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
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 S. 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 sec 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, NZ 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 Ziyi Zhang, 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 U.N. votes to expel Taiwan and admit Red China
1971 Lin Biao, Chinese Politician
1971 Lin Piau, Chinese minister of Defense, dies at 63
1970 Bai Ling, Chinese Actress
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
1965 Gong Li, 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, Chinese Actor
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 Andy Lau, Chinese Actor
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 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
1950 Zhang Yimou, Chinese Director
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
1942 Jintao Hu, 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 Lu Xun, Chinese Author
1936 Fang Lizhi, Chinese astrophysicist/dissident
1936 Yuan T. Lee, Chinese Scientist
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 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
1928 Zhu Rongji, Chinese Statesman
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 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 Government of Transvaal sends home 50,000 Chinese day workers
1907 Lin Biao, Chinese Politician
1904 Deng Xiaoping, Chinese party leader, 1976-1983
1901 Li Hung-Tshang, Chinese rebel leader/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 gov-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 Neth-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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