ON 16 OCTOBER IN ASIAN HISTORY
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Updated on October 16, 2019
690: Empress Wu Zetian takes the power ousting the Tang Dynasty and establishing the Second Zhou Dynasty (until March 3, 705)
http://www.womeninworldhistory.com/heroine6.html
http://history.04007.cn/en.php/HisMain/9975.html
1535: Birth of Niwa Nagahide, Japanese warlord who died on 15 May 1585
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niwa_Nagahide
1600: Dutch Olivier van Noort ships reach Philippines
http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-BucExpl-t1-body-d11-d2.html
1840: Birth of Kuroda Kiyotaka, 2nd Japanese Prime Minister, (April 1888-October 1889), who died on August 23, 1900
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuroda_Kiyotaka
1841: Birth of Prince Hirobumi Ito, four times Prime Minister and first Japanese governor of Korea
http://www.jref.com/glossary/ito_hirobumi.shtml
1866: In Korea, after the killing of French missionaries, a group of 170 French marines, belonging to Admiral Pierre-Gustave Roze expedition, land on Ganghwa island, seize the fortress which controls the Han river, and occupy the fortified city of Ganghwa itself
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Campaign_against_Korea,_1866
1868 : Denmark ends its involvement in India by selling the rights to the Nicobar Islands to the British
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_India
1900: Great Britain and Germany sign the Anglo-German Treaty, in which they agree to maintain the territorial integrity of China and support the ‘open door’ policy called for by US secretary of State. France and Russia will adhere few days later
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/14355598
1901: Baron Hayashi of Japan begins negotiations in London to make an alliance with the British and strengthen Japan’s position against Russians
1905: The partition of Bengal by the British authorities causes high level unrest
http://www.storyofpakistan.com/articletext.asp?artid=A029
http://www.mapsofindia.com/on-this-day/16th-october-1905-the-provincial-state-of-bengal-was-partitioned
1907: After the first elections to the Philippine Assembly, in July, the first session is opened. The Nacionalista Party of Manuel Quezon and Sergio Osmena won the elections and will continue to dominate Philippine electoral politics until World War II
https://kahimyang.com/kauswagan/articles/1582/today-in-philippine-history-october-16-1907-the-philippine-assembly-was-inaugurated
1931: Birth of Rosa Rosal, Filipina actress and humanitarian
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0740944/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Rosal
1934: Start of the Chinese Communist Party one year and four days Long March
http://asianhistory.about.com/od/asianhistoryfaqs/f/longmarch.htm
https://randyroberts.wordpress.com/2008/10/16/on-this-day-10-16-2008-the-long-march/
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/long_march_1934_to_1935.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-QRcQXX_Ck
1936: Birth of Akira Machida, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Japan (2002-2006)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_Machida
1942: A cyclone is the cause of 11,000 dead in Bengal
1948: Birth of Hema Malini, Indian Actress
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hema_Malini
1951: Assassination of Liaquat Ali Khan, the first PM of Pakistan
http://www.thefridaytimes.com/tft/killing-liaquat-ali-khan/
http://www.countercurrents.org/ghazali180415.htm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvGjVJ_fsEQ
1952: Death of Ghulam Bhik Nairang, Indian-Pakistani lawyer and poet, born on September 26, 1876
http://urduadab4u.blogspot.fr/2011/08/syed-ghulam-bhik-nairang-distinguished.html
1954: In Vietnam, a national congress, convened in Saigon by Bao Dai, refuses the adhesion to the French Union Française “under its current form”
http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/history/A0819671.html
1956: Birth of Rudra Mohammad Shahidullah, Bangladeshi poet, author, and playwright who died on June 21, 1992
http://www.poemhunter.com/rudra-mohammad-shahidullah/biography/
1964: PRC detonates its first nuclear weapon
https://www.ctbto.org/specials/testing-times/16-october-1964-first-chinese-nuclear-test
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/china-joins-a-bomb-club
http://history.04007.cn/en.php/HisMain/9993.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZbBCqSgLOE
1965: In Indonesia, the Chinese trade mission in Jakarta is ransacked (anti-China activities after the September 30 coup)
1967: John Baez is arrested in Vietnam protest
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/16/newsid_2535000/2535301.stm
1968: Birth of Mark Lee, Singaporean actor and director
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Lee_(comedian)
1973: Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese diplomat Le Duc Tho are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating the Paris peace accords. Kissinger accepted, but Tho declined the award until such time as “peace is truly established.”
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1973/press.html
1974: Death of Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavathar, Carnatic musician, born on September 1, 1895
http://chembai.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chembai
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shrnT1qSRbE
1975: The Balibo Five, a group of Australian-based television journalists based in the town of Balibo in the then Portuguese Timor (now East Timor), are killed by Indonesian troops
http://www.naa.gov.au/collection/fact-sheets/fs238.aspx
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-10-21/balibo-five-investigation-dropped-by-afp/5828814
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3qN7el001Q
1979: First official visit of Afghan president Babrak Karmal to Moscow
1979: Chinese dissident Wei Jingsheng, arrested in late March, is sentenced to fifteen years in prison
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wei_Jingsheng
1982: Birth of Vincy Chan, Hong Kong singer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincy_Chan
http://www.hkcinemagic.com/en/people.asp?id=13849
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ND6tULFc_oE&feature=related
1982: Birth of Prithviraj Sukumaran, Indian actor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prithviraj_Sukumaran
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=if7W6GpMS6o
2003: Birth of Princess Kritika of Nepal, daughter of Crown Prince Paras
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Kritika_of_Nepal
2003: Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad tells a summit of Islamic leaders that “Jews rule the world by proxy” and the world’s 1.3 billion Muslims should unite, using nonviolent means for a “final victory.”
2006: In Sri Lanka Tamil rebels ram a truck packed with explosives into a convoy of military buses, killing at least 103 people and wounding 150 more in one of the deadliest insurgent attacks since the 2002 cease-fire.
2010: Demonstrations are held in China and Japan about islands claimed by both countries in the East China Sea
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11558882
2012: Myanmar’s reformist President Thein Sein is re-appointed as head of the ruling party at a key meeting aimed at reviving its flagging political fortunes against a resurgent opposition.
http://www.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne%2BNews/Asia/Story/A1Story20121016-378051.html
2017: European Union bans all investments and oil exports to North Korea in punishing sanctions
http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/2115618/european-union-ministers-ban-all-investments-and-oil-exports