China enters Korean War
October 1950
As American forces pushed toward the Yalu River, three hundred thousand Chinese People's Volunteers crossed into Korea at night and surprised General MacArthur. Within weeks they had driven the UN back past Seoul. The war froze into a bloody stalemate along the thirty-eighth parallel that has not quite ended seventy-five years later.
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Also in 1950 (5 other events on record)
- Korean War begins · East Asia · War
- China invades Tibet · East Asia · Politics
- McCarthy's Wheeling speech · North America · Politics
- Population explosion begins · Oceania · Science
- MacArthur lands at Inchon · East Asia · War
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