ON 23 SEPTEMBER IN ASIAN HISTORY
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Updated on September 23, 2019
1161: Birth of Takakura, the 80th Japanese Emperor (1168-1180), who died on January 30, 1181
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Takakura
1215: Birth of of Khubilai Khan, founder of the Chinese Yuan Dynasty, who died on February 18, 1294
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kublai_Khan
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Kublai-Khan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0A9Db1V5tY
1409: Battle of Kherlen, the second significant victory over Chinese Ming dynasty by the Mongols since 1368
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kherlen
1573: Death of Asai Hisamasa, Japanese warlord who committed suicide for loosing battle, born in 1524
http://wiki.samurai-archives.com/index.php?title=Asai_Hisamasa
1740: Birth of Empress Go-Sakuramachi, 117th emperor of Japan (1762-1771)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empress_Go-Sakuramachi
1762 : A British flotilla lands in Manila Bay, marking the beginning of the British invasion of the Philippines
https://kahimyang.com/kauswagan/articles/637/today-in-philippine-history-september-23-1762-the-british-flotilla-landed-in-manila
http://fr.slideshare.net/praejames245/chapter-12-the-british-invasion
1771: Birth of Morihito (Kokaku), 119th emperor of Japan (1779-1817) who died on 11 December 1840
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_K%C5%8Dkaku
1803: During the Second Anglo-Maratha War (India), Battle of Assaye
http://www.britishbattles.com/second-mahratta/assaye.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Assaye
http://www.war-art.com/assaye.htm
1889: Nintendo Koppai (Later Nintendo Company, Limited) founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market the playing card game Hanafuda
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanafuda
1902: Birth of Su Buqing, Chinese mathematician and educator, who died on March 17, 2003
http://www.chinavitae.com/biography/Su_Buqing/bio
1906: Dutch advance on Tabanan, Bali. Raja of Tabanan offers to surrender on condition that he be allowed to retain his title and lands. The Dutch resident takes the Raja into custody where he will commit suicide
1908: Birth of Ramdhari Singh Dinkar, Indian poet, academic, and politician who died on April 24, 1974
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramdhari_Singh_Dinkar
http://www.mapsofindia.com/on-this-day/23rd-september-1908-hindi-poet-ramdhari-singh-dinkar-is-born
1912: Birth of Ghulam Mustafa Khan (Pakistani researcher, critic and linguist), who died on September 25, 2005
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghulam_Mustafa_Khan
1914: Birth of Omar Ali Saifuddin III, 28th Sultan of Brunei (1950-1986) who died on September 7, 1986
http://4voicesgirls.blogspot.fr/2009/05/sultan-omar-ali-saifuddien-3.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Ali_Saifuddien_III
1930: Birth of Sehba Akhta, poet of Pakistan who died on February 19, 1996
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sehba_Akhtar
1942: First day of the September Matanikau action on Guadalcanal as United States Marine Corps forces attack Imperial Japanese Army units along the Matanikau River
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actions_along_the_Matanikau
1943: Birth of Tanuja, Indian actress
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanuja
1944: The Proclamation No. 30 declares the existence of a state of war between the Philippines (Under Japanese control) and the United States and the United Kingdom
1954: Bao Dai sends a telegram inviting Diem to resign the office of Prime Minister of Vietnam. Diem refuses, announcing that he is reorganizing his government with participation of the religious sects (Hoa Hao and Cao Dai)
1955: Pakistan signs Baghdad Pact, joining Iran, Iraq, and Turkey in a military alliance with the USA, later converted into the Central Treaty Organization (CENTO)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Treaty_Organization
1964: Birth of Koshi Inaba, Japanese singer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koshi_Inaba
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mh0Hl2HEOPo
1965: In the Second Indo-Pakistani War (that started in April), after the intervention of the Great Powers, India and Pakistan sign a cease-fire
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/indo-pak_1965.htm
1969: First underground Chinese nuclear test
