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This Week In History 12/27 - 1/2 (Footage by Getty Images)

/ trolley car making its way up the hill / street in Chinatown / Statue of Asian man in traditional dress (Sun Yat Sen) in St Mary's Square / people milling about silver black statute. San Francisco's Chinatown Neighborhood on January...

Title: "The Camera Record - Liberation Day For Anti-Red PWs in Korea" over front view of released Chinese prisoners marching with flags and portrait of Sun Yat Sen / VS Indian officers, soldiers look at papers / LS released North Korean...

National Dr. Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall

National Dr. Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall

National Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall

The memorial hall built in Taipei to honor Dr. Sun Yat-sen, Taiwans National Father.

Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall

VS General John E. Hull, General Maxwell D. Taylor and UN officers walking, Hull saluting, Hull shaking hands with officer, Taylor shaking hands with officer / WS Hull and UN officer watching POWs marching with flags / CU Hull and UN...

WS Dancers on stilts waving trucks loaded with POWs driving by, line of crowd across the street waving at POW trucks driving by / MS young girls waving small flags, shouting, banners written in Chinese in background saying "Long Live...

MS Chinese POWs marching, waving Taiwanese flags / MS officers on side of road, applauding, waving / PAN from officers holding big Taiwanese flag, waving on side of road to POWs marching / Angle view POW holding picture of Chiang...

LS Released Chinese prisoners marching with pictures of Chiang Kai-Shek and Sun Yat-sen and Taiwanese flags toward camera / VS Indian officers and soldiers looking at papers on bridge / LS released North Korean prisoners marching with...

MS long line of trucks with soldiers on trucks, tents on right / PAN soldiers holding picture of Sun Yat-sen, waving Taiwanese flags / MS trucks carrying released Chinese prisoners leaving, holding picture of Sun Yat-sen and waving flags...

Dr. Sun Yat-sen leads a revolution overthrowing the Manchu dynasty in China.

Chiang Kai-shek becomes Dr. Sun Yat-sen's successor.

Images of Managua's Dr. Sun Yat-Sen park, named after the founder of the Republic of China, and the National stadium which was mostly financed by Taiwan as Nicaragua inked a deal switching diplomatic allegiance from Taipei to Beijing...