ON 31 JULY IN ASIAN HISTORY
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Updated on July 31, 2019
781: In Japan, the oldest recorded eruption of Mt. Fuji
1143: Birth of Emperor Nijo, 78th emperor of Japan (1158-1165) who died on September 5, 1165
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Nij%C5%8D
1658: Aurangzeb, former governor of Gujarat and Balk (Afghanistan) becomes emperor of India
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurangzeb
http://www.preservearticles.com/201012302033/aurangzeb-biography.html
1805: Death of Dheeran Chinnamalai, Indian Freedom Fighter, born on April 17, 1756
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dheeran_Chinnamalai
http://www.winentrance.com/general_knowledge/dheeran-chinnamalai.html
1880: Birth of Munshi Premchand, Indian Author who died on October 8, 1936
http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/munshi-premchand-101.php
http://www.mapsofindia.com/on-this-day/31-july-1880-popular-hindi-writer-premchand-is-born
1884: Death of Emperor Kien Phuc, the 7th emperor of the Vietnamese Nguyen Dynasty, born on February 12, 1869
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kien_Phuc
1904: During the Russo-Japanese War, Battle of Hsimucheng when units of the Imperial Japanese Army defeat units of the Imperial Russian Army
http://memim.com/battle-of-hsimucheng.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hsimucheng
1916: Birth of Sibte Hassan, Pakistani communist activist who died on April 1986
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibte_Hassan
1936: The International Olympic Committee announces that the 1940 Summer Olympics will to be held in Tokyo. However, the games are given back to the IOC after the Second Sino-Japanese War breaks
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1940_Summer_Olympics
1940: Udham Singh, fiery revolutionary, freedom fighter and social reformer, is hanged by the British Government in the Pantone Villa Jail, London, born on December 29, 1899
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udham_Singh
https://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/rdv2n2/singh.htm
1941: Birth of Amarsinh Chaudhary, Indian politician who died on August 15, 2004
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amarsinh_Chaudhary
1943: Birth of Sab Shimono, Japanese-American actor
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0793634/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sab_Shimono
1954: Birth of Manivannan, Indian actor and director who died on June 15 2013
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manivannan
1956: Talks on the normalization of relations between Japan and Soviet Union resume in London
1958: Mao Zedong and Soviet Union Khrushchev meet in Beijing (up to August 3)
http://www.google.fr/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=5&ved=0CD4QFjAEahUKEwjYhI–r4PHAhWBbxQKHUl4AE0&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdigitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org%2Fdocument%2F112080.pdf%3Fv%3D0155c40dda866dfae98d3fed81bbff0e&ei=q126VZiDBYHfUcnwgegE&usg=AFQjCNHofov0ENV0aFFnzpFxh2J2wte-yw&sig2=oJ14E_G6uc7DWJWiJ2Yyew
1960: End of the state of emergency in Malaya
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malayan_Emergency
http://www.google.fr/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=7&ved=0CFQQFjAGahUKEwjejt7swoPHAhUFbxQKHfCYAEg&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rand.org%2Fcontent%2Fdam%2Frand%2Fpubs%2Freports%2F2005%2FR957.pdf&ei=-XG6VZ6uB4XeUfCxgsAE&usg=AFQjCNEyt6zRawS2cc4ZOdEZHAWSQWQJuQ&sig2=4Cr9LvNqcWF7ZWgDZHEq0w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBRMRf0JVJc
1961: In Bangkok, foundation of the South-East Asia Association
1962: Preliminary agreement between Netherland and Indonesia on West New Guinea
1964: USA and South Vietnam reach agreement on war against North Vietnam
1967: Birth of Minako Honda, Japanese singer and musical actress, who died on November 5, 2005
https://peoplepill.com/people/minako-honda/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnSU7LZGdv8
1967: The People’s Republic of China recognizes the borders and the neutrality of Cambodia
1967: Birth of Mitsuo Iwata, Japanese voice actor
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=1045
1973: Canada quits the Commission of control in Vietnam, replaced by Iran
1980: Death of Mohammed Rafi, Indian singer born on December 24, 1924
http://www.mohdrafi.com/
1986: Death of Chiune Sugihara, Japanese diplomat who helped thousands of Jews leave the Soviet Union while serving as Japanese consul to Lithuania
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/sugihara.html
1988: 32 people are killed and 1,674 injured when a bridge at the Sultan Abdul Halim ferry terminal collapses in Butterworth, Malaysia
https://forum.lowyat.net/topic/3328275/all
1997: Death of Bao Dai, king of Annam (1926-1945) and last emperor of Vietnam (1945-1949), born on October 22, 1913
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-bao-dai-1243873.html
http://madmonarchist.blogspot.fr/2010/08/monarch-profile-emperor-bao-dai-of.html
1998: In Cambodia, Ranariddh and Sam Rainsy reject Hun Sen offer of a coalition cabinet because huge ballot rigging
2002: Asean and USA sign a pact to fight terrorism in South-East Asia
2002: For the first time, Taiwanese president Chen Shui-bian alludes to a referendum on the future of the island
2006: Death of Akira Yoshimura, Japanese writer, born on May 1, 1927.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_Yoshimura
2008: The wife of former Thailand Premier Thaksin is jailed for tax fraud
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2008/07/200873151213588433.html
2009: The emergency rule imposed in Pakistan two years ago by Pervez Musharraf, the country’s former president, was unconstitutional, the country’s supreme court has ruled
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/07/2009731153545939928.html
2010: Eight hundred people are now known to have been killed in the worst floods in Pakistan’s history as rescue workers attempted to reach thousands of people stranded by torrential monsoon rains. More than a million people had been affected by the floods
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2010/07/20107314936812905.html
2012: The world’s biggest ever blackout brought half of India to a standstill, as a catastrophic power outage left 670 million people without electricity
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/9441940/Worlds-biggest-ever-blackout-as-India-is-brought-to-a-standstill.html
2018: Indonesia Bans Islamic State-Linked Group Jamaah Ansharut Daulah
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2018/07/indonesian-court-bans-isil-linked-group-deadly-attacks-180731055025110.html
http://jakartaglobe.id/news/indonesia-bans-islamic-state-linked-group-jamaah-ansharut-daulah/