1971: Birth of Lee Mi-yeon, South Korean actress
http://www.hancinema.net/korean_Lee_Mi-yeon.php
http://www.koreanfilm.org/actors2.html
1972: Birth of Shim Eun-ha, South Korean actress
http://asianwiki.com/Shim_Eun-Ha
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwrIs-T8VKk
1974: Birth of Harumi Inoue, Japanese actress and model
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0409276/bio
1985: Birth of Maki Goto, Japanese pop singer
http://wiki.d-addicts.com/Goto_Maki
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YRmr4AusRg
1986: Japanese newspapers quote Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone as saying that minorities lowered the «intelligence level» of America
1993: For the first time, Taiwan puts her candidature to the United Nations under the name of Republic of China in Taiwan
1996: Birth of South Korean singer Lee Hi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Hi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AI7UP1iRAU
1996: Death of Fujiko F. Fujio, Japanese cartoonist, born in 1933
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fujiko_F._Fujio
2000: Aung San Suu Kyi is again put under house of arrest
2002: in Hong Kong, death of cardinal John Baptist Wu. Joseph Zen is named bishop of Hong Kong by the Vatican
http://www.theguardian.com/news/2002/sep/27/guardianobituaries.religion
http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cevang/documents/rc_con_cevang_doc_20020928_wu-cheng-chung_en.html
2007: In Japan, Yasuo Fukuda is elected chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0924/p07s02-woap.html
2008: Myanmar’s longest-serving political prisoner Win Tin is released after the government announced an amnesty that saw more than 9,000 inmates freed
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2008/09/20089239516445256.html
2010: Sam Rainsy, leader of opposition to Hun Sen, is sentenced to 10 years in prison while in voluntary exile in France. According to the opposition party the sentence is seen as a way to eliminate opposition
http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Sam-Rainsy,-leader-of-opposition-to-Hun-Sen,-sentenced-to-10-years-in-prison-19531.html
2011: Pakistan’s foreign minister warns that the US could lose Pakistan as an ally if it continues to publicly accuse Islamabad of supporting militants
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-15030928
2011: Shrugging off Chinese warnings, India’s state-run oil firm ONGC said it would press ahead with long-term partner Vietnam in exploring the disputed South China Sea for oil
2012: China navy takes delivery of first aircraft carrier, a former Soviet carrier called the Varyag
http://www.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne%2BNews/Asia/Story/A1Story20120923-373302.html
2012: China postpones a ceremony marking the 40th anniversary of its diplomatic relationship with Japan amid high tensions between the two countries over a territorial dispute
http://www.france24.com/en/20120923-china-postpones-ceremony-marking-diplomatic-ties-with-japan-amid-territorial-dispute
2014: A Chinese court sentences Uighur academic Ilham Tohti, the country’s most prominent advocate for the rights of Muslim Uighur people, to life in prison on separatism charges
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/09/23/world/asia/china-scholar-sentence/index.html?hpt=ias_c2
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-29321701
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/scholar-09232014091017.html
2015: Death of Dayananda Saraswati, Indian monk and philosopher, born on August 15, 1930
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/swami-dayananda-saraswati-dead/article7682135.ece
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dayananda_Saraswati_(Arsha_Vidya)
http://swarajyamag.com/culture/obituary-swami-dayananda-saraswati-1930-2015
2018: Hong Kong mourns passing of Nobel Prize winner and father of fibre optics, Charles Kao, 84
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education/article/2165405/nobel-prize-winner-and-hong-kong-native-charles-kao-dies-84
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/nobel-prize-winning-scientist-charles-kuen-kao-who-brought-forth-the-development-of
2018: Japanese space agency makes history by landing two rovers on an asteroid
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-23/pictures-confirm-japans-hayabusa2-lands-rovers-on-asteroid/10295992?section=world
http://japan-forward.com/japan-makes-history-hayabusa2-spacecraft-lands-rovers-on-moving-asteroid/