ON 12 DECEMBER IN ASIAN HISTORY
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Updated on December 12, 2018
1765: Death of Chinese painter Zheng Xie, born in 1693
http://history.04007.cn/en.php/HisMain/11634.html
http://www.chinaonlinemuseum.com/gallery-zheng-xie.php
1862: Birth of Cao Kun, Chinese military leader of the Zhili clique in the Beiyang Army, who died on May 15, 1938
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cao_Kun
1903: Birth of Yasujiro Ozu, one of the most famous Japanese film director, who died on December 12, 1963 (see below)
http://sensesofcinema.com/2003/great-directors/ozu/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasujir%C5%8D_Ozu
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0654868/
1911: King George V of the United Kingdom and Mary of Teck are enthroned as Emperor and Empress of India. The king announces that Delhi will replace Calcutta as the capital of India after the building of New Delhi
http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2011/11/11/why-delhi-the-move-from-calcutta/
1912: Birth of Prince Boun Oum, twice Laos’ prime minister (1948-1950) and (1960-1962)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boun_Oum
1915: Chinese president Yuan Shi-kai announces his intention to restore the monarchy for himself
http://www.gwpda.org/bio/xyz/yuansh.html
1929: Birth of Toshiko Akiyoshi, Japanese musician
http://www.encyclopedia.com/people/literature-and-arts/music-popular-and-jazz-biographies/toshiko-akiyoshi
https://www.arts.gov/honors/jazz/toshiko-akiyoshi
1932: USSR and China resume diplomatic relations
1936: In what is called “Xi’an incident” the generalissimo of Republic of China, Chiang Kai-shek, is arrested by general Zhang Xueliang who demands an alliance with the Red Army to fight the Japanese invaders
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi%27an_incident
http://history.04007.cn/en.php/HisMain/11643.html
https://ww2db.com/battle_spec.php?battle_id=242
1937: Japanese aircraft shell and sink US gunboat Panay on Yangzijiang in China. (Japan will apologize and eventually paid US $2.2 million in reparations)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panay_incident
1940: Birth of Sharad Pawar, Indian politician, president of National Congress Party which was founded by him in 1999
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6167853.stm
1941: Fifty four Japanese A6M Zero fighters raid Batangas Field, Philippines. Jesus Villamor and four Filipino fighter pilots fend them off. Cesar Basa, Philippine Air Force and World War II hero is killed
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_Villamor
1941: After the December 8 Japanese attack on the Philippines, American aircraft being entirely destroyed on the ground, lacking air cover, the American Asiatic Fleet in the Philippines withdrew to Java
1941: USMC F4F “Wildcats” sink the first 4 major Japanese ships off Wake Island
1941: India declares war on Japan
1948: During the Malayan emergency, Scots Guards allegedly massacre 24 unarmed civilians in the village of Batang Kali
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/3897147.stm
1950: Birth of Rajinikanth, Indian actor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajinikanth
http://www.mapsofindia.com/on-this-day/12th-december-1950-rajinikanth-indian-actor-and-superstar-was-born
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USopIY5IK84
1963: Despite December 6 call from Soviet Union to appease the contraversy, the People’s Daily accuses the Soviet of betraying Marxism
1963: Death of Yusujiro Ozu, Japanese film director, born on December 12, 1903 (see above)
https://thebiography.us/en/ozu-yasujiro
1964: Death of Maithili Sharan Gupt Indian poet, born on August 3, 1866
http://www.poemhunter.com/maithili-sharan-gupt/biography/
http://www.iloveindia.com/indian-heroes/maithili-sharan-gupt.html
1966: Birth of Pops Fernandez, Filipino singer and actress
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pops_Fernandez
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/pops-fernandez-mn0001396473
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CUYJ9v5tBE
1967: Birth of Yuzo Koshiro, Japanese composer
http://segaretro.org/Yuzo_Koshiro
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuzo_Koshiro
1967: Birth of Takenobu Mitsuyoshi, Japanese composer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takenobu_Mitsuyoshi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwLLwpRfl-8
1968: Japanese writer Kawabata Yasunari receives the Nobel Prize for Literature
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1968/kawabata-bio.html
http://neojaponisme.com/2008/04/11/kawabata-mishima-the-nobel-prize/
https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1968/kawabata-speech.html
1969 : The Philippine Civic Action Group, a 1,350-man contingent from the Army of the Philippines, departs South Vietnam.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/philippine-soldiers-depart-south-vietnam
1978: General elections in South Korea, the party in power is weakened
1979: Coup d’état of December Twelfth: South Korean Army Major General Chun Doo-hwan orders the arrest of Army Chief of Staff General Jeong Seung-hwa without authorization from President Choi Kyu-ha, alleging involvement in the assassination of ex-President Park Chung Hee
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coup_d%27%C3%A9tat_of_December_Twelfth
1979: President of Pakistan, Zia-ul-Haq, confers Nishan-e-Imtiaz (Order of Excellence) on Nobel laureate Dr Abdus Salam
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1979/salam-bio.html
