ON 30 JUNE IN ASIAN HISTORY
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Updated on June 30, 2018
1755: Philippines close all non-catholic Chinese restaurants
1856 : Birth of Manuel Luna y Novicio, Filipino violin virtuoso and conductor, who died on July 15, 1883
https://kahimyang.com/kauswagan/articles/1570/today-in-philippine-history-june-30-1856-manuel-luna-was-born-in-badoc-ilocos-norte
1857: In India, Battle of Chinhat lost by the British
https://www.tornosindia.com/the-battle-of-chinhat/
https://bloggingonhistory.wordpress.com/2015/06/30/the-battle-of-chinhat-beginning-of-the-epic-lucknow-siege/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Chinhat
1914: Mahatma Gandhi’s first arrest after campaigning for Indian rights in South Africa
1917: Death of Dadabhai Naoroji, Indian intellectual, educator and early political leader, born on September 4, 1825
http://www.iloveindia.com/indian-heroes/dadabhai-naoroji.html
1943: Birth of Saeed Akhtar Mirza, Indian director and screenwriter
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saeed_Akhtar_Mirza
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0592595/
1943: Birth of Ahmed Sofa, Bangladeshi author, poet, and critic who died on July 28, 2001
http://www.poemhunter.com/ahmed-sofa/biography/
1946: In China, after the failure of negotiations, hostilities resume between Communists and Nationalists
1949: The Worker Party of North Korea, founded on August 28, 1946, is dissolved
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workers’_Party_of_Korea
1953: In China, end of the census. Chinese population is 600 million inhabitants
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_National_Population_Census_of_the_People’s_Republic_of_China
1953: Lt. General John W. O’Daniel sends details of the Navarre plan (“Principles of the Conduct of the War in Indochina”) to the Commander-in-Chief, Pacific (CINCPAC)
http://www.vietnamgear.com/NavarrePlan.aspx
1953: Birth of Lin Feng-Jiao, Taiwanese actress, wife of Jackie Chan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lin_Feng-jiao
http://history.04007.cn/en.php/HisMain/6203.html
1957: Death of Kaiwai Gyokudo, Japanese painter born on ovember 24, 1873
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawai_Gyokudo
http://www.google.fr/search?hl=fr&rlz=1G1ACAW_FRFR414&biw=1058&bih=482&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=Kaiwai+Gyokudo&oq=Kaiwai+Gyokudo&aq=f&aqi=&aql=undefined&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=5364l9513l0l13l6l0l0l0l0l239l743l0.4.1l6
1964: Signature of a border agreement between China and Outer Mongolia
1965: Agreement between India and Pakistan to stop hostilities in Kutch Desert
http://www.mapsofindia.com/on-this-day/june-30-1965-a-ceasefire-is-agreed-under-un-auspices-between-india-and-pakistan-to-stop-the-war-at-the-rann-of-kutch
1966: Birth of Basuki Tjahaja Purnama (EYD), Indonesian politician and former governor of Jakarta. Also known by his Hakka Chinese nickname Ahok (阿學)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basuki_Tjahaja_Purnama
http://eklusiftheme.blogspot.fr/2013/01/ahok-basuki-tjahaja-purnama-biography.html
https://asiancorrespondent.com/2017/06/birthday-wishes-flow-jakartas-jailed-ex-governor-ahok/#ZmHxSl8O7C8hOkPD.97
1967: The South Vietnamese Armed Forces Council resolves rival claims to the presidency in favor of Nguyen Van Thieu for the September 3 election
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/thieu-becomes-president
1969: Birth of Nguyen Cao Ky (Ky Duyen) Vietnam-born American singer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguy%E1%BB%85n_Cao_K%E1%BB%B3_Duy%C3%AAn
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_QrJqPzGCk&feature=related
1970: The Cooper-Church Amendment, limiting the president power in Cambodia involvements is adopted by the US Senate
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/cooper-church-amendment-passes-in-senate
1974: France quits South-East Asia Treaty Organization (Seato)
https://www.nytimes.com/1973/06/10/archives/france-to-stop-paying-dues-to-seato-in-june-1974.html
1977: SEATO is officially dissolved
http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0846053.html
1979: Birth of Rosanne Wong (Wong Yuen-guan), Hong Kong singer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosanne_Wong
http://www.lovehkfilm.com/people/wong_rosanne.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0GSlOgr1ak
1986: Beginning of talks between China and Portugal on Macau future
1991: Birth of Kaho, Japanese actress
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaho_(actress)
1992: In the Philippines, General Fidel Ramos succeeds Cory Aquino as president
http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Fidel_Valdez_Ramos.aspx
