The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People's_Liberation_Army" id="mwAR4" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="People's Liberation Army">People's Liberation Army</a> begins shelling the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_China" id="mwAR8" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Republic of China">Republic of China</a>-controlled islands of <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quemoy" id="mwASA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Quemoy">Quemoy</a>, starting the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Taiwan_Strait_Crisis" id="mwASE" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="First Taiwan Strait Crisis">First Taiwan Strait Crisis</a>.