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At the 30th anniversary of the 4 June Incident, Wei Fenghe, a general of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, said in the Shangri-La Dialogue: "The 4 June Incident was a turmoil and unrest. The Central Government took decisive measures to calm the unrest and stop the turmoil, and it is because of this decision that the stability within the ...
On 13 June 1989, the Beijing Public Security Bureau released an order for the arrest of 21 students who they identified as leaders of the protest. [3] [4] These student leaders were part of the Beijing Students Autonomous Federation [3] [4] which had been an instrumental student organization in the Tiananmen Square protests.
The Tank Man (also known as the Unknown Protester or Unknown Rebel) is the nickname given to an unidentified individual, presumed to be a Chinese man, who stood in front of a column of Type 59 tanks leaving Tiananmen Square in Beijing on June 5, 1989.
Revolutions of 1989: Solidarity's victory in the first round of the 1989 Polish legislative election [52] [53] was the first of many anti-communist revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe. Pope John Paul II arrived in Finland, visiting Helsinki and Turku before leaving on June 6.
June 4 is the 155th day of the year (156th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 210 days remain until the end of the year. Events. ... 1989 – The Tiananmen ...
June 4. 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre: A violent military crackdown takes place on pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square, Beijing. [24] 1989 Polish legislative election: Solidarity's victory in the first round [25] [26] is the first of many anti-communist revolutions of 1989 in Central and Eastern Europe.
The man reportedly stepped in front of the tanks in a show of nonviolent action on June 4th, 1989. Crowds gathered around a broken down section of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 after the German ...
The 32nd anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests featured events in China and elsewhere on, and leading up to, 4 June 2021 – to commemorate the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, in which the government of China ordered the army to fire on protestors, killing hundreds, if not thousands, of people.