ON 2 OCTOBER IN ASIAN HISTORY
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Updated on October 2, 2019
222: Birth of Trieu Thi Trinh, Vietnam’s Warrior Lady
http://asianhistory.about.com/od/vietnam/p/Lady-Trieu-Vietnam.htm?nl=1
1678: Death of General Wu Sangui who invited Manchus to China, but died trying to expel them
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_Sangui
1775: Death of Chiyo-ni, Japanese poet. She was born in 1703
http://www.oldpondcomics.com/chiyoni.html
https://wkdhaikutopics.blogspot.fr/2007/03/chiyo-ni.html
1869: Birth of Mohandas Gandhi, Indian politician and spiritual leader (Father of India), assassinated on January 30, 1948
http://www.mapsofindia.com/on-this-day/2nd-october-1869-mahatma-gandhi-the-father-of-the-nation-is-born
https://www.biography.com/people/mahatma-gandhi-9305898
http://www.mkgandhi.org/main.htm
1887: Birth of Prince Asaka Yasuhito, commanding officer in the taking and massacre of Nanjing but never charged. Died on 13 April 1981
http://madmonarchist.blogspot.fr/2014/04/royal-profile-prince-yasuhiko-asaka-of.html http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=63305004
1904: Birth of Lal Bahadur Shastri (Indian 3rd Prime Minister (1964-1966), who died on January 11, 1966
http://www.liveindia.com/freedomfighters/LalBahadurShastri.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lal_Bahadur_Shastri
1906: Death of Ravi Varma, Indian painter, born April 29, 1948
http://www.cyberkerala.com/rajaravivarma/
1920: The Chinese sign an agreement with the Russo-Asiatic Bank, largely French and Russian controlled, which will oversee the Chinese Eastern Railway, but give local supervision to China
1938: Birth of Wahid Murad (Waheed Murad), Pakistani film actor and director, who died on November 23, 1983
http://anisshakur.tripod.com/id31.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c059LrHxHPc
1939: Birth of Yoshisada Sakaguchi, Japanese actor
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=5037
1943: Japanese troops leave Kolombangara, Solomon Island
1944 : Death of Julian Felipe, composer of the Philippine National Anthem, born on January 28, 1861
https://kahimyang.com/kauswagan/articles/652/today-in-philippine-history-october-2-1944-julian-felipe-composer-of-the-philippine-national-anthem-died-in-manila
1946: Birth of General Sonthi Boonyaratglin, who led the coup against prime minister Thaksin and became president of the Thailand Council for National Security
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonthi_Boonyaratglin
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/5361932.stm
1949: Soviet Union recognizes the new People’s Republic of China
1950: Birth of Persis Khambatta, Indian model and actress, who died on August 18, 1998
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persis_Khambatta
1952: Birth of Wahed Wafa, Afghan singer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wahed_Wafa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSecCEYD5lg
1957: For the first time, Japan is elected as a member of the United Nations Security Council
1960: Death of Claro M. Recto, Filipino nationalist, born on February 8, 1890
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claro_M._Recto
1962: Birth of Aziz M. Osman, Malaysian actor and director
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aziz_M._Osman
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0530789/bio
1973: Birth of Miako Tadano, Japanese actress
http://wiki.d-addicts.com/Tadano_Miako
1974: Death of Nurul Amin, a prominent Bengali leader of Pakistan’s Muslim League, Prime Minister and vice-president, born on July 15, 1893
http://www.storyofpakistan.com/person.asp?perid=P083
1975: Showa Tenno Hirohito, the 124th Japanese monarch along an imperial line dating back to 660 BC, emperor during the World War II, is welcomed by President Gerald Ford
1975: Death of Kumaraswami Kamaraj, Indian politician, born on July 15, 1903
http://www.bookrags.com/biography/kumaraswami-kamaraj/
1978: Birth of Ayumi Hamasaki, Japanase actress
http://yummycelebrities.com/2006/08/16/ayumi-hamasaki/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wqDEKywPxs
1980: Death of General John Lionel Kotelawala, third Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (1953-1956), born on 4 April 1897
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kotelawala
1986: Sikhs attempt to assassinate Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/attempt-to-assassinate-prime-minister-rajiv-gandhi-exposes-chinks-in-his-security-armour/1/348942.html
http://articles.latimes.com/1986-10-08/news/mn-4827_1_indira-gandhi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pby8kpQcThk
1988: Pakistan’s Supreme Court orders free elections
1990: A Chinese airline Boeing 737-247 is hijacked; after landing at Guangzhou, it crashes into two airliners on the ground, killing 132 people
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiamen_Airlines_Flight_8301
http://history.04007.cn/en.php/HisMain/9466.html
2007: President Roh Moo-hyun of South Korea walks across the Military Demarcation Line into North Korea on his way to the second Inter-Korean Summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-Korean_Summit
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7023079.stm
2008: The US senate approves a landmark deal that re-establishes bilateral nuclear co-operation with India ending a 30-year ban on US nuclear trade
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2008/10/20081021212400686.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7647689.stm
2008: South Korean actress and model Choi Jin-sil, known as ‘the nation’s actress’, born on December 24, 1968, commits suicide
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7648156.stm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6NquA91TeA<
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oax_3Gl_eA4&NR=1
2009: A court in Myanmar rejects an appeal by detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi against her continued house arrest
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/10/200910242658453599.html
2012: Death of Nguyen Chi Thien, Vietnamese dissident poet, born on February 27, 1939
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-19819794
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguyen_Chi_Thien
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfZ6v-2viXI
2012: One of India’s most prominent anti-corruption campaigners, Arvind Kejriwal, launches a new political party aiming to tap into a rich seam of public anger against the graft-tainted government
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/9581361/Indian-anti-corruption-party-launched.html
http://www.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne%2BNews/Asia/Story/A1Story20121002-375086.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-19796415
2013: One of Vietnam’s best-known dissidents, Le Quoc Quan, is sentenced to 30 months in jail for tax evasion.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24361701
http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Hanoi:-30-months-in-prison-sentence-for-the-Catholic-lawyer-Le-Quoc-Quan-29173.html
2014: Vietnamese Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong arrived in Seoul yesterday afternoon, beginning a four-day state visit to the Republic of Korea (RoK) at the invitation of President Park Geun-hye
http://vietnamnews.vn/politics-laws/260845/party-general-secretary-begins-rok-visit-to-enhance-relations.html
2014: A meeting of Nobel Peace Prize laureates, due to be held in Cape Town, is cancelled after South Africa refused the Dalai Lama a visa
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-29467665 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/southafrica/11136795/Nobel-Peace-Summit-cancelled-after-Dalai-Lama-refused-visa.html
Holidays and observances
India: Gandhi’s birthday-related observances