ON 22 OCTOBER IN ASIAN HISTORY
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Updated on October 22, 2019
794: Emperor Kanmu relocates Japanese capital to Heiankyo (Kyoto)
http://everything2.com/title/Heiankyo
http://great-japanese-people.blogspot.fr/2012/01/emperorkammu-autocratic-tenno.html
1197: Birth of Juntoku, 84th emperor of Japan (1210-1221), who died on October 7, 1242
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Juntoku
1331: Kogon, first emperor to occupy the Northern Court of Japan, is enthroned
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Kogon
1335: Ex-emperor Hanazono becomes a Zen priest
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanazono_Emperor
1625: Death of Kikkawa Hiroie, Japanese politician, born in 1561
https://wiki.samurai-archives.com/index.php?title=Kikkawa_Hiroie
1633: In the Battle of Liaoluo Bay, the Ming dynasty defeats the Dutch East India Company
http://www.catchthispilum.com/october-22nd-1633-the-battle-of-liaoluo-bay/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Liaoluo_Bay
1873: Birth of Rama Tirtha, Indian philosopher and educator who died on October 1927, 1906
http://www.ramatirtha.org/rama.htm
1894: Birth of Mei Lanfang, Chinese opera performer, who died on August 8, 1961
http://www.newsgd.com/culture/pic/200306240034.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forever_Enthralled
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7hc4q_regrets-eternels-sheng-si-hen-de-fe_shortfilms
1900: Birth of Ashfaqulla Khan, Indian Revolutionary, hanged on December 19, 1927
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashfaqulla_Khan
http://www.liveindia.com/freedomfighters/ashfaqullakhan.html
1913: Birth of Bao Dai, king of Annam emperor of Vietnam from 1926 until 1945 and as emperor of Vietnam from 1945 until 1949, who died on July 30, 1997
http://www.vietnamgear.com/bio/8.aspx
http://www.viettouch.com/philately/scst_baodai.html
1928: As Chiang Kai-shek is engaged in fighting the communists, China expels all Russian instructors & civil servants
1939: Birth of Susumu Kurobe, Japanese actor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susumu_Kurobe
http://www.veoh.com/watch/v332167429fmgb3r?h1=Susumu+Kurobe+2003+Interview
1945: Nahdlatul Ulama proclaims that a state of jihad exists against the Dutch, making participation obligatory for Muslims
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nahdlatul_Ulama
1946: Birth of Yuko Maruyama, Japanese actress
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0555483/
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=65065
1947 : Start of the first indo-Pakistan wars over Kashmir
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Indo-Pakistani_Wars
http://www.academia.edu/2473712/THE_FIRST_INDO-PAKISTANI_WAR_1947-48
1953: Laos gains independence from France, except defense matters, by the Franco-Lao Treaty of Amity and Association
1954: Death of Jibanananda Das, Bengali poet, born on February 17, 1899
http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Das,_Jibanananda
http://www.poemhunter.com/jibanananda-das/
1957: Vietnam war first United States casualties in Vietnam
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/american-forces-suffer-first-casualties-in-vietnam
1964: Death of Khawaja Nazimuddin, 2nd Pakistan’s Governor-General (1948-1951) then Prime Minister (1951-1953), born on July 19, 1894
http://pakistanherald.com/Profile/Khawaja-Nazimuddin-1176
1969 : Birth of Lee Seung-shin, Korean actress
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1800416/
http://asianmediawiki.com/Lee_Seung-Shin
1970: Tunku Abdul Rahman resigns from Prime Minister of Malaysia
http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/tunku-abdul-rahman-93.php
1972: Henry Kissinger proposes to Nguen Van Thieu a cease-fire, but the Vietnamese president rejects it as a treason
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/president-thieu-turns-down-peace-proposal
1980: In South Korea, in a referendum, 92 % of the voters approve a new constitution that includes the dissolution of the national assembly and of all the political parties
http://countrystudies.us/south-korea/23.htm
1981: Founding congress of the Nepal Workers and Peasants Organization faction led by Hareram Sharma and D.P. Singh
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepal_Workers_and_Peasants_Organisation_(Hareram_Sharma)
1984: Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, accuses «foreign powers» to help Sikh activists in Punjab
1985: Death of Chinese general Xu Shiyou, born in 1905
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xu_Shiyou
http://history.04007.cn/en.php/HisMain/10147.html
https://www.jstor.org/stable/44288968?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1985-10-24/news/8503120957_1_martial-arts-commanded-communist-party
1986: Death of Ye Jianying, Chinese general and politician
http://www.nytimes.com/1986/10/22/obituaries/marshal-ye-juanying-90-dies-former-chinese-head-of-state.html
http://wiki.china.org.cn/wiki/index.php/Ye_Jianying
http://history.04007.cn/en.php/HisMain/10149.html
1988: Birth of Matt Evans, Filipino actor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Evans
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2381071/
1989: In Cambodia, Khmer Rouge occupy Pailin
1998: Pakistan’s carpet weaving industry announced that they would begin to phase out child labor
1998: Indian actor Ajit Khan dies from a cardiac arrest
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajit_Khan
http://www.rediff.com/movies/2003/aug/25ajit.htm
1999: China ends its first-ever human rights conference in which it defied western definitions of civil liberties
2005: Death of Yon Hyong-muk, North Korea’s Prime Minister (1989-1992)
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/dprk/2005/dprk-051025-kcna06.htm
2006: Death of Choi Kyu-ha, Prime Minister, then president of South Korea (1979-1980), born on July 16, 1919
http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choi_Kyu-ha
2006: Death of Indian film director Manoj Punj
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manoj_Punj
2007: Raid on Anuradhapura Air Force Base, is carried out by 21 Tamil Tiger commandos, all except one died in this attack, 8 Sri Lankan Air Force planes are destroyed and 10 damaged
http://intellibriefs.blogspot.com/2007/10/lttes-anuradhapura-raid-bravery.html
2008: India launches its first unmanned lunar mission Chandrayaan-1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandrayaan-1
2009: Nearly 6,000 Tamil refugees are released from Sri Lanka’s main camp for war-displaced people, officials say
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8320392.stm
2013: The Sultan of Brunei introduces a new code of sharia law which could see stonings introduced for adultery, amputations for thefts and public flogging for drinking alcohol.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/brunei/10395702/Brunei-introduces-death-by-stoning-under-new-Islamic-laws.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24624166
2013: The Chinese government issues a white paper on west China’s Tibet Autonomous Region, detailing its comprehensive development and rapid progress in the past 60-odd years.
http://www.euronews.com/2013/10/22/china-claims-tibet-is-flourishing-and-its-people-happy-and-healthy/
2013: Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi finally receives the EU’s Sakharov rights prize she won in 1990 at the height of a brutal military crackdown, but said her work was not yet done
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/10/22/world/europe/suu-kyi-prize/
2014: South Korea dismantles a Christmas tree-shaped tower near the border with North Korea which had previously been used for a seasonal lights show that drew angry protests from the atheist regime in Pyongyang
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-29718662