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3rd June 1989: Start of the Tiananmen Square massacre

3rd June 2021
Tagged as: China, Communism, Freedom, Protest

On the evening of the 3^rd June 1989, the People’s Liberation Army began firing on protesters taking part in the student-led Tiananmen Square protests.

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3rd June 1989: Start of the Tiananmen Square massacre

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21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow

HistoryPod Extra: The Myth of Gavrilo Princip’s Sandwich

2nd August 1934: Hitler becomes Führer after President Hindenburg dies

3rd August 1492: Christopher Columbus sets sail from Spain

4th October 1582: Pope Gregory XIII implements the Gregorian calendar

3rd October 1918: Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria comes to the throne

2nd October 1919: US President Woodrow Wilson suffers a stroke while in office

1st October 1949: Mao Zedong declares the establishment of the People’s Republic of China

28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

8th July 1932: Dow Jones falls to lowest point in the Great Depression

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

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