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2004 After popularizing the PC in the '80s, IBM sells its PC business to a Chinese company
2004 Iris Chang, Chinese Historian 1999 During a bombing run over Belgrade, NATO accidentally bombs the Chinese embassy, killing four which launches massive protests throughout China 1997 Deng Xiaoping, head of the Chinese Communist Party, dies at 92 1996 Ai Qing, modern Chinese poet, dies at 86 1994 Typhoon Fred ravages Chinese county Zhejiang, 700+ killed 1994 Pu Yi, brother of last Chinese emperor, Pu Yi, dies at 87 1993 Chinese MD82 makes crash landing at Urumqi, 12 killed 1993 Chinese B737 crash at Yinchuan, at least 66 killed 1992 Wang Hongwen, vice-President Chinese Communist Party (1973-76), dies 1992 "Chinese Coffee" closes at Circle in Sq Theater New York City after 18 performances 1992 "Chinese Coffee" opens at Circle in Sq Theater New York City for 18 performances 1992 Li Xiannian, Chinese President (1983-88), dies 1991 Jiang Qing, widow of Chinese leader Mao Tse Tung, commits suicide 1990 Chinese plane explodes, about 100 die 1989 Beijing cop shoots and wounds Chinese priemer Li Ping 1989 Chinese troops kill hundred of pro-democracy students in Beijing 1989 10,000 Chinese soldiers are blocked by 100,000 citizens protecting students demonstrating for democracy in Tiananmen Square, Beijing 1989 Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev and Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping ended a 30-year rift when they formally met in Beijing 1989 Journalist petition Chinese government for freedom of press 1989 Thousands of Chinese crowd into Beijing's Tiananmen Square cheering students demanding greater political freedom 1989 Hu Yaobang, general secretary of Chinese Commnist Party, dies 1989 1,100,000,000th Chinese born 1989 U.S. bust Chinese ring, capture record 820 lbs heroin ($1 Billion street value) 1988 Chinese minister of Foreign affairs Qian Qichen visits Moscow 1987 Rewi Alley, New Zealand author, pro Chinese communist, dies at 90 in Beijing 1987 Chinese/Vietnamese border fights, 1500 killed 1984 Chinese troops invade Vietnam 1981 New York Mayor Ed Koch is given Heimlich maneuver in a Chinese restaurant 1980 Yao Ming, Chinese Athlete 1979 Chinese premier Hwa Kwofeng visits Paris 1979 Zhang Ziyi, Chinese Actress 1979 Chinese vice-premier Deng Xiaoping visits Washington, D.C. 1978 Vanessa Mae, Chinese Musician 1976 Mao Tse-Tung, Chinese Communist Party chairman (1949-76), dies at 82 1976 Mao Zedong, Chinese Leader 1976 8.2 Tangshan earthquake kills estimated 240,000 Chinese 1976 James Wong Howe, Chinese Director 1976 Chinese Politburo fires vice-premier Deng Xiaoping 1976 Lin Yutang, Chinese Author 1976 Zhou Enlai, Chinese Statesman 1975 Chinese archeologists discover a 3-acre burial site with 6,000 clay statues of warriors dating as early as 221 BC 1975 Chiang Kai-Shek, Nationalist Chinese leader, dies at 87 1975 Coco Lee, Chinese Musician 1972 President Nixon and Chinese Premier Chou En-lai issued Shanghai Communique 1972 President Nixon, meets with Chinese Premier Chou En-Lai in Beijing 1972 Yang Wenyi, Chinese swim star, WR/OR 50m freestyle 1971 Lin Biao, Chinese Politician 1971 Lin Piau, Chinese minister of Defense, dies at 63 1968 Iris Chang, Chinese Historian 1967 Indian/Chinese border fights 1967 Chinese army/air force/fleet repress uprising in Wuhan City 1967 1st Chinese hydrogen bomb explodes 1966 Bai Ling, Chinese Actress 1965 2nd Chinese atom bomb explodes 1964 David Freedman, cricketer, NSW left-arm Chinese bowler since 1990 1963 Donnie Yen, Chinese Actor 1963 Jet Li, born in Beijing, China, Li Lianjie, Chinese martial artist, actor, international film star, appeared in Lethal Weapon 4, with Jackie Chan in The Forbidden Kingdom, Wushu champion, studied Changquan, among other arts 1962 Chinese army lands in India 1962 Indies assault up Chinese positions in North-India attack 1962 Chinese troops exceed Mac-Mahon-line (Tibet-India boundary) 1962 Michelle Yeoh, Chinese Actress 1962 Battles on