Basketball players Anthony Randolph

Events in 1989 and 15-7

Events in the world in the birth year of Anthony Randolph

• US planes shoot down two Libyan fighters over international waters in Mediterranean (Jan. 4).
• Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini declares author Salman Rushdie's book The Satanic Verses offensive and sentences him to death (Feb. 14).
• Tens of thousands of Chinese students take over Beijing's Tiananmen Square in rally for democracy (April 19 et seq.). More than one million in Beijing demonstrate for democracy; chaos spreads across nation (mid-May et seq.). Thousands killed in Tiananmen Square as Chinese leaders take hard line toward demonstrators (June 4 et seq.).
• Mikhail S. Gorbachev named Soviet President (May 25).
• P. W. Botha quits as South Africa's President (Aug. 14).
• Deng Xiaoping resigns from China's leadership (Nov. 9).
• After 28 years, Berlin Wall is open to West (Nov. 11).
• Czech Parliament ends Communists' dominant role (Nov. 30).
• Romanian uprising overthrows Communist government (Dec. 15 et seq.); President Ceausescu and wife executed (Dec. 25).
• US troops invade Panama, seeking capture of General Manuel Noriega (Dec. 20).

Birthday Anthony Randolph (15-7) in history

• Day 15-7 year 1869: Margarine was patented in France by Hippolyte Mege Mouries.
• Day 15-7 year 1870: Georgia became the last of the Confederate States to be readmitted to the Union.
• Day 15-7 year 1918: The Second Battle of the Marne began during World War I.
• Day 15-7 year 1940: The world's tallest man (8 feet, 11.1 inches), Robert Wadlow, died.
• Day 15-7 year 1948: John J. Pershing, whose leadership in World War I earned him the title General of the Armies of the United States, died in Washington, DC.
• Day 15-7 year 1975: The Russian Soyuz and the U.S. Apollo launched. The Apollo-Soyuz mission was the first international manned spaceflight.
• Day 15-7 year 2010: After 86 days of gushing oil into the Gulf of Mexico and several previous attempts to contain the flow, BP caps its leaking oil well.