This Day In History

 

April 24, 1949

Communist forces occupied the Chinese capital, Nanking (Nanjing), after crossing the Yangtze River virtually unopposed by adherents to the Nationalist government under President Chiang Kai-shek. The fall of Nanking marked the beginning of the disintegration of the Nationalist government, and the Chinese Civil War would end a few months later with the Communists in control of virtually all of mainland China.

Taken from:https://www.britannica.com/on-this-day/April-24