Did the Tiananmen Square protests and crackdown happen in 1989?

Yes, the Tiananmen Square protests and crackdown took place in 1989. Student-led demonstrations in Beijing began in April 1989, calling for political reform, greater freedoms, and an end to corruption, and grew to include hundreds of thousands of participants in Tiananmen Square over the following weeks. The Chinese government declared martial law and, on the night of June 3–4, 1989, sent military troops and tanks to clear the square, resulting in a violent crackdown that killed a significant number of civilians (estimates vary widely, from several hundred to possibly thousands, as the Chinese government has never released an official death toll).