The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8888_Uprising" id="mwAQU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="8888 Uprising">8888 Uprising</a> begins in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yangon" id="mwAQY" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Yangon">Rangoon (Yangon)</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myanmar" id="mwAQc" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Myanmar">Burma (Myanmar)</a>. Led by students, hundreds of thousands join in nationwide protests against the one-party regime. On <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_18" id="mwAQg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="September 18">September 18</a>, the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demonstration_(protest)" id="mwAQk" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Demonstration (protest)">demonstrations</a> end in a military crackdown, killing thousands.