Football player Ashley Barnes

Events in 1989 and 30-10

Events in the world in the birth year of Ashley Barnes

• 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 Ashley Barnes (30-10) in history

• Day 30-10 year 1534: King Henry VIII became head of the church in England after the British Parliament passed the Act of Supremacy.
• Day 30-10 year 1938: Radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds, starring Orson Welles, caused nationwide panic among listeners.
• Day 30-10 year 1944: Martha Graham's ballet Appalachian Spring, with music by Aaron Copland, premiered.
• Day 30-10 year 1953: Gen. George C. Marshall won the Nobel Peace Prize for originating the Marshall Plan.
• Day 30-10 year 1974: Muhammad Ali knocked out George Foreman in the eighth round of a 15-round bout in Kinshasa, Zaire ("rumble in the jungle") to regain his world heavyweight title.