What happened on June 4th, 1989 in Tienanmen Square?
On the morning of 4/19/1989 at 7:30 am Beijing time, hundreds if not thousands of Chinese students began gathering peacefully around one section of a famous traffic circle near Tian'an Men Square (Lama Temple) calling for greater freedoms. This peaceful assembly soon grew to include people from all walks of life as word spread that this was no ordinary protest. By noon crowds had grown into the tens or even low hundreds of thousands with many coming out of work early just to be part of it. 
It quickly became apparent though that their main request would remain unmet - the government continued to suppress free speech and independent press through propaganda and control of media outlets, effectively keeping the masses from hearing different viewpoints or being informed about what is happening beyond what they were fed by party-run television networks and newspapers which did nothing but report only what they were told without any questions asked. In response most citizens stayed passive allowing themselves to get indoctrinated with the party's rhetoric until later that evening when a large group of protesters started pushing forward against an immobile crowd behind them and the rest was history...