ON 25 JULY IN ASIAN HISTORY
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Updated on July 25, 2019
1511: First assault on the properous trading city of Malacca, Malay Penninsula, by Portuguese forces under Afonso de Albuquerque
http://khleo.tripod.com/conquest.htm
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Afonso_de_Albuquerque
1562: Birth of Kiyomasa Kato, Japanese warlord, who died on August 2, 1611
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiyomasa_Kato
1587: Japanese strong-man Toyotomi Hideyoshi bans Christianity in Japan and orders all Christians to leave
http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2298.html
http://www.samurai-archives.com/hideyoshi.html
1845: China grants Belgium equal trading rights with Britain, France and the United States
1878: Birth of Masaharu Anesaki, Japanese philosopher and scholar, who died on July 23, 1949
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masaharu_Anesaki
https://tatsushinarita.wordpress.com/2013/05/21/masaharu-anesaki-chronology/
https://tatsushinarita.wordpress.com/2013/06/04/masaharu-anesaki-on-the-buddhological-trinity/
1869: The Japanese daimyo begin returning their land holdings to the emperor as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms
1894: The First Sino-Japanese War will begins after the Japanese fire upon a Chinese warship
http://sinojapanesewar.com/pungdo.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Pungdo
https://www.jacar.go.jp/english/jacarbl-fsjwar-e/main/18940725/index.html
1908: Birth of Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, Indian musician, who died on October 31, 2003
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semmangudi_Srinivasa_Iyer
http://www.carnaticcorner.com/articles/semmangudi.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM2NQGoCBQs
1908: Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovers that a key ingredient in Konbu soup stock is monosodium glutamate (MSG), and patents a process for manufacturing it
http://www.jpo.go.jp/seido_e/rekishi_e/kikunae_ikeda.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kikunae_Ikeda
1927: Birth of Sadiq Hussain Qureshi, Pakistani politician, who died on June 24, 2000
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadiq_Hussain_Qureshi
1928: Birth of Mario Montenegro, Filipino actor, who died on August 27, 1988
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Monténégro
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0599369/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVlPeHHf4aM
1929: Birth of Somnath Chatterjee, Indian communist leader
http://www.calcuttayellowpages.com/somnathch.html
1933: Birth of Corazon Aquino, president of the Philippines (1986-1992) who died on July 31, 2009
http://www.wic.org/bio/caquino.htm
http://content.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1914109,00.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASwKyAOio78
1941: Japan announces a “protectorate” over Indochina
http://www.combinedfleet.com/Indochina_t.htm
1941: US president Roosevelt bans selling benzine/gasoline to Japan
1954: In retaliation for the British commercial plane shot down on July 23 off Hainan, the US air forces shot down two Chinese fighters
1964: US Joint Chief of Staff proposes air strike on North Vietnam
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/joint-chiefs-propose-air-strikes
1968: Birth of Shi Tao, Chinese journalist jailed from 2004 to 2013
http://www.pen.org/defending-writers/shi-tao
1969: US President Richard Nixon declares the Nixon Doctrine, stating that the United States now expects its Asian allies to take care of their own military defense. This was the start of the “Vietnamization” of the war
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-nixon-doctrine-is-announced
http://www.americanforeignrelations.com/A-D/Doctrines-The-nixon-doctrine.html
1973: Birth of Hu Jia, Chinese dissident
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hu_Jia_(activist)
http://en.gariwo.net/righteous/the-righteous-biographies/exemplary-figures/examples-of-civil-courage/hu-jia-7587.html
http://www.youtubecom/watch?v=MconHQXp_G8
1980: Birth of Soo Ae, South Korean actress
http://asianwiki.com/Soo-Ae
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2jGRsPYDB4
1981: Death of Hu Lancheng, Chinese writer, born on February 28, 1906
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hu_Lancheng
1982: Zail Singh, born on May 5, 1916, is sworn as seventh president of India (up to July 1987), who died on 25 December 1994
https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/indiascope/story/19820815-giani-zail-singh-sworn-in-as-seventh-president-of-india-772552-2013-10-05
