Mao proclaims the People's Republic
October 1, 1949
From the Gate of Heavenly Peace in Beijing, Mao Zedong announced to a cheering crowd that the Chinese people had stood up. Twenty-two years of revolution, civil war, and Japanese invasion had ended with the Communists in power over four hundred and fifty million people. Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists fled to Taiwan.
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- NATO founded · North America · Politics
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- West Germany founded · Europe · Politics
- First Emmy Awards · North America · Culture
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