June 4

This day in history:

• 1928 – The President of the Republic of China, Zhang Zuolin, is assassinated by Japanese agents.
• 1989 – In the 1989 Iranian Supreme Leader election, Ali Khamenei is elected as the new Supreme Leader of Iran after the death and funeral of Ruhollah Khomeini.
• 1967 – Seventy-two people are killed when a Canadair C-4 Argonaut crashes at Stockport in England.
• 1896 – Henry Ford completes the Ford Quadricycle, his first gasoline-powered automobile and also gives it a successful test run.

Births:

• 1954 – Kazuhiro Yamaji, Japanese actor and voice actor
• 1935 – Berhanu Dinka, Ethiopian economist and diplomat (died 2013)
• 1985 – Bar Refaeli, Israeli model and actress

Deaths:

• 1931 – Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca, Sharif and Emir of Mecca, King of the Hejaz (born 1853–54)
• 2017 – Juan Goytisolo, Spanish essayist, poet and novelist (born 1931)
• 1922 – W. H. R. Rivers, English anthropologist, neurologist, ethnologist, and psychiatrist (born 1864)

Holidays:

• Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989 Memorial Day (International)
• Day of state symbols in the Republic of Kazakhstan.
• National Unity Day (Hungary)

Random Article of the day:

Alexander Stadler

Alexander Stadler (born 16 October 1999) is a German field hockey player who plays as a goalkeeper for Dutch Hoofdklasse club Den Bosch and the German national team.
He competed in the 2020 Summer Olympics.

#June4
#六四36

It's my duty.

#June4 #June4th #globalrunningday #Polar #PolarVeritySense

這活動將於2025年6月3日在 #日本 國會眾議院第一議員會館進行，悼念 #六四 #天安門鎮壓 ，我和另外幾位很重要的講者會發言，請大家有空來參加🙏

I will speak at this #June4 #TiananmenCrackdown commemoration event at the Japanese National Diet on 3 June. Join us 🙏

https://fdc64.jp/news/?p=6121

The Coalition of Students Resisting the CCP have created a digital map of events around the world commemorating the Tiananmen Massacre. The project aims to maintain the collective memory and build cross-community solidarity

Note: the map is best viewed on a desktop

https://www.coalition-studentsresistchina.org/tiananmen-restoring-our-collective-memories/

#China #CCP #Tiananmen #June4 #map

Children honor parents’ legacies as victims of 1989 Tiananmen Square
https://www.voanews.com/a/children-honor-parents-legacies-as-victims-of-1989-tiananmen-square-crackdown/7642001.html v @VOANews #Tiananmen #June4

June 4

This day in history:

• 1928 – The President of the Republic of China, Zhang Zuolin, is assassinated by Japanese agents.
• 1812 – Following Louisiana's admittance as a U.S. state, the Louisiana Territory is renamed the Missouri Territory.
• 1940 – World War II: The Dunkirk evacuation ends: the British Armed Forces completes evacuation of 338,000 troops from Dunkirk in France. To rally the morale of the country, Winston Churchill delivers, only to the House of Commons, his famous "We shall fight on the beaches" speech.
• 1855 – Major Henry C. Wayne departs New York aboard the USS Supply to procure camels to establish the U.S. Camel Corps.

Births:

• 1934 – Monica Dacon, Vincentian educator and politician, 6th Governor-General of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
• 1984 – Rainie Yang, Taiwanese actress
• 1956 – Keith David, American actor

Deaths:

• 1647 – Canonicus, Grand Chief Sachem of the Narragansett (b. 1565)
• 1922 – W. H. R. Rivers, English anthropologist, neurologist, ethnologist, and psychiatrist (b. 1864)
• 2011 – Juan Francisco Luis, Virgin Islander sergeant and politician, 23rd Governor of the United States Virgin Islands (b. 1940)

Holidays:

• Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989 Memorial Day (International)
• Emancipation Day or Independence Day, commemorates the abolition of serfdom in Tonga by King George Tupou in 1862, and the independence of Tonga from the British protectorate in 1970. (Tonga)
• National Unity Day (Hungary)

Random Article of the day:

Nikolai Skadovsky

Nikolai Lvovich Skadovsky (Ukrainian: Микола Львович Скадовський; 16 November 1845 in Bilozerka, Kherson Governorate – 11 June 1892 in Bilozerka) was a Ukrainian painter who specialized in genre scenes.

