ON 5 MARCH IN CHINESE HISTORY, HONG KONG AND TAIWAN
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Updated on March 5, 2019
1886: Birth of Dong Biwu, hight-ranking member of the Communist Party of China who died in April 1975
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dong_Biwu
1895: The Japanese size the Chinese port of Yingkou (Manchuria)
http://sinojapanesewar.com/Manchuria.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Yingkou
1897: Birth of Soong May-ling, wife of Chiang Kai-shek who died in October 2003
http://www.magiccarpetjournals.com/Madame-Chiang.htm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/6989388/The-Last-Empress-Madame-Chiang-Kai-shek-and-the-Birth-of-Modern-China-review.html
http://history.04007.cn/en.php/HisMain/2373.html
1898: Birth of Zhou Enlai, Chinese Premier from 1949 to 1976
http://spartacus-educational.com/COLDenlai.htm
http://www.chinafile.com/mystery-zhou-enlai
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LydnqKl-zeg
1927: 1,000 US marines land in China to protect American property
1940: Death of Cai Yuanpei (Tsai Yuan-pei), Chinese educator who was the first president of the Academia Sinica, born on January 11, 1868
https://www.thechinastory.org/ritp/tsai-yuan-pei-cai-yuanpei-%E8%94%A1%E5%85%83%E5%9F%B9/
http://history.04007.cn/en.php/HisMain/2170.html
1958: The Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region is founded is established in China
http://history.04007.cn/en.php/HisMain/1746.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangxi
1963: Mao Zedong writes the inscription “learn from Comrade Lei Feng” launching a long patriotic campaign
http://chineseposters.net/themes/leifeng.php
http://history.04007.cn/en.php/HisMain/2669.html
1965: Death of Chen Cheng, Chinese politician and military leader, born on January 4, 1897)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen_Cheng
1978: In China, end of the first session of the 5th National Congress. Hua Guofeng is maintained as president of the CCP and as head of the government. A new constitution is voted
1978: Ye Jianying becomes president of the National Assembly of the PRC, replacing Zhu De
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/data/people/yejianying.shtml
http://www.paulnoll.com/China/Long-March/Long-March-Ye-Jianying.html
1979 : China starts the withdraw of its invasion troops from Vietnam
1988: Riot during a religious ceremony in Lhasa causing around 50 people dead. 600 people died in the 1987-1988 unrests
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5laC0_eb9c&feature=related
1989: Beginning of anti-Chinese riots in Tibet
http://history.04007.cn/en.php/HisMain/2230.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFsuuUWiFQM
2004: Death of Zang Kejia, Chinese poet, born in October 1905
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zang_Kejia
2013: U.N. diplomats say the United States and China have reached a tentative deal on new sanctions to punish North Korea for its latest nuclear test, as Pyongyang threatened to disregard the armistice that ended its 1950 to 1953 war with South Korea
http://www.voanews.com/content/un-security-council-to-discuss-north-korea-sanctions/1615283.html