THE DAY IN HISTORY · SEPTEMBER 25
September 25 in history
What happened on September 25: 2 moments from the Maps of History atlases, in 1918 and 1949, each linked to the map that shows it.
— Battle of Megiddo
19-25 Sep 1918 — Allenby’s deception, cavalry and aircraft destroy three Ottoman armies in a week; Damascus falls 1 October with the Arab Northern Army entering alongside. The Ottoman armistice is signed aboard a British battleship on 30 October.
READ THIS MOMENT → · SEE IT ON THE WWI MAP → · THE FULL STORY →
— Incorporation of Xinjiang into the PRC
25 Sep 1949 / 1 Oct 1955 — Xinjiang’s Nationalist garrison surrenders without a fight, and Wang Zhen’s army arrives that autumn. Demobilised soldiers become the Production and Construction Corps (1954), a farming army that settles Han migrants in a region where Han Chinese were about 6 percent of the people; in 1955 it becomes the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.
READ THIS MOMENT → · SEE IT ON THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC UNDER MAO MAP → · THE FULL STORY →
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