A 35-year-old unemployed man … In the days following the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, many memorials and vigils were held around the world.Hong Kong, China and the USA have all held different versions of memorials so that those who died will not be forgotten. The Tiananmen Incident (Chinese: 四五天安门事件; pinyin: sìwǔ tiān'ānmén shìjiàn or the April 5 Tiananmen Incident) was a mass gathering and protest that took place on 5 April 1976, at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China. Reports from Wikipedia provides a different finding from many other views. On May 12, 2007 the portrait of Mao caught fire. Gregory Clark, a former Australian diplomat who specializes in Chinese affairs, wrote an article in Japan Times recently, saying the Western media forged the so-called Tiananmen myth. The Tiananmen Square self-immolation incident took place in Tiananmen Square in central Beijing, on the eve of Chinese New Year on 23 January 2001. China calls them the June Fourth Incident , but to most of the world it is the Tiananmen Square massacre . Tank Man (also known as the Unknown Protester or Unknown Rebel) is the nickname of an unidentified Chinese man who stood in front of a column of tanks leaving Tiananmen Square on June 5, 1989, the day after the Chinese military had suppressed the Tiananmen Square protests by force. Coordinates. Juni 1989: Das Tian’anmen-Massaker war der blutige Endpunkt monatelanger Proteste der chinesischen Demokratiebewegung auf dem Tian’anmen-Platz, in dessen Folge je nach Schätzungen zwischen 300 und 3000 Menschen getötet wurden (Rotes Kreuz: 2700), allerdings nicht auf dem Tian’anmen-Platz. 4. As the sun rose on the morning of June 4, 1989, the Chinese people woke to a country which had changed overnight. There were other protests on Tiananmen square in 1919 and 1976. Yu was sent to prison and was not released until 17 years later in 2006. 23. The 1989 Tiananmen Square protests were protests in April and June of that year. In 1989, three dissidents, including Yu Dongyue, attacked the portrait with eggs during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.