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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 854583" data-attributes="member: 12952">Sun Yat-sen&#039;s U.S. birth certificate to be displayed&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 2011/07/02 16:15:42&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Taipei, July 2&nbsp; (CNA) A birth certificate showing that the Republic of China&#039;s (ROC)&nbsp; founding father was born in the United States will be put on display&nbsp; July 4 in Taipei, said the America Institute in Taiwan (AIT) on&nbsp; Saturday. &nbsp;The historical document, issued on March 14, 1904,&nbsp; indicated that Sun Yat-sen was born on Oahu Island, Hawaii, on Nov. 24,&nbsp; 1870. &nbsp;It enabled him to travel from Hawaii on April 7, 1904, to&nbsp; San Francisco as a U.S. citizen while the Qing Dynasty issued a warrant&nbsp; for his arrest for attempting to overthrow the government. &nbsp;The&nbsp; birth certificate, obtained from the U.S. Immigration Office, will be a&nbsp; copy of the original file, said Sheila Paskman, spokesperson for AIT,&nbsp; which represents U.S. interests in Taiwan in the absence of formal&nbsp; diplomatic ties. The birth certificate in question&nbsp; contradicted the generally accepted fact among historians that Sun was&nbsp; born on Nov. 12, 1866 in Cuiheng Village, Xiangshan County, in China&#039;s&nbsp; Guangdong Province. &nbsp;Many believe Sun&#039;s friends helped him&nbsp; secured the fake birth certificate to facilitate his pursuit of U.S.&nbsp; citizenship, which they felt was a necessary asset in Sun&#039;s promotion of&nbsp; his revolutionary work in China. Another story about Hawaii and fake BC.....seems like they have been doing this for some time.<a href="http://focustaiwan.tw/ShowNews/WebNews_Detail.aspx?Type=aIPL&amp;ID=201107020009" target="_blank">http://focustaiwan.tw/ShowNews/WebNews_Detail.aspx?Type=aIPL&amp;ID=201107020009</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 854583, member: 12952"] Sun Yat-sen's U.S. birth certificate to be displayed 2011/07/02 16:15:42 Taipei, July 2 (CNA) A birth certificate showing that the Republic of China's (ROC) founding father was born in the United States will be put on display July 4 in Taipei, said the America Institute in Taiwan (AIT) on Saturday. The historical document, issued on March 14, 1904, indicated that Sun Yat-sen was born on Oahu Island, Hawaii, on Nov. 24, 1870. It enabled him to travel from Hawaii on April 7, 1904, to San Francisco as a U.S. citizen while the Qing Dynasty issued a warrant for his arrest for attempting to overthrow the government. The birth certificate, obtained from the U.S. Immigration Office, will be a copy of the original file, said Sheila Paskman, spokesperson for AIT, which represents U.S. interests in Taiwan in the absence of formal diplomatic ties. The birth certificate in question contradicted the generally accepted fact among historians that Sun was born on Nov. 12, 1866 in Cuiheng Village, Xiangshan County, in China's Guangdong Province. Many believe Sun's friends helped him secured the fake birth certificate to facilitate his pursuit of U.S. citizenship, which they felt was a necessary asset in Sun's promotion of his revolutionary work in China. [COLOR=#FF0000]Another story about Hawaii and fake BC.....seems like they have been doing this for some time. [url]http://focustaiwan.tw/ShowNews/WebNews_Detail.aspx?Type=aIPL&ID=201107020009[/url][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]

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