Tim Walz married Gwen on June 4, 1994 -- the fifth anniversary of the uprising in China's Tiananmen Square. Gwen at that time said Tim Walz wanted a date that he would always remember. Tim Walz spent a year in the Far East in 1989 when he taught English and American history and culture in Foshan, Guangdong province, as part of the WorldTeach program learning Mandarin. Tim also went to China for his honeymoon.