Did the Tiananmen Square protests and crackdown happen in 1989?

Yes, the Tiananmen Square protests and crackdown happened in 1989. Student-led demonstrations centered in Tiananmen Square in Beijing began in April 1989, calling for political reform, greater freedoms, and an end to corruption, and grew into one of the largest pro-democracy movements in modern Chinese history. The Chinese government declared martial law and, on the night of June 3–4, 1989, sent in troops and tanks to clear the square, resulting in a violent crackdown in which an unknown number of people—estimates range from several hundred to possibly thousands—were killed.