Football player Fakri Saarani

Events in 1989 and 8-7

Events in the world in the birth year of Fakri Saarani

• 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 Fakri Saarani (8-7) in history

• Day 8-7 year 1776: The first reading of the Declaration of Independence was held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• Day 8-7 year 1777: The state of Vermont became the first land to abolish slavery in the United States.
• Day 8-7 year 1889: The Wall Street Journal began publication.
• Day 8-7 year 1950: General Douglas MacArthur was named commander-in-chief of the United Nations forces in Korea.
• Day 8-7 year 1958: The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) awarded the first official gold album. It was for the Oklahoma soundtrack.
• Day 8-7 year 1986: Kurt Waldheim was inaugurated as president of Austria.
• Day 8-7 year 2011: The space shuttle Atlantis launches into space for the last time from the Kennedy Space Center. It is the 135th and final flight of the space shuttle program, which started in 1981. For its final mission, the Atlantis is carrying 8,000 lbs of spare parts and supplies to the International Space Station. The space shuttle program officially ends when the Atlantis returns two weeks later.
• Day 8-7 year 2022: Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated while giving a speech in Nara.