THE DAY IN HISTORY · AUGUST 4
August 4 in history
What happened on August 4: 1 moment from the Maps of History atlases, in 1958, each linked to the map that shows it.
— Mao’s visit to Xushui
4 Aug 1958 — Mao visits Xushui county, Hebei, whose leaders report a harvest so large they say they cannot store it. “What will you do with so much grain?” he asks, and muses that peasants might eat five meals a day. Boasts like these became the basis for the next procurement quotas.
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