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Old 10-01-2007, 07:06 AM   #185 (permalink)
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October 1

This Day in History...
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In Beijing, with most of the Chinese mainland held by the communist People's Liberation Army, its dynamic leader, Mao Zedong, proclaimed the establishment of the People's Republic of China on this day in 1949.


Mao Zedong, 1965.


Today's Birthday...


Born this day in 1924, Jimmy Carter served as the 39th U.S. president (1977–81) during a turbulent time at home and abroad, and he later received the Nobel Prize for Peace in 2002 for his humanitarian work.
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