Category: Mao Zedong
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Over One Million People Gathered in Beijing for the Memorial Service of Mao Zedong, the Leader of the Chinese Communist Party and Chairman of the People’s Republic of China Since 1949. September 18, 1976
Image: Mao Zedong, 1959. (Wikimedia Commons.) On this day in history, September 18, 1976, over one million people gathered together at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing for the memorial service of Mao Zedong, the leader of the Chinese Communist Party and chairman of the People’s Republic of China since 1949. Over an…