ON 26 APRIL IN ASIAN HISTORY
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Updated on April 26, 2019
318: Sima Rui ascends the throne as Emperor Yuan of Jin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Yuan_of_Jin
499: Death of Xiao Wen Di, Chinese emperor, born on October 13, 467
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Xiaowen_of_Northern_Wei
1192: Death of Go-Shirakawa, 77th emperor of Japan, (1155-1158), born on 18 October 1127
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Go-Shirakawa
1489: Death of Ashikaga Yoshihisa, 9th shogun (1473-1489) of the Ashikaga shogunate, born on 11 October 1465
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashikaga_Yoshihisa
1655: Dutch West Indies Company denies Peter Stuyvesant’s desire to exclude Jews from New Amsterdam
1748: Death of Muhammad Shah, the last Mughal emperor since 1719, born on February 2, 1702
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Shah
http://pakistanspace.tripod.com/khurram/msrangeela.htm
1875: Birth of Syngman Rhee, first president of the Republic of Korea
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Syngman_Rhee
1898: After the United States declared war on Spain the day before, Commodore George Dewey’s squadron calling in the port of Hong Kong is ordered to “capture or destroy the Spanish squadron,” which was based in Manila, Philippines
1910: Birth of Ruan Lingyu, Chinese actress who died on March 8, 1935
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20171025-ruan-lingyu-the-greta-garbo-of-china
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adZTK8tCL3s
1910: Birth of Tomoyuki Tanaka, Japanese film producer and creator of Godzilla, who died on 7 April 1997
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomoyuki_Tanaka
1913: In China, Sun Yat-sun, calls for revolt against president Yuan Shi-kai
http://net.lib.byu.edu/estu/wwi/bio/xyz/yuansh.html
1917: Birth of I.M. Pei, Chinese-born architect
http://www.pcfandp.com/a/f/fme/imp/b/b.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IM_Pei
1920: Death of Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician, born on 22 December 1887
http://www.iloveindia.com/indian-heroes/srinivasa-ramanujan.html
1932: Birth of Israr Ahmed, Pakistani Muslim religious scholar, who died on April 14, 2010
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israr_Ahmed
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xd6hsw_dr-israr-ahmed_news
1942: Colliery explosion kills 1,549 at Honkeiko, Manchuria
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benxihu_Colliery
1944: Birth of Amien Rais, Indonesian politician
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amien_Rais
1945: During the World War II, Filipino troops of the 66th Infantry Regiment, Philippine Commonwealth Army, USAFIP-NL and the American troops of the 33rd and 37th Infantry Division, United States Army are liberated in Baguio City
https://www.revolvy.com/main/index.php?s=Battle%20of%20Baguio%20(1945)&item_type=topic
http://www.pacificwrecks.com/provinces/philippines_baguio.html
1953 : Birth of Moushumi Chatterjee, Indian film actress
http://www.rediff.com/movies/interview/moushumi-chatterjee-i-was-always-a-superstar/20150528.htm
1953: In Korea War, Panmunjong negotiations resume after six months
1954: The Geneva conference , an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea begins
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/geneva-conference-begins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI6C_WSCp4U
1957: Death of Gichin Funakoshi, Father of Japanese Shotokan Karatedo, born on November 10, 1868
http://www.fightingmaster.com/Masters/funakoshi/index.htm
1960: President of South Korea Syngman Rhee is forced to resign
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Revolution
http://www.britishpathe.com/video/rhee-quits
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx645mK7wwQ
1961: Birth of Joan Chen (Chen Chong), Chinese actress
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001040/
https://www.fandango.com/people/joan-chen-111996/biography
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSVcSPH8vrA
1963: Birth of Li Lianjie (Jet Li) martial art master and actor in Beijing
http://www.biography.com/people/jet-li-241077#recent-work
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7cx9x_jet-li-ou-li-lianjie-zui-quan_sport
1966: Birth of Yoshihiro Togashi, Mangaka who created YuYu Hakusho
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshihiro_Togashi
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=1608
1969: Death of Morihei Ueshiba, Japanese martial artist and founder of Aikido, born on 4 December 1883
http://www.aikidofaq.com/history/osensei.html
1975: The final offensive of the Ho Chi Minh campaign to full victory is launched
1980: Students demonstrations in Kabul for four days. Dozens are killed
1984: US president Ronald Reagan lands in China at the start of a six-day state visit, the first by an American president since 1972
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/26/newsid_4464000/4464785.stm
http://www.c-span.org/video/?107544-1/president-reagan-china
1985: Birth of Nam Gyu-ri, South Korean actress
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nam_Gyu-Ri
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESHVYVU2ivs
1987: Death of Shankar Singh Raghuwanshi, Indian composer and conductor, born on October 5, 1922
