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Did the Tiananmen Square protests and crackdown happen in 1989?
The Tiananmen Square date is core history — I'll confirm 1989 against the record.
Yes, the Tiananmen Square protests and crackdown happened in 1989.
•The protests were pro-democracy demonstrations that occupied Tiananmen Square for weeks in the spring of 1989, and were forcibly suppressed in a bloody crackdown known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre on June 4 and 5, 1989.
•On the night of 3-4 June 1989, troops from the People's Liberation Army entered Beijing to put an end to weeks of peaceful protests and occupation of Tiananmen Square by students, killing hundreds, if not thousands, of unarmed protestors.
•On June 4, 1989, Chinese military forces moved to clear Tiananmen Square of pro-democracy protesters who had occupied it for weeks.
•Described as ending on June 4, 1989, when the Chinese Communist Party leadership sent tanks into Tiananmen Square to violently repress peaceful demonstrations.
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Backs: “The protests were pro-democracy demonstrations that occupied Tiananmen Square for weeks in the spring of 1989, and were forcibly suppressed in a bloody crackdown known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre on June 4 and 5, 1989. On the night of 3-4 June 1989, troops from the People's Liberation Army entered Beijing to put…”