ON 12 NOVEMBER IN ASIAN HISTORY
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Updated on November 12, 2018
764: Under king Trisong Detsen, Tibetan take Chang’an (now Xi’an), the capital of the Chinese Tang Dynasty emperor Daizong
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trisong_Detsen
1528: Birth of Qi Jiguang, Chinese general, famous for his fighting against Japanese pirates, who died on January 5, 1588.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qi_Jiguang
http://history.04007.cn/en.php/HisMain/10697.html
1841: During the First Afghan War, beginning of the siege of Jellalabad, up to April 13, 1842
http://britishbattles.com/first-afghan-war/siege-jellalabad.htm
1848: Birth of Li Lianying, Imperial Eunuch, who died on March 4, 1911
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Lianying
http://www.vernonjohns.org/snuffy1186/li%20lianying%20imperial%20eunuch.html
1866: Birth of Sun Yat-sen, founder of the Republic of China, who died on March 12, 1925
http://asianhistory.about.com/od/modernchina/p/Sun-Yat-Sen.htm
http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/sun-yat-sen-71.php
http://totallyhistory.com/sun-yat-sen/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3KtGgmAOaQ&feature=player_embedded
1893: The treaty of the Durand Line is signed between present day Pakistan and Afghanistan – the Durand Line has gained international recognition as an international border between the two nations
http://www.afghanistans.com/information/history/durandline.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZPKsgz5MoA
1899: Incapable of further resistance, Filipino military leaders decide to disband the army and to continue to fight by guerrilla warfare
https://kahimyang.com/kauswagan/articles/1341/today-in-philippine-history-november-12-1899-filipino-military-leaders-decided-to-disband-the-army
1916: Birth of Rogelio de la Rosa, Filipino actor and politician who died on November 10, 1986
http://viewsfromthepampang.blogspot.com/2007/12/63rogelio-de-la-rosa-golden-boy-of.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogelio_de_la_Rosa
1926: the Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI) revolts in Banten, Batavia, Bandung, Padang. PKI declares a republic. Revolt is crushed by the Dutch, who make over 13,000 arrests
https://books.google.fr/books?id=V7crBNqa-9UC&pg=PA34&lpg=PA34&dq=1926:+the+Communist+Party+of+Indonesia+(PKI)+revolts+in+Banten&source=bl&ots=Uv0UU7NkWe&sig=3EI9zxjMRippp9IOqTxtfZU2mUk&hl=fr&sa=X&ved=0CCQQ6AEwAWoVChMImo3ogJmJyQIVRNcaCh1AmQNy#v=onepage&q=1926%3A%20the%20Communist%20Party%20of%20Indonesia%20(PKI)%20revolts%20in%20Banten&f=false
http://www.jstor.org/stable/2050720?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
1927: Birth of Yutaka Taniyama, Japanese mathematician who committed suicide on November 17, 1958
http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Yutaka_Taniyama
1933: The Independent Republic (Turkish Islamic Republic of Eastern Turkestan- TIRET or Republic of Uyghurstan, both names were used at the same time) is proclaimed (up to February 6, 1934)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_East_Turkestan_Republic
1942: Beginning of the three-day capital naval battle of Guadalcanal between Japanese and American forces
http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/USN-CN-Guadalcanal/index.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2jJjpk_-bc&feature=related
1944: In a part of Xinjiang, following the Yili Uprising, the Second Eastern Turkestan Republic is proclaimed (up to October 20, 1949)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_East_Turkestan_Republic
1945: Jendral Sudirman is elected the first commander-in-chief of the Indonesian Armed Forces
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudirman
http://www.profilpedia.com/2014/05/profil-dan-biografi-jendral-sudirman.html
1946: Death of Madan Mohan Malaviya, Indian activist and politician, founder of the Banaras Hindu University, born on December 25, 1861
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malviya
1948: In Tokyo, the International Military Tribunal for the Far East sentences seven Japanese military and government officials to death, including Prime Minister Hideki Tojo, for their role during WW2
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/japanese-war-criminals-sentenced
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Military_Tribunal_for_the_Far_East
http://www.cnd.org/mirror/nanjing/NMTT.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Qahacxji38&feature=related
1951: General Ridway orders to stop all new offensive. The Korea War enters into its trenchers period
1959: Birth of Toshihiko Sahashi, Japanese composer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshihiko_Sahashi
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=114
1963: Birth of Susumu Terajima, Japanese actor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susumu_Terajima
http://asianmediawiki.com/Susumu_Terajima
1965: Death of Taher Saifuddin, Indian spiritual leader, 51st Da’i al-Mutlaq, born on August 4, 1888
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taher_Saifuddin
Http://www.sfjamaat.org/sf/taher.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlCHn0KNHGA
1969: Death in jail of president Liu Shaoqi, left without medical assistance by Maoist Red guards
http://www.executedtoday.com/2013/11/12/1969-liu-shaoqi-dies-under-torture/
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Liu_Shaoqi
http://history.04007.cn/en.php/HisMain/10708.html
