ON 17 OCTOBER IN ASIAN HISTORY
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Updated on October 17, 2019
1748: In India, British forces raise the siege of Pondicherry, defended by French Dupleix
http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/siege_pondicherry_1748.html
1817: Birth of Syed Ahmad Khan, Indian Muslim intellectual who died on March 27, 1898
http://cssexam2013.blogspot.fr/2012/10/sir-syed-ahmad-khan.html
1862: The Qing government adopts the Huanglong flag as the national flag in its first version (will become rectangular in 1889)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_the_Qing_dynasty
1887: Foundation of the Indochina Union including the French protectorates of Cambodia, Annam and Tonkin
http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Indochina+Union
1898: Birth of Shinichi Suzuki, Japanese violin teacher who died on January 26, 1998
http://www.internationalsuzuki.org/shinichisuzuki.htm
1904: The Russians are finaly driven back by the Japanese in the Battle of Shaho that started on October 5; both sides suffer high casualties: Japanese (16,000) and Russians (60,000)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Shaho
http://59297586.weebly.com/battle-of-shaho.html
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Battle_of_Shaho
1908: Birth of Kenji Miyamoto, Japanese communist leader who died on July 18, 2007
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenji_Miyamoto_(politician)
1919: Birth of Zhao Ziyang, reformist premier of China (1980-1987) then General Secretary of the CCP (1987-1989), ousted because he was opposed to the repression of the Tiananmen Square students movement
https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/zhao-ziyang-8911.php
1929: Mohammed Nadir Shah proclaims himself, king of Afghanistan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_Nadir_Shah
1936: Birth of Hiroo Kanamori, Japanese seismologist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroo_Kanamori
1943: The 415-km Thailand Burma railroad ( Death Railway ) between Bangkok, Thailand and Rangoon, Burma is completed. During the construction of the railway approximately 13,000 prisoners of war and 100,000 civilians. Part of the railway was “The Bridge on the River Kwai” which was later made into a movie.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-two/10382906/Burma-Railway-British-POW-breaks-silence-over-horrors.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFMmJMNRv-Q
1947: In London, Clement Attlee and Thakin Nu sign the “Treaty between the Government of the United Kingdom and the Provisional Government of Burma Regarding the Recognition of Burmese Independence and Related Matters”
http://www.ibiblio.org/obl/docs/1947_treaty.htm
1947: Birth of Simi Garewal, Indian actress
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simi_Garewal
1950: Local leader Ngapo Ngawang Jigme accepts the capitulation of Chambo, one of the three parts of Tibet, to China
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Chamdo
http://historicaldocs.blogspot.fr/2012/05/road-map-of-entering-tibet-1950-1951-he.html
http://historicaldocs.blogspot.fr/2013/03/the-fall-of-chamdo-tibetan-account.html
1950: Americano-Siamese security agreement
1951: In Pakistan, the 2nd Governor-General Khawaja Nazimuddin becomes the 2nd Prime Minister (until April 1953) and Ghulam Mohammad becomes the 3rd Governor-General (until October 1955)
http://www.pakistanherald.com/profile/khawaja-nazimuddin-1176
http://www.storyofpakistan.com/person.asp?perid=P012
1952: Birth of Jahnu Barua, Indian film director
http://www.indiaonline.in/about/personalities/filmpersonalities/jahnu-barua
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0059395/
1953: Signature of a friendship and association treaty between France and Laos
1953: Franco-Cambodian agreement on the transfer of competences in military matters
1967: Death of Puyi the last Chinese emperor, born on February 7, 1906
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puyi
http://asianhistory.about.com/od/modernchina/fl/Puyi.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Emperor
http://history.04007.cn/en.php/HisMain/10024.html
1968: Yasunari Kawabata becomes the first Japanese to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature
https://blog.bookstellyouwhy.com/yasunari-kawabata-winner-of-the-nobel-prize-in-literature
http://www.washburn.edu/reference/bridge24/Kawabata.html
1972: South Korean president Park Chung-hee proclaims martial law
http://countrystudies.us/south-korea/14.htm
1974: Birth of Dhondup Wangchen, Tibetan director and producer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhondup_Wangchen
http://freetibetanheroes.org/hero-profiles/dhondup-wangchen/
1981: Death of Kannadasan Indian author, poet, and songwriter, born on June 24, 1927
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kannadasan
1987: Birth of Bea Alonzo, Filipina actress
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bea_Alonzo
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2e9g1_she-will-be-loved_creation
1987: Death of Abdul Malek Ukil,Bangladeshi politician, born on October 1, 1925
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul_Malek_Ukil
1992: Death of Herman Johannes, Indonesian professor, scientist and politician, born on May 28, 1912
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Johannes
1992: Birth of Sam Concepcion, Filipino performer and actor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Concepcion
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2120205/
1998: Death of Hakim Mohammed Said, Pakistani scholar and philanthropist, born in 1920
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakim_Said
2002: US Secretary in charge of Asia, James Kelly, says to the Congress that during its travel to Pyongyang, the North Koreans recognized that they have carried on their nuclear program
2003: Taipei 101 become the World’s tallest highrise building at 1,671 feet after the pinnacle is fitted on the roof
http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=18
http://focustaiwan.tw/news/asoc/201510140021.aspx
2003: Eunuchs in the Indian State of Madhya Pradesh float the political party Jiti Jitayi Politics
2005: Death of Ba Jin, famous Chinese writer
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4351760.stm
2007: The Dalai Lama receives the United States Congressional Gold Medal
http://www.dalailama.com/messages/acceptance-speeches/congressional-gold-medal
2009: Pakistan’s military begin its campaign against the Taliban in South Waziristan, long-promised after a series of deadly attacks by Taliban fighters across the country
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/10/2009101755843246925.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8311927.stm
2009: Thousands of “red shirt” protesters rally in Bangkok, seeking a royal pardon for Thaksin Shinawatra, the country’s fugitive former prime minister
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/10/20091017161556498994.html
2011: Ninth Tibetan, a Nun, Immolates Herself in Anti-China Protest
2012: Death of Kōji Wakamatsu, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter, born on April 1, 1936
http://www.screendaily.com/japanese-director-koji-wakamatsu-dead-at-76/5047904.article
http://www.bfi.org.uk/news/obituary-wakamatsu-koji
2013: Death of Sein Win, a renowned journalist in Myanmar who championed press freedom and endured three stints in prison as he chronicled several decades of his country’s turbulent history, at age 91.
http://asiancorrespondent.com/114545/sein-win-force-for-press-freedom-in-burma-dies/
2014: China and Vietnam agree to “address and control” maritime disputes, Chinese state media said, as differences over the potentially energy-rich South China Sea have spoiled relations between the two countries and other neighbours
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1618397/china-vietnam-pledge-address-and-control-maritime-disputes
2014: India’s homemade subsonic cruise missile Nirbhay, capable of carrying a nuclear payload and considered similar to the US Tomahawk cruise missile, is test-fired for the second time from the missile testing center in the eastern state of Odisha
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2014/10/india-tests-first-domestic-cruise-missile-20141017104129418564.html
2017: Declassified US files reveal new details of Indonesia’s mid-60s mass killings
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/17/indonesia-anti-communist-killings-us-declassified-files