THE DAY IN HISTORY · OCTOBER 15
October 15 in history
What happened on October 15: 1 moment from the Maps of History atlases, in 1957, each linked to the map that shows it.
— Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge
15 Oct 1957 — The first bridge over the Yangtze, built in two years with Soviet engineers, joins the Beijing and Guangzhou railways into one line; until then every train between north and south crossed by ferry. Mao swam the river below its unfinished piers in June 1956 and wrote a poem about the bridge.
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