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** Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: The 10 m ( 33 ft ) high Goddess of Democracy statue is unveiled in Tiananmen Square by student demonstrators.
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** and Tiananmen
** Tiananmen Incident: Large crowds lay wreaths at Beijing's Monument of the Martyrs to commemorate the death of Premier Zhou Enlai.
** The Tiananmen Square massacre takes place in Beijing on the army's approach to the square, and the final stand-off in the square is covered live on television.
** and Square
** The Declaration of Christmas Peace ( Old Great Square of Turku, Finland's official Christmas City )
** Some 400 – 1, 000 students march through Times Square, New York and another 700 in San Francisco, in the first major student demonstration against the Vietnam War.
** Battle of George Square: The British Army is called in to deal with riots and protests against high rents in Glasgow, Scotland.
** The New York Knicks win their first NBA championship, defeating the Los Angeles Lakers 113-99 in Game 7 of the world championship series at Madison Square Garden.
** The Mount Vernon Square ( WMATA station ) stop on the Yellow and Green lines of the Washington Metro
** and protests
** Anti-globalization protests in Prague ( some 15, 000 protesters ) turn violent during the IMF and World Bank summits.
** Large protests erupt against Slobodan Milošević's regime in Belgrade ; opposition leader Vuk Drašković and his wife Danica are arrested.
** In a response to Georges Bonnet's speech of January 26, German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, referring to Bonnet's alleged statement of December 6, 1938 accepting Eastern Europe as being in Germany's exclusive sphere of influence, protests that all French security commitments in that region are " now off limits ".
** President of Bulgaria Petar Mladenov resigns over charges he order tanks to disperse antigovernment protests in December 1989.
** Prime Minister of Bulgaria Andrey Lukanov and his government of former Communists resign under pressure from strikes and street protests.
** Proposed budget cuts by Benjamin Netanyahu spark protests from 250, 000 workers, who shut down services across Israel.
** A curfew is imposed in Kosovo, where protests continue over the alleged intimidation of the Serb minority.
** Norway protests that Sweden is taking the neutrality too seriously, expecting more support for Norway.
** In Germany, stage IV of the Hartz concept brought together unemployment benefits and social security benefits, despite protests.
** In Lisbon a demonstration with more than 100, 000 persons protests against the political and economical situation of the Monarchy.
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