ON 4 FEBRUARY IN ASIAN HISTORY
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Updated on February 4, 2019
960: Coronation of Zhao Kuangyin, as Emperor Taizu, initiating the Song dynasty (960-976), born on March 23, 927
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Taizu_of_Song
http://biography.yourdictionary.com/zhao-kuang-yin
1615: Death of Dom Justo Takayama, Japanese Christian warlord while in exile in Manila, born in 1552
http://wiki.samurai-archives.com/index.php?title=Takayama_Ukon
https://aleteia.org/2016/01/24/samurai-martyr-soon-a-saint-dom-takayama-justo/
1703: In Edo, 46 of the Forty-seven Ronin commit Seppuku (ritual suicide) as recompense for avenging their master’s death (a very famous story in Japan)
https://www.thoughtco.com/the-47-ronin-story-195577
http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/special/japan_1450_47ronin.htm
1891: Birth of Madabhushi Ananthasayanam Ayyangar, Speaker of Lok Sabha, who died on March 19, 1978
http://speakerloksabha.nic.in/former/ayyangar.asp
http://www.winentrance.com/general_knowledge/anathasayanam-ayyangar.html
1895: Birth of Chinese musician Liu Tianhua who died on June 8, 1932
http://www.philmultic.com/home/instruments/erhu.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Tianhua
http://www.scmp.com/article/1002830/remembering-liu-tianhua
1898: Birth of Japanese Ito Shinsui, Japanese painter who died on May 8, 1972
http://jyuluck-do.com/profile_ito_shinsui.html
http://www.google.fr/search?q=Ito+Shinsui&hl=fr&rlz=1G1ACAW_FRFR414&tbm=isch&prmd=imvns&source=lnms&ei=fgksT6CpLMO5hAes_sHgCg&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&ved=0CC4Q_AUoAQ&biw=1192&bih=543
1899: The Philippines-American War begins
http://philippineamericanwar.webs.com/filamwarbreaksout.htm
https://history.state.gov/milestones/1899-1913/war
https://kahimyang.com/kauswagan/articles/913/today-in-philippine-history-february-4-1899-marked-the-start-of-the-filipinoamerican-war
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WxrAjiATMk&feature=related
1904: Birth of Deng Yingchao, wife of Zhou Enlai, who died on July 1, 1992
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deng_Yingchao
http://www.china.org.cn/china/CPPCC_anniversary/2009-09/16/content_18539506.htm
1917: Birth of Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan, president of Pakistan (March 1969-December 1971) who died on August 10, 1980
http://presidentyahya.com/
1918: Death of Akiyama Saneyuki, Japanese naval commander, born on April 12, 1868
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akiyama_Saneyuki
1922: By the «Shantung Treaty» the territory of Kiaochow (Jiaozhou) in Shantung (Shandong) is returned to China by Japan. The area had been leased by Germany in 1898, but seized by Japan at the outbreak of war in 1914
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Kiaochow.html
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/4707399
1922: Birth of Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, Indian Classical Singer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhimsen_Joshi
http://www.kamat.com/indica/music/bhimsen_joshi.htm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_QZVQ-3EG8
1932: Japan occupies Harbin (Manchuria)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_of_Harbin
1938 : Birth of Birju Maharaj, leading exponent of Kathak dance
http://www.culturalindia.net/indian-dance/dancers/pandit-birju-maharaj.html
http://www.iloveindia.com/indian-heroes/birju-maharaj.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birju_Maharaj
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4V4ntveybTo
1942: Battle of Makassar (Indonesia) won by the Japanese on Dutch
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Makassar_Strait
http://www.nww2m.com/2012/02/the-battle-of-makassar-strait/
http://pwencycl.kgbudge.com/M/a/Makassar.htm
1945: Start of the Yalta Conference, foreshadowing the Cold War
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/yalta-conference-foreshadows-the-cold-war
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybnzMnFEWJY
1945: The British Indian Army and Imperial Japanese Army begin a series of battles known as the Battle of Pokoku and Irrawaddy River operations
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Pokoku_and_Irrawaddy_River_operations
1948: Independance of Ceylon (later Sri Lanka) inside the British Commonwealth
1951: The Chinese Central People’s Government orders the confiscation of the property of the capitalists
1953: Birth of Kitaro, Japanese composer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitaro
1966: Birth of Kyoko Koizumi, Japanese actress and singer
http://www.japan-zone.com/modern/koizumi_kyoko.shtml
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0463592/
1967: Because threat on their security, wives and children of Russians leave China for Soviet Union
1972: A force of 824 soldiers, the last of Thailand’s 12,000 troops serving in South Vietnam, departs
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/last-thai-contingent-departs-south-vietnam
1973: International inspection team arrives in Vietnam to monitor the thruth signed on 27 January
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/4/newsid_2528000/2528261.stm
1974: Death of of Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian scientist who with Einstein discovered the Bose-Einstein condensate, born on January 1, 1894
http://www.biography.com/people/satyendra-nath-bose-20965455
http://www.thenational.ae/news/world/south-asia/satyendra-nath-bose-forgotten-genius-of-the-higgs-boson
1974: Birth of Urmila Matondkar, Indian actress
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urmila_Matondkar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzmQaEMD7Ps
1975: Haicheng earthquake (magnitude 7.3 on the Richter scale) occurs in Haicheng, Liaoning, China.
