Football player Kevin Theophile-Catherine

Events in 1989 and 28-10

Events in the world in the birth year of Kevin Theophile-Catherine

• 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 Kevin Theophile-Catherine (28-10) in history

• Day 28-10 year 1793: Eli Whitney applied for a patent for the cotton gin.
• Day 28-10 year 1886: The Statue of Liberty was dedicated in New York Harbor by President Grover Cleveland.
• Day 28-10 year 1919: Congress passed the Volstead Act, or the National Prohibition Act, over President Woodrow Wilson's veto.
• Day 28-10 year 1922: Benito Mussolini took control of the government of Italy.
• Day 28-10 year 1940: Italy invaded Greece during World War II.
• Day 28-10 year 1958: A new pope was elected—Pope John XXIII.
• Day 28-10 year 1962: Nikita Khrushchev told the U.S. that he had ordered the dismantling of Soviet missile bases in Cuba.