ON 28 SEPTEMBER IN ASIAN HISTORY
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Updated on September 28, 2019
551 BC: Birth of Confucius
http://www.confucius.org/lunyu/edbio.htm
http://www.crystalinks.com/confucius.html
310: Liu Cong becomes king of the Xiongnu Han Zhao dynasty, up to August 31, 318
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Cong_(Han_Zhao)
1835: Birth of Sai Baba of Shirdi, Indian spiritual leader who died on October 15, 1918
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sai_Baba_of_Shirdi
http://www.saibabaofshirdi.net/
1667: Birth of Japanese warlord Asano Naganori, who died on 21 April 1701
http://wiki.samurai-archives.com/index.php?title=Asano_Naganori
1867: Birth of Hiranuma Kiichiro, Japanese shortly Prime Minister in 1939, who died on August 22, 1952
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiichiro_Hiranuma
1901: During the Philippine-American War, Filipino guerrillas kill more than forty American soldiers in a surprise attack in the town of Balangiga on Samar Island
http://philippineamericanwar.webs.com/balangigamassacre1901.htm
https://kahimyang.com/kauswagan/articles/1286/today-in-philippine-history-september-28-1901-the-people-of-balangiga-samar-attacked-and-killed-american-soldiers-and-officers
1910: Birth of Wenceslao Vinzons, Filipino politician and resistance leader, bayoneted to death on July 15, 1942
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wenceslao_Vinzons
1910: Birth of Diosdado Pangan Macapagal, president of the Philippines from December 1961 to September 1965, who died on April 21, 1997
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diosdado_Macapagal
https://kahimyang.com/kauswagan/articles/645/today-in-philippine-history-september-28-1910-diosdado-p-macapagal-was-born-in-lubao-pampanga
1915: Saito Hajime, 3rd squad leader of the Shinsengumi dies under name of Goro Fujita, born on February 18, 1844
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saitou_Hajime
1931: In Beijing, 200,000 demonstrators demand declaration of war on Japan
1941: During the second Sino-Japanese War, Japanese fail to take Changsha
http://ww2db.com/battle_spec.php?battle_id=183
1945: Birth of Fusako Shigenobu, Japanese Red Army Founder
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusako_Shigenobu
1947: Birth of Sheikh Hasina, Bangladeshi politician, Prime Minister since 2009
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Sheikh_Hasina
http://www.biographybd.com/sheikh-hasina-biography/
1950: Indonesia becomes a member of United Nations
1954: Nikita Khrushchev starts a visit to China
1959: Birth of Yu Tokui, Japanese actor
http://eiga.wikia.com/wiki/Yu_Tokui
http://asianmediawiki.com/Yu_Tokui
1959: Birth of Hiroyuki Konishi, Japanese actor
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0465158/
1966: Birth of Puri Jagannadh, Indian film director
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puri_Jagannadh
http://www.rediff.com/movies/2006/may/19puri.htm
1972: Japan and Communist China agree to establish diplomatic relations
1974: Death of Kajiro Yamamoto, Japanese director, born on March 15, 1902
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0945428/
http://people.theiapolis.com/director-F271/kajiro-yamamoto/
1974: Birth of Takahito Eguchi, Japanese composer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takahito_Eguchi
1982: Birth of Ranbir Kapoor, Indian actor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranbir_Kapoor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9p7SwbYD0o0
1982: In Afghanistan, a Soviet-Afghan convoy is destroyed in the Khunar valley (200 killed or wounded)
1982: Birth of Kazue Fukiishi, Japanese actress
http://eiga.wikia.com/wiki/Kazue_Fukiishi
1986: In Taiwan, the Democratic Progressive Party is founded
http://cald.org/member-parties/democratic-progressive-party-of-taiwan/
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Democratic-Progressive-Party-political-party-Taiwan
1986: Birth of Daniel Zhao, Chinese actor
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2374911/
1989: Death of deposed president of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos (1966-1986) in exile in Hawaii at the age of 72
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0911.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Marcos
1998: Pakistan’s National Assembly passes a constitutional amendment to make the “Qur’an and Sunnah” the “supreme law” but the bill is defeated in the Senate
2000: Death of Pote Sarasin, Thai diplomat, short time prime minister, born on March 25, 1905
http://www.revolvy.com/main/index.php?s=Pote%20Sarasin
2008: Three Chinese astronauts come back on earth after successfully completing the country’s first spacewalk mission
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtjmGniYZ8o
2009: Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party elects Sadakazu Tanigaki as its new leader after its crushing electoral defeat last month
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8278567.stm
2012: Myanmar’s top leader assures the world that the radical reforms his country has taken so far are irreversible, even as the United States announced a day before that it would begin easing a decade-old ban on imports from the South East Asian nation
2016: East Timor takes a maritime decade-long dispute over the sharing of oil and mineral wealth in the Timor Sea with Australia to UN Court
http://www.voanews.com/a/east-timor-takes-maritime-dispute-with-australia-in-un-court/3528236.html
2016: The SAARC summit which was to be held in Islamabad in November is cancelled following India, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Afghanistan’s decision to boycott the summit
http://www.asiapacificstar.com/index.php/sid/248078509
http://tribune.com.pk/story/1190209/bangladesh-pulls-pakistan-summit-tensions-rise/
2018: Canadian lawmakers vote to strip Myanmar’s Suu Kyi of citizenship
https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/2166115/canadian-lawmakers-vote-strip-myanmars-suu-kyi-citizenship
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/28/canadian-mps-vote-to-strip-aung-san-suu-kyi-of-honorary-citizenship