http://theearthquakemuseum.weebly.com/1975-haicheng-quake.html
http://decodedpast.com/haicheng-earthquake-1975-example-earthquake-prediction/6026
1978: Junius Richard Jayewardene is elected Sri Lanka president, up to January 2, 1989
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junius_Richard_Jayewardene
1978: Hanoi proposes again border talks to Kampuchea
1987: Assassination of Meena Keshwar Kamal, Afghan feminist and founder of RAWA, born on February 27, 1956
http://www.onthisdeity.com/4th-february-1987-%E2%80%93-the-murder-of-meena-keshwar-kamal/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meena_Keshwar_Kamal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_Association_of_the_Women_of_Afghanistan
1987: India and Pakistan sign an agreement to reduce tension on their border
1998: An earthquake in northeast Afghanistan kills more than 5,000
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/4/newsid_2534000/2534279.stm
2002 : Bhagwan Dada, Indian film actor and director, passed away http://www.thehindu.com/2002/02/05/stories/2002020503130500.htm
http://www.sify.com/movies/bollywood/profile.php?id=110714770&cid=2399
2003: The Bengali Hindus declares the independence of the Republic of Bangabhumi from Bangladesh
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata-/Hindu-republic-born-in-Bangladesh/articleshow/36407847.cms?referral=PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangabhumi
2004: The father of Pakistan nuclear bomb, Abdul Qadeer Khan explains to the nation that he is the only responsible for the selling of nuclear secrets to others countries. He is immediately pardoned by general Musharraf
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3343621.stm
2004: New Delhi High Court quashed bribery charges in Bofors case
http://www.mapsofindia.com/on-this-day/4-february-2004-delhi-high-court-quashed-bribery-charges-in-bofors-case
2009: Myanmar’s military government calls for economic and diplomatic sanctions against the country to be lifted before it will consider any reform or political reconciliation
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/02/2009245534355540.html
2010: A Pakistani neuroscientist, Aafia Siddiqui, is convicted of trying to kill American military officers while she was in custody in Afghanistan. Thousands demonstrate in Pakistan
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/04/nyregion/04siddiqui.html?ref=asia
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2010/02/201024102050255189.html
2011: Thein Sein, Myanmar’s outgoing prime minister, is chosen to become the military-run country’s first civilian president in half a century in a cosmetic shift that does little to end the army’s dominance in politics
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-myanmar/myanmars-new-parliament-appoints-thein-sein-president-idUSTRE7131CG20110204
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/05/world/asia/05myanmar.html?_r=1&ref=asia
2011: Border skirmish between Thai and Cambodian troops broke out at the disputed area in Si Sa Ket province near the 900-year-old Hindu temple of Preah Vihear
http://www.english.rfi.fr/asia-pacific/20110204-two-dead-thai-cambodian-border-dispute
2012: Second double veto of Syria Resolution by Russia and China draws condemnation from rights groups and US envoy who calls it “unforgivable”
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2012/02/201224162422121856.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-16890107
2013: Cremation ceremony of Cambodia’s King Norodom Sihanouk
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/worldnews/9847986/The-cremation-ceremony-of-Cambodias-King-Norodom-Sihanouk.html#?frame=2470522
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-21328920
2014: Death of Wu Ma, Hong Kong actor, director, producer and screenwriter, born on September 22, 1942
http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1420671/veteran-actor-wu-ma-dies
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/hong-kong-actor-director-wu-676894
2017: Malaysia reopens a decades-old dispute with Singapore calling on the UN’s top court to overturn a 2008 ruling granting its neighbour sovereignty over tiny but strategic Pedra Branca island
http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/2068096/malaysia-reopens-pedra-branca-island-row-singapore-after
http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/malaysia-refers-to-declassified-british-files-in-seeking-revision-of-icj-ruling-on-pedra
2017 : Death of Pakistani writer Bano Qudsia
https://nation.com.pk/05-Feb-2017/legendary-urdu-writer-bano-qudsia-dies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bano_Qudsia
Holidays and observances
Sri Lanka: National Day