ON 15 JANUARY IN ASIAN HISTORY
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Updated on January 15, 2019
1481: Birth of shogun Ashikaga Yoshizumi (1494 -1508) who was assassinated on September 6, 1511
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashikaga_Yoshizumi
http://japan-photo.de/e-yoshizumi.htm
1538: Birth of Maeda Toshiie, Japanese general, who died on April 27, 1599
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maeda_Toshiie
1678: In now Indonesia, Amangkurat II gives the Dutch Indies Company (VOC) a monopoly on the sugar trade in Jepara
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amangkurat_II_of_Mataram
1885: Birth of Huang Yuanyong, Chinese writer who died on December 25, 1915
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huang_Yuanyong
1896: French and British sign an agreement on their south-East Asia zones of influence. France recognizes the independence od Siam and the British recognizes the French protectorate on Laos
1897: Birth of Xu Zhimo, Chinese poet, who died on November 19, 1931
http://www.poemhunter.com/xu-zhimo/biography/
http://wiki.china.org.cn/wiki/index.php/Xu_Zhimo
1905: Birth of Kamatari Fujiwara, Japanese actor who died on December 21, 1985
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamatari_Fujiwara
http://akirakurosawa.info/2015/01/15/110-years-ago-kamatari-fujiwara-born/
1923: Birth of Lee Teng-hui, Taiwan’s president from 1988 to 2000
http://edition.cnn.com/SPECIALS/1999/china.50/inside.china/profiles/lee.tenghui/
1923: Birth of Rukmani Devi, Sri Lankan Tamil singer and actress who died in a car accident on October 28, 1978
http://www.rukmanidevisrilanka.org
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rukmani_Devi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoxF5iL9Pxg
1925: Birth of Liu Binyan, Chinese journalist and novelist who died in exile on December 5, 2005
http://www.hrichina.org/sites/default/files/PDFs/CRF.1.2006/CRF-2006-1_Exile.pdf
http://zonaeuropa.com/20060219_3.htm
1934: 8.4 earthquake in India/Nepal, 10,700 dead
http://buildingresearch.com.np/news_events/1934_nepal_bihar_eq/news_events_1.php
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1934_Nepal%E2%80%93Bihar_earthquake
1935: During the Long March, opening of the Zunyi conference in which Mao Zedong will be elected chairman of the Chinese communist party
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zunyi_Conference
http://history.04007.cn/en.php/HisMain/222.html
1936: Japanese leave the Naval Conference of London
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/naval-arms-control-1935.htm
1942: Jawaharlal Nehru succeeds Mohandas K. Gandhi as head of Indian’s National Congress Party
http://www.culturalindia.net/leaders/jawaharlal-nehru.html
http://english.khamenei.ir/news/4868/How-did-Jawaharlal-Nehru-save-India-from-British-colonialism
https://www.gqindia.com/content/nehru-hero-villain/
1943: During World War II, the Japanese are driven off Guadalcanal
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/battle_of_guadalcanal.htm
http://www.c-span.org/video/?300576-1/battle-guadalcanal
1943: Birth of Kiki Kirin, Japanese actress
http://wiki.d-addicts.com/Kiki_Kirin
1945: Death of Pedro Abad Santos, Filipino doctor, lawyer, Marxist and politician, leader of the first Philippine communist rebellions from the 1930s to the 1950s, born on January 31, 1876
http://cityofsanfernando.gov.ph/forvisitors/localheroes/pedroabadsantos#gsc.tab=0
1949: The Chinese Communist Party forces take over Tianjin from the Nationalist Government
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tianjin_Campaign
http://history.04007.cn/en.php/HisMain/550.html
1949: Gen. K.M. Cariappa is appointed as the first Indian Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army, succeeding Lieutenant General Sir Roy Bucher. Since celebrated as the Indian Army Day
http://www.mapsofindia.com/events/india/army-day.html
http://www.iloveindia.com/indian-heroes/general-km-cariappa.html
1951: In Korea, United Nations stop the sino-North Korean offensive
1954: Birth of Jose Dalisay, Jr., Filipino writer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jose_Dalisay,_Jr.
