Wednesday, June 3, 2020

How the Time Flies

June 3 - Protest in Tiananmen Square crushed by Chinese military
On this day in 1989, the Chinese government called in the military to put down a pro-democracy demonstration staged by more than 100,000 people in Tiananmen Square in Beijing resulting in hundreds of deaths.

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