ON MARCH 2 IN ASIAN HISTORY
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Updated on March 2, 2019
641: Chinese princess Wencheng marries Tibetan king Songtsan Gambo to seal the alliance between the two countries. She will contribute to the introduction of Buddhism to Tibet
http://www.womeninworldhistory.com/silk-road-05.html
http://www.tibettravel.org/tibet-history/princess-wencheng.html
http://books.google.fr/books?id=Cw0pAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA204&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
1074: Death of the Japanese regent Yorimichi Fujiwara, born in 992
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fujiwara_no_Yorimichi
1660: In now India, Siddi Jauhar’s army besieged Panhala, cutting off supply routes to the fort. Netaji Palkar, the Commander of the Maratha forces was on a mission away from Panhala harassing and attacking Adilshahi
http://www.indianetzone.com/48/seige_panhala_fort.htm
http://odetohistory.blogspot.fr/2012/04/city-fort-of-panhala.html
1815: Signature of the Kandyan Convention by British invaders and the king Sri Wichrema Rajasinghe of Kandyan kingdom
http://sundaytimes.lk/080302/KandyTimes/kandytimes_0025.html
http://www.island.lk/index.php?page_cat=article-details&page=article-details&code_title=103775
1820: Birth of Multatuli (Eduar Douwers Dekkers) who denounced the abuse of colonialism in the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia), who died on February 19, 1887
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multatuli
1885: Battle of Hoa Moc, the most fiercely-fought action of the Sino-French War (August 1884–April 1885). At heavy cost, 1st Brigade of the Tonkin Expeditionary Corps defeat forces of the Black Flag and Yunnan Armies blocking the way to the besieged French post of Tuyen Quang
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hoa_Moc
1901: The United States Congress enacted the Army Appropriations Act thereby ceasing the existence of the military government of the Philippines.
1919: Death of Melchora Aquino, Filipino revolutionary hero, born on January 6, 1812
https://biography.yourdictionary.com/articles/melchora-aquino-biography.html
https://www.biographyarchive.com/biography-of-melchora-aquino.html
1925: Japan’s House of Representatives recognizes universal adult male suffrage for those over 25 (law will be promulgated on May 5). Universal adult suffrage for both sexes over 20 will be introduced in 1946
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=7155340
1932: Ananda Mahidol becomes king of Siam Rama VIII (Officially from March 1935 through his assassination on June 9, 1946)
http://www.soravij.com/royalty/rama8/rama8.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ananda_Mahidol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dszztPAciF8
1933: Most powerful earthquake in 180 years hit Japan in Sanriku aera
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1933_Sanriku_earthquake
1940: Birth of Mamnoon Hussain, Pakistani businessman and politician, 12th President of Pakistan since September 2013
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamnoon_Hussain
1943: U.S. and Australian land-based planes begin an offensive against a convoy of Japanese ships in the Bismarck Sea, in the western Pacific
http://militaryhistory.about.com/od/worldwari1/p/battle-of-the-bismarck-sea.htm
http://www.historynet.com/battle-of-the-bismarck-sea.htm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVLV67xILI4
1946: The first session of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam National Assembly elects Ho Chi Minh as President and asks him to form a government
http://history.04007.cn/en.php/HisMain/2250.html
1949: Death of Sarojini Naidu, Indian poet and freedom fighter, born on February 13, 1879
http://www.mapsofindia.com/who-is-who/government-politics/sarojini-naidu.html
http://www.edurite.com/blog/sarojini-naidu-the-nightingale-of-india-2/3158/
1950: Rosli Dhobi, Malay Sarawakian, born in 1932, is executed for the killing of the British governor of Sarawak
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosli_Dhobi
1955: King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia abdicates the throne in favor of his father, prince Norodom Suramarit, in order to really participate in the political arena
1955: Birth of Shoko Asahara, Japanese cult leader, condemned to death in 2004, but not yet executed
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3504237.stm
1961: In Pakistan adoption of the Muslim Family Law under which unmitigated polygamy is abolished and consent of the current wife is made mandatory for a second marriage
1962: beginning of The Voice of Thailand People, a communist radio station based in China
1962: Birth of Morioka Hiroyuki, Japanese writer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morioka_Hiroyuki
1962: In a coup d’état, Burmese general Ne Win seizes the power
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ne_Win
http://www.oxfordburmaalliance.org/1962-coup–ne-win-regime.html
1963: Border treaty between China and Pakistan
http://historypak.com/pakistan-china-boundary-agreement-1962/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Pakistan_Agreement
1963 : Birth of Vidyasagar, South Indian film composer, musician and singer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vidyasagar_(composer)
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004579/
1965: Following an attack on a US Marine barrack at Pleiku (South Vietnam) the USA launched the Rolling Thunder operation by bombing North Vietnam
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/vietnam-war/operation-rolling-thunder/
