ON 19 FEBRUARY IN ASIAN HISTORY
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Updated on February 19, 2019
1184: In Japan, during the Genpei wars, Second battle of Uji
https://boardgamegeek.com/blogpost/46132/gp17-second-battle-uji
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Uji_(1184)
1630: Birth of Shivaji Bhosle, founder of the Maratha Empire (India) in 1674 and died on April 3, 1680
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shivaji
http://chhatrapatishivaji.wordpress.com/2008/10/29/shivaji-bhosle/
1709: Death of Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, 5th shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty, born on February 23, 1646
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokugawa_Tsunayoshi
http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt6wr2bp
http://history-of-japan.weebly.com/tokugawa-shogunate.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BT1jqwVdGnI
1862: Saint Lucy Yi Zhenmei (one of Martyrs of Guizhou) is beheaded, born on December 19, 1815
https://catholico.wordpress.com/2015/05/09/saint-lucy-yi-zhenmei/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Yi_Zhenmei
1886: Birth of Jose Abad Santos, Philippine national hero, executed by the Japanese on May 2, 1942
http://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/about/gov/judiciary/sc/cj/jose-abad-santos/the-execution-of-jose-abad-santos/
1888: Birth of Aurora Quezon, First Lady of the Philippines, who died on August 1, 1949
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_Quezon
http://www.quezon.ph/familyinfo/aurora-a-quezon/
https://kahimyang.com/kauswagan/articles/942/today-in-philippine-history-february-19-1888-dona-aurora-aragon-quezon-was-born-in-baler-tayabas
1915: Death of Gopal Krishna Gokhale, leader of the Indian Independence Movement, born on 9 May 1866
http://www.iloveindia.com/indian-heroes/gopal-krishna-gokhale.html
http://www.culturalindia.net/leaders/gopal-krishna-gokhale.html
http://www.mapsofindia.com/on-this-day/19-february-1915-gopal-krishna-gokhale-indian-political-leader-died
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odgQsvjSffk
1927: At the Communist Party initiative, several Thousands of -Shanghai workers stage a general strike
https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/writers/isaacs/1938/tcr/ch07.htm
http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19270221.2.36.aspx
1930: Birth of K Viswanath, South Indian film director
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasinadhuni_Viswanath
1938: Birth of Choekyi Gyaltsen, 10th Panchen Lama, who died on January 28, 1989
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choekyi_Gyaltsen,_10th_Panchen_Lama
1942: Japanese troop land on Timor
https://timor2worldwar.wordpress.com/2012/04/07/february-20-1942-japanese-occupation-of-timor/
https://www.awm.gov.au/articles/blog/1942-timor
1942: Nearly 250 Japanese warplanes attack the Australian northern city of Darwin, killing 243 people
http://www.naa.gov.au/collection/fact-sheets/fs195.aspx
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-17073472
1942: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the executive order 9066, allowing the United States military to relocate Japanese-Americans to Japanese internment camps
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/roosevelt-signs-executive-order-9066
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5154
http://www.pbs.org/childofcamp/history/eo9066.html
1945: Start of the offensive against Japanese on Iwo-Jima (Volcano Archipelao)
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/marines-invade-iwo-jima
http://ww2today.com/19-february-1945-us-marines-invade-beaches-of-iwo-jima
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWcDIMrd6eE&NR=1&feature=fvwp
1945: 980 Japanese soldiers reportedly killed by crocodiles in 2 days on Ramree Island, Burma
http://iberianature.com/wildworld/tag/massacre-by-crocodiles-on-ramree-island/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPrK1ndjbZI
1946: Birth of Hiroshi Fujioka, Japanese actor
http://kamenrider.wikia.com/wiki/Hiroshi_Fujioka
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qH3kT3618Q
1948: The Conference of Youth and Students of Southeast Asia Fighting for Freedom and Independence convenes in Calcutta
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conference_of_Youth_and_Students_of_Southeast_Asia_Fighting_for_Freedom_and_Independence
1949: Mass arrest of Communists in India
1951: Birth of Tahir-ul-Qadri, Pakistani Islamic scholar
http://www.dawn.com/news/778260/profile-dr-muhammad-tahirul-qadri
