ON 5 JANUARY IN ASIAN HISTORY
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Updated on January 5, 2019
1587: Birth of Xu Xiake, China traveler and geographer who died on March 8, 1641
http://www.theworldofchinese.com/2015/12/xu-xiake-the-father-of-chinese-backpacking/
1588: Death of Chinese General Qi Jiguang, famous for his success against Japanese pirates, born on November 12, 1528
http://www.cctv.com/english/TouchChina/GloryofChineseCivilization/HistoricalCelebrities/MilitaryLeaders/20020326/100037.html
1592: Birth of Shah Jahan, ruler of the Mughal Empire (1628-1658) who died on January 22, 1666
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shah_Jahan
1655: Go-Sai, becomes 111th Japanese Emperor (up to 1663). He will died on March 22, 1685
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Go-Sai
1666: Birth of Gobind Singh (older date given was December 22), the tenth guru of the Sikhs (1675-1708) who died on October 21, 1708
http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php?title=Guru_Gobind_Singh
http://www.sikh-history.com/sikhhist/gurus/nanak10.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4hgtEpNXoE
1893: Birth of Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian guru who died in March 1952
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramahansa_Yogananda
1897: Birth of Kiyoshi Miki: Japanese philosopher and author, who died on September 26 1945
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiyoshi_Miki
http://positions.dukejournals.org/content/17/1/43.short
1899: Separatist Filipino general Aguilnado demands the independence of the Philippines from USA
https://kahimyang.com/kauswagan/articles/1393/today-in-philippine-history-january-5-1899-aguinaldo-issued-counterproclamation-to-the-benevolent-assimilation-declaration
1900: Birth of Beijing Opera artist Xun Huisheng who died on December 26, 1968
http://wiki.china.org.cn/wiki/index.php/Xun_Huisheng
http://quyi.chinesecio.com/en/article/2010-03/31/content_120822.htm
1919: Sumako Matsui, Japanese actress and singer, born on November 1, 1886 commits suicide
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumako_Matsui
http://www.ndl.go.jp/portrait/e/datas/332.html
1919: Birth of Hector Abhayavardhana, Sri Lankan Trotskyist theoretician, who died on September 22, 2012
http://archives.dailynews.lk/2006/01/05/fea01.htm
http://dbsjeyaraj.com/dbsj/archives/10963
1926: Birth of Joshua Benjamin Jeyaretnam, the veteran opposition leader in Singapore who died on September 30, 2008
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Benjamin_Jeyaretnam
http://remembersingapore.wordpress.com/2012/02/25/persistent-opposition-j-b-jeyaretnam/
1928: Birth of Ali Bhutto, President (1971-1973), then Prime Minister (1973-1977) of Pakistan, hanged on April 4, 1979
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zulfikar_Ali_Bhutto
http://www.storyofpakistan.com/person.asp?perid=P019
1934 : Birth of Murli Manohar Joshi, BJP leader and union minister
http://www.bjp.org/leadership/bjp-presidents/dr-murali-manohar-joshi
http://www.elections.in/political-leaders/murli-manohar-joshi.html
1941: Birth of Hayao Miyazaki, cartoons filmmaker
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayao_Miyazaki
1941: The communist New Fourth Army is surrounded by KMT forces
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Fourth_Army_Incident
https://ww2db.com/battle_spec.php?battle_id=330
1945: Kamikaze pilots get first order
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/kamikaze-pilots-get-first-order
http://academic.mu.edu/meissnerd/erickson.html
1946: China recognizes the independence of Outer Mongolia
http://uca.edu/politicalscience/dadm-project/asiapacific-region/chinamongolia-1911-1946/
1946: Birth of Prince Tomohito of Mikasa who died on June 6, 2012 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Tomohito_of_Mikasa
1948: Communist offensive aiming to cut Manchuria from the rest of China
1950: President Truman announces that the United States is determined to stay out of the Chinese civil war and will ‘not provide military aid or advice to Chinese forces’ on Taiwan. This policy is reiterated January 12 by Secretary of State Dean Acheson
1951: Birth of Jagathy Sreekumar, Indian actor and screenwriter
http://entertainment.oneindia.in/celebs/jagathy-sreekumar/biography.html
1951: Death of Seo Jae-pil, Korea’s independence activist and journalist, born on January 7, 1864
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/issues/2013/11/363_101797.html
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Philip_Jaisohn