Chinese and Indies boundary 1962 Stephen Chow, Chinese Actor 1962 Hu Shih, Chinese Philosopher 1961 Albania disavows Chinese "Revisionism" 1960 Chinese army kills 12 Indian soldiers 1959 Chinese troops move into India, 17 die 1959 Uprising against Chinese occupation force in Lhasa Tibet 1957 Ch'i Pai-shih, traditional Chinese painter, dies at 93 1955 Yo-Yo, Massachusetts, Paris, France, world famous Chinese cellist 1955 Chow Yun-Fat, Chinese Actor 1954 1st National People's Congress adopts Chinese constitution 1952 Chinese offensive in Korea 1951 Zhang Yimou, Chinese Director 1951 David Yip, born in Liverpool, England, of Chinese descent, English actor, played Johnny Ho in The Chinese Detective, played CIA liason agent Chuck Lee in 'A View to a Kill', a 1985 James Bond film 1951 Chinese Communists force Dalai Lama to surrender his army to Beijing 1951 Air raid on Chinese positions at Yalu River 1951 During Korean conflict, Chinese forces capture Seoul 1951 Massive Chinese/North Korean assault on UN-lines 1950 Chinese troops cross 38th Parallel, into South Korea 1950 Tibet's Dalai Lama flees Chinese invasion 1950 Chinese offensive halts at Chongchon River, North Korea 1950 South Korean troops reach Chosan at Chinese boundary 1950 Chinese forces occupy Tibet 1949 Chinese Nationalist government moves from Chinese mainland to Formosa 1949 Chinese Communists captured Chungking 1949 Chinese Red army occupies Canton 1949 Chinese Communist leaders proclaims People's Republic of China 1949 British warship HMS Amethyst escape down Yangtze River, having been refused a safe passage by Chinese Communists after 3-month standoff 1949 Chinese Red army occupies Shanghai 1949 Chinese Red army conquerors Nanjing 1949 Chinese liner "Taiping" collides with a collier off south China 1948 Chinese refugee ship "Kiangya" explodes in E China Sea, killing 1,100 1946 John Woo, Chinese Director 1945 Chinese civil war begins, Chiang Kai-Shek vs Mao Tse-Tung 1945 Chinese counter attack at Tsjangte, supports by 14th air fleet 1945 Chinese 38th division occupies Lashio 1945 Chinese 30th division occupies Hsenwi 1944 Chinese counter offensive at Hunan front 1944 Chinese/U.S. armed forces take Myitkyina Airport, Burma 1944 Chinese offensive in West-Yunnan 1944 1st Chinese naturalized U.S. citizen since repeal of exclusion acts 1943 Vietminh forms Indo Chinese Democratic Front 1942 Hu Jintao, Chinese Statesman 1941 Goh Chok Tong, Chinese Statesman 1940 Gao Xingjian, Chinese Novelist 1939 "Wizard of Oz" premieres at Grauman's Chinese Theater, Hollywood 1937 Japanese fleet blockades Chinese coast 1937 Japanese and Chinese troops clash, (Marco Polo Bridge), becomes WW II 1936 Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek declares war on Japan 1936 Yuan T. Lee, Chinese Scientist 1936 Lu Xun, Chinese Author 1936 Fang Lizhi, Chinese astrophysicist/dissident 1934 Chinese Red leader under Mao Tse Tung begins Long March 1932 Former Chinese emperor Henry Pu-Yi installed as head of Manchuria 1931 Japanese army attacks Chinese province of Jehol 1931 Chinese People's Republic proclaimed by Mao Tse Tung 1928 Zhu Rongji, Chinese Statesman 1928 U.S. acknowledge Chinese government of Chiang Kai-shek 1928 U.S. recognizes Nationalist Chinese government 1928 Li Ka Shing, Chinese Businessman 1928 Chiang Tsolin, Chinese warlord of North-China, murdered 1927 Japanese military intervention in Chinese civil war 1927 Grauman's Chinese Theater opens in Hollywood California 1925 Sun Yat-Sen, Chinese revolutionary president, dies at 58 1921 Chinese Communist Party forms under Henk Sneevliet 1921 Zao-Wou-Ki, Chinese/French painter/graphic artist 1920 Ma, the Benovelent, Chinese muslim rebel (holy war), dies 1919 Zhao Ziyang, Chinese Statesman 1917 Jiang Zemin, Chinese Leader 1914 Japan attack German concession on Chinese peninsula of Shanghai 1914 Bai Long, White Wolf, Chinese Robin Hood/crowd leader, dies 1913 Yuan Shikai captures Nanjing "2nd Chinese revolution" 1913 Song Jiao-ren, leader Chinese Guomindang-Party, dies 1912 Chinese