Tibet in History this Month.
Oct 17, 1934:: Tibet told a Kuomintang Chinese mission its final decision to retain its independent national identity. The Huang mission had come to Tibet to condole the death of the 13th Dalai Lama and also to induce Tibet to agree to be one of the five races (ethnic groups) that was to make up the new Republic of China.
Oct 17, 2007:: US President George W Bush presented to the Dalai Lama the US Congressional Gold Medal, the country's highest civilian honour.
Oct 19, 2010:: Thousands of Tibetan students staged a protest rally in Rebkong (Chinese: Tongren) County of Malho (Chinese: Huangnan) Prefecture of Qinghai Province against the imposition of Chinese as the only language of teaching in Tibetan schools. The protest later spread to other prefectures over the following days.
Oct 19, 1984: A three-member exile Tibetan delegation led by the Kalon Tripa Mr Juchen Thubten Namgyal visited Beijing to discuss arrangements for a possible visit of the Dalai Lama while exploring possibilities of further talks. It all ended nowhere, as was the case with the new series of nine (or ten, according to the Chinese side) rounds of talks held since 2002. Juchen Thubten Namgyal passed away on Aug 31, 2011, aged 82.
Oct 19, 1989:: Under the chairmanship of party General Secretary Jiang Zemin, the Politburo of the CPC Central Committee held a work conference on TAR.
Oct 26, 1950:: India's Foreign Ministry reacted to the Chinese aggression in Eastern Tibet by sending a sharp note to Beijing, saying the invasion "cannot but be regarded as deplorable and in the considered judgment of the government of India, nor in the interest of China or peace."
Oct 28, 1991:: US President, George Bush, signed into law a non-binding Congressional resolution declaring Tibet "an occupied country under established principles of international law, whose true representatives are the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan Government as recognized by the Tibetan people."
Oct 29, 2008:: In a statement in the House of Commons, Britain's foreign secretary David Miliband discarded his country's view of Tibet as being under the "suzerainty" rather than "sovereignty" of China, calling it an "anachronism" and one "based on the geopolitics of the time", ie, the early 1900s.
Oct 30, 1950:: The US ambassador to India, Henderson, in a conversation with GS Bajpai of the Indian Foreign Office, asked whether India would favour US assistance for Tibet.
Oct 31 - Nov 5, 2008:: Envoys of the Dalai Lama, Lodi Gyari and Kelsang Gyaltsen, presented to the Chinese a memorandum on genuine autonomy for Tibet, which China later condemned as a form of demand for independence.
Oct 1900: : The Russian government newspaper Journal de Saint Petersburg reported that on Sep 30, 1900, Czar Nicolas II had received Ngawang Lobsang Dorjieff, a confidante of the 13th Dalai Lama, in Lividia Palace.
Oct 1962: : The Tibet Work Committee told the Panchen Lama that he had made serious mistakes by penning a "70,000-Character Petition" which contained severe criticisms of Chinese policies in Tibet.

Oct 1980:: The third fact-finding delegation to Tibet led by Mrs Jetsun Pema of the exile Tibetan government returned, confirming that the standards of education there were deplorably low.

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