ON 5 AUGUST IN ASIAN HISTORY
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Updated on August 5, 2019
25: Guangwu claims the throne as emperor after a period of political turmoil, restoring the Han Dynasty after the collapse of the short-lived Xin Dynasty
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Guangwu_of_Han
824: Death of Heizei, Japanese emperor, born in 773
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Heizei
1364: Death of Japanese emperor Kogon (1331-1333), born on August 1, 1313
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Kogon
1874: Japan launches its postal savings system, modeled after a similar system in England
1882: Martial law is enacted in Japan
1884: Failed French landing at Keelung (Taiwan)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keelung_Campaign
http://www.liquisearch.com/keelung_campaign/failed_french_landing_at_keelung_august_1884
http://danshuihistory.blogspot.fr/2009/06/battle-of-keelung-1884-1885.html
1905: First meeting of the Russian and Japanese peace commissioners takes place in US President Roosevelt’s home at Oyster Bay, New York
1912: Japan’s first taxicab service begins in Ginza, Tokyo
1923: Birth of Devan Nair, President of Singapore (1981-1985) who died on December 6, 2005
http://singaporepioneers.blogspot.com/2006/10/c-v-devan-nair.html
1937: Ratification by Emperor Hirohito of the proposition of the Japanese army to remove the constraints of international law on the treatment of Chinese prisoners
1944: Possibly the biggest prison breakout in history occurs as 545 Japanese POWs attempt to escape outside the town of Cowra, NSW, Australia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowra_breakout
1947: Netherlands ceases political action in Indonesia, due to UN pressure
1952: The Treaty of Peace between the Republic of China (Taiwan) and Japan, signed on 28 April, enters in force by the exchange of the instruments of ratification at Taipei
http://www.taiwandocuments.org/taipei01.htm
1952: Birth of Hun Sen, prime minister of Cambodia since January 14, 1985
http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/hun-sen-1656.php
1952: Syngman Rhee is re-elected president of South Korea
1961: USA, France and Great-Britain meet in Paris and agree for a Laos cabinet led by Souvanna Phouma, including communists
1964: Operation Pierce Arrow. American aircraft from carriers USS Ticonderoga and USS Constellation bomb North Vietnam in retaliation for strikes attacked U.S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_Operation_Pierce_Arrow_in_Vietnam_1964.png
https://www.revolvy.com/topic/Operation%20Pierce%20Arrow&item_type=topic
1965: Birth of Motoi Sakuraba, Japanese composer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motoi_Sakuraba
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpRrqeB4bCA
1965: The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 begins as Pakistani soldiers cross the Line of Control dressed as locals
https://history.state.gov/milestones/1961-1968/india-pakistan-war
1965: Birth of Bang Eun-jin, South Korean actress
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0051907/
http://www.hancinema.net/korean_Bang_Eun-jin.php
1966 : Mao Zedong publish his “Bombard the Headquarters, I’m a big-character posters”
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-9/mswv9_63.htm
http://www.havanatimes.org/?p=123
1967: In China, president Liu Shaoqi’s self criticism is said not enough by Maoists in a massive demonstration Tiananmen Square
https://books.google.fr/books?id=fYxPkWTVQoIC&pg=PA88&lpg=PA88&dq=Liu+Shaoqi%E2%80%99s+self+criticism&source=bl&ots=GQgUQ8wuui&sig=EEfQvaieVp2OCjjy9X4UYDi8hKo&hl=fr&sa=X&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAmoVChMI-YuixPePxwIVR8UUCh05UgcJ#v=onepage&q=Liu%20Shaoqi%E2%80%99s%20self%20criticism&f=false
1974: The U.S. Congress places a $1 billion dollar limit on military aid to South Vietnam
1975: Birth of Kajol Mukherjee, Indian actress
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kajol
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4bvgl_video-clips-shahrukh-khan-et-kajol_shortfilms
1976: Birth of Kwon Sang-woo, Korean actor and model
https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/kwon-sang-woo-34297.php
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Y1lV4IaAMg
1979: In Afghanistan, Maoists undertake an attempted military uprising
1981: Birth of Kou Shibasaki, Japanese singer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kou_Shibasaki
http://www.generasia.com/wiki/Shibasaki_Kou
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqyEFa_0Cuc
1990: Death of Chinese writer Zhou Keqin, born in 1937
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhou_Keqin
http://www.chinese-shortstories.com/Auteurs_de_a_z_Zhou_Keqin.htm
1992: Death of Bhagat Puran Singh, famous Sikh, born on June 4, 1904
http://www.discoversikhism.com/sikhs/bhagat_puran_singh.html
2003: Russian president Vladimir Putin signs at Kuala Lumpur an agreement for the delivering of 18 Su-30MK, the first Russian such a contract in South-East Asia
2003: A car bomb explodes in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta outside the Marriott Hotel killing 12 and injuring 150
http://research.lifeboat.com/jakarta.htm
http://www.cbsnews.com/2300-224_162-566700.html
2005: Death of Raul Roco, Philippine senator, born on October 26, 1941
http://tornandfrayed.typepad.com/tornandfrayed/2005/08/raul_roco_rip.html
2006: Tchad decides to restore diplomatic relations with Beijing, broken off since 1969
2009: Tens of thousands of mourners gather in the Philippines’ capital Manila for the funeral of former President Corazon Aquino
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8184761.stm
2009: Two American journalists freed by North Korea after months of detention return home accompanied by former President Bill Clinton, who secured their release in a meeting with the reclusive state’s leader Kim Jong-il
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8184689.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8185260.stm
2011: Yingluck Shinawatra is confirmed as Thailand’s first female prime minister. The lower house of parliament elects Yingluck with 296 of the legislature’s 500 members
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-14415077
2011: Benigno Aquino, president of the Philippines, meets the chief of the country’s main Muslim separatist rebel group to discuss ways to push the peace process forward. The meeting between Aquino and Al Haj Murad Ibrahim, of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), took place in Tokyo.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2011/08/2011858134514642.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-14415512
2012: Dozens of cyclists decorated with balloons and rainbow flags stream through the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi for the first gay pride parade in the nation’s history
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2012/08/20128594623174870.html
2014: An Afghan soldier shot dead a US general Harold Green at an army training centre in Kabul — the highest-ranking American officer to be killed since the September 11, 2001 attacks
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/08/05/world/asia/afghanistanviolence/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=%2AAfPak%20Daily%20Brief&utm_campaign=2014_The%20South%20Asia%20Daily
2014: All fifty-five politicians from the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) took their oaths as parliamentarians after boycotting the parliament for ten months against disputed election results in July last year
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/874397.shtml
2015 : The widow of former South Korean President Kim Dae-jung travels to the North, hoping to ease tensions on the Korean peninsula
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-33783399
2018: Malaysian leader Anwar Ibrahim wins PKR presidency uncontested
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysian-leader-anwar-ibrahim-wins-pkr-presidency-uncontested
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/anwar-ibrahim-set-to-become-pkr-president-after-uncontested-win-10590786
https://www.todayonline.com/world/malaysian-leader-anwar-ibrahim-wins-party-presidency-uncontested
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