ON 10 JANUARY IN ASIAN HISTORY
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Updated on January 10, 2019
9: The Western Han Dynasty ends when Wang Mang claims that the divine Mandate of Heaven called for the end of the dynasty and the beginning of his own, the Xin Dynasty
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Mang
http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/people_n2/ppersons2_n2/wangmang.html
1692: Death of Job Charnock, a servant and administrator of the English East India Company, traditionally regarded as the founder of the city of Calcutta, born in 1630
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job_Charnock
1911: Birth of Binod Bihari Chowdhury, Bangladeshi activist, who died on April 10, 2013
http://archive.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=121568
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binod_Bihari_Chowdhury
1914: Yuan Shikai, president of the new Chinese republic, dissolves parliament and prepares a constitution of his own design: he will set himself up as dictator, preparatory to an attempt to make himself emperor
http://history.04007.cn/en.php/HisMain/433.html
1914: Birth of Yu Kuo-hwa, Taiwan’s Prime Minister (1984-1989) who died on October 4, 2000
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yu_Kuo-hwa
1930 : Birth of Basu Chatterjee, Indian film director
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basu_Chatterjee
1940: Birth of K.J. Yesudas, Indian playback singer and classical musician
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K._J._Yesudas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ycykz61mCs
1942: Japanese begin invasion of Indonesia in Kalimantan (Tarakan) and Sulawesi (Manado)
http://countrystudies.us/indonesia/15.htm
https://www.jstor.org/stable/20072708?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
1946: In China, the Consultative political Council (Guomindang) decides to convene a National assembly
1946: A truce is reached between Chinese Communists and Nationalists, but fighting soon resumes
1949: Birth of Allu Aravind, Indian film Producer
http://entertainment.oneindia.in/celebs/allu-aravind/biography.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allu_Aravind
1949: During the Chinese civil war, end of the decisive Huaihai Campaign (淮海戰役) or Battle of Xu-Beng) It was one of the few conventional battles of the war. 550,000 troops of the Republic of China were surrounded and destroyed by the communist People’s Liberation Army
http://everything.explained.today/Huaihai_Campaign/
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-4/mswv4_43.htm
1951: Death of Yoshio Nishina, Japanese physicist, born on December 6, 1890
http://ww2db.com/person_bio.php?person_id=605
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshio_Nishina
1963: Sri Lanka Premier, Ms Bandaranaike, in China up to January 15, in charge of a good-will mission between India and China
http://www.google.fr/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&ved=0ahUKEwifqpmmoJ3KAhUB1BoKHfKUD64QFggoMAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdigitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org%2Fdocument%2F114792.pdf%3Fv%3Dd41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e&usg=AFQjCNH_LeNq16dO0wSkousAfjazu6e_Qg&sig2=83Bi0kfMUGDH7tJuaq3r2Q
1966: Indian Premier Lal Bahadur Shastri and Pakistani President Ayub Khan, sign the Tashkent Declaration to bring peace between their two countries after the cease-fire signed on 23 September 1965
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tashkent_Declaration
http://www.stimson.org/research-pages/tashkent-declaration/
1966: Birth of Murali Nair, Indian film director
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0619763/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murali_Nair
1972: Sheikh Mujibur Rahman comes back to Dakha and becomes head of the government
http://www.thedailystar.net/the-return-of-bangabandhu-6167
1974: Birth of Hrithik Roshan, Indian actor
http://www.hrithikrules.com/profile.php
http://www.mapsofindia.com/on-this-day/10-january-1974-hrithik-roshan-indian-film-star-was-born
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aZSHRqOKZE
1974: Birth of Akari Kaida, Japanese composer
http://capcom.wikia.com/wiki/Akari_Kaida
1981: Birth of Brian Joo, Korean-American singer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Joo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SF-kEwswc8
1984: Benazir Bhutto, the leader of the Pakistan People’s Party, is freed from prison by the nation’s military leader, General Mohammed Zia-ul-Haq. Bhutto is the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the former prime minister of Pakistan who was executed after General Zia took power in a military coup in 1977
1984: Death of Prince Souvanna Phouma, four times Laotian Prime Minister between 1951 and 1975, born on October 7, 1901
https://www.nytimes.com/1984/01/11/obituaries/souvanna-phouma-dies-in-laos-served-as-premier-for-many-years.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1984/01/11/prince-souvanna-phouma-ex-premier-of-laos-dies/72237f7f-d67c-49f7-8064-4e0f06021d14/?utm_term=.f13f032fa312
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Souvanna_Phouma
1990: China lift martial law imposed after Tian’anmen Square massacre
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/80707/CHINESE-LIFT-MARTIAL-LAW-IN-BEIJING.html?pg=all
1991: Japan ends routine fingerprinting of all adult ethnic Koreans
1995: The world Youth Day is held in the Philippines
1997: Tamil rebels attack a military base in Sri Lanka. 200 soldiers and 140 rebels are killed
2003: North Korea accuses the United States of provocation and announces its withdrawal from Nuclear nonproliferation treaty, while US senator Bill Richardson is in Pongyang for talks
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/jan/10/northkorea1
https://www.asil.org/insights/volume/8/issue/2/north-koreas-withdrawal-nuclear-nonproliferation-treaty
2004: A « private » US members of Congress delegation is visiting North Korean nuclear installations
2006: Kim Jong Il starts a week-long secret visit in China
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4614848.stm
2008: After serious setbacks in recent months, LTTE said they are prepared to fully implement the terms of 2002 ceasefire
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7180761.stm
2011: South Korean and Japanese defense ministers agreed to “expand and deepen” bilateral military cooperation during talks in Seoul on Monday, amid heightened tensions following a series of deadly North Korean attacks last year
http://www.koreaherald.com/national/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20110110000909
2011: Death of Vivek Shauq, Indian actor, born on June 21, 1963
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/bollywood/news/Vivek-Shauq-dies-of-cardiac-arrest/articleshow/7258010.cms
2014: The Indonesian Corruption Eradication Commission – known locally as the KPK – arrested Anas Urbaningrum, former chairman of Yudhoyono’s Democratic Party, on bribery charges in a US$205 million (S$260 million) graft scandal surrounding the construction of a sports stadium in Hambalang in West Java province
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-markets/most-asia-shares-inch-up-as-signals-on-trade-talks-awaited-idUSKCN1P403G
2016: Thousands of people in Hong Kong attend a protest rally following the disappearance of five booksellers from a shop known for selling works critical of China
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-35277199
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/01/thousands-march-hong-kong-missing-publishers-160110091351001.html
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2016/01/10/hongkongers-gather-at-chinese-embassy-in-london-to-demand-release-of-missing-booksellers/
2017: New Thai King requests constitutional changes to ‘ensure his royal powers’
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-01-10/thai-king-requests-constitutional-changes-to-ensure-powers/8174062