1956: Birth of Kumari Mayawati, Indian politician, leader of the BSP, chief minister of Uttar Pradesh (2007-2012)
http://www.mapsofindia.com/on-this-day/15-january-1956-mayawati-bsp-leader-was-born
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/1958378.stm
1956: Birth of Miki Fujimura, Japanese singer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miki_Fujimura
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5BJP26ukdY
1962: Naval incident between Indonesia and Netherland off West New Guinea
1973: Citing progress in peace negociations, President Richard Nixon announces the suspension of offensive actions in North Vietnam
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/15/newsid_2530000/2530549.stm
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/nixon-halts-military-action-against-north-vietnam
1976: Tun Hussein bin Onn becomes the third premier minister of Malaysia
http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Hussein_Onn
1979: Birth of Ken Chu, Taiwanese singer-actor and taichi champ
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Chu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3LVu-43Bb0
1982: Birth of Neil Nitin Mukesh, Indian actor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Mathur
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h0mWYK7Jo4
1989: “Private visit” (up to 20 January) of Vietnamese vice-minister of Foreign Affairs Dinh Nho Liem to Beijing. First high level meeting since 1979
http://articles.latimes.com/1989-01-15/news/mn-949_1_cambodian-conflict
1989: Worth railway tragedy in Bangladesh history. 110 are killed and 1,000 wounded
http://www.nytimes.com/1989/01/16/world/at-least-70-die-as-2-trains-collide-in-bangladesh.html
1994: Death of Harilal Upadhyay, Gujarati-Indian Author, Poet, Astrologis, born on January 22, 1916
https://wikivisually.com/wiki/Harilal_Upadhyay
1998: Death of Gulzarilal Nanda, Indian economist and politician, shortly Prime Minister of India, born on July 4, 1898
http://www.rediff.com/news/1998/jan/15nan.htm
2002: In the Philippines, at least 32 persons are killed in Jolo while demonstrating for the release of ex-governor Nur Misuari, imprisoned for sedition
2002: The Sri Lankan government lifts all restriction of move of personns and commodities in the aera held by LTTE Tamil separatists
2005: Death of Japanese filmmaker Noriyoshi Matsûra
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0559676/
2006: Yu Shyi-kun, former Taiwan’s Prime Minister and closed to president Chen Shui-bian is elected president of the Democratic Progressist Party, replacing Su Tseng-chang who resigned after the DPP defeat in local elections on 3 December 2005
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yu_Shyi-kun
2007: Abu Sayyaf leader Abu Solaiman is killed in a clash on the island of Jolo
http://www.arabnews.com/node/293358
2007: Death of Pura Santillan-Castrence, Filipino writer and diplomat, born on March 24, 1905
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pura_Santillan-Castrence
2007: In Nepal, opening of the first session of the parliament (Sansad) after king Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev has been ousted. The Maoist communist party has 83 MP among 330
2007: Death of Bo Yibo, Chinese politician, born in February 1908. Father of the jailed CCP Chongqing committee secretary Bo Xilai
http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=8251
2008: In the Philippines, Muslim separatists walk away from the signing of a deal with the government
2009: Leading Indian filmmaker Tapan Sinha dies in the eastern Indian city of Calcutta (Kolkata) at the age of 84
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7830022.stm
2010: China choses a former soldier as the new governor of Tibet after the previous one resigned unexpectedly. Padma Choling, is an ethnic Tibetan who served 17 years in China’s army before joining the regional government
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8460628.stm
2013: Death of Gen. Yang Baibing, a military strongman who carried out the violent suppression of student-led protests in Tiananmen Square in 1989 and was later purged because of fears that he was accruing too much power. He was 93
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/18/world/asia/gen-yang-baibing-dies-at-93-led-tiananmen-crackdown.html
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1129672/yang-baibing-backed-1989-crackdown-and-prospered-it
2013: The Pakistani Supreme Court orders the arrest of Raja Pervez Ashraf, the country’s prime minister, in connection with a corruption case relating to contracts for the purchase of rental power plants by the federal government when Ashraf was the federal minister for water and power
ttp://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2013/01/201311592859175153.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21022855
2013: Death of Nagasi Oshima, Japanese film-maker, born on March 3, 1932
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2013/jan/15/nagisa-oshima
2014: Death of Namdeo Dhasal, Indian poet and activist, born on Februry 15, 1949
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/marathi-poet-namdeo-dhasaldead/article5577696.ece
http://www.livemint.com/Leisure/vaCEvauD0SFLzImbdc9NLL/Namdeo-Dhasal-A-poet-of-the-underbelly.html
2014: China launches a scathing diplomatic attack against Japan, warning African nations of an impending “resurrection of Japanese militarism” and branding Prime Minister Shinzo Abe a “troublemaker”
2015: Pope Francis arrives in the Philippines for a five-day trip, seen as an effort to reinforce church membership, and highlight the issue of climate change as he meets victims of Typhoon Haiyan that killed thousands in the country in 2013
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-30809472
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2015/01/millions-cheer-as-pope-arrives-philippines-2015115101210685513.html
2018: Philippine news Rappler website’s licence revoked after Duterte threat
http://www.asiaone.com/asia/philippine-news-websites-licence-revoked-after-duterte-threat
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/01/philippine-government-seeks-close-rappler-website-180115084959311.html
Holidays and observances
Army Day (India)