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Events on Saturday 23 April 1949 1
1949Communist forces capture NanjingFall of the Nationalist capital in the Chinese Civil WarThe People's Liberation Army captured Nanjing, the capital of the Nationalist Republic of China, in a decisive blow of the Chinese Civil War. The fall of the city precipitated the collapse of Nationalist rule on the mainland later that year.