https://shankarjaikishan.wordpress.com/2009/01/27/death-of-a-legend-in-the-passing-away-of-shanker/
http://www.mapsofindia.com/on-this-day/26-april-1987-shankar-raghuvanshi-indian-music-director-died
http://taranaa.com/Tarang/index.php?title=SJTribute
1989: The People’s Daily publishes an editorial saying the Tian Anmen demonstrators are counter-revolutionary, counter-party and counter-socialist aiming to overthrone the government
https://sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/25/peoples-daily-editorial-fanned-flames-of-1989-protest/
http://www.tsquare.tv/chronology/April26ed.html
1989: Birth of Daesung, Korean singer (Big Bang)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daesung
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqBqdAcUVFE
1994: Death of Masutatsu Oyama, founder of Japanese Kyokushin Karate, born on 27 July 1923
http://martialarts.about.com/od/martialartsbasics/p/Biography-And-Profile-Of-Mas-Oyama.htm
1996: Establishment of the Shanghai Five (China, Russia and three others countries) renamed Shanghai Cooperation Organisation in 2001
http://www.comw.org/cmp/fulltext/0110jia.htm
http://en.people.cn/200007/06/eng20000706_44803.html
1999: Sultan Mizan Abidin is elected king of Malaysia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mizan_Zainal_Abidin_of_Terengganu
1999: Death of Man Mohan Adhikari, first Communist Nepalese PM (1994-1995), born in June 1920
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_Mohan_Adhikari
2001: Junichiro Koizumi is elected prime minister of Japan, the 11th Premier in 13 years
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/1293536.stm
2003: Yun Hyon-seok, South Korean poet and author commits suicide at 19
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yun_Hyon-seok
2004: Beijing refuses the direct election of the Chief Executive of Hong Kong planned for 2007, and of all the members of the 2008 Legislative Council
2009: Sri Lanka’s ruling coalition sweeps elections to the Western Provincial Council, that includes the capital Colombo. President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s United People Freedom Alliance (UPFA) secures 65 percent of the total votes cast. The United National Party (UNP) led by former prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe came second with 30 percent
2011: A senior al-Qaeda leader, NATO’s second most wanted fighter in the country, was killed in an airstrike in eastern Kunar province, bordering. Abu Hafs al-Najdi, also known as Abdul Ghani, a Saudi Arabian, was killed 12 days ago in Dangam district, an ISAF statement said
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2011/04/201142610015549290.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-13193634
2011: Tens of thousands of civilians died in the final phase of Sri Lanka’s civil war – most of them killed in shelling by government forces, a UN panel says. In a report on possible war crimes in the last months of the war in 2009, the panel also says Tamil Tiger rebels used civilians as human shields
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-13190576
2012: The Vatican condemns the participation of “legitimate” bishops in the ordination of state-sanctioned “illegitimate” bishops in China as part of an ongoing dispute.
http://www.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne%2BNews/Asia/Story/A1Story20120426-342328.html
2012: Cambodian environmental campaigner Chut Wutty is shot dead by police while travelling in a threatened forest region. Mr Wutty had been helping indigenous people organise protests against the exploitation of protected forests.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-17859016
2012: The U.S. and Japanese governments say that they will move about 9,000 Marines off Okinawa to other bases in the Western Pacific, in a bid to remove a persistent irritant in the relationship between the two allies.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-comes-to-agreement-with-japan-to-move-9000-marines-off-okinawa/2012/04/26/gIQA1seKkT_story.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-17865198
2014: The world’s first museum dedicated to the 1989 pro-democracy protests in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square is opened in Hong Kong
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-27172041
http://www.euronews.com/2014/04/27/world-s-first-tiananmen-square-memorial-museum-opens-in-hong-kong/
2014: President Barack Obama becomes the first U.S. president to visit Malaysia in nearly half a century. Obama is the first American leader to set foot in Malaysia since President Lyndon Johnson came here in 1966
http://www.voanews.com/content/obama-in-malaysia-on-third-leg-of-asian-tour/1901699.html http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/26/barack-obama-visits-malaysia-us-economy-security
2016: Death of Harry Wu, Chinese human rights activist
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2016/05/10/harry-wu-chinese-dissident–obituary/
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/28/world/asia/harry-wu-who-told-world-of-abuses-in-china-dies-at-79.html?_r=0
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/harry-wu-dissident-and-activist-who-endured-19-years-in-chinese-labor-camps-dies-at-79/2016/04/27/294f2734-0c83-11e6-bfa1-4efa856caf2a_story.html?utm_term=.c399fe09160c