ON 4 SEPTEMBER IN ASIAN HISTORY
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Updated on September 4, 2019
626: Li Shimin, posthumously known as Emperor Taizong of Tang, assumes the throne over the Tang Dynasty of China up to 649
https://www.travelchinaguide.com/intro/history/tang/emperor_taizong.htm
1323: Death of Gegeen Khan, Emperor Yingzong of Yuan, born on February 22, 1303
http://expectativasracionais.blogspot.fr/2008/09/gegeen-khan-emperor-yingzong-of-yuan.html
1563: Birth of Chinese Ming dynasty emperor Wanli (1572-1620), who died on August 18, 1620
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanli_Emperor
1825: Birth of Dadabhai Naoroji, one of the founders of the Indian National Congress, who died on June 30, 1917
http://www.iloveindia.com/indian-heroes/dadabhai-naoroji.html
http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Dadabhai_Naoroji.aspx
http://www.mapsofindia.com/on-this-day/4th-september-1825-the-grand-old-man-of-india-dadabhai-naoroji-is-born
1939: Japan declares its neutrality in European World War II
1941: Birth of Sushilkumar Shinde, Indian politician
https://www.mapsofindia.com/who-is-who/government-politics/sushil-kumar-shinde.html
http://www.elections.in/political-leaders/sushilkumar-shinde.html
1943 : The Japanese-sponsored 1943 Constitution is signed and ratified in a general assembly and two days later by the Kapisanan sa Paglilingkod sa Bagong Pilipinas (KALIBAPI), the only political organization allowed during the Japanese occupation in the Philippines.
https://kahimyang.com/kauswagan/articles/572/today-in-philippine-history-september-4-1943-the-japanesesponsored-constitution-was-signed-and-ratified
1945: Japanese forces on Wake Island, which they had held since December of 1941, surrender to U.S. Marines
http://www.desausa.org/wake_island_surrender.htm
1951: Opening of the San Francisco conference for a peace treaty with Japan (up to September 8)
https://ww2db.com/battle_spec.php?battle_id=316
1952: Birth of Rishi Kapoor, Indian actor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rishi_Kapoor
1958: The PRC declares the extension of its territorial waters to twelve nautical miles and maintains that would apply not only to mainland China and its coastal islands but also to Taiwan and all other islands claimed by China
http://history.04007.cn/en.php/HisMain/8635.html
1959: Laos, involved in communist insurrection asks the help of the United Nations to restore order
1962 Birth of Shinya Yamanaka, Japanese physician, Nobel Prize laureate 2012
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2012/yamanaka-bio.html
1965: Birth of Bowie Lam, Hong Kong actor and singer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowie_Lam
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIuQCRg7HJs
1967: In Operation Swift, U.S. Marines engage the North Vietnamese in battle in the Que Son Valley
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Swift
1971: Birth of Anita Yuen (Yuen Wing Yee), Hong Kong actress
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Yuen
http://www.lovehkfilm.com/people/yuen_anita.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwQequFZETQ
1976: Birth of Katreeya English, Thai singer, actress, model
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katreeya_English
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_8PB88bo6I
1978: At least two million people have been made homeless as the worst floods in living memory hit northern India
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/4/newsid_2496000/2496097.stm
1979: Death of Canuplin, Filipino magician and bodabil entertainer, birth of January 28, 1904
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canuplin
1995: In Okinawa, Japan, the rape of a young teenager by three G.I. launches a new campaign against the presence of US troops in the island
1995: The Fourth World Conference on Women opens in Beijing with over 4,750 delegates from 181 countries in attendance
http://www.iisd.ca/women.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_World_Conference_on_Women
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_9u9hNP1e8
1997: Death of Dharamvir Bharati, Indian author, poet, and playwright, born on December 25, 1926
http://www.poemhunter.com/dharamvir-bharati/biography/
2000: Visit of Russian president Putin to Japan. He rejects the Japanese claim on the Kurils Islands
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/909496.stm
2007: Death of Ryuzo Sejima, Japanese officer then chairman of the board of directors of Asia University, born on December 9, 1911
http://ww2db.com/person_bio.php?person_id=538
2009: “Uranium enrichment tests have been successfully carried out and that process is in the concluding stage,” the North Korea’s KCNA news agency said. Uranium enrichment would give Pyongyang a second way to make a nuclear bomb
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8237204.stm
2009: At least 90 people are killed in northern Afghanistan after a Nato aerial raid on two hijacked petrol lorries
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/09/200994465561117.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8238714.stm
2012: Death of Syed Mustafa Siraj, Indian author, born on October 14, 1930
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/voice-of-the-other-india-falls-silent/article3859575.ece
http://www.sify.com/news/eminent-writer-syed-mustafa-siraj-dead-news-people-mjetwAgjcjfsi.html
2012: The defense ministers of India and China agree to resume military exercises, signaling a thaw in military ties
http://asiancorrespondent.com/88760/china-india-defense-chiefs-meet-in-sign-of-thaw/
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2012/09/chinese-and-indian-defense-ministers-meet-warily.html
2012: Death of Hamzah Abu Samah, Malaysian politician, born on January 5, 1924
https://dinmerican.wordpress.com/2012/09/05/al-fatihah-for-tan-sri-hamzah-abu-samah/
2014: The Islamic State is challenging the Taliban and al-Qaeda in its Afghanistan and Pakistan heartlands and claiming both countries as part of its ‘caliphate’.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/11075390/Islamic-State-claims-Pakistan-and-Afghanistan-for-its-caliphate.html
2016: Mother Teresa is declared a saint by Pope Francis
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37269512
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/09/04/europe/mother-teresa-canonization/index.html
2017: Taiwanese premierLin Chuan resigns amid rising public discontent, but says he completed his major missions
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2109632/taiwanese-premier-set-resign-amid-rising-public
http://focustaiwan.tw/news/aipl/201709040026.aspx
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2017/09/05/2003677820/1
2018: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s (PTI) Dr Arifur Rehman Alvi elected the 13th President of Pakistan
https://tribune.com.pk/story/1794750/1-presidential-election-voting-commences/
https://www.dawn.com/news/1430542/ptis-dr-arif-alvi-elected-13th-president-of-pakistan
2018: Ju Kyu Chang, developer of North Korea missiles and nuclear weapons, dies at 89
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2018/09/103_254983.html
https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/2162615/ju-kyu-chang-developer-north-korea-missiles-and-nuclear-weapons