Protests end in bloodshed in China's Tiananmen Square in 1989

Following are some of the major events to have occurred on May 17:1900 - A small British cavalry force finally relieved the garrison under Colonel Robert Baden-Powell at Mafeking (now Mafikeng) in South Africa after 217 days' siege by Dutch-speaking Boer settlers.1989 - Hundreds of thousands of prot

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