On this day in 1989 the Tianamen Square protesters were suppressed by the Army. The above image became the iconic representation of that gutsy movement for freedom. Civilian deaths caused by the final suppression are unknown. No one knows the actual fate of "Tank Man"...the student in the picture above. Rumors abound - he was killed, he is hiding in the country.

His image is well-known throughout the world, but practically unknown in China itself.