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MAPS OF HISTORY · ON THIS DAY · April 21

THE DAY IN HISTORY · APRIL 21

April 21 in history

753 BC

Rome is founded — by tradition, on this day, by a fratricide. The city will run the Mediterranean for seven centuries.

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1949 — The Yangtze crossing

20–21 Apr 1949 — After peace terms lapse, a million men cross the river on junks and sampans on a 500-km front in two nights; Nanjing falls on the 23rd. The last great natural line of the war is passed almost without pause — the Nationalist army south of it exists mostly on paper.

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