Unix Timestamp: 612748800
Friday, June 2. 1989, 12:00:00 AM UTC

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.

Fighting breaks out in the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic between ethnic Uzbeks and the Turkish minority more than 100 people are dead by June 15.

Sōsuke Uno succeeds Noboru Takeshita as Prime Minister of Japan.

Ufa train disaster: A natural gas explosion near Ufa, Russia kills 645 as 2 trains passing each other throw sparks near a leaky pipeline.

The Ayatollah Khomeini dies in Iran.

The SkyDome (now known as Rogers Centre) is opened in Toronto.

Solidarity's victory in Polish elections is the first of many anti-communist revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe in 1989.