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Events relating to asia
Irgun terrorists detonate a bomb in the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, killing 91 people
The Indochina War breaks out in Vietnam between the French colonial forces and the Vietminh
The Japanese emperor Hirohito renounces his traditional divine status and declares that he is mortal
Twenty-five Japanese defendants are put on trial in Tokyo, charged with war crimes
33-year old Aung San, prime minister of Burma, and six of his ministers are assassinated during a cabinet meeting
In granting independence to India, Britain partitions the subcontinent along sectarian lines into Pakistan and the republic of India
Louis Mountbatten, the last viceroy of India, becomes also the first governor-general
Jawaharlal Nehru becomes prime minister of the newly independent republic of India
Muslim leader Mohammed Ali Jinnah becomes the first governor-general of the new state of Pakistan
Muslims proclaim an independent state in west Kashmir, defying the wishes of the maharaja
Violent sectarian division in Kashmir results in war between India and Pakistan in support of the rival sides
The UN puts forward a plan for the partition of Palestine into separate Arab and Jewish states
An Arab boy, herding goats in the Qumran desert, finds the first of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Mahatma Gandhi is assassinated at a Delhi prayer meeting by a Hindu extremist, Nathuram Godse
Israel declares its independence as a Jewish state, with David Ben-Gurion as prime minister
Six Arab states attack Israel in support of the Palestinians, starting the first Arab-Israeli war
Ballerina Mikiko Matsuyama and her husband establish a family-run balllet company in Tokyo
Kim Il Sung becomes prime minister of North Korea on the withdrawal of the Soviet occupying force
700,000 Palestinian Arabs flee from their homes in Israel and become refugees
The UN mediator in Palestine, Folke Bernadotte, proposes a peace plan involving the partition of Palestine
Jewish terrorists, opposed to the partition of Palestine, murder the UN peacemaker Folke Bernadotte
Japanese premier Tojo Hideki is convicted in the Tokyo war crimes trial and is hanged
The first Indo-Pakistani war ends with a Kashmir demarcation line approved by the UN but acceptable to neither state
Defeated by the Communists, Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek) resigns before the final collapse of his regime
Jordan occupies the West Bank area of Palestine af the end of the Arab-Israeli war