http://thevietnamwar.info/operation-rolling-thunder/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTxrq_Erw-k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UioXpOevRZg
1969: Soviet Union and Chinese forces clash at a border outpost on the Ussuri River (Around 70 die)
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/soviet-union-and-chinese-armed-forces-clash
http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB49/index2.html
1972: Death of Japanese painter Kaburaki Kiyokata, born on August 31, 1878
http://www.kamakura-arts.or.jp/kaburaki/english/about/history.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiyokata_Kaburagi
http://www.google.fr/search?q=Kaburaki+Kiyokata&hl=fr&rlz=1G1ACAW_FRFR414&prmd=imvns&source=lnms&tbm=isch&ei=8tdPT-2jEKWi0QXq1tTWCw&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&ved=0CBQQ_AUoAQ&biw=1192&bih=543
1974: The new constitution of Burma is proclaimed and the official name of the state is the Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma. It ends the twelve-year rule of the Revolutionary Council which had been formed by the army after the March 2 coup of 1962
http://www.ibiblio.org/obl/docs/Constitution%20of%201974.htm
1981: Al-Zulfikar organization, led by Murtaza, son of Ali Bhutto, hidjacks a Pakistani airplane. One dead
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_Pakistan_International_Airlines_hijacking
1990: Birth of Lee Hongki, Korean singer (F.T. Island)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Hongki
http://wiki.d-addicts.com/Lee_Hong_Ki
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9zoCSeBc0Q&feature=related
1991: Ranjan Wijeratne, Deputy Defense Minister, is assassinated by Tamil rebels
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/2/newsid_4201000/4201675.stm
1997: Deng Xiaoping ashes thrown into the sea
http://history.04007.cn/en.php/HisMain/2056.html
http://www.nytimes.com/1997/03/03/world/deng-s-ashes-cast-to-sea.html
1999: Death of Chinese film director and writer Ling Zifeng, born on March 10, 1917
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0512757/
http://www.chinesemovies.com.fr/cineastes_Ling_Zifeng.htm
2001: The Taliban destroy two giant Buddha statues in Bamyan, Afghanistan
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/1326063/After-1700-years-Buddhas-fall-to-Taliban-dynamite.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/world/taliban-destroys-bamiyan-buddha-statues-in-2001/2015/07/29/8e0c35ca-362f-11e5-ab7b-6416d97c73c2_video.html?utm_term=.d672ca7b2026
2002: US intervention in Afghanistan: operation Anaconda begins in Eastern Afghanistan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Anaconda
http://www.historyanswers.co.uk/history-of-war/day-operation-anaconda-begins/
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/oef-anaconda.htm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5mQtfv-oC8
2003: Four North Korean fighters surround an US spy plane, during 23 minutes, 240 km far from Japanese coasts in Yellow sea. First such incident since 1963
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread5538/pg1
2005: Indonesian Abu Bakar Bashir, suspected to be the spiritual leader of Islamist movement Jamah Islamiya, is condemned to 2 years and half in jail for having approved the Bali attack (202 dead)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/2339693.stm
2007: In reply to a US congress resolution asking to the Japanese government to solve the problem of the « comfort women », Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said that nothing prove that they were forced in prostitution
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/jul/31/usa.japan
2009: Military officials from North Korea and the U.S.-led U.N. Command held their first high-level talks in nearly seven years
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/03/02/nkorea.talks/index.html
2011: Pakistani Minorities Minister Shahbaz Bhatti is shot dead by gunmen who ambushed his car in broad daylight in the capital, Islamabad. Mr Bhatti, the cabinet’s only Christian minister, had received death threats for urging reform to blasphemy laws
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-12617562
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-12622080
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-12620506
2011: Bangladesh’s central bank says it has removed Muhammad Yunus, the Nobel economics laureate, from the post of managing director of Grameen Bank, the micro-lender founded by him. The decision, followed allegations of irregularities in the bank’s operations
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2011/03/20113211448924394.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/03/world/asia/03yunus.html?_r=1&ref=asia
2012: Pakistan President Zardari party ‘makes gains’ in Senatorial elections. The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) won 19 seats, becoming the largest party with a total of 41 seats.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-17225502
2013: Death of Shabnam Shakeel, Pakistani poet and author, born on March 12, 1942
http://www.dawn.com/news/789936/shabnam-shakeel-passes-away
https://www.facebook.com/ShabnamShakeelOfficial/info/?tab=page_info
2017 : Cambodian opposition party CNPR makes Kem Sokha new leader
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/new-cnrp-leadership-set-to-be-approved-at-party-congress-126007/
http://en.freshnewsasia.com/index.php/3714-cnrp-formally-announces-president-and-vice-presidents.html
http://sea-globe.com/who-are-cambodias-new-deputy-opposition-leaders/