ON 10 APRIL IN ASIAN HISTORY
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Updated on April 10, 2019
1407: The lama Deshin Shekpa visits the Ming Dynasty capital at Nanjing. He is awarded with the title Great Treasure Prince of Dharma
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deshin_Shekpa
1815: The Mount Tambora volcano, in Indonesia, begins a three-month-long eruption, lasting until July 15. The eruption ultimately kills 71,000 people and affects Earth’s climate for the next two years
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1815_eruption_of_Mount_Tambora
http://history1800s.about.com/od/crimesanddisasters/a/Eruption-Of-Mount-Tambora.htm
1656: Dutch fleet occupies Colombo, Ceylon
http://lakdiva.org/codrington/chap09.html
1916: Birth of Lee Jung Seob, Korean painter who died on September 6, 1956
http://www.korea.net/NewsFocus/Culture/view?articleId=138949
https://www.google.fr/search?q=lee+jung+seob+artist&biw=1301&bih=641&tbm=isch&source=lnms&sa=X&ei=vqEmVZqqOMfnUsCmhOAM&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ
1917: Birth of Jagjit Singh Lyallpuri, Indian politician, former general secretary of the Communist Party of India (united), who died on May 27, 2013
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jagjit_Singh_Lyallpuri#cite_note-h-1
http://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article4452.html
1933: Birth of Rokusuke Ei, Japanese lyricist and author
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rokusuke_Ei
1942: In the Philippines, Bataan Death March begins for defeated US and Filipinos prisonners
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/bataan-death-march-begins
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/bataandeathmarch.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BtDeKWfL1c
1945: US troops land on Tsugen Shima, Okinawa
http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/battles_okinawa2.html
1946: First election for Japanese Diet and for the first time women can vote
http://www.ndl.go.jp/modern/e/cha5/description05.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_general_election,_1946
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quwEt1oc9gI
1950: Birth of Akiko Wada, Japanese singer and television performer
http://www.japan-zone.com/modern/wada_akiko.shtml
1952: Birth of Narayan Rane, Indian politician
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narayan_Rane
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9ivqcqT9Qg
1959: Akihito, future emperor of Japan, weds Michiko Shoda
http://www.bbc.com/news/av/magazine-41085238/the-wedding-that-broke-centuries-of-tradition
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empress_Michiko
1965: After border fighting, Pakistan and India sign a cease-fire
1966: Death of Kawabata Ryushi, Japanese painter, born on June 6, 1885
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawabata_Ryushi
https://www.google.fr/search?q=Kawabata+Ryushi&hl=fr&rlz=1G1ACAW_FRFR414&prmd=imvns&source=lnms&tbm=isch&ei=ogODT-ffA8ql0QWVvfz7Bg&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&ved=0CBQQ_AUoAQ&biw=1249&bih=569
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPnFg13trh4
1971: US table tennis team arrives in China marking the first thaw between Beijing and Washington since 1949
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/u-s-table-tennis-team-visits-communist-china
http://history.04007.cn/en.php/HisMain/3897.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ping_Pong_Diplomacy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1p78BXVIfU
1971: An exile government called the People’s Republic of Bangladesh alias Mujibnagar Government headed by Tajuddin Ahmed is formed. It will take the oath on April 17
http://www.mujibnagar.com/mujibnagar-government/mujibnagar-government
http://weloveourbangladesh.blogspot.fr/2011/04/be-witness-of-historical-moment-of.html
1972: In Vietnam War, for the first time since November 1967, American B-52 bombers reportedly begin bombing North Vietnam
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/b-52s-begin-bombing-north-vietnam
1973: Pakistan adopts its third constitution, shifting the role of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto from president to prime minister
http://www.google.fr/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=5&ved=0ahUKEwjO16qqp4LMAhWKlxoKHfDdCFEQFgg3MAQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.na.gov.pk%2Fuploads%2Fdocuments%2F1333523681_951.pdf&usg=AFQjCNGQXo5W-WuNkRA-RuxWRLb2T2FH7A&sig2=vQ1EFZkz4JvsZCQyLxa03w
1975: Birth of Terrence Lewis, Indian dancer and chorebgrapher
https://wikibio.in/terence-lewis/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JF9xnwojhmM
1979: President Carter signs the Taiwan Relations Act, which legalizes new U.S. relationship with Taiwan.Under the bill, the U.S. essentially continues to treat Taiwan as an independent nation, sell it arms, lend it money, recognize its passports and grant its diplomats immunity from U.S. law
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan_Relations_Act