1969: An American journalist,Seymour Hersh, reveals the massacre of the population of the Vietnam village of My Lay on 16 March 1968
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/seymour-hersh-breaks-my-lai-story
1970: The Bhola cyclone makes landfall on the coast of East Pakistan becoming the deadliest tropical cyclone in history
http://www.hurricanescience.org/history/storms/1970s/greatbhola/
http://www.weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/deadliest-cyclone-history-bangladesh-20130605#/1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkcuZoR6XSU
1971: In the Vietnam war, as part of Vietnamization, US President Richard M. Nixon sets February 1, 1972 as the deadline for the removal of another 45,000 American troops from Vietnam
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/nixon-sets-new-deadline-for-next-troop-withdrawal
1971: Birth of Chen Guangcheng, Chinese civil right activist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen_Guangcheng
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-17866176
1978: Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping in Singapore for a two-day visit
http://www.sipac.gov.cn/english/zhuanti/fnotpoc/fnotpoc_nmoic/
http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19781113-1.2.3.aspx
1984: Birth of Sandara Park, South Korean actress
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandara_Park
1990: The current emperor of Japan Akihito is officially enthroned
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/akihito-enthroned-as-emperor-of-japan
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19901123&slug=1105701
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wisR6RBqu9M
1991: In Dili (East-Timor), Indonesian forces open fire on demonstrators causing 271 deaths and 250 missing people
http://www.etan.org/timor/SntaCRUZ.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dili_Massacre
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NYdGad-0bs
1994: After her November 9 victory, Chandrika Kumaratunga takes her charge of president of Sri Lanka
http://www.jstor.org/pss/2645745
1996: The Indemnity Act of Bangladesh gives immunity from legal action to the persons involved in the assassination of president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, is scrapped after Awami League formed government with Sheikh Hasina Wazed, the daughter of Sheikh Mujib, as Prime Minister of Bangladesh. This paves the way for the trial of the killers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indemnity_Act,_Bangladesh
1997: Ramzi Yousef is found guilty of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing
http://www.terrorismfiles.org/individuals/ramzi_yousef.html
2001: Taliban forces abandon Kabul, ahead of advancing Afghan Northern Alliance troops
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/featured_articles/20011114wednesday.html
2006: Tie Ning is elected president of the Chinese Writers’ Association, during the Seventh National Congress of the Chinese Writers’ Association, to become the third president, and first woman president, in the association’s history
http://www.china.org.cn/english/culture/188688.htm
http://www.womenofchina.cn/womenofchina/html1/people/writers/9/382-1.htm
2007: In Cambodia, police arrest Ieng Sary, the former minister of the Khmer Rouge, along with his wife the former social affair minister of the Khmer Rouge government
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/11/12/cambodia.khmer/index.html http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16218061
2010: Taiwan government strips ex-president Chen Shui-bian of privileges of due to him as a former head of state, after he was convicted of bribery by the island’s highest court
2012: A high court clears influential Japanese politician Ichiro Ozawa of wrongdoing in connection with a political funding case
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-20293753
2013: China is granted a seat on the UN’s human rights council despite its long record of refusing inspections by international human rights monitors
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/13/china-granted-seat-un-human-rights-Council
2014: Death of Ravi Chopra, Indian director and producer, born on September 27, 1946
http://www.hindustantimes.com/bollywood/baghban-director-ravi-chopra-dies-at-68/story-6MblWEhn399BpVvbpID6zK.html
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Mahabharat-co-director-Ravi-Chopra-dies/articleshow/45126970.cms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfPHoSzZyfY
2015 : After being banned from entering for 10 years, Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives in the United Kingdom with critics denouncing moves against freedom of speech in India since his government took power a year ago. Trade and defence deals worth billions of dollars are signed during Modi’s maiden visit
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-34790212
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-34773767
http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-modi-in-uk-full-text-of-pm-modi-s-speech-at-british-parliament-2144742
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/11984475/Why-is-Indian-prime-minister-Modi-in-London-and-why-are-people-going-to-see-him-at-Wembley-stadium.html
2016: The biggest street protest in nearly three decades was held in the heart of Seoul with up to 1 million people calling for President Park Geun-hye to resign
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-37958037
Holidays and observances
Republic of China (Taiwan) : Birth of Sun Yat-Sen