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Chinese leaders use armed forces in Peking to suppress unarmed
student-led popular demonstrations in favour of democracy, causing
large-scale loss of life and leading to major unrest in other cities,
purges and infringements of basic rights.
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Free elections for the Polish Senate and partial elections involving
35 per cent of seats in the Sejm result in major electoral success
for Solidarity.
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Ministerial Meeting of the Defence Planning Committee. Defence
Ministers consider implications for defence planning of Western
proposals for reduction of conventional forces in Europe.
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Imre Nagy, leader of the 1956 Hungarian revolution who was hanged
in 1958, is reburied with full honours in Budapest.
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Reopening of Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) in Geneva.
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