MAPS OF HISTORY · ON THIS DAY · October 1
THE DAY IN HISTORY · OCTOBER 1
October 1 in history
1949 — Proclamation of the People’s Republic
1 Oct 1949 — Mao declares the PRC from the Tiananmen gate. A quarter of humanity joins the communist column — the largest single shift on this map.
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1960 — Lagos — Nigeria at midnight
1 Oct 1960 — The most populous nation in Africa — a federation of three regions and 250 peoples — lowers the Union Jack. Its scale makes it the continent’s great federal experiment, and its deepest fault line.
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