ON 21 OCTOBER IN ASIAN HISTORY
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Updated on October 21, 2019
1328: Birth of Zhu Yuanzhang (Hongwu) Founder of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1398) who died on June 24, 1398
http://www.mingtombs.eu/emp/01hongwu/hongwu.html
http://www.chinahighlights.com/travelguide/china-history/zhu-yuanzhang.htm
1392: End of the reign of Go-Kameyama, born in 1347, 99th emperor of Japan (1383-1392) who will died on May 10, 1424
https://prabook.com/web/tenno.go-kameyama/1716901
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Go-Kameyama
1500: Death of Go-Tsuchimikado 103th emperor of Japan (1464-1500), born on July 3, 1442
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Go-Tsuchimikado
1600: Tokugawa Ieyasu defeats the leaders of rival Japanese clans in the Battle of Sekigahara, which marks the beginning of the Tokugawa shogunate, who in effect ruled Japan until the mid-nineteenth century. The last shogunate of Japan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Sekigahara
http://wiki.samurai-archives.com/index.php?title=Battle_of_Sekigahara
1600: Death of Toda Katsushige, Japanese warlord, born in 1557
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toda_Katsushige
1627: Death of Frederick de Houman, Dutch explorer who reached Aceh
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_de_Houtman
1675: Death of Emperor Higashiyama of Japan who died on January 16, 1710
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Higashiyama
1708: Death of Guru Gobind Singh, Indian 10th Sikh gurus, born on December 31, 1666
http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Guru_Gobind_Singh
1727: Sino-Russian accord of Kyakhta to correct boundaries
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Kyakhta_(1727)
1816: The Penang Free School is founded in George Town, Penang, Malaysia, by the Rev Hutchings. It is the oldest English-language school in Southeast Asia
http://wikimapia.org/103434/Penang-Free-School
1881: Ito Hirobumi is appointed to chair a government bureau in charge to write a constitution for Japan which will go into effect in 1890
http://kids.britannica.com/comptons/article-9274659/Hirobumi-Ito
1894: Birth of Rampo Edogawa, Japanese author and critic, who died on July 28, 1965
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edogawa_Ranpo
http://www.kurodahan.com/mt/e/catalog/j0020cate.html
1895: Japanese forces invading Taiwan take Tainan, capital of the short-lived Republic of Formosa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitulation_of_Tainan_(1895)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Formosa
http://cta.yam.org.tw/cta31.htm
http://history.04007.cn/en.php/HisMain/10033.html
1920: Beginning of the Battle of Changshanli, between Japanese and Korean, until 26
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Battle_of_Chingshanli
1931: Birth of Shammi Kapoor, Indian actor, who died August 14, 2011
http://www.shammikapoor.net/bio.html
1931: The Sakurakai, a secret society in the Imperial Japanese Army, launches an abortive coup d’état attempt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakurakai
1938: The Japanese troops take Canton (Guangzhou), in China
http://www.bunton.id.au/china40y/chap5.html
http://www.criticalpast.com/video/65675025102_Canton-Battle_gun_attack
http://www.criticalpast.com/video/65675025105_Canton-Capture_soldiers_march
1943: Birth of Tariq Ali, Pakistani writer and film-maker
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariq_Ali
1943: The Provisional Government of Free India is formally declared by Subhas Chandra Bose
http://www.mapsofindia.com/on-this-day/21st-october-1943-subhas-chandra-bose-announced-the-provisional-government-of-free-india
http://www.hindujagruti.org/articles/47_subhash-chandra-bose.html
1944: In the first kamikaze attack, HMAS Australia is hit by a Japanese plane carrying a 200 kg (441 pound) bomb off Leyte Island, as the Battle of Leyte Gulf began
http://www.j-aircraft.com/research/rdunn/hms_aust/first_kam.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BP3LKla583g
1950: Heavy fighting begins between British and Australian forces from the 27th British Commonwealth Brigade and the North Korean 239th Regiment during the Battle of Yongju
http://dbpedia.org/page/Battle_of_Yongju
https://www.awm.gov.au/visit/exhibitions/korea/operations/yongju
1959: Border incident in Ladakh (Kashmir) between Chinese and Indian troops
1959: Birth of Ken Watanabe, Japanese actor
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/ken_watanabe/