1983: In Sri Lanka, 37 Tamil political prisoners at the Welikada high security prison in Colombo are massacred by the fellow Sinhalese prisoners
1988: Jakarta Informal Meeting of the four Khmer factions, joined later by Vietnam and Asean countries
1992: Shankar Dayal Sharma becomes President of India up to 1997
http://www.nammakannadanaadu.com/india/shanker-dayal-sharma.php
http://www.iloveindia.com/indian-heroes/shankar-dayal-sharma-biography.html
1997: K.R. Narayanan is sworn-in as India’s 10th president and the first Dalit— formerly called “untouchable”— to hold this office
http://www.mapsofindia.com/on-this-day/july-25-1997-k.r.-narayanan-is-sworn-in-as-the-tenth-president-of-india
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K._R._Narayanan
1998: US State Department says again the US “Three No” policy on Taiwan : no to independence, no to one China, one Taiwan, no to Taiwan admission in international organizations
2001: Phoolan Devi, the most woman outlaw in India, born on August 10, 1963, is killed
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/1456441.stm
2002: North Korea apologizes for the June 29 naval incident (first time since 1953) and asks the resumption of inter-Korean dialogue
2002: Dr Abdul Kamal is elected president of India (up to 2007)
http://www.mapsofindia.com/who-is-who/government-politics/a-p-j-abdul-kalam.html
2007: Pratibha Patil is sworn as the first woman to be elected president of India
http://www.rediff.com/news/2007/jul/25prezpoll1.htm
2009: Death of Yasmin Ahmad, Malaysian film director, writer and scriptwriter, born on January 25, 1958
http://www.theguardian.com/global/2009/aug/12/obituary-yasmin-ahmad
http://www.thestar.com.my/story/?file=%2F2009%2F7%2F26%2Fnation%2F4396007
http://www.screendaily.com/territories/asia-pacific/malaysias-yasmin-ahmad-dies-aged-51/5003929.article
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vds1cB207_U
2010: Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi warns some countries not to “internationalize” the territorial dispute over the South China Sea that following comments by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton over the issue at a regional security meeting
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2010-07/26/content_11046559.htm
2010: Death of Redford White, Filipino comedian, born on December 5, 1955
http://www.pep.ph/news/26283/Comedian-Redford-White-has-passed-away-at-54
2011: Taiwanese Major General Lo Hsien-che jailed for life. Defence officials said he was recruited as a spy for China in 2004, while he was posted to Thailand as a military attaché.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-14273191
2011: Australian and Malaysian officials have signed a controversial deal intended to stem the flow of asylum seekers travelling to Australia by boat.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-14271460
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2011/07/20117254439553573.html
2011: Vietnam’s National Assembly appoints Truong Tan Sang as the communist country’s new president
http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20110726000592
2012: Political veteran Pranab Mukherjee pledges to fight widespread poverty and work to alleviate hunger as he is sworn in as India’s 13th president in an elaborate ceremony in Parliament.
http://asiancorrespondent.com/86507/indias-new-president-sworn-into-office/
2014: Japan rejects a call by a UN watchdog to accept full blame for pressing Asian women into wartime sexual slavery in military brothels, saying it was not obligated to do so
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/623442/japan-rejects-un-watchdogs-call-on-comfort-women
2016: Tran Dai Quang re-elected as President of Vietnam
http://english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/government/161022/tran-dai-quang-re-elected-as-president.html
http://vietnamnews.vn/politics-laws/300112/tran-dai-quang-sworn-in-as-president.html#JK8SO5JKEWF1DwFr.99
2016: Chinese general Guo Boxiong, once head of a powerful military committee, is sentenced for life for taking ‘massive’ bribes. He is the highest military figure to be jailed as part of President Xi’s fervent corruption campaign
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-36883608
http://www.dw.com/en/former-chinese-military-leader-sentenced-for-life-in-corruption-case/a-19425788
2017: Ram Nath Kovind is sworn in as India’s 14th President
http://www.dnaindia.com/india/photo-gallery-in-pictures-ram-nath-kovind-sworn-in-as-14th-president-of-india-2513245
http://indianexpress.com/article/india/ram-nath-kovind-takes-over-as-president-of-india-full-text-of-his-first-speech-4766306/