Portal:China/Anniversaries/October/October 1
- Events
- 1949 - Chinese Communist Party leader Mao Zedong (pictured) proclaimed the establishment of the People's Republic of China.
- Holidays, observances, and anniversaries
- Births
- 1893 – Yip Man, Chinese martial artist (d. 1972)
- 1922 – Chen Ning Yang, Chinese-American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1928 – Zhu Rongji, Chinese politician