Portal:Taiwan/Anniversaries/April/April 7

April 7:

• 2006 - The Executive Yuan announces on 22 December 2016 that April 7th will be known as Freedom of Expression Day (言論自由日) to commemorate the death of democracy activist Cheng Nan-jung.

Events:

• 1989 - The National Olympic Committee of the Peoples Republic of China finally agrees to the use of Chinese Taipei's Chinese translation of 中華臺北 (Zhonghua Taibei, lit. "Chinese Taipei") after a decade of unsuccessful insistence on 中國臺北 (Zhongguo Taibei lit. "Taipei, China"). The agreement was signed in Hong Kong between Chinese Taipei's Lee Ching-hua and China's He Zhenliang, the Secretary-General and President respectively.
• 1995 - DOS version of the Chinese videogame masterpiece The Legend of Sword and Fairy goes on sale in Taiwan.

Births:

• 1982 - Lee Shiau-Shiang (李紹祥 aka 邵翔 Shao Xiang), member of Taiwanese boy band Wu Hu Jiang (武虎將).
• 1989 - Jill Su (蘇晏霈), Taiwanese actress.
• 1989 - Chen Chia-Chu (陳家駒, Amis: Fatang Kaloloan), Taiwanese baseball player.

Deaths:

• 1989 - Cheng Nan-jung (鄭南榕), a democracy activist charged with sedition for publishing a draft proposal for a constitution for the Republic of Taiwan. He burned himself alive in his office to avoid arrest by the Kuomintang. (Born in 1947)