https://bloomspresidents.wordpress.com/fidel-v-ramos-1992%E2%80%931998/
1993: Death of Hong Kong singer and songwriter Wong Ka Kui, 31 years old, after an accident
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wong_Ka_Kui
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5jG8mLYXV8&feature=fvw
1994: The Japanese Premier Tsutomu Hata, after few weeks, is replaced by the socialist Tomiichi Murayama
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsutomu_Hata
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomiichi_Murayama
1996: New general elections in Bangladesh under a caretaker government headed by Justice Habibur Rahman. Victory of the Awami League
1998: Joseph Estrada is sworn in as the new president of the Philippines (till January 2001)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Estrada
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrP9Z88M7Po&feature=related
2004: Death of Jamal Abro, Pakistani writer, born on May 2, 1924
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamal_Abro
http://www.browsebiography.com/bio-jamal_abro.html
2007: In Bangladesh, General Ershad quits the chairmanship of Jatiya Party and retires
2007: Pope Benedict XVI, sends a 50-page letter to the Catholics in China, calling for unity of the Church
http://www.ucanews.com/news/pope-benedicts-letter-to-chinese-catholics-revisited-in-hong-kong/79198
http://w2.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/letters/2007/documents/hf_ben-xvi_let_20070527_china.html
2007: Death of Sahib Singh Verma, Indian politician and former Chief Minister of Delhi born in 1943
http://www.expressindia.com/news/fullstory.php?newsid=88869
2009: Taiwan lifts decades-old ban on investment by Chinese
http://www.smh.com.au/business/taiwan-lifts-decadesold-investment-ban-on-chinese-20090630-d416.html
2010: Benigno Aquino III is sworn in as the 15th president of the Philippines, reiterating his campaign pledges to root out widespread corruption and “lift our country from poverty”
https://kahimyang.com/kauswagan/articles/1208/today-in-philippine-history-june-30-2010-senator-benigno-aquino-iii-is-inaugurated-as-the-15th-president-of-the-philippines
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/06/29/aquino.profile/index.html?fbid=NuTq9yHI9lS
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/asia_pacific/10457448.stm
2010: Nepalese Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal announces his resignation in a televised speech. He says that he wanted to bring an end to political deadlock in the country and move the peace process forward
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/south_asia/10464705.stm
2010: Park Yong-ha, 33, a popular South Korean actor and singer commits suicide, hanging himself with an electrical cord
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/asia_pacific/10459061.stm
http://www.hancinema.net/korean_Park_Yong-ha.php
2011: Pakistan has stopped the United States from using an air base in the southwest of the country which it is alleged to have used to launch controversial drone strikes, according to the country’s defence minister.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2011/06/20116304212789309.html
2011: The Bangladeshi parliament has overturned a 15-year-old requirement that general elections are overseen by non-partisan caretaker governments
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-13973576
2011: Former Taiwan president Lee Teng-hui is accused of taking $7.8m from a secret diplomatic fund during his 1988-2000 presidency. Prosecutors say he took money from the National Security Bureau fund to set up a private think tank, of which he became honorary president.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-13970691
2012: Police fire choking volleys of pepper spray against Hong Kong crowds demonstrating against President Hu Jintao as he is visiting the city to mark its return to Chinese rule.
http://www.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne%2BNews/Asia/Story/A1Story20120630-356422.html
2014: A few days before Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives in South Korea, North Korea reaches out to the South, calls for an end to mutual slandering. For analysts and experts, it is a move to appease China, North Korea’s last ally
http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Pyongyang-proposes-peace-to-Seoul-because-it-fears-Beijing-31494.html
2016: Rodrigo Duterte is sworn in as Philippine President and Leni Robredo as vice-president
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/30/rodrigo-duterte-sworn-in-as-philippines-president-extends-olive-branch-to-elites
http://www.philstar.com/headlines/2016/06/30/1598136/leni-robredo-takes-oath-14th-vice-president