Seventh day of hunger strike. The government's plan for martial law is leaked to students, who call off the hunger strike and declare a mass sit-in. The Independent Workers Union (IWU) is founded at Tiananmen Square. In an evening...

Wang Peiwen（王培文）, student from the Youth Work Department of the Chinese Youth Politics College。In the early hours of June 4, 1989, near Liubukou, Wang was walking at the head of a group of students withdrawing from Tiananmen Square. He...

Sixth day of hunger strike. Li Peng summons several student representatives for a televised talk at the Great Hall of the People. Nothing is achieved becasue Li refused students' demand.The government prepares to declare martial law.

Wang Jianping (王建平),27 Truck worker in the southern suburbs at Beijing City Gas Company On the night of June 3, 1989, Wang was shot in the left side of the chest at Xidan. His lung was badly damaged and he died in the Beijing Emergency...

The 1957 Pro-democracy activists, students and residents, co-organising more than a million people, converged on Tiananmen Square. The student hunger strikers who lay on hot sun, some of them refusing even water, quickly fell ill. #...