ON 30 SEPTEMBER IN ASIAN HISTORY
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Updated on September 30, 2019
1207: Birth of Jalaluddin Muhammad Rumi, Afghan scholar and Sufi poet who died on December 17, 1273
http://www.poemhunter.com/mewlana-jalaluddin-rumi/biography/
http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/rumi-20.php
1551: End of the Tainei-ji incident: A coup in Yamaguchi by the military establishment of the Ōuchi clan forces their lord Ōuchi Yoshitaka to commit suicide, and the city is burned
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tainei-ji_incident
http://wiki.samurai-archives.com/index.php?title=Ouchi_Yoshitaka
1626: Death of Nurhaci, Manchurian founder of the Jin Dynasty, born in 1558
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurhaci
1874: Birth of Vyner Brooke, third and final White Rajah of Sarawak (Borneo) (1917-1946) who died on 9 May 1963
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Vyner_Brooke
1917: Birth of Park Chung-hee, president of South Korea (1963-1978) who died on October 26, 1979
http://biography.yourdictionary.com/chung-hee-park
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_Chung-hee
1920: Birth of Eileen Chang (Zhang Ailing), Chinese writer who died on September 8, 1995
http://www.chinesetolearn.com/eileen-chang-zhang-ailing-quotes/
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Eileen_Chang
1922: Birth of Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Indian film director, who died on August 27, 2006
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hrishikesh_Mukherjee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6s9aRvYoDeI
1932: Birth of Shintaro Ishihara, writer and governor of Tokyo from 1999 to 2012
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shintaro_Ishihara
http://www.citymayors.com/mayors/tokyo_mayor.html
1945: In the Philippines, under popular pressure, MacArthur is obliged to free Luis Taruc, leader of the Huk (People’s Anti-Japanese Army)
http://cityofsanfernando.blogspot.com/2005/05/ka-luis-m-taruc-june-21-1913-may-4.html
1947: The Islamic Republic of Pakistan and Yemen join the United Nations
1948: Siliwangi division recaptures Madiun. The Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI) abandons Madiun, pursued by army. Aidit and Lukman leave for China
1949: End of the first meeting of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (started on 21). Mao is elected president
http://www.historytoday.com/richard-cavendish/mao-zedong-becomes-chinese-head-state
1950: Zhou Enlai warns that China will not stand idly by if “the imperialists wantonly invade the territory of North Korea.”Two days later, he formally notifies the Indian ambassador to China that if the U.S. enters North Korea, China will intervene
1953: Joint Americano-French communiqué announcing a bigger aid to France in Indochina
1959: Coming back from USA, Nikita Khrushchev goes to China
1961: Birth of Sally Yeh, Hong Kong pop star and actress
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Yeh
http://www.hkcinemagic.com/en/people.asp?id=236
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYxFaeG5TP8
1964: First large scale antiwar demonstration staged at Berkeley
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-large-scale-antiwar-demonstration-staged-at-berkeley
1965: Indonesian procommunist military officers, calling themselves the September 30 Movement (Gestapu), attempt to seize power, killing five generals. Their failure led to Sukarno’s displacement from power; a bloody purge of PKI members and the rise of Suharto who retake control on October 1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/30_September_Movement
http://www.globalresearch.ca/still-uninvestigated-after-50-years-did-the-u-s-help-incite-the-1965-indonesia-massacre/5467309
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/54b/033.html
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/41017138_The_’Gestapu’_events_of_1965_in_Indonesia_New_evidence_from_Russian_and_German_archives
1969: Thailand announces the gradual withdrawal of the US forces from its territory
1972: Birth of Shaan, Indian singer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaan_(singer)
1975: The General Assembly of the United Nations postpones the question of the admission of the two Vietnam
1977: Philippine political prisoners, Eugenio Lopez, Jr. and Sergio Osmena III successfully escaped from Fort Bonifacio Maximum Security Prison in the Philippines
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenio_Lopez,_Jr.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergio_Osme%C3%B1a_III
1979: Birth of Vince Chong, Malaysian singer-songwriter
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vince_Chong
https://www.allmusic.com/artist/vince-mn0001458791
1982: Birth of Li Xiaolu (Jacqueline Li), Chinese actress and singer
http://wiki.d-addicts.com/Li_Xiao_Lu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC3XBN6Mqdg
1987: Mohammad Najibullah becomes president of Afghanistan (until 1992)
https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/mohammad-najibullah-6875.php
1987: Birth of Denise Laurel, Filipino actress and singer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denise_Laurel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxgBNCWssME
1990: The Soviet Union and South Korea establish diplomatic relations
1993: Around 10,000 people are killed when an earthquake measuring 6.4 struck southern India
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Latur_earthquake
http://www.mapsofindia.com/on-this-day/30th-september-1993-20000-are-killed-in-an-earthquake-in-latur-maharashtra
1996: Death of Asao Uchida, Japanese actor
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0879729/
1999: Japan’s worst nuclear accident at a uranium reprocessing facility in Tokai-mura, northeast of Tokyo
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/461446.stm
2004: Death of of Gamini Fonseka, Sri Lankan actor, born on March 21, 1936
http://dbsjeyaraj.com/dbsj/archives/1114
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamini_Fonseka
2004: The first images of a live giant squid in its natural habitat are taken 600 miles south of Tokyo
2008: Veteran Singapore opposition leader and human rights fighter Josue B. Jeyaretnam dies He was the first to break a government monopoly on power in Singapore when he won a seat in parliament in 1981
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7643379.stm
http://remembersingapore.wordpress.com/2012/02/25/persistent-opposition-j-b-jeyaretnam/
2008: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Nicolas Sarkozy sign a major co-operation pact which paves the way for the sale of French nuclear reactors to Delhi
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7644377.stm
2009: At least 475 people are dead and thousands are trapped under rubble after a strong earthquake shook western Indonesia
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8284208.stm
2010: North and South Korea end their first military talks in two years without making progress. The meeting was aimed at easing tensions heightened by the sinking of a South Korean frigrate near the nations’ disputed sea border in March
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2010/09/201093053311507827.html
http://www.france24.com/en/20100930-north-korea-south-korea-military-talks-torpedoed-warship-dispute-cheonan
2016: A Chinese court jailes for life Wan Qingliang, former Communist Party boss of the southern city of Guangzhou, after finding him guilty of corruption
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2023942/former-guangzhou-party-chief-wan-qingliang-jailed-life