ON 11 OCTOBER IN ASIAN HISTORY
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Updated on October 11, 2019
1086: Death of Northern Song statesman, historian Sima Guang, born on November 17, 1019
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Sima_Guang
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sima_Guang
1142: The treaty of Shaoxing between the Jin dynasty and Southern Song dynasty is formally ratified when a Jin envoy visits the Song court during the Jin–Song wars
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Shaoxing
1335: Birth of Yi Seong-Gye, founder of the Korean Joseon (Yi) dynasty, who died on May 24, 1408
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taejo_of_Joseon
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/art/2010/07/248_67003.html
1572: Death of Sulaiman Khan Karrani, Sultan of Bengal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulaiman_Khan_Karrani
http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Sulaiman_Karrani
1737: An earthquake kills 300,000 and destroys half of Calcutta India https://sites.google.com/site/indiaquake/earthquake-damage-in-calcutta-kolkata
1901: Birth of Masanobu Tsuji, Japanese army officer, politician, author, and tactician who disappeared while in Laos in 1961
http://pwencycl.kgbudge.com/T/s/Tsuji_Masanobu.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masanobu_Tsuji
http://militarythoughts.blogspot.fr/2004/10/this-is-coolbert-this-particular-blog.html
1902: Birth of Jayaprakash Narayan, Indian freedom fighter and political leader who died on October 8, 1979
http://www.iloveindia.com/indian-heroes/jayaprakash-narayan.html
http://www.mkgandhi-sarvodaya.org/jpnarayan/jpin.htm
1906: San Francisco public school board sparks United States diplomatic crisis with Japan by ordering Japanese students to be taught in racially segregated schools
1916: Birth of Nanaji Deshmukh, Indian educator and activist, influent member of the Bharaliya Jana Sangh who died on February 26, 2010
http://www.chitrakoot.org/html/aboutus.htm
1926: Birth of Thich Nath Hanh, Vietnamese Zen Buddhist monk
http://www.seaox.com/thich.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nhat_Hanh
1939: Birth of General Khin Nyunt, Myanmar’s PM 2003-2004
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khin_Nyunt
1942: Battle of Cape Esperance on the northwest coast of Guadalcanal, United States Navy ships intercept and defeat a Japanese fleet on their way to reinforce troops on the island
http://militaryhistory.about.com/od/navalbattles1900today/p/capeesperance.htm
http://blog.usni.org/2009/08/21/the-solomons-campaign-the-battle-of-cape-esperance-11-12-october-1942
http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/battles_cape_esperance.html
1942: Birth of Amitabh Bachchan, Indian actor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amitabh_Bachchan
http://www.mapsofindia.com/on-this-day/11th-october-1942-amitabh-bachchan-indian-actor-is-born
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5_rTQ3lZYs
1946: During the Chinese civil war, the Nationalist troops are blocked in Manchuria by communist forces
1948: Van Mook resigns as Lt.-Governor of the Indies
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubertus_Johannes_van_Mook
1954: One day after the return of Ho Chi Minh, the Vietminh takes control of North Vietnam
1955: The sixth plenum of the Chinese communist Party’s 11th Central ends its meeting opened on October 4 to study agricultural problems. It adopts a resolution for the acceleration of the collectivization
1960: Hurricane ravages East-Pakistan (6,000 die)
1962: Jawaharlal Nehru orders to free the North-East territories invaded by China
1967: Afghan Prime minister Mohammad Hashim Maiwandwal resigns for health reason
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Hashim_Maiwandwal
1969: Death in jail of famous Chinese historian Wu Han, a victim of the Cultural Revolution, born on August 11, 1909
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_Han_(historian)
https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=23807
1970: South Korean warships sink North Korean speedboat
1971: Switzerland recognizes North Vietnam
1972: The building of the French legation in Hanoi is destroyed by a U.S. bombing. General delegate Susini is fatally wounded
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=799&dat=19721011&id=oTwLAAAAIBAJ&sjid=clIDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2239,745411
https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=DS19721011.2.2&e=——-en–20–1–txt-txIN——–1
1972: End of negotiations which started on October 8 between US Kissinger and Vietnamese Le Duc Tho. Their agreement will be rejected by Hanoi
1973: Birth of Takeshi Kaneshiro, Japanese actor, born in Taiwan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takeshi_Kaneshiro
http://men.stareastasia.com/takeshi-kaneshiro/
1979: Birth of Bae Doona, Korean actress
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bae_Doona
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=us_MzcImzA8
1980: Birth of Motohiro Hata, Japanese singer
http://www.jpopasia.com/celebrity/motohirohata/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWmM7VdnaHc
1987: Start of Operation Pawan by Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka that killed few thousand ethnic Tamil civilians, several hundred Tamil Tigers and few hundred Indian Army soldiers
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/indian-armys-action-against-ltte-developes-into-countrys-longest-war-since-independence/1/328863.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Pawan
http://www.indianetzone.com/3/operation_pawan_1987.htm
1989: Birth of Henry Lau, member of Korean Boy Band Super Junior M
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Lau
1996: Mgr Carlos Felipe Ximenes Belo, bishop of Dili, and José Ramos-Horta win Peace Nobel prize for their work towards a just and peaceful solution to the conflict in East Timor
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1996/press.html
2002: Nepal king Gyanendra names Lokendra Bahadur Chand, leader of the royalist party, 63 ans, as Prime Minister of a nine-member cabinet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lokendra_Bahadur_Chand
2002: Death of Dina Pathak, Indian actress, born on March 4, 1922
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dina_Pathak
http://www.browsebiography.com/bio-dina_pathak.html
2007: Death of Sri Chinmoy Chinmoy Kumar Ghose East Bengal founder of the Sri Chinmoy meditation centres
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Chinmoy
2008: The founder of Aceh’s separatist rebel movement, Hasan di Toro, comes back to Indonesia after nearly 30 years in exile and after a war that killed more than 15,000 people
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2008/10/2008101144652814370.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7664818.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7665752.stm
2010: A group of 31 retired Communist Party officials have published a letter calling on the party’s censors to allow greater press freedom in China
2012: China’s Mo Yan wins Nobel literature prize. The 57-year-old is the first Chinese resident to win the prize. Chinese-born Gao Xingjian was honoured in 2000, but is a French citizen.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-19907762
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2012/10/20121011112024128298.html
https://gbtimes.com/mo-yan-profile-of-the-nobel-prize-for-literature-winner
2013: Death of Toshio Udō, Japanese author and critic, born on September 1, 1926
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshio_Ud%C5%8D
2015 : Oli, of the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist Leninist), defeats by 338 votes to 249 former premier Sushil Koirala, who had stepped down from the top job as required by the constitution adopted on September 20
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/10/kp-sharma-oli-nepal-prime-minister-151011074949703.html
2016: Imprisoned Chinese Uygur scholar Ilham Tohti given top human rights award. Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and eight other groups bestow honour on economics professor who was jailed for life in 2014 on charges of separatism
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2027106/imprisoned-chinese-uygur-scholar-ilham-tohti-given-top