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As tanks rolled into Tiananmen Square in Beijing to suppress protests, one man bravely stood in front of the column, stopping the entire might of the Chinese army.

Taken on June 5, 1989, the ‘tank man’ quickly became one of the most famous photos in the world.

The identity of the protester has never been confirmed.

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The identity of the protester has never been confirmed.
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I’m not sure, but I think it has. I remember reading that he was sentenced to a long term in a prison camp, but that was before the internet age and I haven’t attempted to check it.
 
The chief steward on board the Prinze Adelbert liner took the photo of the iceberg on the morning of the Titanic sinking.

Reports say he spotted a line of red paint along the bottom of the iceberg which experts believe show where it had made contact with Titanic.

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In 1980, a missionary holds hands with a starving boy in Karamoja district, Uganda…

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There are a million fascinating facts and figures about the London Underground, but this rarely seen photograph reminds us just what an engineering feat the construction process was. Here we see the creation of the Central Line in 1898 .

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He took her in his arms and kissed that nurse without even knowing her 😅

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Unemployed men standing in line to get free soup during the Great Depression, circa 1931 (original black and white, false color). The soup kitchen was owned by Chicago gangster Al Capone.

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Elvis Presley receiving his military haircut at Fort Chaffee, Arkansas after being drafted into the US Army in March 1958.

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This is what a young girl who was born in a Nazi concentration camp drew when she was asked to draw ‘home’.

Both her traumatised look and her inability to understand such a basic concept make this one of the most haunting photographs ever taken .

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Albert Einstein – the man who developed the theory of relativity and was thought so highly of that his name became synonymous with intelligence.

In this comical image he showed that even they smartest amongst us can have a lighter side.

He signed one of the original prints of this photo for the photographer – in 2009 it was sold at auction for £48,500.

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A knocker-upper in the North of England .

Before the days when people could afford alarm clocks , a knocker-upper would go round the houses , tapping on bedroom windows with his pole , making sure they were up in time for work .

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I remember seeing this on the News just after it happened , one of those things you don’t forget easily .

This shocking image shows South Vietnamese police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing Vietcong member Nguyen Van Lem in the street.

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My dad used to talk about this . He had been in the same cinema the previous day when he was in the army .

The remains of the Antwerp Rex Cinema , Holland , after it was hit by a German V2 rocket on 16th December !944 . The death toll was 567 casualties to soldiers and civilians, 291 injured and 11 buildings were destroyed. 296 of the dead & 194 of the injured were U.S., British, & Canadian soldiers. This was the single highest death total from one rocket attack during the war in Europe.

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Um…the tanks did not roll into Tiananmen Square. It was one big lie by the protesters and perpetuated by the Western media.
The photo does not depict Tiananmen Square.
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That’s an interesting comment @ratio1 .

The video clip posted here is part of how I saw the events being broadcast on the TV News .

So what actually happened according to your viewpoint ?

 
I don’t have time now to go through every piece of evidence.
But take a look at this article


Anyway ive seen videos of students moving peacefully out of the square, which correlated with the Spanish report and also later key students admitted the same.

Yes there was a “massacre” if you want to call it that but it certainly was not in the square.
The interesting question is, why did nearly every single media of the West (apart from that Spanish reporter who was right next to the square on that night) reported there was a massacre in the square?

And I could post photos of how the students brutally killed army soldiers, but that would be too gruesome for this forum.
 
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It was one big lie
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Peace, friends!

To call it “one big lie” gives the impression of a categorical denial. I am sure that is not what you intended, and I wonder if you are quibbling over a misunderstanding of one detail, whether those tanks were in the Square, which is minor in comparison to the horrors which took place.

I suspect “tanks rolling into Tiananmen Square” is a somewhat deliberate journalistic oversimplification. People could remember it as “tanks near Tiananmen Square,” and the massacre as “killing of unarmed civilians resulting from protests sparked at Tiananmen Square.” Does that really merit being denounced as one big lie?

Now if you are talking about one-sided, politically-biased reporting of those and related events, we could certainly talk about that, preferable exporting it to another thread so that this thread is not hijacked. I have no doubt that the reporting was selective and biased.
 
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