.remember June 4th.
There is A LOT of conflicts still going on in the world, but it's important for me to commemorate this date, as in Hong Kong I attended many memorials until it became forbodden to even mention it.

If we forget the past, we are doomed to revive it.

#4/6 #june4 #china #June4th #tankman

"Thirty-five years have passed since the People’s Liberation Army opened fire on the Chinese people, yet Beijing seems more determined than ever to suppress acts commemorating the deaths of 4 June – even small ones far beyond China’s own borders." - Louisa Lim, author of The People’s Republic of Amnesia

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/04/china-tiananmen-xi-jinping-national-security

#China #CCP #HongKong #June4

#自由空氣滿維園
#假裝自己在香港
#特別日子
#特別的日子
#今天是特別的日子
#敏感日子
#敏感的日子
#June4 #June4th
#vawongsir

June 4 marks the anniversary of the murder of student protesters in Tiananmen Square in Hong Kong.

"[A]ttempts to silence commemorative efforts have failed to erase the harrowing memories from the minds of a generation..."

"[A] museum dedicated to the Tiananmen crackdown opened in New York June of 2023. It features exhibits such as a blood-stained shirt and a tent used by student protesters." (Need to find this!)

#Tiananmen #June4 #May35 #HongKong #CSMonitor

https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2024/0603/Tiananmen-square-35th-anniversary?icid=rss

Song of the Day June 4 2024

In honor of the birth of Eldra Patrick DeBarge bka El DeBarge

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_DeBarge

DeBarge - “Rhythm of the NIght”

https://youtu.be/cAQSZhazYk8?si=5k5y_xKm8rqvVVpR

#SongOfTheDay #SOTD #SOTD2024 #June4 #EldrePatrickDeBarge #ElDeBarge #RhythmOfTheNight #Pop #Music #MusicVideo #1980s

Song of the Day June 4 2024

In honor of the birth of Eldra Patrick DeBarge bka El DeBarge

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_DeBarge

DeBarge - “Rhythm of the NIght”

https://youtu.be/cAQSZhazYk8?si=5k5y_xKm8rqvVVpR

#SongOfTheDay #SOTD #SOTD2024 #June4 #EldrePatrickDeBarge #ElDeBarge #RhythmOfTheNight #Pop #Music #MusicVideo #1980s

Event to commemorate the 35th anniversary of the Tiananmen Massacre held outside the Chinese consulate in Sydney

#Tiananmen #June4 #CCP #Sydney #Australia

@fulelo
"Tiananmen" by British poet James Fenton, written in Hong Kong on June 19, 1989 (from his collection, "Out of Danger")

https://aroundtheedges.wordpress.com/2009/06/04/and-you-cant-speak-of-tiananmen/
(link to the poem as reprinted in a blog, along with a BBC story on 20th anniversary commemorations of the student protests Chinese government massacre and censorship)

A visual representation/performance of the poem, along with a brief biographical sketch of James Fenton (watch; *content warning* — https://youtu.be/qkdc3qIqHns)
#Tiananmen #June4

Many participants in China's 1989 student protest movement have suffered in various ways throughout their life and often very little is known of their plight

https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/tiananmen-square-massacre-victims-today-06032024155231.html

#China #CCP #tiananmen #June4

The CCP are now erasing memories of the Tian'anmen Massacre in Hong Kong, which up until 2019 had been the only place in China that was able to openly commemorate the event

https://freedomhouse.org/report/china-media-bulletin/2024/escalating-repression-hong-kong-anniversary-tiananmen-massacre

#China #CCP #tiananmen #June4 #FreedomHouse

Every year before the June 4 anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre of democracy protesters, #China cracks down on online criticism.

This year, there are two new twists to Beijing’s cyber-operations: a reorganization of the military unit responsible for #cyberwarfare, and an increasing reliance on outsourcing to private sector hackers.
https://theconversation.com/china-turns-to-private-hackers-as-it-cracks-down-on-online-activists-on-tiananmen-square-anniversary-230510
#News #hacking #June4