THE DAY IN HISTORY · APRIL 5
April 5 in history
What happened on April 5: 2 moments from the Maps of History atlases, in 1971 and 1976, each linked to the map that shows it.
— Manifesto of the 343
5 Apr 1971 — In Le Nouvel Observateur, 343 women, among them Simone de Beauvoir and Catherine Deneuve, declare that they have had illegal abortions and dare the state to prosecute them. It never does.
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— Tiananmen Incident
4–5 Apr 1976 — At the Qingming festival for the dead, huge crowds lay wreaths and poems for Zhou Enlai, many attacking Jiang Qing and her allies. On the night of the 5th, militia and police clear the square with clubs; the Politburo calls it counter-revolutionary and strips Deng Xiaoping of his posts.
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