republic proclaimed in Tibet 1912 Sun Yat-sen forms Chinese Republic 1910 Cao Yu, born in China, born Wan Jiabao, playwright, dramatist, celebrated for Thunderstorm, Sunrise, and Peking Man, responsible for spoken theater in 20th century Chinese literature 1910 Ai Qing, born in Eastern China, modern Chinese poet, original name Jiang Zheng Han, influenced by Kant and Hegel, modern poet Mayakovsky and Belgian poet Verhaeren 1910 Chiang Ching-huo, son of Chinese President Chiang Kai-shek/President, 1978-88 1910 Dali Lama flees Tibet from Chinese troop to British-Indies 1908 Leslie O'Brien "Chuck" Fleetwood-Smith, Chinese cricket bowler 1907 Lin Piau, Chinese politician 1907 Lin Biao, Chinese Politician 1907 Government of Transvaal sends home 50,000 Chinese day workers 1904 Deng Xiaoping, Chinese party leader, 1976-1983 1901 Li Hung-Tshang, Chinese rebel leader and viceroy of Tsheli, dies 1900 1st Chinese daily newspaper in U.S. publishes (Chung Sai Yat Po-SF) 1899 James Wong Howe, Chinese Director 1898 Zhou Enlai, Chinese Statesman 1896 Chop suey invented in New York City by chef of visiting Chinese Ambassador 1895 Lin Yutang, Chinese Author 1894 Bernard Wagenaar, Arnhem Holland, composer, 3 Songs for Chinese 1894 U.S. and China sign treaty preventing Chinese laborers from entering U.S. 1893 Mao Zedong, Chinese Leader 1893 Chinese deported from San Francisco under Exclusion Act 1891 Hu Shih, Chinese Philosopher 1889 Arthur Waley, sinologist, translator from Chinese and Japanese 1888 Li Ta-chao, co-founder with Mao Tse-tung, Chinese Communist Party 1885 Tacoma vigilantes drive out Chinese, burn their homes and businesses 1884 U.S. Congress accept 2nd Chinese Exclusion Act 1882 French/Vietnamese/Chinese battle at Hanoi, 100s die 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act: U.S. Congress ceases Chinese immigration 1881 Lu Xun, Chinese Author 1874 Chang and Eng Bunker, Chinese/Thai Siamese twins, dies at 62 1871 Mob in LA hangs 18 Chinese 1868 Chinese Embassy arrives aboard steamship China 1863 Ch'i Pai-shih, China, traditional Chinese painter 1859 Yuan She-k'ai, Chinese general/president/dictator 1857 Insurrection of Chinese in Sarawak, Borneo 1856 Chinese police board British vessel Arrow, arrest 12 Chinese crewmen on suspicion of piracy and lower British flag, begins 2nd Anglo-Chinese War 1854 Dutch army stops Chinese uprising in Borneo 1852 1st Chinese theater in U.S., Celestial John, opens in San Francisco 1852 1st Chinese arrive in Hawaii 1848 1st ship load of Chinese arrive in San Francisco 1843 1st Chinese immigrant arrives in Suriname 1839 1st opium war - 2 British frigates engage several Chinese junks 1823 Li Hung-Tshang, Chinese rebel leader/viceroy of Tsheli Canton 1811 Chang and Eng Bunker, Chinese Siamese twins 1789 Chinese troops driven out of Vietnam capital Thang Long 1788 Chinese troops occupy capital Thang Long Vietnam 1755 Philippines close all non-catholic Chinese restaurants 1740 Netherlands Governor-General Adriaen Valckenier allows murder of 8000 Chinese inhabitants of Batavia 1740 Chinese assault on Diestpoort Batavia 1727 Russian and Chinese accord to correct boundaries 1695 Adriaen Valckenier, Governor-General Netherlands-Indies, 1737-41, killed 8,000 Chinese 1662 Dutch garrison on Formosa surrenders for Chinese pirates 1661 Chinese Ming dynasty occupies Taiwan 1636 Yen Jo-chu, Chinese scholar of Ch'ing dynasty 1605 Chinese uprising on Philippines, Tondo/Quiapo massacre 1605 Li Tzu-ch'eng, Chinese revolutionary, dethroned last Ming emperor 1603 Chinese uprising in Philippines fails after 23,000 killed 1294 Kublai Khan, Chinese Statesman 1215 Kublai Khan, Chinese Statesman 1181 Supernova observed by Chinese and Japanese astronomers 1141 Yue Fei, Chinese general, executed 1101 Su Tung-p'o, Chinese poet/essayist/painter/calligrapher, dies at 64 1006 Supernova observed by Chinese and Egyptians in constellation Lupus 772 Po Tjiu-i, Chinese poet/governor of Hang-tsjow 580 Chinese invents toilet paper |
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