History Today: When the Tiananmen Square massacre marked one of the bloodiest chapters in modern China

One of the bloodiest chapters in the history of modern China was recorded late on June 3 when Chinese troops cracked down on pro-democracy demonstrators in Beijing's Tiananmen Square in 1989. Also on June 3, the pioneering spacewalk by American astronaut Edward H White II in 1965 took place, and there was a terrorist attack on London's iconic bridge in 2017

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