Football player Fabio Ferreira

Events in 1989 and 3-5

Events in the world in the birth year of Fabio Ferreira

• 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 Fabio Ferreira (3-5) in history

• Day 3-5 year 1937: Margaret Mitchell won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for Gone With the Wind.
• Day 3-5 year 1948: The Shelley v. Kraemer Supreme Court decision stated that it is unconstitutional for a court to enforce a restrictive covenant which prevents people of a certain race from owning or occupying property.
• Day 3-5 year 1979: Margaret Thatcher became the first woman elected prime minister of England.
• Day 3-5 year 1986: At the age of 54, legendary horse jockey Bill Shoemaker became the oldest person to win the Kentucky Derby, riding Ferdinand to victory.
• Day 3-5 year 1999: Kansas and Oklahoma were hit by an outbreak of more than 55 tornadoes, including one measured at F5 on the Fujita scale.
• Day 3-5 year 2001: The United States, a member of the UN Human Rights Commission since its inception, lost its seat. It would be restored the following year.
• Day 3-5 year 2003: New Hampshire’s symbol, the granite Old Man of the Mountain, collapsed in the state’s Franconia Mountains.