Bordered by the Accra Sports Stadium and the Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park, it is the second-largest city square in the world after Tiananmen Square in China.
Children of the Dragon is a 1992 Australian mini series set against the background of the 1989 Tiananmen Square uprising.
Zhang Boli was present in 1989 when pro-democratic students and rights-activists staged a massive protest in Tiananmen Square, Beijing.
While the video shows the band playing on a stage, it features different scenes of riots and historical places, such as Tiananmen Square.
As the People's Republic of China was formed on 1 October 1949, Gongchen was the leading tank in the military parade at Tiananmen Square.
In 1989 after the killings in Tiananmen Square he went to Hong Kong and reported on social stresses due to the country’s imminent transfer to Chinese rule.
Jeff Widener (born August 11, 1956 in Long Beach, California) is an American photographer, best known for his image of the Tank Man confronting a column of tanks in Tiananmen Square during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 which made him a nominated finalist for the 1990 Pulitzer.
Excelling as a war correspondent, he worked in many hot spots during times of war including Tiananmen Square, Afghanistan, Chechny, Iraq.
Among the stories he covered were the Nieuwmarkt riots in Amsterdam over the building of the new metro system, the sectarian troubles in Northern Ireland, the Tiananmen Square student uprising, and war in Lebanon.
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On November 4, 1956, Burhan and Hu Yaobang, Guo Moruo helped lead a massive public rally and parade in Beijing with over 400,000 people in Tiananmen Square to support Egypt and denounce Anglo-French imperialism in the Suez Crisis.
The administrative offices, practice rooms and a rehearsal theatre, often referred to as the "Central National Opera House," are located at Chaoyangmen Outer Street Dongzhong-jie 115, south-east of Dongsi Shitiao Station in West Beijing, however since the opening of the National Centre for the Performing Arts (China) at Tiananmen Square East, performances at the permanent theatre of the Opera company are rare.
A week later, the tanks rolled into Tiananmen Square.
In essence, Tiananmen Square allowed CCP leaders such as Jiang Zemin to consolidate their power over the Party, the government, and the military.
Tongzhou District borders the Beijing districts of Shunyi, Chaoyang and Daxing, Wuqing District of Tianjin Municipality, and Langfang City (both the Sanhe City−Dachang County−Xianghe County exclave and Guangyang District) of Hebei province, and is 12 miles from Tiananmen Square and 10 miles from Beijing Capital International Airport.
Tong rose to international fame during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 which ended with the so-called Tiananmen Square Massacre.
The book was the basis of a 1994 feature-film documentary, Moving the Mountain, produced by Trudie Styler and directed by Michael Apted, which probed the origins of the 1989 protests in Tiananmen Square and the consequences of the movement in the lives of several of the movement's student leaders.
Tank Man, also known as the Unknown Rebel, the Chinese who stood in the path of a column of tanks following the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989
Yellowbird, a covert operation after the June 4 crackdown in Tiananmen Square in 1989 that helped dissidents flee overseas via Hong Kong