The day after the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989, which killed an unknown number of citizens in Beijing, one man performed a stunning act of defiance. Watch the “tank man” stand his ground. https://to.pbs.org/2I0zYKt | FRONTLINE | PBS

Twenty-nine years ago, a Chinese man, shopping bag in hand, stood in front of a column of People’s Liberation Army tanks in Tiananmen Square. Tank Man became an iconic symbol of the protests. His stand was the culmination of weeks of clashes between Chinese pro-democracy protesters and the government, which saw thousands killed. The official death toll is unknown, but is believed to be several thousand ​ | The Guardian