Kings Cross Fire: Towards the end of the evening rush hour on the 18th November 1987 a fire swept through parts of Kings Cross St. Pancras station in the London underground. Although there was no smoking allowed on the trains, passengers would often light up on their way out of stations, leading investigators to believe that this fire was started by a discarded match dropped down the side of one of the old wooden escalators serving the Piccadilly line, which ignited rubbish and grease in the track. Tiananmen Square: The Tiananmen Square protests were a series of demonstrations by intellectuals and students in the People's Republic of China from 15th April to the 4th of June 1989. Because of the tragic way the events culminated the protests became known around the world as the Tiananmen Square massacre. The roots of the protests aren't easily defined, nor did they speak in one homogeneous voice. But two main groups were identifiable: those mainly urban industrial workers who believed that since 1978 political and economic reforms made under Deng Xiaoping had gone too far
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Political dissidents
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