ON 23 NOVEMBER IN ASIAN HISTORY
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Updated on November 23, 2018
1501: Birth of Yi Wang, Confucian scholar, who died in 1570
http://www.sunypress.edu/pdf/62482.pdf
1864: Hong Rengan, “prime minister” of the Taiping is executed, born in 1822
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Rengan
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/books/review/autumn-in-the-heavenly-kingdom-by-stephen-r-platt.html?pagewanted=all
http://history.04007.cn/en.php/HisMain/11032.html
1897: Birth of Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Indian writer, who died on August 1, 1999
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirad_C._Chaudhuri
1922: Birth of Vo van Kiet, Vietnamese prime minister (1991-1997) who died on June 11, 2008
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%B5_V%C4%83n_Ki%E1%BB%87t
1924: Birth of Anita Linda, Filipino actress
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Linda
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNfEN2mySXI
1926: Birth of Sathya Sai Baba, Indian guru and philosopher who died on April 24, 2011
http://www.sathyasai.org/intro/message.htm
http://www.srisathyasai.org.in/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qFvFonhUrU
1930: Birth of Geeta Dutt, Indian singer and actress who died on July 20, 1972
http://www.geetadutt.com/index.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgpgAaBM1iQ
1937: Death of Jagdish Chandra Bose, Indian physicist, born on November 30, 1858
http://www.iloveindia.com/indian-heroes/jagadish-chandra-bose.html
http://www.mapsofindia.com/on-this-day/23rd-november-1937-jagadish-chandra-bose-indian-physicist-passed-away
1943: The US forces defeat Japanese forces in the South Pacific Tarawa atoll, opening the way to Marshall Island, US objective
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/tarawa.htm
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/1123.html#article
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2jJjpk_-bc
1945: British Foreign Secretary Bevin urges negotiations between the Dutch and the Republic of Indonesia
1946: The Workers Party of South Korea is founded through the merger of the Communist party of South Korea and a fraction of the People’s party of Korea. It merged with the workers Party of North Korea, forming the Workers party of Korea on June 30, 1949
1946: French Navy bombing in Haiphong, Viet Nam, kills more than 3000 civilians
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiphong_incident
http://www.worldhistory.biz/world-war-i/16465-the-haiphong-incident.html
1966: In China, during the Cultural Revolution, Red Guards attack against president Liu Shaoqi and Party secretary Deng Xiaoping
1969: Birth of Robin Padilla, Filipino actor, martial artist, and screenwriter
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1107053/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm
http://www.robinpadilla.org/about.html
1970: Death of Yusof bin Ishak, first Singapore president (1965-1970) born on August 12, 1910
http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/infopedia/articles/SIP_1097_2006-07-28.html
1971: State of emergency is proclaimed in Pakistan as Indian tanks entered East Pakistan. Start of the Battle of Hilli or the Battle of Bogra which was a major battle fought in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 and Bangladesh Liberation War. It took place between 23 November 1971 and 11 December
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hilli
http://www.defencejournal.com/oct99/battle-hilli.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEzXV4vLOXc
1971: The representatives of the People’s Republic of China officially attend the United Nations as the only one representatives of China in lieu of The Taipei delegates
1973: Death of Japan born American actor Sessue Hayakawa
http://www.silentera.com/people/actors/Hayakawa-Sessue.html
1985: Larry Wu-tai Chin, a retired CIA analyst, is arrested and accused of spying for China. He will commit suicide a year after his conviction
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Wu-Tai_Chin
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/spy/interviews/smith.html
http://www.upi.com/Archives/1985/12/06/CIA-China-specialist-Larry-Wu-Tai-Chin-made-more-than/5578502693200/
1990: Death of Nguyen Van Tam, born in 1893, prime minister of Vietnam from June 1952 to December 1953
http://www.nytimes.com/1990/11/28/obituaries/nguyen-van-tam-vietnamese-statesman-97.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguy%E1%BB%85n_V%C4%83n_T%C3%A2m
1993: End of Jiang Zemin first three-day visit to Cuba
http://history.04007.cn/en.php/HisMain/11058.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-npEbnJNPI
1994: About 111 people, mostly women and children, are killed in a stampede after Indian police baton-charged tribal protesters in the western city of Nagpur
2003: In Hong Kong, districts elections. Victory of the Democrats on the pro-Beijing DAB reduced from 83 to 64 resentatives while Democratic Party up to 93
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_local_elections,_2003
2008: Pakistan is suspended from the Commonwealth because of its imposition of emergency rule
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7108543.stm
2009: In the Philippines, 56 people are killed in an attack. The victims were part of a group of people abducted in aguindanao province by around 100 armed men
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/11/2009112485739115118.html
2010: South Korea returns fire after North Korea fired dozens of artillery shells at one of its border islands, killing two marines and two civilians
http://www.france24.com/en/20101123-exchange-artillery-fire-north-south-korea-island-military-soldiers-shelling
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/23/south-korean-television-shows-damage-from-exchange-of-fire-with-north/?ref=asia
http://history.04007.cn/en.php/HisMain/11059.html
2010: Burmese dissident Aung San Suu Kyi meets her youngest son for the first time in a decade, some ten days after she was released from a lengthy house arrest by the military junta.
http://www.france24.com/en/20101123-aung-su-suu-kyi-reunited-rangoon-military-junta-visa-burma
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11817685
2011: A fact-finding panel of the Office of the Ombudsman found Mike Aroyo the husband of the former President and now Pampanga representative liable for graft charges for the allegedly anomalous sale of helicopters to the Philippine National Police in 2009
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/99407/mike-arroyo-liable-in-helicopter-scam
2011: Thailand lese majeste man jailed for 20 years. The court found Ampon Tangnoppakul, nicknamed ‘grandpa’ and ‘Uncle SMS’ by the local press, guilty of sending messages insulting the monarchy to the mobile phone of the secretary of former prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva last year during anti-government protests
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-15850068
2013: China has demarcated an « air-defence identification zone » over an area of the East China Sea, covering islands that are also claimed by Japan
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-25062525
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2013/11/japan-protests-new-china-air-defence-zone-2013112313117557543.html
http://www.euronews.com/2013/11/23/china-air-defence-zone-sparks-fresh-row-with-japan/
2015: Death of Jamiluddin Aali, Pakistani poet, playwright, and critic, born on January 20, 1925
http://www.dawn.com/news/1221717
http://tribune.com.pk/story/996814/poet-dr-jamiluddin-aali-passes-away-in-karachi/
2015: In Hong Kong district election, pan-democrats win 112 out of 431 seats but fail to take control of any district
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2015/11/23/winners-and-losers-in-the-2015-hong-kong-district-council-elections/
Holidays and observances
Japan: Kinro kansha no hi (Labour Thanksgiving Day)