ON 11 DECEMBER IN ASIAN HISTORY
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Updated on December 11, 2018
1241: Death of Ogedei Khan, Emperor of the Mongol Empire since 1229, born in 1186
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/%C3%96gedei_Khan
1465: Birth of Ashikaga Yoshihisa, 9th shogun of the shogunate, who died on 26 April 1489
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashikaga_Yoshihisa
1754: Death of Qing Dynasty Scholar and writer Wu Jingzi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_Jingzi
http://history.04007.cn/en.php/HisMain/11598.html
1780: After Warren Hastings, the Governor-General of Bengal, adopted strong measures to retrieve the prestige of the Company, a strong force under Colonel Goddard captures Bassein
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Hastings
1840: Death of 119th Japanese emperor Kokaku (1779-1817), born on 23 September 1771
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_K%C5%8Dkaku
1882: Birth of Subramanya Barathi, Tamil poet who was a militant for India independence and died on September 1921
http://members.tripod.com/neyveliweb/bharathy.htm
https://www.dailyo.in/variety/subramanya-bharathi-tamil-freedom-fighters-independence-bharathi/story/1/21072.html
1911: Death of Nepal king Prithvi Bir Shah. His son Tribhuvan succceds him
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribhuvan_of_Nepal
1911: Birth of Qian Xuesen, father of the Chinese nuclear bomb, who died on October 31, 2009
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qian_Xuesen
http://www.armscontrolwonk.com/2520/qian-xuesen-1911-2009
http://history.04007.cn/en.php/HisMain/11393.html
1915: Yuan shikai “accepts” to become new Chinese emperor
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/yuan-shih-kai-accepts-chinese-throne
http://history.04007.cn/en.php/HisMain/11606.html
http://www.gwpda.org/bio/xyz/yuansh.html
1922: Birth of Dilip Kumar, Indian actor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilip_Kumar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeubJBFzscs
1927: Communist militia, under Ye Ting command, take control of Guangzhou (Canton) and announce the formation of Guangzhou Soviet. The city will be retake by warlords three days later
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangzhou_Uprising
http://www.iias.nl/iiasn/19/regions/ea1.html
1929: Deng Xiaoping leads the Baise Uprising (百色起义, Baise Qiyi) in Guangxi Province against the Guomindang government
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baise_Uprising
1931: Birth of Rajneesh, Indian religious leader, also known as Osho (Chandra Mohan Jain), Indian spiritual and philosophical figure, died on January 19, 1990
http://www.oshoworld.com/biography/briefbio.asp
http://www.religioustolerance.org/rajneesh.htm
1933: Birth of Aquinilo Pimentel Jr, Filipino politician
http://www.nenepimentel.org/
1935: Birth of Pranad Mukherjee, a closed ally of Gandhi family and president of India since July 2012 to 2017
http://presidentofindia.nic.in/profile-of-the-president.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pranab_Mukherjee
http://www.mapsofindia.com/on-this-day/11th-december-1935-pranab-mukherjee-13th-president-of-india-was-born
1941: Germany and Italy declare war on the United States, following the Americans’ declaration of war on Japan in the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor. The United States, in turn, declares war on Germany and Italy
1941: During World War II,The Imperial Japanese Navy suffers its first loss of surface vessels during the Battle of Wake Island
http://ww2db.com/battle_spec.php?battle_id=57
1941: Poland declares war on Empire of Japan
1946: Birth of Rhoma Irama, Indonesian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhoma_Irama
1947: First major riot against the British during their post-war occupation of Indonesia after that they declared void the marriage of Maria Hertogh, 14 year-old Eurasian girl with a Muslim. 18 people are killed and 173 injured, mostly Europeans and Eurasian
1950: In Korea, end of the Battle of Chosin Reservoir, won by the Chinese on Americans
http://militaryhistory.about.com/od/battleswars1900s/p/chosin.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Chosin_Reservoir
http://www.koreanwar-educator.org/topics/chosin/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amgLyiXEahI
1954: Birth of Prachanda (Puspa Kamal Dahal), leader of the Maoists in Nepal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prachanda
1961: A U.S. aircraft carrier carrying Army helicopters arrived in Saigon – the first direct American military support for South Vietnam’s battle against Communist guerrillas
http://azdailysun.com/first-direct-american-military-support-in-vietnam-arrived/article_14c84e8d-11d0-574b-834d-7b475a2cb299.html
1963: General Thanom Kittikachorn becomes new Thailand prime minister
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanom_Kittikachorn
1966: Birth of Leon Lai (Li Ming) an Hong Kong singer and actor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Lai
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F7iitJxByo
1971: End of the Battle of Hilli or the Battle of Bogra, a major battle fought in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 and Bangladesh Liberation War. It is generally regarded as the most pitched battle that took place in East Pakistan, now Bangladesh
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hilli
http://www.defencejournal.com/oct99/battle-hilli.htm
1974: Former Japanese Prime Minister Eisaku Sato receives his Nobel Peace Prize
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1974/sato-lecture.html
1979: Mother Teresa receives her Peace Nobel Prize
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1979/teresa-lecture.html
1980: Birth of Jamshad, known as Arya, a Kerala-born Indian movie actor in Tamil films
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arya_%28actor%29
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weVTWQMXHOk
1983: General Hossein Mohammad Ershad, who has deposed president Sattar in March 1982, proclames himself president of the Republic of Bangladesh
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hossain_Mohammad_Ershad
1985: The opposition to president Ferdinand Marcos chooses Corazon Aquino as its candidate for the February 1986 presidential élections
1987: Death of G. A. Kulkarni, Indian (Marathi) writer, born on July 10, 1923
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurunath_Abaji_Kulkarni
1991: Salman Rushdie, Indian writer, under an Islamic death sentence for blasphemy, made his first public appearance since 1989 in New York, at a dinner marking the 200th anniversary of the First Amendment (which guarantees freedom of speech in the U.S.)
