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Part of the Cold War, the Revolutions of 1989 and the Chinese democracy movement. Protesters in Tiananmen Square on 2 June (top), and tanks in Beijing in July (bottom) Date. Initial protests: 15 April – 4 June 1989. (1 month, 2 weeks and 6 days) Massacre: 3–4 June 1989. (1 day); 35 years ago.
Tanabata ( Japanese: たなばた or 七夕, meaning "Evening of the seventh"), also known as the Star Festival ( 星祭り, Hoshimatsuri ), is a Japanese festival originating from the Chinese Qixi Festival. [1] [a] [b] It celebrates the meeting of the deities Orihime and Hikoboshi (represented by the stars Vega and Altair respectively).
On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which started in 2014. The invasion, the largest conflict in Europe since World War II, [12] [13] [14] has caused hundreds of thousands of military casualties and tens of thousands of Ukrainian civilian casualties.
Early life and family. Galileo was born in Pisa (then part of the Duchy of Florence ), Italy, on 15 February 1564, [15] the first of six children of Vincenzo Galilei, a lutenist, composer, and music theorist, and Giulia Ammannati, who had married in 1562.
The 2024 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday, 4 July 2024, to elect 650 members of Parliament to the House of Commons, the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The opposition Labour Party, led by Keir Starmer, defeated the governing Conservative Party, led by Rishi Sunak, in a landslide victory. The election ...
Independence Day, known colloquially as the Fourth of July, is a federal holiday in the United States which commemorates the ratification of the Declaration of Independence by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, establishing the United States of America .
Collapsed section of the Pentagon. Fragment of the Flight 93 fuselage. 9/11 Memorial reflecting pool and One World Trade Center. The September 11 attacks were the deadliest terrorist attacks in human history, causing the deaths of 2,996 people, including 2,977 victims and 19 hijackers who committed murder–suicide.
