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(Sunday, June 4, 1989, 4:35 a.m. CDT; during the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests) — In what became known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre, tens of thousands of Chinese troops retook Tiananmen Square in Beijing early this morning from pro-democracy protesters, killing scores of students and workers and wounding hundreds more as they fired sub-machine guns at crowds of people who tried to resist.

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Troops marched along the main roads surrounding central Tiananmen Square, sometimes firing in the air and sometimes firing directly at crowds of men and women who refused to move out of the way.

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Estimates of the death toll vary from several hundred to thousands.

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