ON 10 MARCH IN ASIAN HISTORY
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Updated on March 10, 2019
948: Death of Liu Zhiyuan, Chinese emperor, born on March 4, b. 895
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Zhiyuan
1527: Babur wins a great victory at Kanwaha, while his son is pacifying the Gange valley and becomes the absolute master of northern Indian
http://www.storyofpakistan.com/articletext.asp?artid=A011
1735: An agreement between Nadir Shah and Russia is signed near Ganja, Azerbaijan and Russian troops are withdrawn from Baku
http://madmonarchs.guusbeltman.nl/madmonarchs/nadir/nadir_bio.htm
1830: The Royal Netherlands East Indies Army is created
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/europe/nl-landmacht-knil.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Netherlands_East_Indies_Army
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2RYcv-yPQY
1846: Prince Osahito, fourth son of deceased Emperor Ninko of Japan, born in July 1831, becomes the 121st Emperor of Japan Komei, up to his death in January 1867
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_K%C5%8Dmei
1887: Birth of Toshitsugu Takamatsu, grandmaster of Ninjutsu, who died on April 2, 1972
http://www.angelfire.com/mi/budotaijutsu/Takamatsu.html
1897: Death of Savitribai Phule, Indian poet and social reformer, born on January 3, 1831
http://drambedkarbooks.com/2011/09/03/first-lady-teacher-of-india-savitribai-phule/
1905: Japanese army captures Mukden (Shenyang) after defeating Russian forces
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Mukden
http://warfarehistorynetwork.com/daily/military-history/bloodbath-at-mukden-imperial-russia-and-japan-collide/
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/14710156
1906: Birth of Alejandro G. Abadilla, Filipino poet who died on August 26, 1969
http://kahimyang.info/kauswagan/articles/993/today-in-philippine-history-march-10-1906-alejandro-g-abadilla-was-born-in-rosario-cavite
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejandro_G._Abadilla
1909: By signing the Anglo-Siamese Treaty of 1909, Thailand relinquishes its sovereignty over the Malay states of Kedah, Kelantan, Perlis and Terengganu, which become British protectorates
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Siamese_Treaty_of_1909
1910: China ends slavery
http://www.historychannel.com.au/classroom/day-in-history/479/china-ends-slavery
http://histclo.com/act/work/slave/china/sla-china.html
1912: Yuan Shikai is sworn in as the second provisional president of the Republic of China
http://internationalschoolhistory.weebly.com/yuan-shikai-and-the-failure-of-the-republic.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuan_Shikai
http://history.04007.cn/en.php/HisMain/1961.html
1917: Batangas is formally founded as one of the Philippines’s earliest encomiendas
http://asj.upd.edu.ph/mediabox/archive/ASJ-14-2-1976/anderson-encomienda-philippine-history.pdf
1922: Birth of Kiyoshi Yamashita, Japanese painter who died on July 12, 1971
http://www.weirdretro.org.uk/captains-blog/bizarre-profiles-kiyoshi-yamashita-1922-1971
https://tokyo5.wordpress.com/2010/03/14/japanese-van-gogh/
https://www.google.fr/search?q=Kiyoshi+Yamashita&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiq_OLuueHZAhUS_aQKHYZICisQ_AUICigB&biw=1280&bih=603
1922: In India, Mahatma Gandhi is arrested. He will be tried for sedition and sentenced to six years in prison and released in 1924 for an appendicitis operation
http://www.mapsofindia.com/on-this-day/10-march-1922-mahatma-gandhi-was-arrested-and-tried-for-sedition
1923: Birth of Manoranjan Das, Indian playwright who died on February 17, 2013
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manoranjan_Das
1928: Birth of Atsumi Kiyoshi, Japanese comic actor, who died on August 4, 1996
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiyoshi_Atsumi
1934: Birth of Chinese pianist Fou Ts’ong (Fu Cong)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fou_Ts’ong
1938: Death of An Chang-ho, Korean independence activist, born on November 9, 1878
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Ahn_Chang_Ho
http://www.dosan.org/dosanbiography.html
1939: Birth of Asghar Ali Engineer, Indian social activist and reformist author who died on May 14, 2013
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asghar_Ali_Engineer
http://dawoodi-bohras.com/about_us/people/engineer/
1945: The US Air Forces continue the bombing of Tokyo with napalm, causing fires that destroy a quarter of the city and kill than 100,000 civilians
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-firebombing-of-tokyo-continues
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_Aj9Jw5MXo&feature=related
1945: Japan declares Vietnam independence
1948: Tetsuo Katayama, Prime minister from May 1947, resigns and is replaced by Ashida Hitoshi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetsu_Katayama
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitoshi_Ashida
1948: The Indian Union Muslim League is founded by remnants of the old Muslim League
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Union_Muslim_League
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_League
1948: Laos becomes a member of the French Union
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Union
1949 : Birth of Sam Rainsy, Cambodian politician
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Rainsy
1951: Death of Kijuro Shidehara, Japanese Prime Minister from October 1945 to May 1946
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kij%C5%ABr%C5%8D_Shidehara
1951: Birth of Gloria Diaz, Filipino actress, Miss Universe 1969
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria_Diaz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSpocfZ8Qu8
1959: Begining of the Tibetan uprising. Fearing an abduction attempt by China, 300,000 Tibetans surround the Dalai Lama’s palace to prevent his removal
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/rebellion-in-tibet
1962: Birth of Seiko Matsuda, Japanese pop singer
http://www.japan-zone.com/modern/matsuda_seiko.shtml
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETByhumlXWA
1965: During the Konfrontasi, in Singapore a bomb placed by two Indonesian marines explodes in the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank Building known as MacDonald House. The explosion killed 3 people and injured 33 others