http://www.taiwandocuments.org/tra01.htm
https://taiwaninsight.org/2019/03/18/the-40th-anniversary-of-the-taiwan-relations-act/
1979: Birth of Tsuyoshi Domoto, Japanese artist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsuyoshi_Domoto
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07prEAxvPD0
1980: The first Sino-foreign joint ventures in China, “Beijing Air Catering Limited” is approved
1986: Benazir Bhutto returns to Pakistan after an exile in Great-Britain
http://www.siasat.pk/forum/showthread.php?86743-PPP-1986-Benazir-s-Lahore-Return-gathering-which-people-are-comparing-with-Imran-Jalsa
https://www.dawn.com/news/1210249
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8nk5fmPB9s
1986: Birth of Ayesha Takia, Indian actress
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayesha_Takia
1988: The Ojhri Camp disaster kills more than 1,000 people in Rawalpindi and Islamabad as a result of rockets and other munitions expelled by the blast
http://www.nytimes.com/1988/04/17/world/us-officials-link-pakistan-blast-to-kabul-regime.html
https://afaq.wordpress.com/2011/09/17/what-happened-at-ojhri-camp-in-rawalpindi-in-1988/
1995: Death of Chen Yun, twice VPM of China (1949-75, 79-80), born on June 13, 1905 http://www.nytimes.com/1995/04/12/obituaries/chen-yun-who-slowed-china-s-shift-to-market-dies-at-89.html
http://articles.latimes.com/1995-04-11/news/mn-53456_1_economic-reform
1995: Death of Morarji Desai, Indian Prime Minister (March 1977 to July 1979), born in February 1904
http://www.nytimes.com/1995/04/11/obituaries/morarji-desai-dies-at-99-defeated-indira-gandhi-to-become-premier-of-india.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-morarji-desai-1615165.html
http://www.mapsofindia.com/on-this-day/10-april-1995-morarji-desai-fourth-prime-minister-of-india-died
1997 : Death of Toshiro Mayuzumi, Japanese composer, born on February 20; 1929
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006191/bio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0P3UkC3a9Q
2003: The North Korean withdrawal from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, announced on January 10, becomes effective
https://www.ipinst.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/pdfs_koreachapt2.pdf
2005: Death of Chen Yifei, Chinese painter, born on April 12, 1946
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/14/arts/design/chen-yifei-59-painter-and-entrepreneur-dies.html?_r=0
http://www.google.fr/search?q=Tsuyoshi+Domoto&nord=1&tbm=isch&source=lnms&sa=X&ei=MWxFU_jBDoeG0AXtqYGgCg&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ&biw=1366&bih=628&dpr=1#nord=1&q=chen+yifei+peinture&tbm=isch
2008: In Nepal, people vote in elections that will decide the future of the direction of the country
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7339813.stm
2008: Nineteen people (in fact 25) are reported to have died and more than 800 injured from clashes between security forces and red-shirt demonstrators in different parts of Bangkok
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8612783.stm
2012: Chinese politician Bo Xilai, once a rising star, has been stripped of his elite Communist Party post while his wife is being investigated for the murder of a British national. Bo had been suspended from the party’s powerful 25-member Politburo and from the Central Committee
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-in-school/china-leader-ousted-wife-probed-over-britons-murder/article3305006.ece?textsize=small&test=2
2012: The human rights activist Ni Yulan and her husband Dong Jiqin are sentenced to prison for causing “disturbances” and “fraud”. The court has imposed two years and eight months on Ni Yulan, a lawyer with disabilities the result of police beatings, and two years on her husband who helped to vindicate the rights of people who were unfairly dispossessed of land or houses
http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Ni-Yulan-and-her-husband-jailed-for-defending-those-who-were-dispossessed-of-homes-24454.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-17661224
2013: Japan and Taiwan sign an agreement on fishing rights around the Senkaku Islands
http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/12927/with-japan-fishing-deal-taiwan-scores-a-win-in-east-china-sea-disputes
2015: Pakistan’s parliament urges the government to stay out of the conflict in Yemen, rejecting Saudi demands for Islamabad to join its coalition against Shiite Huthi rebels
http://www.dawn.com/news/1175090/parliament-calls-for-neutrality-in-yemen-conflict
2015: A Pakistani court frees on bail the alleged mastermind of a 2008 assault on India’s financial capital Mumbai that killed 166 people and seriously strained ties between the neighbouring countries
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2015/04/pakistan-frees-alleged-mumbai-attack-mastermind-150410125247944.html
http://www.euronews.com/2015/04/10/mumbai-attack-suspect-released-on-bail/ http://www.dawn.com/news/1175099/lakhvi-a-free-man-for-now