On July 6, President Zhu De passed away at the age of 90;
At 0: 65 on September 9th, President Mao Zedong died of illness and left us.
Nature:
On the afternoon of March 8, an extremely rare meteorite shower occurred in Jilin. Meteorites exploded in the air about 19 km above the ground, and more than 3,000 pieces of gravel were scattered in Yongji County. The largest meteorite weighs 1770 kg, even larger than the "Norton" meteorite discovered in the United States in February/948, making it "the most meteorite in the world".
On May 29th, two strong earthquakes occurred in western Yunnan. The first magnitude was 7.3 and the second magnitude was 7.4. Nine counties were affected by the disaster, with 98 people killed, 45 1 person seriously injured and 420,000 houses damaged by collapse.
In the early morning of July 28th, a strong earthquake of magnitude 7.8 suddenly occurred in Tangshan and Fengnan, Hebei Province. Tangshan was razed to ruins, with 242,000 people dead,164,000 people seriously injured and countless people slightly injured.