Football player Romain Alessandrini

Events in 1989 and 3-4

Events in the world in the birth year of Romain Alessandrini

• 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 Romain Alessandrini (3-4) in history

• Day 3-4 year 1860: First pony express service began.
• Day 3-4 year 1882: Outlaw Jesse James was shot in the back by Bob Ford, one of his own gang members, reportedly for a $10,000 reward.
• Day 3-4 year 1930: Ras Tafari became Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia.
• Day 3-4 year 1936: Bruno Hauptmann was electrocuted for the kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby.
• Day 3-4 year 1948: President Truman signed the Marshall Plan, which would foster the recovery of war-torn Europe.
• Day 3-4 year 1974: "Super Tornado Outbreak" strikes 13 U.S. states.
• Day 3-4 year 1996: Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski was arrested.
• Day 3-4 year 2004: A suspect in Madrid's March bombings blew up himself and three others.