Liaoning museum commemorates September 18th Incident

Updated: 2016-09-18 16:21

(chinadaily.com.cn)

Visitors take selfies in front of the 9.18 Historical Museum in Shenyang, capital of Liaoning province, on Sept 18, 2016. This year marks the 85th anniversary of the September 18th Incident, also known as the "Mukden Incident." The museum is collecting items of interest related to the incident, or that may be symbolically related to that day, from around the world. [Photo/VCG]

On Sept 18, 1931, Japanese troops, in a staged event, detonated a blast on a section of the railway in northern Shenyang. They falsely accused the Chinese and used this as a pretext to attack a garrison in the Beidaying area of the city on the same night. The incident was the start of the Japanese military occupation of Northeast China, then known as Manchuria.