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Voices from Tiananmen Square by Tiananmen Square incident, also called June Fourth incident or 6/4, 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. Although the demonstrations and their subsequent repression occurred in cities throughout the country, the events in Beijing--and especially in Tiananmen Square, historically linked to such other protests as the May Fourth Movement (1919)--came to symbolize the entire incident.
(source: Britannica - The Online Encyclopedia)
Jeff Widener/AP Images
The day after the Chinese military moved into Beijing’s Tiananmen Square to forcibly remove pro-democracy protesters, this anonymous “Tank Man,” as he is famously known, stood in front of a column of tanks. According to TIME, Jeff Widener snapped this photograph from the sixth floor of the Beijing Hotel on June 5, 1989. Considered to be one of the most iconic photos of the 20th century, this image was immediately published around the world.
To learn more about this influential image, click on the photograph and check out TIME’s 100 Images profile and documentary short.
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