Did the Tiananmen Square protests and crackdown happen in 1989?

Yes, the Tiananmen Square protests and crackdown occurred in 1989. Student-led demonstrations calling for political reform and greater freedoms took place in Beijing's Tiananmen Square over several weeks in the spring of that year, and the Chinese government responded on June 3–4, 1989, by sending in troops and tanks to clear the square, resulting in a violent crackdown with numerous deaths.