June 4, 1989

1989-06-04 00:00 UTC

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Tiananmen Square

Tiananmen Square
Photo: Jiří Tondl (Blow up) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
The protests in Beijing are cleared by force; the number of dead has never been established.
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It is recorded at 1989-06-04 00:00 UTC — June 4, 1989 in Coordinated Universal Time. Every minute in this registry is stored in UTC so it reads the same anywhere in the world.
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