Events
1949 - Chinese Communist Party leader Mao Zedong (pictured) proclaimed the establishment of the People's Republic of China.
Holidays, observances, and anniversaries
National Day of the People's Republic of China
Births
1893 – Yip Man, Chinese martial artist (d. 1972)
1922 – Chen Ning Yang, Chinese-American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1928 – Zhu Rongji, Chinese politician