1952: China launches the «anti-five movement» (Wufan) mainly against national bourgeoisie and traders
1955: Opening of talks between United Nations General Secretary Hammarskjoeld and Chinese Prime Minister Zhou Enlai on the question of US pilots detained in China
1963: Birth of Jiang Wen, Chinese film actor and director
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0422638/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiang_Wen
1966: The United States asks the United Nations members to use their influence for solving the Vietnamese conflict
1967: Under instruction of Mao Zedong, the leftists launch the Shanghai January Storm, overthrowing the anti-Mao mayor and establishing the Shanghai People’s Commune
http://chineseposters.net/themes/shanghai-commune.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_People’s_Commune
1968: A soviet cargo is hit during an US air raid on North Vietnam
1971: Birth of Mayuko Takata, Japanese actress
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0847030/
http://www.ken-on.co.jp/takata/index.html
1976: Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot renames Cambodia to Democratic Kampuchea as a new constitution is promulgated
http://countrystudies.us/cambodia/31.htm
http://www.d.dccam.org/Archives/Documents/DK_Policy/DK_Policy_DK_Constitution.htm
1985: Birth of Yoon So-yi, South Korean actress
http://wiki.d-addicts.com/Yoon_So_Yi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfaMPA775Gg
1986: Birth of Deepika Padukone, Indian model and actress
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepika_Padukone
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2138653/
2000: The 17th Karmapa, Orgyen Trinley Dorge who escaped from his Tsurphu monastery in Tibet in December 1999, arrives in India at Dharamsala where is living the XIV Dalai-Lama
http://kagyuoffice.org/in-india/the-karmapas-great-escape-december-28-1999-january-5-2000/
2003: Shenzhou IV spacecraft successfully returned to earth
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/2625769.stm
http://www.cctv.com/english/news/TVNews/MorningNews/20030106/100062.html
2007: Death of Chih Ree Sun, Chinese-American physicist and poet, born on May 6, 1923
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chih_Ree_Sun
2009: India: The president of the pro-India National Conference (NC) party is sworn in as the new chief minister of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. Omar Abdullah, 38, is the disputed state’s youngest ever chief minister
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7811173.stm
2012: The Afghan government, angry at being sidelined over peace talks, flexed its muscles by ordering the takeover of a US military prison and parading British detainees at a news conference. President Hamid Karzai ordered the transfer of the prison at Bagram to Afghan control within a month
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/8994866/Hamid-Karzai-orders-transfer-of-US-prison-at-Bagram-to-Afghan-control.html
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/jan/05/afghanistan-demands-us-return-bagram
2014: India successfully launches its first rocket using domestically produced booster technology after several previous missions had failed
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2014/01/india-launches-satellite-from-space-centre-201415143713101654.html
2014: Death of K. P. Udayabhanu, Indian singer, born on June 6, 1936
http://netindian.in/news/2014/01/05/00027421/veteran-malayalam-playback-singer-k-p-udayabhanu-passes-away
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXTfmPygggI
2015: Taiwan ailing former president Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) is released from prison on medical parole after serving six years for a graft conviction relating to his presidency
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-30677700 http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2015/01/06/2003608566
2018: The USA announces it will suspend security assistance to Pakistan for failing to take “decisive action” against Taliban militants targeting US personnel in neighbouring Afghanistan
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-01-05/us-cuts-pakistan-security-spending-following-trump-tweet/9305544?section=world
http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2018/01/05/547926/Pakistan-US-security-aid
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/pakistan-slams-us-suspension-of-military-aid-accuses-it-of-betrayal/2018/01/05/fb564c92-f1bc-11e7-95e3-eff284e71c8d_story.html?utm_term=.73e290f0fc41