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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

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

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24th September 1952: Kentucky Fried Chicken opens its first franchise in Salt Lake City, Utah

23rd September 1949: President Truman announces the USSR’s first nuclear test

22nd September 1776: Nathan Hale hanged by the British for spying for the Continental Army during the American Revolution

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

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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