CIIC:Selected anniversaries/September 30

Chairman Mao Zedong lays the foundation for the Monument to the People's Heroes.

1626: Nurhaci, the ancestor of Qing, died.

1949: A ceremony was held to lay the foundation for the Monument to the People's Heroes.

1981: The National People's Congress put forward nine principles concerning Taiwan's return to the motherland.

1993: A Sichuan Airlines plane was hijacked to Taipei.

1995: China won the bid to design the Jakarta Tower.