Businessmen Kendra P

Events in 1989 and 29-11

Events in the world in the birth year of Kendra P

• 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 Kendra P (29-11) in history

• Day 29-11 year 1924: Italian composer Giacomo Puccini died in Brussels before he could complete his opera "Turandot.'"
• Day 29-11 year 1929: Commander Richard E. Byrd and a crew of three became the first to fly over the South Pole.
• Day 29-11 year 1947: The United Nations voted to grant the Jewish people a homeland to be established in Palestine.
• Day 29-11 year 1963: President Johnson named a commission headed by Earl Warren to investigate the assassination of President Kennedy.
• Day 29-11 year 1986: Actor Cary Grant died in Davenport, Iowa, at age 82.
• Day 29-11 year 2001: Beatle George Harrison died of cancer.