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July 7 1893: Mao-Jen-Sheng, interested in becoming more prosperous, emigrates with his wife to the USA.
1890s
July 10 1893: Mao-Jen-Sheng arrives in Los Angeles, California after a three day journey. He buys a small apartment in the Diamond Bar, and establishes a fruit market, which is relatively successful in the local area(but enough to hold on to the business).
Boxing day 1893: Mao Zedong is born. His mother dies giving birth to him. His father would look after Mao well.
February 16 1897: Mao joins his father in his first New Year sale. Business is booming, so Mao's father hires a new employee.
1900s
September 1 1900: Mao begins his first day at the local Elementary school in LA. He shows particular skills in English, Religion and Sport alongside beginning to show more signs of becoming a Methodist after long discussions with the local priest.
March 20 1909: Mao makes his father proud by helping his football team win the state championship.
1910s
June 30 1911: Mao enlists in the US Marines to support his father. He would write to his father once every week
December 23 1913: Jen-sheng (who by now is a very successful businessman), along with his son and other businessmen in the Diamond province of LA, write a letter in the LA times arguing against the federal reserve act.
June 5 1914: Zedong is promoted to Sergeant after saving his commanding officer's life in the Philippines from insurgents, as well as capturing 3 of them. In response to his CO saying how he could be a Sergeant in such a quick time, Zedong said "weirder things have happened"
July 28 1915: Zedong, along with 329 other Marines, are sent to Haiti. He would be promoted to Lieutenant after he successfully negotiated an end to a hostage crisis in Port-Au-Prince.
April 6 1917: The United States declares war on Germany. Zedong is transferred immediately to the front lines in France.
November 11 1918: Mao is honorably discharged from the USMC after 8 years of exemplary service.
March 6 1919: Mao begins to become interested in politics and contemplates a run for the US Senate. this decision would change his life forever. He begins studying politics in the University of California, Los Angeles. While at university, he meets a woman called Catherine Yoon-Phu, a woman of Irish and Chinese descent, whom he would later marry.
1920s
October 1923: Mao is by now running for US Senator on a Democrat platform, and he is well known for his charisma. When he is told that "only whites can run for office" by a heckler, Mao simply replied, to the crowd, "do any of you recall anything in the Declaration of independence that said "all white men are created equal?"
October 1929: the stock markets panic. The Smoot-Hawley tariff act is being debated, and during this debate, Senator Zedong launched a Filibuster lasting 6 hours, which was only stopped by the Speaker of the House. The bill doesn't make it past the Senate/
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