ON 12 NOVEMBER IN CHINESE HISTORY, HONG KONG AND TAIWAN
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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
1848: Birth of Li Lianying, Imperial Eunuch, who died on March 4, 1991
http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/sun-yat-sen-71.php
http://totallyhistory.com/sun-yat-sen/
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/
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
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
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
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
1997: Taiwan singer Chang Yu-sheng dies in a car accident victim
http://www.chinaexpat.com/2009/04/27/the-tragic-story-of-chang-yu-sheng.html/
http://onedayinmay.net/blog/?p=441
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2z5fyt
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
2010: Taiwan government has stripped 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
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
Holidays and observances
Taiwan : Birth of Sun Yat-Sen