1994: Death of Yao Yilin, Vice PM of China (1983-1993), born on September 6, 1917
http://www.nytimes.com/1994/12/13/obituaries/yao-yilin-a-hard-liner-is-dead-at-77.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-yao-yilin-1387366.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yao_Yilin
1996: Tung Chee-hwa is elected the first Chief Executive of the Hong Kong SAR. He will take his charge on July 1, 1997
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_Chief_Executive_election,_1996
http://history.04007.cn/en.php/HisMain/11628.html
1998: Death of Kavi Pradeep, Indian poet and songwriter, born on February 6, 1915
http://m.rediff.com/news/1998/dec/11kavi.htm
http://lyricists.weebly.com/kavi-pradeep.html
2000: Death of Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah, a prominent female pakistani politician, diplomat and author, born on July 22, 1915
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaista_Suhrawardy_Ikramullah http://pakistan360degrees.com/tag/begum-shaista-ikramullah/
2001: China becomes officially a member of World Trade Organization
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/1702241.stm
2004: Legislative elections in Taiwan. Defeat of the pan-green coalition supporting president Chen Shui-bian which gets 101 seats while the KMT and its allies (pan-blue coalition) get 114 seats
2004: Death of M.S. Subbulakshmi, Indian singer, born on September 16, 1916
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/M-S-Subbulakshmi-passes-away/articleshow/956124.cms
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._S._Subbulakshmi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyDNKW7g2Co
2006: First election of an Aceh governor after the agreement between separatists and the Indonesian government. Irwandi Yusuf, from independentist movement Gam is elected with 39 % of vote. In 29 years, this conflict has caused 15, 000 deads
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6169303.stm
2007: The first rail service for more than 50 years begins between North and South Koreas
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7137739.stm
2009: Liu Xiaobo, one of China’s best-known dissidents and a principal author of a pro-democracy manifesto that has attracted more than 10,000 signatures from Chinese supporters, is indicted on charges of trying to subvert the state
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/12/world/asia/12china.html?_r=1&ref=asia
2012: Death of Ravi Shankar, Indian sitar player and composer, born on April 7, 1920
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/13/arts/music/ravi-shankar-indian-sitarist-dies-at-92.html?_r=0
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/12/12/showbiz/california-ravi-shankar-obit/
http://www.biography.com/people/ravi-shankar-9480456
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gWCiLexilY
2012: China bishop Thaddeus Ma Daqin stripped of title after he announced his split from the Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association (CPCA) during his own ordination as auxiliary bishop of Shanghai which had been approved by Pope Benedict XVI in July
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2012/12/2012121284751566792.html
http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Abp.-Savio-Hon:-dismissal-of-Shanghai-bishop-an-abuse”.-Churches-of-the-world-pray-for-him-26607.html
2013: Death of Sheikh Mussa Shariefi, Indian scholar, born in 1942
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheikh_Mussa_Shariefi
2013: China has put Zhou Yongkang, one of the most powerful politicians of the last decade, under virtual house arrest while the ruling Communist Party investigates accusations of corruption against him
http://www.voanews.com/content/reu-china-puts-former-security-chief-under-house-arrest/1807918.html
2015; Hema Upadhyay, Indian painter and sculptor is murdered, born in 1972
http://indianexpress.com/article/cities/mumbai/artist-hema-upadhyay-her-lawyer-found-dead-in-mumbai-drain/
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/hema-upadhyay-murder-motive-392733
2017: The EU agrees to resume political contacts “at all levels” with Thailand, more than three years after suspending them in protest at the military coup in Bangkok
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/politics/30333724
https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics-Economy/Policy-Politics/EU-to-resume-political-dealings-with-Thailand-following-election-promise?page=1
2017: India’s Rahul Gandhi is elected president of Congress Party
http://gulfnews.com/news/asia/india/rahul-gandhi-takes-helm-of-congress-party-to-challenge-modi-1.2139035
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-42079137
http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-from-reluctant-politician-to-congress-president-a-timeline-of-rahul-gandhi-s-political-journey-2566796