Composer Do Hieu

Events in 1989 and 3-9

Events in the world in the birth year of Do Hieu

• 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 Do Hieu (3-9) in history

• Day 3-9 year 1189: At London's Westminster Abbey. Richard I, nicknamed "The One with Lion's Heart," is crowned King of England.
• Day 3-9 year 1658: Lord of England Oliver Cromwell passed away at Whitehall Palace, London.
• Day 3-9 year 1783: The Treaty of Paris officially ended the Revolutionary War between the United States and Great Britain.
• Day 3-9 year 1939: Great Britain and France declared war on Germany during World War II.
• Day 3-9 year 1967: Nguyen Van Thieu was elected president of South Vietnam.
• Day 3-9 year 1974: Frank Robinson was named the first African-American manager in major league baseball.
• Day 3-9 year 1976: The unmanned U.S. spacecraft Viking II landed on Mars and took the first pictures of the planet's surface.
• Day 3-9 year 1978: Pope John Paul I was installed as the 264th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church.