ON 26 SEPTEMBER IN ASIAN HISTORY
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Updated on September 26, 2019
1620: Death of Chinese emperor Taichang, born on August 28, 1582
http://deathaday.blogspot.com/2007/09/sexual-overdose-emperor-tai-chang-zhu.html
1626: Death of Wakisaka Yasuharu, Japanese warrior, born in 1554
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wakisaka_Yasuharu
1820: Birth of Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, Bengali scholar, who died on July 29, 1891
http://www.mapsofindia.com/my-india/history/ishwar-chandra-vidyasagar-a-great-reformer
1876: Birth of Syed Ghulam Bhik Nairang, a poet and a prominent Indian/Pakistani Muslim leader who died on October 16, 1952
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghulam_Bhik_Nairang
1910: Indian journalist Swadeshabhimani Ramakrishna Pillai is arrested after publishing criticism of the government of Travancore and exiled.
http://www.veethi.com/india-people/swadeshabhimani_ramakrishna_pillai-profile-1927-25.htm
1917: Birth of Tran Duc Thao, Vietnamese philosopher who died on April 24, 1993
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tran_Duc_Thao
http://marxismocritico.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/viet-cong-philosophy-tran-duc-thao.pdf
1921: Birth of Wang Guangmei, wife of former Chinese president Liu Shaoqi, who died on October 13, 2006
http://www.notablebiographies.com/supp/Supplement-Sp-Z/Wang-Guangmei.html
1923: Birth of Dev Anand, Indian actor and film Producer who died on December 3, 2011
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dev_Anand
1932: Birth of Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh from 2004 to May 2014
http://www.indiamarks.com/prime-minister-dr-manmohan-singhs-biography/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manmohan_Singh
1940: The Japanese land on Haiphong with the consent of the German-sponsored Vichy government of France. Japanese forces occupy French Indochina and the French governor is reduced to a figurehead
http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/11320976
https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1913&dat=19400926&id=H7Y0AAAAIBAJ&sjid=-mkFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4275,6916126&hl=fr
1945: First American soldier killed in Vietnam
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-american-soldier-killed-in-vietnam
1946: Birth of Togo Igawa, Japanese actor
http://theamazingworldofgumball.wikia.com/wiki/Togo_Igawa
1950: After Seoul has been retaken by US forces, Chinese premier Zhou Enlai says that Chinese people will not stay inactive while an adjacent country is savagely invaded by imperialists
1950: Indonesia is admitted to the United Nations
1953: Death of Chinese painter Xu Beihong, born on July 19, 1895
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xu_Beihong
http://history.04007.cn/en.php/HisMain/9353.html
https://www.google.fr/search?q=Xu+Beihong&hl=fr&rlz=1G1ACAW_FRFR414&prmd=imvnsa&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=ZehhUOvVMZSIhQfH4ICwAw&ved=0CAoQ_AUoAQ&biw=1140&bih=519
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrBGmQOXo20
1954: Japanese rail ferry Toya Maru sinks during a typhoon in the Tsugaru Strait, Japan killing 1,172
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toya_Maru
1959: After the death of Sri Lanka premier Solomon Bandaranaike, W. Dahanayake assumes the charge up to March 1960
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wijeyananda_Dahanayake
1975: The Indemnity Act of Bangladesh to give immunity from legal action to the persons involved in the assassination of president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman(August 15, 1975), is promulgated in the form of an Ordinance by president Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad. It was titled Indemnity Ordinance No. 50 of 1975. Later it was ratified by the Bangladesh Parliament as an Act
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indemnity_Act,_Bangladesh
1977: Death of Uday Shankar, Indian dancer and choreographer, born on December 8, 1900 http://www.culturalindia.net/indian-dance/dancers/uday-shankar.html
http://www.mukto-mona.com/new_site/mukto-mona/Articles/jaffor/uday_shankar.htm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gcl7geMvYVA
1984: The United kingdom and China agree for the handover of Hong Kong on 1st July 1997
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/26/newsid_2538000/2538843.stm
http://history.04007.cn/en.php/HisMain/9360.html
1989: Vietnam announces the total withdrawal of its troops from Cambodia
1989: Death of Hemant Kumar Mukhopadhyay, Indian singer and composer, born on June 16, 1920
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemanta_Kumar_Mukhopadhyay
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYmndvOq13U&hl=fr
1992: Martial law ends in Myanmar. The previous two decrees of martial law, including military tribunals, are abolished
2001: In Kabul, Afghanistan, the abandoned U.S. Embassy is stormed by protesters. It was the largest anti-American protest since the terror attacks on New York City and Washington, DC, on September 11
2002: In Myanmar, the son-in-law and three grand-sons of former dictator Ne Win are sentenced to death on high treason charges
2006: Death of Iva Toguri D’Aquino who was convicted and later pardoned of being World War II propagandist “Tokyo Rose,” who died in Chicago at age 90, born on July 4, 1916
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/sep/27/secondworldwar.usa
2006: Shinzo Abe becomes the 90th premier of Japan with 339 votes on 475 at the House of representatives and 136 on 240 at the Senate
http://japan.kantei.go.jp/abephoto/2006/09/26hossoku_e.html
http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2006/09/26/2006092661014.html?related_all
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinz%C5%8D_Abe
2008: Pakistani troops have killed 1,000 Islamist militants in a huge offensive in the Bajaur tribal district over the last month, the army says
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7638157.stm
2009: Rival Koreas resume family reunions
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/09/200992653050374353.html
2010: Pakistan minister Abdul Qayum Jatoi quits after accusing army of killings
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-11413511
2012: Japan’s main opposition party choses former premier Shinzo Abe as its new leader, a Victory posting him to be reinstated as prime minister in general elections this year.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-19725296
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2012/09/2012926122535879576.html
2012: Death of Shah Saeed Ahmed Raipuri, Pakistani scholar and author, born in January 1928
http://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2012/09/28/city/lahore/funeral-prayer-of-shah-saeed-ahmed-raipuri-held/
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/presspakistan/H-5ihv1TgLI
2014: Ashraf Ghani wins Afghanistan’s disputed presidential election decisively with 55 per cent of the vote, results reveal after the figure was kept secret for five days over concerns that fraud allegations could trigger violence
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