http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/infopedia/articles/SIP_62_2004-12-17.html
https://roots.sg/learn/stories/macdonald-house-bombing/story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4NSDSj0lgA
1966: North Vietnamese capture US Green Beret Camp at Ashau Valley
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_A_Shau
http://www.google.fr/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=11&ved=0ahUKEwj667fVprTLAhVJtRoKHRiLDMUQFghTMAo&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.catkillers.org%2Fhistory-1966-Battle-of-A-Shau.pdf&usg=AFQjCNHyjd0GrJqo6qsT124k3r49xNdAwA&sig2=S55ozbEloVQPru0RJnxHOw
1966: Military Prime Minister of South Vietnam Nguyen Cao Ky sacked rival General Nguyen Chanh Thi, precipitating large-scale civil and military dissension in parts of the nation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguyen_Chanh_Thi
1967: Birth of Omer Tarin, Pakistani poet and scholar
http://www.pw.org/content/omer_tarin
http://ginamc.blogspot.fr/2014/12/omer-tarin-poet-writer.html
1968: During the Vietnam War, Battle of Lima Site 85, a victorious attack by forces of the Vietnam People’s Army on a clandestine United States base in the neutral Kingdom of Laos
https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/95unclass/Linder.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC3mqwVuLgU
1970: Captain Ernest Medina is charged with My Lai war crimes
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/army-captain-charged-with-my-lai-war-crimes
1971: Saigon announces that an South Vietnamese offensive in Laos in the purpose to cut the Ho Chi Minh track caused the death of 7,000 communist
1972: Marshal Lon Nol takes all powers in Phnom Penh and becomes President of the Khmer Republic up to the Khmer Rouge victory in April 1975
http://www.mekong.net/cambodia/banyan2.htm
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=7288655
1974: Last Japanese soldier, Hiroo Onada, a guerilla operating in Philippines, surrenders, 29 years after World War II ended
http://www.badassoftheweek.com/onoda.html
http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/02/a-japanese-soldier-who-continued-fighting-wwii-29-years-after-the-japanese-surrendered-because-he-didnt-know/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivAuQRrNevA
1975: North Vietnamese take the larger part of Ban Me Thuot, capital of High-Plateau in South Vietnam
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/communists-surround-ban-me-thuot
1976: Birth of Kisaki, Japanese musician
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kisak i
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpNpWTm0B50
1983: General Suharto, only one candidate is reelected President of Indonesia for the fourth time for five years
1984: Birth in Chengdu of Chinese singer Li Yuchen
http://women.stareastasia.com/li-yuchun/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijwjS0tfVps
1986: Birth of JC de Vera, Filipino Actor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JC_de_Vera
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCTSmBvM1jY
1987: Birth of Sita Chan, Hong Kong singer and actress who died in a car accident on April 17, 2013
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sita_Chan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BomFsTE8rSc
1987: Birth of Liu Shishi, Chinese actress
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Shishi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Mxg8xwKJdE
1998: Suharto, only one candidate is reelected unanimously President of Indonesia for the seven time, but will be obliged to resign two months later
1999: Death of Kusumagraj, Indian poet, born on February 27, 1912
http://www.nashik.com/v-v-shirwadkar-kusumagraj
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kusumagraj
2005: Tung Chee-hwa, Chief Executive, hated by the majority of the population of Hong Kong and who lost the favor of Beijing is provisionally replaced by his deputy Donald Tsang
2007: In Taiwan, KMT expulses from its ranks the Defense Minister, General Lee Jye, its highest member in the government because he carried out the order of President Chen Shui-bian to withdraw all Chiang Kai-shek statues from military places
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2007/03/10/2003351657
2009: President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo signs into law RA 9522 or the Philippine Archipelagic Baseline Law affirming the country’s claim of its territorial waters, extended continental shelf, economic zones and the Kalayaan Island Group
http://archives.pia.gov.ph/?m=12&sec=reader&rp=1&fi=p090312.htm&no=8&date=03/12/2009
http://www.lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra2009/ra_9522_2009.html
2010: Myanmar’s military government announces a new election law that bars Aung San Suu Kyi, the country’s detained opposition leader, from standing in polls expected later this year. The Political Parties Registration Law excludes anyone convicted of a crime from joining a political party and thus, from contesting in elections
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2010/03/2010310513981448.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8559048.stm
2013: Death of Danny Zialcita, Filipino director, producer, and screenwriter, born on November 24, 1939
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Zialcita
http://www.rappler.com/entertainment/24309-danny-zialcita-tribute
http://starforallseasons.com/2013/02/15/danny-zialcitas-vilma-santos-films/
2013: Aung San Suu Kyi is re-elected leader of the Burmese National League for Democracy
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/mar/10/aung-san-suu-kyi-reelected-burma-opposition
2015: Pakistan ends death penalty suspension after seven years. It will esume executions for all death penalty offences, months after a moratorium was partially lifted to allow executions of terror convicts
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-31812177
2015: At least 16 police officers and eight protesters are reportedly hurt, after Myanmar police clashed with students, monks and journalists as they broke up protesters calling for academic freedom
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/03/myanmar-police-crack-student-protesters-150310123609713.html
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-31812028
Holidays and observances
Tibetan Uprising Day (For Tibetan independence supporters)