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 — At Megiddo, Allenby combines deception, cavalry and aircraft to destroy three Ottoman armies in a week. Damascus falls on 1 October, with the Arab Northern Army entering alongside. On 30 October the Ottoman armistice is signed aboard a British battleship.
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 gives up without a fight, and Wang Zhen’s army arrives that autumn. Demobilized soldiers form the Production and Construction Corps in 1954. This farming army settles Han migrants in a region where Han Chinese were about 6 percent of the population. In 1955 Xinjiang 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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