ON 3 SEPTEMBER IN ASIAN HISTORY
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Updated on September 3, 2019
264: Death of Sun Xiu, third emperor of Eastern Wu
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Xiu_(emperor)
1034: Birth of Go-Sanjo, 71st Japanese emperor (1068-1073), who died on June 15, 1073
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Go-Sanj%C5%8D
1260: The Mamluks defeat the Mongols at the Battle of Ain Jalut in Palestine, marking their first decisive defeat and the point of maximum expansion of the Mongol Empire
http://www.angelfire.com/space2/writing.com.my/ainjalut.htm
http://medieval2.heavengames.com/m2tw/history/historical_battles_folder/ain_jalut/index.shtml
1879: British envoy Sir Louis Cavagnari and 72 men of the The Guides are massacred by Afghan troops while defending the British Residency in Kabul
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_the_British_Residency_in_Kabul
http://glosters.tripod.com/guides.htm
1898: In Philippines, “La Independencia” is first published and published for the last time on the 11th November 1900
https://britsinthephilippines.top/la-independencia-newspaper-the-voice-of-the-philippine-revolution/
1926: Birth of Uttam Kumar, Indian Bengali actor, who died on July 24, 1980
http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=243399
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uttam_Kumar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=643S5y_E6Zo
1938: Birth of Ryoji Noyori, Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2001/noyori/auto-biography/
1945: Japanese forces in Philippines surrender to Allies
http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/policy/1945/450729a.html#8
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Surrender_of_Japanese_Forces_in_the_Philippines_1945.jpg
1945: Birth of Fusako Shigenobu, founder of the Japanese Red Army
http://jcocktail.wixsite.com/revolution-by-terror/single-post/2014/07/10/The-Japanese-Red-Armys-Black-Widow-Fusako-Shigenobu
https://joekyo.wordpress.com/tag/fusako-shigenobu/
1949: Soviet Union informs Mao Zedong that the main leaders of the Second Eastern Turkestan Republic died in an plane crash. In fact murdered on his order
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_East_Turkestan_Republic
1950: An U.S. Military Assistance Advisory Group (MAAG) of 35 men arrives in Saigon to screen French requests for American military aid, assist in the training of South Vietnamese troops, and advise on strategy
1954: The People’s Liberation Army begins shelling the Republic of China (ROC) controlled islands of Quemoy, starting the First Taiwan Strait Crisis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Taiwan_Strait_Crisis
https://adst.org/2016/08/chinas-fight-for-tiny-islands-quemoy-matsu-taiwan-straits-crises-1954-58/#.WbJ-qsZpwuU
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/quemoy_matsu.htm
1964: 2nd incident that year of race riots in Singapore between Chinese and Malay, 13 people killed, 106 injured
http://www.self.gutenberg.org/articles/1964_race_riots_in_Singapore
http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/infopedia/articles/SIP_45_2005-01-06.html
1964: Birth of Junaid Jamshed, Pakistani singer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junaid_Jamshed
http://hamariweb.com/islam/junaid_jamshed_naats_nc17.aspx
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGjeXyWDGQc
1967: Nguyen Van Thieu is elected president of South Vietnam (up to 1975)
https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/history/southeast-asia-history-biographies/nguyen-van-thieu
1971: Birth of Kiran Desai, Indian writer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiran_Desai
1973: Birth of Norihiko Hibino, Japanese composer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norihiko_Hibino
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmB8ywJYMww
1975: Birth of Daniel Chan, Hong Kong singer-songwriter and actor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Chan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1OOAd80JIQ
1976: Birth of Vivek Oberoi, Indian actor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivek_Oberoi
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Vivek-Oberoi
1984: At least 1,300 people die and hundreds more are injured as the worst storm in living memory sweeps across the southern Philippines
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/3/newsid_2496000/2496059.stm
1984: Birth of Seo In-Young, South Korean singer, dancer, and model (Jewelry)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seo_In-young
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCQdcqAZXPE
1994: Russia and the PRC agree to de-target their nuclear weapons against each other
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Soviet_Split
2001: Chinese leader Jiang Zemin gets a warm welcome for his first visit to North Korea
2001: Death of Thuy Trang, Vietnamese-American actress, born on December 14, 1973
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thuy_Trang
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x417qg_sirentrish-thuy-trang_music
2003: Pak Pong-ju is named prime minister of North Korea (until April 2007)
http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Pak_Pong-ju
2007: In Bangladesh, former premier Khaleda Zia is arrested on corruption charge
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6975340.stm
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/sep/03/bangladesh
2008: Philippines president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo dissolves a peace panel the Philippine government had set up to negotiate an end to the deadly conflict in the country’s volatile south
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2008/09/2008936259832396.html
2009: Thousands of ethnic Han protesters swarm around government buildings in Urumqi to demand that local leaders clamp down on ethnic Uighurs after rumors that they were trying to spread H.I.V. by sticking hundreds of Han with tainted needles
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8235305.stm
2010: A suicide bombing kills at least 50 people in Quetta, south-western Pakistan. Nearly 80 others are injured in the explosion at a Shia Muslim rally. Pakistani Taliban militants say they have carried out the bombing
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-11177686
2011: Former First Gentleman Jose Miguel Arroyo is charged with plunder in connection with the allegedly anomalous purchase of secondhand helicopters by the Philippine National Police in 2009
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/52153/mike-arroyo-sued-for-plunder
2012: Death of Sun Myung Moon, South Korean religious leader, author, and activist, founder of the Unification Church, born on February 25, 1920
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/09/02/world/asia/south-korea-reverend-moon-dead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byrnA2ikqik
2014: Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri declares in a video message that the global Islamist extremist movement has launched a new branch to lead its struggle in the Indian sub-continent
https://www.yahoo.com/news/al-qaeda-declares-branch-indian-sub-continent-190808390.html?ref=gs
2016: China ratifies Paris climate deal
http://www.asiapacificstar.com/index.php/sid/247340065
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/sep/03/breakthrough-us-china-agree-ratify-paris-climate-change-deal
2016: Mir Quasem Ali, a key leader of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami party, is executed after being convicted by a controversial war crimes tribunal for offences committed during the 1971 independence conflict with Pakistan
http://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/2016/09/03/jamaats-mir-quasem-ali-hanged-for-war-crimes-as-al-badr-chief-of-chittagong
http://www.thedailystar.net/country/al-badr-chief-mir-quasem-executed-1280152
2017: North Korea claims it has successfully detonated a hydrogen bomb meant for an intercontinental ballistic missile
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/kim-jong-un-nuclear-war-atomic-bomb-south-korea-tension-a7926631.html
http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/09/03/north-korean-nuclear-test-spites-both-washington-and-beijing/
http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2017/09/03/n-korea-bomb-prompts-global-condemnation
2017: One of Cambodia’s last independent newspapers, the Cambodia Daily, has announced it will close after the government ordered it to pay a huge tax bill
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-41141473
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodia-daily-confirms-it-will-close-monday
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5081102/cambodia-daily-close/
2018: Myanmar jails 2 Reuters journalists for 7 years in ‘state secrets’ case
https://www.france24.com/en/20180903-myanmar-jails-reuters-journalists-state-secrets-rohingya
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/09/03/asia/reuters-journalists-profiles-myanmar-intl/index.html
https://www.thenational.ae/world/asia/the-report-that-led-to-two-reuters-journalists-being-jailed-in-myanmar-1.766499
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/03/a-blow-to-press-freedom-world-reacts-to-jailing-of-reuters-journalists-in-myanmar
Holidays and observances
Republic of China (Taiwan): Armed Forces Day
People’s Republic of China: V-J Day