Football player Lee Bum-young

Events in 1989 and 2-4

Events in the world in the birth year of Lee Bum-young

• 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 Lee Bum-young (2-4) in history

• Day 2-4 year 1513: Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon first set foot on the Florida land he named.
• Day 2-4 year 1792: Congress authorized the first U.S. mint, in Philadelphia.
• Day 2-4 year 1865: Confederate president Jefferson Davis and most of his cabinet fled the Confederate capital of Richmond, Va.
• Day 2-4 year 1870: Victoria Claflin Woodhull announced her candidacy for president of the United States.
• Day 2-4 year 1917: President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress to declare war against Germany.
• Day 2-4 year 1932: Charles Lindbergh paid a $50,000 ransom for the return of his kidnapped son.
• Day 2-4 year 1982: Argentina seized the Falkland Islands from Britain
• Day 2-4 year 2005: Pope John Paul II died.