madmonarchist.blogspot.fr/2014/09/monarch-profile-emperor-thieu-tri-of.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thieu_Tri
1882: More than 100,000 inhabitants of Bombay are killed as a cyclone in the Arabian Sea pushes huge waves into the harbour
1884: The Treaty of Hue or Protectorate Treaty or Patenôtre Treaty is concluded between France and Vietnam
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Hu%C3%A9_(1884)
1885: Birth of Kawabata Ryushi, Japanese painter who died on April 4, 1966
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawabata_Ryushi
http://www.artnet.fr/artist/690630/ryushi-kawabata.html
http://www.google.fr/search?q=Kawabata+Ryushi&hl=fr&rlz=1G1ACAW_FRFR414&prmd=ivns&source=lnms&tbm=isch&ei=xuzrTYqHLMut8QPg45WjAQ&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&ved=0CA4Q_AUoAQ&biw=1017&bih=484
1891: Birth of Maasti Venkatesh Iyengar, Karnatakaian poet and playwright, who died on June 6, 1986
http://ellakavi.wordpress.com/2007/07/22/maasti-venkatesh-iyengarthe-father-of-kannada-short-stories/
1900: In China, anti-foreigners Boxers rebels cut off all railroad links between Peking and Tientsin, main port city of Peking
1901: Birth of Sukarno, first president of Indonesia (1945-1967) who died on June 21, 1970
http://info-biography.blogspot.fr/2010/03/biography-ir-soekarno-indonesian-first.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukarno
1916: Death of Yuan Shikai, Chinese General and politician who has ruled much of China since 1912, born on September 16, 1859
http://www.chinahighlights.com/travelguide/china-history/yuan-shikai.htm
http://history.04007.cn/en.php/HisMain/5557.html
1929: Birth of Sunil Dutt, Indian actor and politician, who died on May 25, 2005 of heart attack
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunil_Dutt
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004570/
1936: Birth of D. Ramanaidu, Indian producer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._Ramanaidu
1941: Talks between Dutch and Japanese collapse. Netherlands Indies government replies that no concessions to Japan will be made, and that all strategic products (including oil and rubber) have been contracted for shipment to Britain and the United States
1942: During the Battle of Midway. U.S. Navy dive bombers sink the Japanese cruiser Mikuma and four Japanese carriers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_cruiser_Mikuma
https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/OnlineLibrary/photos/events/wwii-pac/midway/mid-10a.htm
1952: In Vietnam, after Tran Van Huu resigned, Nguyen Van Tam forms a new cabinet till December 1953
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tran_Van_Huu
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE3D9173FF93BA15752C1A966958260
1952: Birth of Yukihiro Takahashi, Japanese musician and singer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukihiro_Takahashi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cq6e7sLeeeM
1957: Birth of Balanadarajah Iyer, Sri Lankan poet and activist, gunned down on August 16, 2004
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balanadarajah_Iyer
1967: Soviet Union recognizes the borders and the neutrality of Cambodia
1971: During the Vietnam War, the Battle of Long Khanh between Australian and Vietnamese communist forces begins
http://vvaavic.org.au/the-battle-of-long-khanh/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Long_Khanh
http://regimental-books.com.au/shop/the-battle-of-long-khanh-3rar-vietnam-1971-p-185
1975: Birth of Cheer Chen, Taiwanese singer and musician
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheer_Chen
http://www.flickr.com/groups/cheerchen/
1976: Philippines and Soviet Union normalize their diplomatic relations
1977: Birth of Matsu Takako, Japanese actress and singer
http://yummycelebrities.com/2005/09/14/takako-matsu/
1983: Birth of Guo Jingming; Chinese writer and director
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guo_Jingming
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/entertainment/guojingming/
1984: The last Sikh separatist militants at the shrine of Golden Temple of Amritsar surrender
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/1984/jun/07/fromthearchive
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/indian-army-storms-golden-temple
1984 : Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, a charismatic Sikh preacher, who became a symbol of militant religious fundamentalism and anti-establishment fervour in the early 1980s, is killed during the Indian army’s storming of the Golden Temple, born on June 2, 1947
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarnail_Singh_Bhindranwale
http://www.mapsofindia.com/on-this-day/6-june-1984-jarnail-singh-bhindranwale-militant-sikh-religious-preacher-die
1986: Birth of Bhavana Balachandran, Indian actress
http://www.nidokidos.org/threads/9634-Bhavana-Balachandran
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kW3Jw6qzgrk
1986: Death of Maasti Venkatesh Iyengar, Karnatakaian poet and playwright, born on June 6, 1891
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masti_Venkatesha_Iyengar
http://www.karnatakaspider.com/resources/3343-Kannada-Jnanapeetha-awardee-kannadada-Aasti.aspx
1986: Birth of Kim Hyun Joong, Korean singer (SS501)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Hyun_Joong
1992: Birth of Kim Hyun-a, Korean singer, dancer, and model
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyuna
1993: Mongolia holds its first direct presidential election
1998: In Indonesia, the human right commission says that the 12 to 15 May riots cause 1188 killed
2000: In Irian Jaya, a « Papuan Congress » symbolically proclaims independence
2003: Cambodia government and United Nations agree on the formation of a tribunal in charge to try the former Khmer Rouge leaders for crime against humanity
2003: Following huge demonstrations against his appointment, Nepal’s premier Lokendra Bahadur Chand resigns
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lokendra_Bahadur_Chand
2004: Tamil is established as a classical language by the president of India, in a join sitting of the two houses of the parliament
2011: US drone strikes kill many in Pakistan. At least 19 people killed in tribal areas after two blasts a day earlier left 24 dead
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2011/06/2011664394702821.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-13663847
http://www.france24.com/en/20110606-least-17-killed-us-drone-strike-pakistan
2012: Leading Chinese dissident Li Wangyang, jailed for more than 22 years after the 1989 Tiananmen democracy protests, died in strange circumstances
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2012/06/20126741641903162.html
2013: Nicaragua awards a Chinese company a 100-year concession to build an alternative to the Panama Canal, in a step that looks set to have profound geopolitical ramifications
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/06/nicaragua-china-panama-canal
2014: The front-runner in Afghan’s presidential election, Abdullah Abdullah, survives a suicide bomb attack targeted at his convoy in Kabul
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-27731116
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2014/06/afghan-presidential-candidate-survives-blast-201466931968347.html
2015: Bangladesh and India seal a historic land pact to swap territories, which will finally allow tens of thousands of people living in border enclaves to choose their nationality after decades of stateless limbo.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-33033342
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/06/india-bangladesh-seal-land-swap-deal-150606012711866.html
http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/india-bangladesh-seal-historic-land-boundary-agreement/
2016: A court in the Maldives jails former Vice-President Ahmed Adeeb for 10 years on terrorism charges, after a closed-door trial that was denounced by the opposition as flawed
http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/maldives-former-vice-president-jailed-on-terrorism-charges
2017: Sher Bahadur Deuba elected Nepal’s prime minister … for the fourth time
http://www.dw.com/en/nepal-parliament-elects-sher-bahadur-deuba-as-new-prime-minister/a-39137708
http://www.asiaone.com/asia/nepal-parliament-elects-new-prime-minister
http://kathmandupost.ekantipur.com/news/2017-06-07/pm-deuba-assumes-office-first-cabinet-meeting-sets-five-priorities.html
2018: Myanmar and UN reach agreement on Rohingya repatriation process
https://www.trtworld.com/asia/myanmar-un-sign-pact-on-initial-steps-for-rohingya-return-18016