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1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre Part of the Cold War, the Revolutions of 1989 and the Chinese democracy movement Protesters in Tiananmen Square on 2 June (top), and tanks in Beijing in July (bottom) Date Initial protests: 15 April – 4 June 1989 (1 month, 2 weeks and 6 days) Massacre: 3–4 June 1989 (1 day); 35 years ago Location Beijing, China and 400 cities nationwide Tiananmen ...
Dissidents in the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre. The 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, commonly known in mainland China as the June Fourth Incident ( Chinese: 六四事件; pinyin: liùsì shìjiàn ), were student-led demonstrations in Beijing (the capital of the People's Republic of China) in 1989.
The 31st anniversary of Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 was principally events that occurred in China and elsewhere on and leading up to 4 June 2020 – to commemorate the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, in which thousands of people are widely believed to have been killed. The anniversary in Hong Kong took place despite a ban by ...
During the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre in Beijing, the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) played a decisive role in enforcing martial law, using force to suppress the demonstrations in the city. [ 13] The killings of protestors in Beijing continue to taint the legacies of the party elders, led by Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping ...
May 13 – Mikhail Gorbachev visits China, the first Soviet leader to do so since the 1960s. May 19 – Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: Zhao Ziyang meets the demonstrators in Tiananmen Square. May 20 – Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: The Chinese government declares martial law in Beijing. May 30 – Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 ...
6/4 may refer to: June 4, a day of the year in month-day date notation. 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, also referred to the June Fourth Incident (Chinese: 六四事件) 6 April, a day of the year in day-month date notation. 6.
e. In the People's Republic of China, Deng Xiaoping formally retired after the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, to be succeeded by former Shanghai CCP secretary Jiang Zemin. During that period, the crackdown of the protests in 1989 led to great woes in China's reputation globally, and sanctions resulted.
The 1976 Tiananmen incident or the April 5 Tiananmen incident ( Chinese: 四五天安门事件) was a mass gathering and protest that took place on April 4–5, 1976, at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China. The incident occurred on the traditional day of mourning, the Qingming Festival, after the Nanjing incident, and was triggered by the death ...