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When did Lin Biao die?

  • 15 September 1971

  • 13 September 1971

  • 12 September 1971

  • 14 September 1971

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Lin Biao, a prominent Chinese military leader and former comrade of Mao Zedong, died on 13 September 1971. The circumstances surrounding his death remain unclear, with various accounts attributing it to a plane crash in Mongolia during an alleged coup attempt against Mao, or to an assassination orchestrated by Mao himself.
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