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1950: The Chinese People's Volunteer Army is formed. 1952: Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash: Three trains collide at Harrow and Wealdstone station in London, England, killing 112 people. 1954: French forces are defeated in the First Indochina War and forced to withdraw from Hanoi. 1955: Qian Xuesen returns to China via Hong Kong. 1956: New York Yankees pitcher Don Larsen throws the only perfect game in World Series history. 1956: China's first missile and rocket research institute, the Fifth Academy of the Ministry of National Defense, is established with Qian Xuesen as its first director. 1957: China's first natural petroleum base, the Yumen Oilfield, is basically completed, becoming a large-scale integrated oil enterprise with departments for geological exploration, drilling, oil extraction, refining, mechanical repair, oilfield construction, and petroleum scientific research. 1959: The Central Archives building is completed in the western suburbs of Beijing and officially opens. 1967: Che Guevara, a leader of Marxist-inspired Latin American guerrilla warfare, is captured in La Higuera, Bolivia, and executed the following day. 1976: The remnants of the "Gang of Four" are crushed.