July 6, 1949: Nearly 1 million soldiers and civilians participate in a grand parade to celebrate the liberation of Shanghai
July 6, 1976: Zhu De, one of the principal architects of the People's Liberation Army and an outstanding leader of the party and the state, dies
July 6—Sept 9, 1978: The State Council holds a retreat to study how to accelerate the speed of China's modernization
Zhu De, born in Yilong County of Sichuan Province in 1886 and passed away in 1976, is a great Marxist, proletarian revolutionary, statesman and military strategist.
A native of Le Zhi, in Southwest China's Sichuan Province, and awarded by the People's Republic of China the military rank of marshal; Served as the country's Vice Premier (1954-1972) and Foreign Minister (1958-1972)