April Fifth Movement

The April Fifth Movement was a mass movement taking place in the People's Republic of China that culminated on April 5 1976. In response to the death of Zhou Enlai, on the Qing Ming Jie holiday, millions of people gathered around Tiananmen Square to protest government policies; they were forcibly removed in Tiananmen incident (which should not be confused with the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989).