ON 7 JANUARY IN CHINESE HISTORY, HONG KONG AND TAIWAN
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Updated on January 7, 2019
889: Birth of Li Bian, emperor of Southern Tang who died on March 30, 943
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Bian
1841: Second Battle of Chuenpee between British and Chinese forces during the First Opium War. The British capture the forts on the islands of Chuenpee and Tycocktow
https://infogalactic.com/info/Second_Battle_of_Chuenpee
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Battle_of_Chuenpee
http://latitude.to/articles-by-country/cn/china/41764/second-battle-of-chuenpee
1933: The Chinese Communist Party Provisional Central leadership move from the dangerous Shanghai to the Revolutionary base of Ruijin in Jiangxi
http://alphahistory.com/chineserevolution/jiangxi-soviet/
1937: Birth of Tang Chia, Chinese martial art choreographer and movie director
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0849271/
http://www.hkcinemagic.com/en/people.asp?id=1079
1950: Ceylan (Sri Lanka) recognizes the People’s Republic of China
1952: Birth of Sammo Hung, Hong Kong actor
http://www.hkcinemagic.com/en/people.asp?id=58
1967: Fighting is reported between Chinese Red Guards and workers in Nanjing
2000: News agencies unveil that the 17th Karmapa, Orgyen Trinley Dorje, 15 years old, leader of one of the most important buddhist school in Tibet has fled to India and arrived on January 5
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/594703.stm
2001: US Foreign Affairs magazine publishes extracts of “The Tiananmen Paper” on who, in the tops China leaders wanted, and the ones who din’t want troop to crush the students movement on Tiananmen square
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E02E7DB173AF935A35752C0A9679C8B63&n=Top/Reference/Times%20Topics/People/L/Li%20Peng
http://edition.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/east/04/22/tiananmen.document/index.html
2013: Protesters in China call for press freedom. The protesters gathered outside the office of Southern Weekly in Guangzhou, calling for media freedom, a taboo subject in the country, holding banners and chanting slogans
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2013/01/20131765743709723.html
http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Guangzhou,-journalists-revolt-terrorizes-Party-26793.html
2014: Death of Run Run Shaw, a pioneering Hong Kong media mogul whose studio helped to bring kung fu movies to the wider world. He was 106
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/10555131/Run-Run-Shaw-kung-fu-film-pioneer-dies-aged-106.html