ON 1st JUNE IN ASIAN HISTORY
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Updated on 1 June 2019
195 BC: Death of Gaozu (Liu Bang), first emperor (202-195 BC) of the Chinese Han dynasty
http://www.travelchinaguide.com/intro/history/han/liubang.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Bang
719: Birth of Yang Guifei, concubine of Tang emperor Xuanzong who died on July 15, 756
http://www.chinatownology.com/yang_gui_fei.html
http://journeyeast.tripod.com/yang_guifei.html
1215: Beijing, then under the Jurchen Emperor Xuanzong of Jin is captured by the Mongols under Genghis Kan, ending the Battle of Beijing, then named Zhongdu
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Zhongdu
1616: Death of Tokugawa Ieyasu, first shogun (1603-1605) of the Tokugawa shogunate, born on January 31, 1543
http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2128.html
1649 : Killing of Father Miguel Ponce Barberan marking the beginning of the Palapag rebellion in the Philippines
https://kahimyang.com/kauswagan/articles/1156/today-in-philippine-history-june-1-1649-miguel-ponce-barberan-was-killed-by-sumuroy-marking-the-beginning-of-the-palapag-rebellion
1662: Death of Zhu Youlang, Prince of Gui, who has been the fourth and last emperor (Yongli) of the Southern Ming dynasty of China, born on November 1, 1623
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhu_Youlang
1813: Birth of Évariste Huc, French missionary in China and explorer in Mongolia and in Tibet, who died on March 26, 1860
http://home.newadvent.org/cathen/07510a.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Évariste_Régis_Huc
1830: Death of Swaminarayan, also known as Sahajanand Swami, is the central figure in a modern sect of Hinduism known as the Swaminarayan Faith, born on April 2, 1781
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swaminarayan
1864: Death of Hong Xiuquan, leader of the Taiping Rebellion against the Chinese Qing dynasty, born on January 1st, 1814
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Xiuquan
http://www.bestchinanews.com/History/3189.htm
http://history.04007.cn/en.php/HisMain/5320.html
1892: Birth of Amanullah Khan, king of Afghanistan (1919-1929) who died in exile on April 25, 1960
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Am%C4%81null%C4%81h_Kh%C4%81n
https://www.afghan-web.com/biographies/biography-of-amanullah-khan/
1929: Birth of Nargis, Indian actress, who died on May 3, 1981
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nargis
http://www.mapsofindia.com/on-this-day/1-june-1929-nargis-indian-film-star-was-born
1938: Birth of Khawar Rizvi, Pakistani poet and scholar who died on November 15, 1981
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khawar_Rizvi
1945: In Indonesia Sukarno delivers his Pancasila speech
http://countrystudies.us/indonesia/86.htm
https://inidisini.wordpress.com/2011/05/27/pancasila-sukarnos-vision-for-indonesia/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=govqwO9lD6s
1946: The first provisional government on Cochinchina is formed. French announce the formation of an independent Cochin-China within the Indochina Federation and the French Union
https://www.newmandala.org/saigons-hidden-presidential-palace-and-forgotten-president-the-republic-of-cochinchina-and-nguyen-van-thinh/
1952: First unofficial trade agreement between Japan and PRC
1965: In China, all the ranks of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) are abolished
1970: Birth of Rene Liu Ruo Ying, Taiwanese actress, singer, song-writer and writer
http://yummycelebrities.com/2006/04/21/rene-liu/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Liu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7aY4tomcEE&feature=related
1970: Birth of R. Madhavan, Indian actor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Madhavan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2xdzC-EOGc
1987 : Death of Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, Indian film director and screenwriter, born on June 7, 1914
https://wiki.indiancine.ma/wiki/K%20A%20Abbas
1988: Birth of Nami Tamaki, Japanese pop singer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nami_Tamaki
http://images.google.fr/images?q=Nami+Tamaki&hl=fr&lr=lang_en&safe=off&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&oi=images&ct=title
1996: Death of Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, President of India from 1977 to 1982, born on May 18, 1913
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neelam_Sanjiva_Reddy
http://www.indiapicks.com/stamps/Presidnts_PMs/Sanjeeva_Raddy.htm
1996: Deve Gowda becomes Indian PM, up to April 21, 1997
http://www.pmindia.gov.in/en/former_pm/shri-h-d-deve-gowda/
2001: In Nepal, Prince Dipendra kills his father, king Birendra,his mother, and nine members of the royal family
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/1365767.stm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepalese_royal_massacre
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cop9fmSGxr0
2003: China begins filling the reservoir behind the Three Gorges dam on the Yangzijiang
http://internationalrivers.org/china/three-gorges-dam
2009: In Malaysia, the opposition People’s Alliance, led by former Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, wins the seat in the northern Penang state assembly with more than 6,000 votes
2010: The US government says that it killed Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, an Egyptian man described as al-Qaeda’s “number three
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2010/06/20106143751105245.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/middle_east/10200712.stm
2011: In Singapore, the People’s Action Party (PAP) appoints Khaw Boon Wan, Minister For National Development, as the new chairman of its central executive commitee (CEC). Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong will remain as the secretary-general
2013: Pakistan’s new parliament is sworn-in, completing the country’s first-ever democratic transition of power in a country ruled for half its history by the military
http://www.voanews.com/content/pakistan-marks-first-peaceful-democratic-transition/1673338.html
2014: Death of Dhondutai Kulkarni, Indian singer, born on July 23, 1927
http://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/memories-of-a-forgotten-musician/
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/Dhondutai-Kulkarni-A-life-steeped-in-simplicity-soaked-in-music/articleshow/35911853.cms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIyVjs6Ke4Q
2015 : China and South Korea formally sign a free-trade agreement that would remove most tariffs between Asia’s largest and fourth-largest economies, whose trade is already worth more than US$200 billion
https://www.cnbc.com/2014/11/11/why-china-south-korea-trade-pact-is-a-win-win.html
Holidays and observances
Indonesia: Pancasila Day
Indonesia: The first day of the Gawai Dayak festival (Sarawak)