1989: Britain begins the forced repatriation of Vietnamese refugees from camps in Hong Kong
http://articles.latimes.com/1989-12-14/news/mn-365_1_hong-kong
http://www.e-ir.info/2012/06/29/did-the-unhcr-fail-vietnamese-refugees-in-hong-kong/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVEXSxO-8Q8
1990: Birth of Seungri, Korean Singer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seungri
1995: Death of David Marshall, first Singapore Chief Minister (1955-1956), born on March 12, 1908
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-david-marshall-1526489.html
https://singapore2025.wordpress.com/2010/10/22/marshall-of-Singapore/
1996: India and Bangladesh sign the sharing of the Ganges water treaty
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~ahmad20m/politics/treaty96text.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharing_the_water_of_the_Ganges
2002: Pyongyang announces that because the deliveries of oil by Korean peninsula Energy Development Organization (Kedo) have been suspended, North Korea reactivates its nuclear plants
http://www.kedo.org/
2003: Death of Gangodawila Soma Thero, Sri Lankan monk, born on April 24, 1948
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangodawila_Soma_Thero
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA-xrQ0UbaQ
2005: Sam Rainsy, Cambodia opposition leader, in exile, is condemned to 18 months in jail for slandering the government
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/138764.stm
2005: Death of Ramanand Sagar, Indian director, born December 29, 1917
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0755997/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm
http://www.mohdrafi.com/meri-awaaz-suno/rafi-with-ramanand-sagar.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramanand_Sagar
2008: Taiwan’s prosecutors indicts Chen Shui-bian, the former president, over a series of corruption-related scandals. The charges filed are the first against Chen since he was arrested on November 12 on suspicion of graft, forgery, money laundering and other crimes
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-taiwan-indictment/taiwan-ex-president-chen-charged-with-corruption-idUSTRE4BB1L020081212
2008: Pakistan’s authorities move to close down the offices of Jamaat-ud-Dawa, a charity run by the founder of the group India has blamed for last month’s attacks on Mumbai in which more than 170 people died. Analysts and diplomats have suggested that the charity is being used as a front for Lashkar-e-Taiba
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2008/12/20081211165936763523.html
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-taiwan-indictment/taiwan-ex-president-chen-charged-with-corruption-idUSTRE4BB1L020081212
2012: North Korea successfully launches its first satellite, using a Unha-3 carrier rocket. Immediatly condemned by the UN security council
http://www.space.com/18867-north-korea-rocket-launch-satellite.html
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-20690338
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-20697922
2013: North Korea has executed the uncle of its leader Kim Jong-un days after he was dismissed, state news agency KCNA announced, branding the once-powerful Jang Song-thaek a traitor
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2013/12/n-korea-executes-uncle-leader-kim-jong-un-2013121221458939462.html
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/12/north-korea-jang-song-thaek-executed
2013: Bangladesh hangs opposition leader Abdul Quader Mollah over war crimes, making him the first person to be put to death for massacres committed during the country’s bloody 1971 war of independence.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/southasia/2013/12/bangladesh-politician-be-executed-20131212622649656.html
http://www.voanews.com/content/bangladesh-supreme-court-will-not-review-death-penalty/1808614.html
2013: Former Thai prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva is indicted for murder in connection with a deadly military crackdown on mass opposition protests in Bangkok three years ago
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/thailand/10512614/Former-Thai-PM-indicted-for-murder.html
http://www.euronews.com/2013/12/12/former-thai-prime-minister-charged-with-murder/
2014: The wife of Thailand’s Crown Prince Vajiralongkorn, Srirasmi, has resigned her royal position, the palace announces
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-30458296
2014: Hong Kong publishing tycoon Jimmy Lai, an outspoken critic of Beijing, has stepped down as editor-in-chief of the popular Apple Daily newspaper after being arrested for refusing to leave a key pro-democracy protest site in the centre of the city
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2014/12/hong-kong-media-tycoon-resigns-after-arrest-201412125059872695.html
2015 : Lao authorities impose a curfew in north-central Xaysomboun Province after a spate of violence in which three government soldiers and three civilians were killed
2016 : Pro-democracy camp takes record quarter of seats on Election Committee that will choose Hong Kong’s leader
http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/2053833/pro-democracy-filmmaker-makes-breakthrough-win-seat-election?utm_source=&utm_medium=&utm_campaign=SCMPSocialNewsfeed
2017: Massive victory: of Left Alliance in Nepal
http://nepalforeignaffairs.com/a-massive-victory-on-left-alliance-landslide-in-nepal-editorial-of-the-hindu-on-nepals-election-result/
http://kathmandupost.ekantipur.com/news/2017-12-12/election-overview-uml-victorious-in-77-federal-constituencies-leading-in-4.html