On june 4, 1989, students gathered in tiananmen square to mourn the death of the pro-reform leader

Hu Yaobang

Hu Yaobang was a high-ranking official of the People's Republic of China. Throughout the 1980s, Hu supported a series of economic and political reforms, which made him undesirable for many party leaders. Following his death in 1989, small demonstrations were organized in order to commemorate his legacy. The day before his funeral, 100,000 students marched in Tiananmen Square, which led to the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.

the committees of correspondence were the american colonies’ means for maintaining communication lines in the years before the revolutionary war. in 1764, boston formed the earliest committee of correspondence to encourage opposition to britain’s stiffening of customs enforcement and prohibition of american paper money. the following year, new york formed a similar committee to keep the other colonies notified of its actions in resisting the stamp act. in 1773, the virginia house of burgesses proposed that each colonial legislature appoint a committee for intercolonial correspondence. the exchanges that followed built solidarity during the turbulent times and bring about the formation of the first continental congress in 1774.

a historian is attempting to study how the puritans affected society in new england