The photographs of the Tiananmen Tank Man became some of the world's most famous Charlie Cole, one of the photographers who captured the famous Tank Man on film during the Tiananmen Square protests, has died. The image of one man standing in the way of a column of tanks, a day after hundreds possibly thousands of people died, has become a defining image of the 1989 pro-democracy protests.
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