Did the Tiananmen Square protests and crackdown happen in 1989?

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Yes, the Tiananmen Square protests and crackdown happened in 1989.

•The protests were student-led demonstrations held in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, lasting from 15 April to 4 June 1989

•The protests started on April 15 and were forcibly suppressed in a bloody crackdown by the Chinese government on June 4 and 5, 1989

•Recorded as Date: Initial protests: 15 April – 4 June 1989 --- Massacre: 3–4 June 1989

•Protests ... were held in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, from 15 April to 4 June 1989

•Described as series of protests and demonstrations in China in the spring of 1989 that culminated on the night of June 3–4 with a government crackdown on the demonstrators in Tiananmen Square in Beijing

•Also listed as Chinese history [1989] and Date: April 27, 1989 - June 4, 1989, a series of protests and demonstrations in China in the spring of 1989 that culminated on the night of June 3–4 with a government crackdown

The crackdown itself occurred on the night of June 3-4, 1989, when the Chinese government used military force to suppress the protests

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Backs: “The protests started on April 15 and were forcibly suppressed in a bloody crackdown by the Chinese government on June 4 and 5, 1989. Recorded as Date: Initial protests: 15 April – 4 June 1989 Massacre: 3–4 June 1989”