1. Jilin Meteorite Shower
The Jilin Meteorite Shower was a meteor shower astronomical event that occurred in the northern suburbs of Jilin City, China on the afternoon of March 8, 1976. A large fireball fell from the sky during the day, and then split into many small fireballs, and then many meteorites fell to the ground.
This meteorite weighs 1,770 kilograms and is an H chondrite. It is the heaviest known stone meteorite in the world and is now on display at the Jilin City Museum. In this incident, the total weight of meteorites collected reached more than 2 tons. When the meteorite rain fell, no one, animal or thing was harmed, which is indeed rare in the history of meteorite rain in the world.
2. The Tangshan Earthquake
At 3:42:53.8 on July 28, 1976, an earthquake occurred in the Fengnan area of ??Tangshan, Hebei Province, China (118.2° east longitude, 39.6° north latitude) The intensity of the earthquake was 7.8 on the Richter scale (7.5 on the moment magnitude), with an epicenter intensity of 11 degrees and a focal depth of 12 kilometers. The earthquake lasted about 23 seconds. The earthquake caused 242,769 deaths and 164,851 serious injuries, ranking second in the world's earthquake fatalities in the 20th century, second only to the Haiyuan earthquake.
1. Death of Zhou Enlai
Zhou Enlai (March 5, 1898 - January 8, 1976) was originally from Shaoxing, Zhejiang, and was born on March 5, 1898 in Huai'an, Jiangsu. He joined the Communist Party of China in 1921 and was a great Marxist.
A great proletarian revolutionist, politician, strategist, and diplomat, one of the main leaders of the party and the country, one of the main founders of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, and the founding father of the People's Republic of China. , is an important member of the party's first generation central leadership group with Comrade Mao Zedong as the core.
2. Death of Zhu De
Zhu De (December 1, 1886 - July 6, 1976), named Yujie, formerly known as Zhu Daizhen, formerly known as Zhu Jiande, the great Marx Anist, proletarian revolutionist, politician and militarist, one of the main founders and leaders of the Communist Party of China, the Chinese People's Liberation Army and the People's Republic of China. The first of the ten marshals of the People's Republic of China.
3. Death of Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong (December 26, 1893 - September 9, 1976), nicknamed Runzhi (originally written as Yongzhi, later changed to Runzhi), pen name Ziren. A native of Xiangtan, Hunan. Leader of the Chinese people, Marxist, great proletarian revolutionist, strategist and theorist, main founder and leader of the Communist Party of China, the Chinese People's Liberation Army and the People's Republic of China, poet, calligrapher Home.
Baidu Encyclopedia-1976