1959: The United Nations General Assembly adopts the resolution 1353-XIV in which it expresses its deep concern for the situation in Tibet
https://www.tibetpolicy.eu/un-general-assembly-resolution-1353-xiv-of-1959-new-york/
http://www.archieve.claudearpi.net/maintenance/uploaded_pics/1959UNGeneralAssemblyResolution.pdf
1965: Birth of Hisashi Imai, Japanese singer-songwriter and guitarist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hisashi_Imai
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uuU2u8UPls
1967: 100,000 demonstrators marched in Washington, DC, in opposition to the Vietnam War
1970: Birth of Louis Koo, Hong Kong actor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Koo
http://www.lovehkfilm.com/people/koo_louis.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZ0DOFP5W7o&feature=related
1970: Japan publishes its first White Paper on defense
1972: North Vietnam president Phan Van Dong says he is ready to accept a cease-fire as a first step towards a settlement to the Vietnam war
1971: Death of Naoya Shiga, Japanese novelist, born on February 20, 1883
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiga_Naoya
http://www.ndl.go.jp/portrait/e/datas/273.html
1972: Bilateral negotiations between China and Soviet Union resume at Moscow
1987: Jaffna hospital massacre is carried out by Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka killing 70 ethnic Tamil patients, doctors & nurses
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaffna_hospital_massacre
1987: Death of Republic of China general Ho Ying-chin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He_Yingqin
http://history.04007.cn/en.php/HisMain/9933.html
1988: Former Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos and his wife, Imelda, are indicted in New York on fraud and racketeering charges. Marcos died before his trial and Imelda was acquitted in 1990
1990: Death of Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar, Indian spiritual leader, born on May 21, 1921
http://fr.scribd.com/doc/42493010/A-Brief-Biography-of-Shri-Anandamurti-or-P-R-Sarkar#scribd
http://www.anandamarga.org/about/founder/
1994: North Korea and the United States sign an agreement that requires North Korea to stop its nuclear weapons program and agree to inspections, putting an end to the first nuclear crisis
http://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/agreedframework
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agreed_Framework
2002: North Korea says that the 1994 nuclear agreement with the United States is void following a U.S. decision to suspend deliveries of fuel oil
2003: North Korea rejected U.S. President Bush’s offer of a written pledge not to attack in exchange for the communist nation agreeing to end its nuclear weapons program
2007: End of the XVIIth Chinese communist Party congress
http://english.cpc.people.com.cn/206972/206981/8188387.html
http://fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RS22767.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17th_National_Congress_of_the_Communist_Party_of_China
2008: India and Pakistan open a historic trade link across divided Kashmir for the first time in six decades. The route represents an attempt to solve the long-running dispute over the region by creating “soft borders” allowing the free movement of goods and people
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2008/10/20081021123032900873.html
2008: Thailand’s former prime minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, is found guilty of corruption after helping his wife buy a plot of government land in Bangkok at a reduced price
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2008/10/2008102172221137838.html
2010: In Myanmar, the new national flag has been flying at government buildings and NGO offices across the country from 3 p.m
https://in.reuters.com/article/idINIndia-52358220101021
http://www2.irrawaddy.com/article.php?art_id=19793
2010: Death of A. Ayyappan, Indian poet, born on October 27,1949
http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-10-22/thiruvananthapuram/28234488_1_poems-ayyappan-poetry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._Ayyappan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eu6whMiEe7Q&feature=related
2011: US and N Korea reach deal over missing troops
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2011/10/20111022101237641920.html
2012: One of India’s most influential film-makers, Yash Chopra, dies from dengue fever in Mumbai, aged 80.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-20023315