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2014/10/tahir-ul-qadri-political-enigma-pakistan-2014102271530973245.html
http://www.tahir-ul-qadri.com/
1952: French offensive at Hanoi
1952: Birth of Ryu Murakami, Japanese writer
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/m/ryu-murakami/
1955: South-East Asia collective Defense Treaty (SEATO), signed in September 1954, goes into effects
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/int/seato.htm
1958: Beijing and Pyongyang announce the withdrawal of all the Chine troops from North Korea before the end of the year
http://history.04007.cn/en.php/HisMain/1244.html
1960: China successfully launches the T-7, its first sounding rocket
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-7_(rocket)
1961: Albania disavows Chinese “Revisionism”
1964: Birth of Sonu Walia, Indian actress
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonu_Walia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J9aZnY6iHM
1965: Dissident officers move several battalions of troops into Saigon with the intention of ousting Gen. Nguyen Khanh from leadership. General Khanh escaped to Dalat with the aid of Air Vice Marshal Nguyen Cao Ky
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/south-vietnamese-coup-unsuccessful
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpDRlr0pIcQ
1972: The Asama-Sanso hostage standoff begins in Japan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asama-Sanso_incident
1986: Akkaraipattu massacre, massacre of 80 Tamil farm workers by the Sri Lankan Army in the eastern province of Sri Lanka
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=7545534
1989: Second informal Jakarta meeting between all the Cambodian factions
1994: Phoolan Devi, popularly named the “Bandit Queen”, is released from an Indian jail
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoolan_Devi
1997: Death of Deng Xiaoping, leader of China since December 1978, born on August 22, 1908
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/19/newsid_2565000/2565613.stm
http://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/20/world/deng-xiaoping-is-dead-at-92-architect-of-modern-china.html?pagewanted=all
http://edition.cnn.com/WORLD/9702/19/deng.obit/
http://history.04007.cn/en.php/HisMain/1638.html
1999: Indian PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee inaugurate the Delhi-Lahore bus line going to an historic summit with his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delhi%E2%80%93Lahore_Bus
2001: General Tin Oo, number four in the Burmese military junta is killed in an helicopter crash
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/burmamyanmar/1323414/Helicopter-crash-kills-chief-in-Burmese-junta.html
2005: United States and Japan say that stability in the Taiwan Strait is one in their strategic target
2008: Death of veteran Hong Kong actress Lydia Sum, born in Shanghai on July 21, 1945
http://in.reuters.com/article/2008/02/19/us-hongkong-lydiashum-idINSYD26589820080219
2013: Nepal’s major political parties agree to form an interim government led by a supreme court chief justice, and to hold elections in June, in an attempt to end the deadlock that has left the nation without a fully functioning government since last year
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2013/02/20132196114628235.html
2013: Death, in a car accident, of Park Chul-soo, South Korean director, screenwriter, and producer, born on November 20, 1948
http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/article.aspx?aid=2967360
2013: Prominent Pakistani Taliban commander Maulvi Faqir Mohammad has been arrested in eastern Afghanistan
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21504250
2013: North Korean diplomat Jon Yong Ryong told the meeting in Geneva that “South Korea’s erratic behaviour would only herald its final destruction”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21510479
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/9880727/North-Korea-envoy-warns-South-of-final-destruction.html
2014: The chief minister of Indian state of Tamil Nadu orders the release of all seven people jailed for plotting the assassination of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-26252797
2015: Former Thai premier Yingluck Shinawatra is formally indicted over a bungled rice subsidy scheme in the latest legal move against her polarising family that could see her jailed for up to a decade
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-31529663
Holidays and observances
Birthday of Shivaji or Shivaji Jayanti (Maharashtra)
Lucy Yi Zhenmei (one of Martyrs of Guizhou)