ON 9 JANUARY IN CHINESE HISTORY, HONG KONG AND TAIWAN
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Updated on January 9, 2019
727: Birth of Dai Zong, Chinese emperor who died on May 23, 779
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Daizong_of_Tang
1127: Invading Jurchen soldiers from the Jin Dynasty besiege and sack Bianjing (Kaifeng), the capital of the Song Dynasty of China, and abduct Emperor Qinzong and others, ending the Northern Song Dynasty
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Qinzong_of_Song
1150: Chinese Emperor Xizong of Jin is murdered by Prince Hailing in a coup d’état
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Xizong_of_Jin
1283: Song Prime Minister Wen Tianxiang, prisoner of the Yuan for four years is executed
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wen_Tianxiang
1972: Death of Chinese architect Liang Sicheng, born on April 20, 1901
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liang_Sicheng
http://www.scapegoatjournal.org/docs/03/03_Zhu_SearchHighAndLow.pdf
1972: RMS Queen Elisabeth is destroyed by fire in Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong
http://rmhh.co.uk/ships/pages/RMS%20Queen%20Elizabeth%201.html
1987: Chinese/Vietnamese border fights. 1500 Chinese killed according Vietnamese medias
ttp://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1987-01-09/news/0100090089_1_xuyen-chinese-troops-vietnam
http://articles.latimes.com/1987-01-08/news/mn-3216_1_sino-vietnamese
2001: Shenzhou 2, an unmanned Chinese spacecraft is launched with a monkey, a dog and a rabbit on board
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenzhou_2
2002: Chinese philosopher Wang Ruoshui dies in Boston. A firm believer in communism, he spaced out Mao Zedong during the Cultural revolution and expelled from the Communist party in 1987
http://www.hrichina.org/content/4584
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2002/feb/08/guardianobituaries.china
2010: In China, Dhondup Wangchen, a Tibetan film-maker, is sentenced to six years in prison by Chinese authorities. The director was arrested in March for a documentary about ordinary Tibetan’s grievances with China
http://www.france24.com/en/20100107-china-jails-tibetan-director-dhondup-wangchen-six-years-documentary-tibet
2014: China has taken its feud with Japan to the UN, questioning Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s “erroneous outlook” on history after he visited a shrine commemorating former leaders convicted as war criminals
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2014/01/china-takes-japan-shrine-dispute-un-20141912939172706.html
2016: Visiting Japan, the prime minister of the Tibetan government in exile, Lobsang Sangay, calls on China to resume dialogue with envoys of Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama
http://www.thetibetpost.com/en/news/international/4868-sikyong-calls-for-dialogue-says-tibetans-in-tibet-face-harsh-suppression