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What happened in the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre? ๐ŸŽ™๏ธ

What happened on June 4th thousands of student were holding demonstrations in Tiananmen Square, Beijing?

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The Tiananmen Square protests, known in Chinese as the June Fourth Incident, were student-led demonstrations held in Tiananmen Square, Beijing during 1989. In what is known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre, or in Chinese the June Fourth Clearing or June Fourth Massacre, troops armed with assault rifles and accompanied by tanks fired at the demonstrators and those trying to block the military's advance into Tiananmen Square.

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