Martial law was declared on May 20. Some 200,000 troops were deployed to Beijing, surrounding Tiananmen Square. Nevertheless, by May 31, the crowd in the Square had grown to more than one million.

Tiananmen Square is located in the center of Beijing, the capital of China. Tiananmen means “gate of heavenly peace.” In 1989, after several weeks of demonstrations, Chinese troops entered ...

Police officers stop a man to search him outside Hong Kong's Victoria Park on the 32nd anniversary of the crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators at Beijing's Tiananmen Square in 1989, on June 4 ...

On April 15, 1989, pro-democracy student protests began in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. The six-week-long protests ended on June 4, 1989, when the Chinese government ordered the People's ...

Police perform stop and search on members of the public near Victoria Park, on the 34th anniversary of China’s Tiananmen Square crackdown in Hong Kong, Sunday, June 4, 2023.

Tiananmen Square massacre 30th anniversary is June 4, 2019. China doesn't want to mark it, but the world should.

On June 7, 1989, three days after Chinese soldiers massacred protesters in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, Hongkongers were about to launch what would have been the city’s largest ever general strike.

A powerful monologue after the carnage Student leader Wang Dan stands in Beijing's Tiananmen Square on May 27, 1989, calling for a citywide march.

Widener, left, poses with fellow photojournalist Liu Heung-Shing at Tiananmen Square in May 1989. "This might be the final chapter for me," he said in 2014.

Tiananmen means "gate of heavenly peace." In 1989, after several weeks of demonstrations, Chinese troops entered Tiananmen Square on June 4 and fired on civilians.

Tiananmen Square is located in the center of Beijing, the capital of China. Tiananmen means “gate of heavenly peace.” In 1989, after several weeks of demonstrations, Chinese troops entered ...

View CNN’s Tiananmen Square Fast Facts for more information about the events in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square on June 3-4, 1989.