may 14, 1919 - May Fourth Incident The May Fourth Incident happened on May 4th, 1919, when around 5,000 students in Beijing protested the verdict of letting Shandong be kept my Japan. Thousands of telegrams were sent to Paris urging that the treaty not be signed if Shandong wasn’t given back. Also Chinese students in Paris blockaded the delegation in their quarters to guarantee that the
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may 14, 1919
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~ 106 years ago