ON 27 JUNE IN ASIAN HISTORY
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Updated on June 27, 2019
862: Birth of Hindu saint Manikkavacakar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manikkavacakar
http://jaar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/XLV/1/80
1636: Date Masamune founder of Sendai Japan, passes away
http://www.samurai-archives.com/masamune.html
1838: Birth of Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, Indian journalist, author of the national song of India Vande Mataram, and poet who died on April 8, 1894
http://www.iloveindia.com/indian-heroes/bankim-chandra-chatterjee.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bankim_Chandra_Chattopadhyay
1839: Death of Ranjit Singh, head of the Sikh state of Punjab, born on 13 November 1780
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranjit_Singh
1858: Signing of the Sino-French Treaty of Tianjin
http://history.04007.cn/en.php/HisMain/6079.html
https://www.historytoday.com/richard-cavendish/treaties-tianjin
1863 : Birth of Ladislao Diwa, co-founder of the Katipunan, a Philippine revolutionary society founded in 1892, whose primary aim was to gain independence from Spain through revolution, who died on March 12, 1930
https://kahimyang.com/kauswagan/articles/1474/today-in-philippine-history-june-27-1863-ladislao-diwa-cofounder-of-the-katipunan-was-born-in-san-roque-cavite
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katipunan
http://www.oocities.org/collegepark/pool/1644/diwa.html
1871: The yen becomes the new form of currency in Japan
1878: Birth of He Xiangning, Chinese female revolutionist and painter, wife of Liao Zhongkai, who died in 1972
http://wiki.china.org.cn/wiki/index.php/He_Xiangning
1915: Birth of Zhao Dan, Chinese actor, director and writer who died on October 1980
https://web.archive.org/web/20060901055847/
http://cn.hujiang.com/new/p548340/
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0955486/
http://history.04007.cn/en.php/HisMain/6084.html
1927: Prime Minister of Japan Tanaka Giici leads a conference to discuss Japan’s plans for China. Later, a document detailing these plans, the “Tanaka Memorial” is leaked, although it is now considered a forgery
http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1940/01/tanaka
htmhttp://mailstar.net/tanaka.html
1935: Birth of Ramon Zamora, Filipino martial arts actor, dubbed as the Bruce Lee of the Philippines, who died on August 26, 2007
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramon_Zamora
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FV-W5PU2Yg4
1939: Birth of Rahul Dev Burman, Indian composer and actor, who died on January 1994
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rahul_Dev_Burman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRyXaL_f9d8
1950: While North Korean troops reach Seoul, United Nations Security Council votes a resolution which take note that North Korea refuses to respect its June 25 resolution and takes sanctions against it
1950: US sends 35 military advisers to South Vietnam
1950: Following a call from the United Nations Security Council, US President Truman orders naval and air forces to support South Korea and to protect Taiwan
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0627.html
https://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/27/june-27-1950-truman-orders-u-s-forces-to-fight-in-korean-war/?_r=0
1952: Birth of Madan Kumar Bhandari, communist Nepalese politician, who was killed in a mysterious car crash in 1993
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madan_Kumar_Bhandari
1961: Birth of Meera Syal, British-Indian comedienne and actress
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meera_Syal
http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/482928/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgixYsYIv5g
1962: Birth of Tony Leung Chiu-wai (Liang Zhaowei), Hong Kong actor
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0504897/bio
1962: USA says it will consider any Chinese attack against the costal islands held by Taiwan as an attack against Taiwan
1968: US forces evacuate Khe-Sanh, besieged by the National Liberation front since several months
http://www.pbs.org/battlefieldvietnam/khe/index.html
http://www.historynet.com/the-withdrawal-from-khe-sanh.htm
1971: Birth of Nepalese prince Dipendra who killed his father and many other members of the royal family on June 1, 2001
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/1365983.stm
1979: Birth of Gyu-ri, South Korean actress
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0453589/
http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=48&threadid=921
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=be8gibylxqE
1981: The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China issues its “Resolution on Certain Questions in the History of Our Party Since the Founding of the People’s Republic of China”, laying the blame for the Cultural Revolution on Mao Zedong
https://www.marxists.org/subject/china/documents/cpc/history/01.htm
http://en.people.cn/dengxp/vol2/text/b1420.html
1981: Promulgation of Cambodia’s constitution
http://www.country-data.com/cgi-bin/query/r-2201.html
1989: After Tiananmen Square massacre, European Council takes political and economic sanctions against Beijing
https://www.sipri.org/databases/embargoes/eu_arms_embargoes/china
1996: Birth of Tanay Chheda , Indian actor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanay_Chheda
http://hamaraphotos.com/tanay_chheda_2936.html
1998: Chinese President Jiang Zemin and U.S. President Bill Clinton meet the press after their formal talks, in which they expressed their view of seeking commonness while shelving the differences in bilateral development and cooperation
2006: Nguyen Minh Triet is elected president of Vietnam and Nguyen Tan Dung as prime minister
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/vietnam/nguyen-minh-triet.htm
2006: Tamil Tiger ‘regret’ over Rajiv Gandhi assassination 15 years ago
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/5122032.stm
2008: Death of Sam Manekshaw, Indian Field Marshall, born in 1914
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Manekshaw
http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?story_id=11661408
2008: North Korea demolishes the cooling tower at its Yongbyyon nuclear reactor in a goodwill gesture
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7476755.stm
2011: Bangladesh military court jails more than 650 border guards for their role in a 2009 mutiny that killed 74 people, mostly commanding officers
http://www.english.rfi.fr/asia-pacific/20110627-657-mutineers-jailed
2011: Four former senior Khmer Rouge leaders, including “Brother No. 2” Nuon Chea, appear at a UN-backed tribunal in Phnom Penh to face war crimes charges for atrocities committed during the 1975-1979 reign of terror
http://www.france24.com/en/20110627-cambodia-former-khmer-rouge-leaders-face-trial-brother-number-two-nuon-chea
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-13922564
2013: South Korean President Park Geun-hye and her Chinese counterpart, President Xi Jinping, agree at a summit in Beijing to push for denuclearization of the Korean peninsula
http://www.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne%2BNews/Asia/Story/A1Story20130627-432972.html
2014: More than a thousand lawyers all dressed in black took to the streets of Hong Kong in a silent march Friday against « interference » by Beijing in the city’s judiciary
http://www.breitbart.com/news/80cc6191-91c6-428a-952f-844ce2c7235d/
http://www.gettyimages.fr/detail/vid%C3%A9o/more-than-a-thousand-lawyers-all-dressed-in-black-film-dactualit%C3%A9/451602096
2015 : Vietnam frees high-profile dissident lawyer Le Quoc Quan after spending two and a half years in jail on tax evasion charges
https://pen.org/press-release/vietnamese-blogger-and-lawyer-le-quoc-quan-released/
https://www.mediadefence.org/news/viet-nam-releases-dissident-lawyer
2016: India joins the Missile Technology Control Regime MTCR)
http://www.chinadailyasia.com/asia/2016-06/27/content_15454736.html
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/india-to-become-full-member-of-mtcr-today/article8778729.ece?w=alauto
http://www.asiapacificstar.com/index.php/sid/245348775