ON 4 OCTOBER IN CHINESE HISTORY, HONG KONG AND TAIWAN
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Updated on October 4, 2019
23: Rebels capture and sack the Chinese capital Chang’an during a peasant rebellion. They kill and decapitate the emperor, Wang Mang, two days later
http://totallyhistory.com/wang-mang/
http://kongming.net/novel/han/wangmang.php
763: China’s Tang Dynasty monk Jian Zhen monk dies in Japan where he was a main teacher of Buddhism
http://www.buddhisma2z.com/content.php?id=201
1363: End of the Battle of Lake Poyang; the Chinese rebel forces of Zhu Yuanzhang defeat that of his rival, Chen Youliang, in one of the largest naval battles in history
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lake_Poyang
https://military.wikia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lake_Poyang
1907: Birth of Shaw Run Run, Hong Kong media mogul
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run_Run_Shaw
http://www.hkcinemagic.com/en/people.asp?id=131
1955: The sixth plenum of the Chinese communist Party’s 11th Central meets up to October 11, to study agricultural problems
1967: Birth of Ekin Cheng Yee-kin, Hong Kong actor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekin_Cheng
http://www.lovehkfilm.com/people/cheng_ekin.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGF46IlNmh4
1969: China announces two nuclear tests including an open-air hydrogen one
1971: Visit of Ethiopia emperor to China
1979: The China’s first trust, the CITIC, is established by Rong Yiren
https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/Rong_Yiren.html
1982: Sino-Soviet talks resumes at Beijing
2000: Death of Yu Kuo-hwa, Taiwan Prime Minister from 1984 to 1989
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yu_Kuo-hwa
2009: In China, Mgr. James Lin Xili, underground bishop of Wenzhou who spent 16 years in a forced labor camp, as a cobbler, dies
http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Mgr.-James-Lin-Xili,-underground-bishop-of-Wenzhou,-dies-16512.html