26 October 1949
Battle of Kuningtou
Nationalist forces defeat a Communist landing attempt at Kuningtou on Kinmen, preserving ROC control of the offshore island.
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Kinmen in China. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Nationalist forces defeat a Communist landing attempt at Kuningtou on Kinmen, preserving ROC control of the offshore island.
Communist artillery begins intensive shelling of Kinmen, opening the major phase of the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis.
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